Ride out Atherley!

There is talk around town that Ian Atherley will be mayor of San Fernando again. According to the reports circulating around San Fernando, the Prime Minister visited Atherley at his pub opposite Skinner Park.
Now can you tell me why the Prime Minister should go to a rum shop to court a member of the PNM? During his tenure as mayor Atherley did nothing to distinguish himself and the City Corporation was so plagued by one internal dispute after the other that the people's business had to take a back seat.
There is a word for that and it is called "mismanagement". So why would the Prime Minister go to a pub frequented by PNM members and PNM supporters to court a member of the PNM? Atherley fell out with Manning before the 2007 elections. It was so bad that Manning went to Parliament to amend legislation just so he could remove Atherley by having new nominations for aldermen.
People were "begging" him on public platforms to join the COP, even to be the single UNC/COP candidate against Manning in San Fernando East.. Not Atherley! All the signs were clear that the PNM was going to win.
Atherley never left the PNM. In the build up to this election, he sat on the PNM platform and never said a word anywhere against Patrick Manning. Rowley spoke out against Manning, but not Atherley.
But in case I am giving you the impression that Atherley is being loyal to his party we can look at his past. He once contested the elections for the City Council for the Organisation for National Reconstruction (ONR) and lost. Before the dust had cleared Atherley was on Coffee Street partying with the winners from the PNM. Since then Atherley has known where his interests lie.
And today, reports suggest that he can once more be mayor of this dump of a town that he once presided over!
I am giving fair notice to everyone that I am back in town and I am going to ensure that the People's Partnership Council does not go the way of the PNM. If those councillors think they will take taxpayers money to sound good, let them know that this City must look good and feel good and residents must get the benefit of all the increassed taxes they have been paying since San Fernando became a city. And if Atherley is the mayor, well... we will see about that!