{"id":42550,"date":"2011-08-25T07:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T11:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=42550"},"modified":"2011-08-25T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:03:49","slug":"commentary-uwp-leadership-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/commentary-uwp-leadership-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: UWP leadership woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42551\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42551\" title=\"uwp leaders\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/uwp-leaders-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/uwp-leaders-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/uwp-leaders-150x49.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/uwp-leaders.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Green, James and John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From time to time the question of the leadership of the United Workers Party comes up in conversation with ordinary rank and file citizens of Dominica. What do you think? The short answer is that the party has to go with Hector John for now until someone else emerges.<\/p>\n<p>When the party decided to choose a successor to Edison James after the party suffered a second loss at the polls in 2005, pressured by the media, James decided to step aside. The front runner then was Julius Timothy the man next in rank to James. One might say he knew his place and made no bid to supplant James. The team player Timothy had no problem being Robin to Batman, Friday to Crusoe or Tonto to Lone Ranger or indeed Timothy to James.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the public disclosure to step down as political leader, the Member for Salisbury, Earl Williams, who had a strong support base in his community, announced his intention to attempt for the political leadership of the United Workers Party.<\/p>\n<p>The UWP held its caucus meeting at the Public Service Union building one Saturday in 2005. And to the surprise of many Dominicans, maybe not those in the know in the UWP, Williams trumped Timothy to emerge as the front runner. The party\u2019s formal meeting in Marigot was not attended by Timothy and thus Earl Williams claimed the political leadership of UWP.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy after that broke ranks with the party he had helped form, and expended much of his personal resources on. Even by them attorney Julian Prevost and medical practitioner Dr Curvin Ferreira who\u2019d contested the general elections had severed ties with UWP.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy became an independent member of the house of assembly and as expected by some sections of Dominica crossed the floor into the ranks of the Dominica Labour Party government led by Roosevelt Skerrit.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the 2009 general elections came around Williams had departed the shores of Dominica under a cloud with Ronald Green assuming the position of political leader. James along the way became the elected president of the party. Hector John was chosen to replace Williams in Salisbury, and duly won the seat. Edison James and Norris Prevost, the successful UWP candidates for Marigot and Roseau Central respectively, threw their support behind John to be the parliamentary opposition leader.<\/p>\n<p>That party appointment however, has not sat well on him, and maybe his biggest critics might be coming from sections of the party.<\/p>\n<p>In the post 2009 elections, James has enjoyed as much public limelight or more than his co-party leaders, Green and John. Some even believe that John is a spokes piece for James, but the bottom line for some in UWP would be to return James as party leader in and out of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>James and Green and even Prevost continue to throw their support behind John, and The Chronicle concurs with them on that count. Why? Every kind of organisation needs young people for succession\u2019s sake. The departing young members of the UWP prior to and after the 2009 elections did not improve the stock of the party\u2019s young brigade. The younger generation did no think their best interests were being served by their party. And James and company would not take the backward step and indicate a party with no future.<\/p>\n<p>One other way out for UWP is for one or more of those many bright sons and daughters who come across as paragons of virtue and rectitude, and on the side of truth, justice and honesty to take the bull by the horns and declare their will to take charge of the United Workers Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From time to time the question of the leadership of the United Workers Party comes up in conversation with ordinary rank and file citizens of Dominica. What do you think? 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