Chambers set a precedent that Bas cannot ignore.

Well! Today marks a week since the long-simmering volcano erupted like a reborn Krakatoa, to catapult Kamla onto the hill which, before, I'd insisted, the time had come for her to be.

By any stretch of the rational process, seven days is more than enough time for the former Chief-in-Command to have done the honourable thing and step aside to give the newly-appointed Chieftess-in-Command all the room she needs to manoeuvre. To date, he has not. To date, therefore, she cannot.

Now! Both the ex-Chief is and attorney-at-law. So, too, are many weighing-in on the entire situation. Thus, rational beings expect that they all would be easily convinced of the urgency ---and decency--- of him taking his altogether exit, once a compelling precedent is found and presented. I believe I have found one.

On December 15th 1986, voters overwhelmingly sent then the PNM slate packing. So comprehensive was the humiliation that, in his own constituency, the leader of the PNM slate, then Prime Minister, George Michael Chambers, R.I.P., was trounced by a neophyte named Lincoln Myers. Immediately following such a defeat, George Michael Chambers, R.I.P., in his usual unassuming style, elevated his status from mere politician to statesman par excellence ---he gave up the political leadership of the PNM and resigned from political life.

There! Now that I've found and presented that precedent, what rational excuse can the former Chief-in-Command ---or his yet-adamant affiliates--- henceforth advance in his cause?