The Silent Revolution

The People’s National Movement (PNM) formed the government of Trinidad and Tobago. Led by Dr. Eric Williams it was returned to power in the general elections every five years continuously from 1956 to 1986 when it was soundly defeated at the polls. In the process of governing, did the PNM lose its way? Did it lose sight of its noble ideals so proudly proclaimed in The People’s Charter, and settle for being an electioneering machine? Did its wide membership in Trinidad and Tobago ever gain the vision enunciated in its charter? Or did a blind and grasping legislative and party leadership lead the PNM away from its fundamental mission and goals as a nationalistic party?