How long ago did Mr. Mansoor make this demeaning statement? Wasn't there a great public outcry from individuals from every corner of our society? Eventhough he may have taken the quote from the UPP manifesto he took ownership when he repeated those offending words. I therefore consider his apology at this time to be opportunistic and far from sincere. I am therefore left to wonder whether or not he percieved that the political pendelum has shifted and like a cat wants to ensure that he lands on his feet on the side of the tilt.

If he is really sincere in his apology I welcome it,everyone makes a mistake...respe ct must always be given where it is due. With respect to gaston to hell with him and his supporters.,he has not done a thing to merit any praises.

You people are so nearsighted. What in essence Mansoor has done by apologizing is to appease the g**root ALP supporters, who by the way do not support Gaston. So what he has done is to demonstrate that a known opposition can apologise for making bad comments about the Birds however look at the disgrace the ALP has caused on itself with the way it treated Lester to unseat him. Ponder on that you jokers - nearsighted labourites start the thumbs down now! predictable jokers.

I am always told that "don't let arrogance get the best of you, and always be humble, regardless how far you get in life, or how successful you become." Unfortunately, many of our leaders and politicans have a 'chip-on-their- shoulder,' and, once they get elected or serve as a 'non-elected' in government, many of them forget who put them there. The People! Yes, no one is 'perfect' but at the same time when you serve the people, your 'words-and-acti ons' are ALWAYS under the 'microscope' than the average citizens. Dr Mongoose's apology may be 'forgiven' by some but not 'forgotten' by many! My friends, there is a continuous pattern of 'repeat-of-hist ory' in our small state, and, our politician and those aspiring politicians are still yet to 'live-and-learn .' Is the the Senator really using the promotion of GATE on the station as an opportunity to 'xx xx xx,' or doing the 'xxxx xxxx' of those in the Sunshine?

Notes From A Native Son Of The Rock! For the last week, this mere voice in the wilderness has been suggesting that GoAB engage our Arab Compatriots in the Art Of Saving Face. Not only is it an important ingredient to our behaviours & attitudes but moreso in GeoPolitics. It is of the utmost import that we the 95% of African Descent understand the cultures of "Strangers in a Strange Land - Exodus 2:22". Some will posit that it takes more than three generations to fully comprehend & be immersed in the society so much so that Quote:

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Insensitivity should not be a Hallmark of anyone appointed to serve the People. Let me end with few snippets:
Quote:

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Never hate your enemies, it affects your judgment.
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with People.
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them right. - The Godfather.

Oh Gad!

Notes From A Native Son Of The Rock! It has been said that "to err is human, to forgive is divine". Quote:

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom, one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats.

Did the Good Hon Senator aid in crafting the Manifesto's language or is "The Universe Unfolding as It should"? Quote:

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. William Wordsworth

Politicians rip & tear but It is well known amongst Our Arab Traders that Quote:

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The Intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. ... Don't knock your friends, Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts Alfred Lord Tennyson.

wow! So all that had to happen was for the PM to strip Mansoor of certain portfolios and now he is Pa Humble? Very nice. If Nebuchadnezzar could be humbled, then there is hope for anyone.

History Helps Us Understand Change and How the Society We Live in Came to be.
The past causes the present, and so the future. Any time we try to know why something happened—whethe r a shift in political party dominance we have to look for factors that took shape earlier. Sometimes fairly recent history will suffice to explain a major development, but often we need to look further back to identify the causes of change. Only through studying history can we grasp how things change; only through history can we begin to comprehend the factors that cause change; and only through history can we understand what elements of an institution or a society persist despite change."
History does not belong in the Dustbin it makes us who we are. Mansoor made a unifromed statement, he apologised enough said

After all the hubris, he crawls tail between his legs to beg pardon from a discredited collection red Birds? They need to send this joker back from whence he came. The Birds and their non-electricity paying roach station are irrelevant. With the ascendancy of Gaston, they’ll have to strive by merit, and not the accident of their birth.

i am with mansoor

The statement made by Mansoor is written in the UPP 2004 manifesto on page 40. He only repeated what was written. Its always good when persons do not feel they are not to big to apologize. I suspect that the Senator recognizes that time is running out and he has to repair some of the damage he has caused. Some may not realize this but senior persons have started to a abandon the UPP ship

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Mansoor is an educated dunce who has not handled power well. After all these years he choose to apologized? I believe things in the party is not going his way. Everyone knows he is arrogant and full of himself. He was the Minister of Broadcasting and Communication for many years and instead of improving the product he went out and formed his own production Company called New-Media to try and make ABS look bad. Read the Government website and see the ** New-Media produces with Government funding--pure propaganda. Mansoor Chuuups we don't want your apology you disrespected the greatest politician this Country has produce a black man as that. And your contribution 0. I hope the ALP investigate your relationship with Digicel,and all the monies spent of tablets to see xxt xxxk-xxxs when they assume power next year.

Folks hindsight is 2020. Dr. Mansoor has manfully apologised. Let's accept his public confessions as a sincere attempt to make amends. Who amongst us is free from mistakes or wrongdoings? Pls let's not read any sinister motives in his apology. It was an inappropriate and he acknowledges it. Move on. Lessons for Dr. Mansoor, think before u speak not just of consequences but of facts as well.

007, I totally agree with you. This is no apology. Mansoor is not sorry for what he said, but for the disquiet it caused, He is also saying that he would not have used those words. I guess he would have said the same thing; just saying it differently. What hypocracy. Then to suggest that your words were taken out of context, what garbage? You said what you meant and meant what you said one hundred percent.

For the good Dr. let me put this in a spiritual sense. One of my favourite authors puts it this way. " True repentence involves remorse for sin and forsaking it". There is absolutely no remore in Dr. Mansoor's statement and it is clear he would do it again--just differently.

"Genuine repentence springs from a sense of the offensive character of sin. These general confessions are not the fruit of true humiliation of soul before God". Dr. Mansoor, I know spiritual things are spiritually deserned, but I pray God you understand and truly humble yourself and apologise to this nation.

......the 1st sentence in the last paragraph: QUOTE: "had the media in Antigua & Barbuda been free, the Birds would have been consigned to the dustbin of history". is absolutely TRUE!!!! but birdites DELIBERATELY and ignorantly gloss over this FACT!!! NUFF SAID!
Read more: http://www.caribarena.com/antigua/news/latest/103012-mansoor-offers-apology.html#ixzz2JYQeGBP9

." In hindsight, if I knew that this would trigger such public disquiet, I would not have used those words"
THIS MAN IS NOT SORRY FOR WHAT WAS SAID BUT ONLY TO THE PUBLIC REACTION TO WHAT WAS SAID. THIS MAN TRULY FEEL IN HIS HEART THAT V.C BIRD BELONGS IN DUSTBIN OF HISTORY. I DO NOT ACCEPT THIS APOLOGY....SO THE GOOD DR CAN WHEEL AND COME AGAIN

I think the author of those words d exx judas needs to apologise for penning those words.

Why now?? Store sales are being affected??

So the manifesto was full of lies??? I believe they working on a deal. Baldwin needs to watch his back and take a page from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Me nar tek the hit for nobody! If dem win dem go lock arwe up!

MANSOOR PLEASE! UR A BIG MAN THATS JUS WHAT U WANTED TO SAY ABOUT POOR OLD PAPA... AND NOW AFTER ALL THESE YEARS U WANT TO SAY U DID NOT KNOW IT WAS WRONG.. PLEASE! I GUESS SOMETHING MUST NOT BE GOING UR WAY HUH! ANYWAY BETTER LATER THAN NEVER.. EVEN THOUGH I STILL THIK UR FULL OF IT....