The cost of a PNM stain

THE EDITOR, Madam:

Well, Ms Bishop, history will not be kind to you.

The money she was paid to redesign the coat of arms is the cost of a People’s National Movement (PNM) stain that cannot be removed with even the most concentrated Clorox or Purple Blaster.

The PNM spent $131 million to downgrade a stadium; now they hired Ms Gillian Bishop to downgrade the coat of arms. Why was Ms Gillian Bishop the sole artist selected to redesign the coat of arms? It should have been offered as a tender and the best one offered payment for his intellectual property. This is a national artwork.

I go further. It looks like a LLB glass bottle cover that was pressed by a vehicle that rolled over it. Why were the pan sticks not on the sides? This was a chance to rewrite history. Give it to a Queen’s Royal College art student, or the artist who did the artwork outside the Waterfront Towers. Take a walk and look at the beautiful portraits and artworks in the Central Bank Museum. Couldn’t we have got some of the artists who did those designs to do the same? Wade Mark is spot on in his parliamentary contribution. It is a fig leaf by the Government to cover up its grab of Pan Trinbago’s land. The new coat of arms looks like shi(p).

KENDELL KARAN

Chaguanas