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The long, hard road ahead
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Posted on Jan 31 2006
These days many innocent children on Tinian are crying because their parents are having a hard time making ends meet. The picture of the economy is still blurry. The financial condition of the CNMI government is becoming incurable. And the result of last year’s election prompted many into forced resignations.
Painful as it may be, but this is how the nature of politics work after the battle is over. Wars come and go, but the losing soldiers stay eternal. The winners deserve respect and recognition. And the losers reserve the privilege to negotiate like free agents.
The road in the next four years will surely not be easy for Tinian Mayor Jose P. San Nicolas. It’s going to be bumpy, narrow, and perennial. Agree or disagree, many supporters are going to wait in line for quite a while. And like it or not, many non-supporters, too, are going to wait in line until next season.
Inasmuch as Mayor San Nicolas would like to ease unemployment on Tinian, the fact remains that he just cannot do it drastically due to lack of funds in these economic hard times.
Let’s hope and wish that the new administration of Mayor San Nicolas is going to work in tandem with Gov. Fitial and Lt. Gov. Villagomez.
Ray M. Sakisat
San Jose, Tinian
