Louis Lee Sing

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Louis JE Lee Sing (born May 30, 1951 ) is a Trinidadian politician and writer . From 2010 to 2013 he was the 40th Mayor of Port of Spain .

Life

Lee Sing began his professional career as a journalist for the weekly newspaper The Bomb . From 1981 to 1993 he was director of cooperative bank Eastern Credit Union, whose membership is from one million to 205 million in the same time during his term of 1000 increased to 35,000 and whose deposits dollars increased.

In August 2001, Lee Sing founded the Citadel Group, a media company that operated various radio stations in Trinidad, among other things. After the PNM was the prime minister after the election to the House of Representatives in 2001 , the Citadel Group came under suspicion of corruption because the company's broadcasters were given preference in the licensing process. In 2009, Sing submitted the controversial proposal on behalf of the Citadel Group to introduce civil service , to have it set up and supervised by the Citadel Group and to use funds from the national unemployment benefit program. The concept was discussed in politics for years, but ultimately never implemented.

Lee Sing was Mayor of Port of Spain from July 2010 to November 2013. In the previous nationwide elections , the ruling PNM had lost, but won in Port of Spain, so that they could continue to provide the mayor there. It was not until 2012, during his tenure as mayor, that he sold his radio station to One Caribbean Media , which in turn led to criticism in the press. In the 2010s, Lee Sing was president of the Trinidadian first division soccer team Morvant Caledonia United (then Caledonia AIA).

In 2012 there was a falling out between Lee Sing and the PNM. The party accused Lee Sing of an authoritarian leadership style, while he complained about a democratic deficit within the party. In 2013 he was replaced as mayor by Raymond Tim Kee (also PNM). Lee Sing left the PNM in early 2015. As early as October 2014, he announced the founding of a new party, the Port of Spain People's Movement (PPM), which was to run exclusively in Port of Spain in the upcoming local elections in December of the same year. The election took place on December 2, 2019, and the PPM did not win a single one of the twelve seats awarded in Port of Spain.

In addition to his political activities, Lee Sing runs a book shop and a small publisher. In 2014 he published his autobiography, Local Government in Trinidad - Conspiracy Against the People , which deals exclusively with his time as mayor. In 2017 he published another book, a collection of fictional letters to his granddaughters, for which he was nominated for the Newsday People's Choice Book of the Year Award in 2018 . In the same year he took part as a photographer in an exhibition on the subject of homelessness. He is chairman of the organizing committee of North Coast Jazz, a Trinidadian jazz festival.

Lee Sing's daughter-in-law Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing continues to head the party's public relations department after her father-in-law left the PNM.

Works

  • 2014: Local Government in Trinidad - Conspiracy Against the People (Lee Sing Arts)
  • 2017: I Used to Live in Heaven: Letters to My Granddaughters (Lee Sing Arts)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Ramdass: He was a patriot, says Lee Sing . In: Trinidad Express . 16th November 2019.
  2. ↑ a b EuroChamTT.org: Speakers' Biographies. Retrieved June 19, 2020 . (PDF, 689 KB)
  3. ↑ Azard Ali: Maha Sabha charges PNM bias . In: Trinidad Newsday . January 20, 2004.
  4. ↑ TrinidadandTobagoNews.com: Louis Lee Sing Pushes for Compuslory National Service. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Sat Maharaj: No To National Service . In: Trinidad Guardian . April 24, 2013.
  6. ^ OCM to control Citadel within four weeks . In: Trinidad Guardian . August 27, 2012.
  7. ↑ Wired868.com: PNM Democracy Inaction. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Kalifa Clyne: Lee Sing tells why he left PNM . In: Trinidad Guardian . 3rd February 2015.
  9. ↑ Louis Lee Sing forms new political party . In: Trinidad Guardian . 1st October 2019.
  10. ^ Ria Taitt: UNC grabs Grande . In: Trinidad Express . 3rd December 2019.
  11. ↑ Melissa Doughty: What's your six? . In: Trinidad Newsday . March 28, 2018.
  12. ↑ Michelle Loubon: Lee Sing highlights homelessness through art . In: Trinidad Express . 17th August 2018.
  13. ↑ Sean Douglas: PNM puts Lezama-Lee Sing on hold . In: Trinidad Newsday . 5th June 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Lee Sing, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sing, Louis JE Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Trinidadian politician and former mayor of Port of Spain
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1951