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Former UNC finance minister Gerald Yetming, meanwhile said the Opposition MPs who continue to support Panday as Opposition Leader, despite the overwhelming loss he suffered for the political leadership, are suffering from what is commonly described as tabanca-a severe heartbreak.
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Former UNC finance minister Gerald Yetming, meanwhile said the Opposition MPs who continue to support Panday as Opposition Leader, despite the overwhelming loss he suffered for the political leadership, are suffering from what is commonly described as tabanca-a severe heartbreak.
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Montano said Rambachan did not need to say things like 'the Minister having a tabanca for power'.
TrinidadExpress Today's News Ria Taitt 2010
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As she remarked, 'we hear of' curry tabanca ', but this is' political tabanca ', we will have to find ways to deal with men who, having tasted the bitterness of defeat, are hell bent on dishonouring their once proud past by doing disservice to country and party'.
TrinidadExpress Today's News Selwyn Ryan 2010
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From what I have heard and have read, it is a terrible thing and those guys are displaying all the signs of a terrible case of tabanca, not a slight thing, 'Yetming said.
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If the Minister has a tabanca for power we will not allow him to satisfy that power, 'he said.
TrinidadExpress Today's News Ria Taitt 2010
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From what I have heard and have read, it is a terrible thing and those guys are displaying all the signs of a terrible case of tabanca, not a slight thing, 'Yetming said.
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'De jagabat get ah tabanca an gee de saga boy bullpistle til he bazodee.'
TrinidadExpress Today's News Clément Imbert 2009
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I totally agree and empathise with one comment that 'We have problems accepting our words like tabanca, bazodee, obzocky and jagabat as legitimate words but no problem with neologisms from American or British varieties of English'.
TrinidadExpress Today's News Clément Imbert 2009
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(Refer to question 14) - yes, that was the tabanca.
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