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'mucho aqua'

Rain, rain and more rain! Left sunny Chaguanas after lunch and driving north saw the northern range covered in low hanging clouds, decided to go through the Santa Cruz route after hearing that the capital was flooded yet again. The one thing I noticed whilst driving through the pelting rain was that there was more water on the road than in the drains.
It is obvious that major work is required to fix the drainage system across the island. With nonexistent drainage or drainage that simply does not capture the runoff because of bad design the roadways are going to be flooded at the great inconvenience of the users. Pictures of the annual flooding is a serious indictment on the engineers and managers of the agencies responsible for these matters. Imagine the capital city is under water in a matter of minutes and not too many people care. I guess the Member of Parliament for POS South had other things on her mind and flooding was not one of them.
The Mayor of the capital city was also not too concerned about South Quay, Cascade, Woodbrook and St James. You see not being an elected position sometimes the priorities are re-directed.
Whatever happened to the famous 'gully suckers?' waiting on spare parts, maybe.

I got home just in time to view the media conference hosted by the PMOTT. I am still not sure the actual reason for having this media conference as the only thing I gleaned from it was that the PP Gov't was as guilty as hell for many things and that the Integrity Commission had no integrity. Why was the question about the firing of the Minister not properly answered? There was no issue with the person of interest known to the police being present at the swearing in. I have a major issue with the fact that a Cabinet Minister supports and condones a person who is of interest to the police. Should this interest be developed further what will be the position? A phone call requesting a hands off approach? Like I have already said is this why you can have drug blocks across the street from a police station?
The biggest take away from today's media conference was that always check your list and make sure that the media has a mic to be able to ask questions. No mic at a media conference, maybe the Minister of Communications should have been dealt with at the same time, imagine embarrassing the PMOTT. There was a long pause after the PMOTT invited the media to ask questions. I think the media was as confused as to why they had been summoned on this very rainy afternoon.
And the now twice fired former Minister remains as an MP, remains as a Deputy Political Leader of the ruling party and the Chairman of a Parliamentary JSC.

The island state continues to make me wonder if any time soon we will finally understand what responsible governance is. Judging from man in the street interviews and general comments it would seem we are a bit further away as the thinking is  'OK, maybe she should have done it differently but that does not mean she should have been fired.' What? What is it that the general population thinks about being in government, once 'is we' it is not a problem, everybody gets a bligh. The same thing happened in the previous regime when ministers were being dealt with. 'Is we boy' leave him alone.
No, this nonsense has to stop and whether you are a Deputy Political Leader, a Member of Parliament, a Cabinet Minister and more so the PMOTT, you have to account to all the people of the Republic, not just your circle, you are now a representative of all of T&T.
One day we will get it, and that's the day we start becoming a nation. In the mean time we do what we are doing and the result will be the same, mediocrity.

The good thing about the constant rainfall is of course the aquifers are replenished. I knew there was good coming out of the flooded roads and drains.

T&T, do not lose hope, it will happen, come hell or high water!

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