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'only but the lonely'





Another great Sunday with the familia. Plenty ole talk, grans flying low, and copious amounts of food and drink. With all that is happening on the rock the one thing that I look forward to is familia day! Saying good night to one of the children I am saddened with ' how are we fixing this place.' It's very sad that we can have young professionals who have a whole lot to offer T&T who are very much aware that this might not be the place to drop their proverbial bucket. The politics has made the rock a questionable place and with the impending economic disaster facing us who can blame them for bailing.

Two members of the JLSC have resigned as a result of the recent issues regarding the appointment of a High Court Judge. The head of the judiciary however has not even apologized for the complete screw up that he made. The Ag Commissioner of Police is now saying that he nor any of the 7,000 officers below him are not in a position to deal with the crime situation. We are in a situation, man made, that successive administrations cannot seem to fix. One of the main problems is the common denominator. The same people are in the same position for years and the nonsense continues. The PMOTT says that it is the job of the police to deal with crime, not the politician/government. Well, I beg to differ, you have been elected to do a job and you now want to blame everyone else for your mis-management of the crime situation. You, the PMOTT,  sits as the head of the National Security Council dealing with all things regarding the safety and security of us, the citizens, and all of a sudden you abdicate the responsibility to someone who has clearly shown that he is totally out of his depth.
The AG CoP is a failure, he has done zero to deal with the crime situation and needs to be replaced. The Comptroller of Customs and Excise has failed this country and needs to be sent on pre retirement leave or on a nondescript course studying birds and bees. The Chief Immigration Officer does not have a clue as to how to protect our borders from illegals and persons who have no interest in coming here to build T&T. The billions being spent on the Coast Guard and Regiment should be spent on hiring foreign military instead. Give the Americans back part of Chaguaramas, at least we could then stop the drugs and guns from coming in because it seems that we are our worst enemy, we cannot stop this deadly trade. I know, sovereignty, but that is a load of BS if we as a nation cannot protect ourselves.

Sunday is supposedly a day of rest, at least according to the Christian calendar. Tonight I am frustrated with my rock. It should be a place of great opportunity, a place that the world should be looking at as the example of people unification, economic success and religious tolerance. Instead we have a small minded political directorate who for decades has destroyed any chance of that happening in the near future.

I hope that we can all be part of the fix otherwise my Sunday's may get very lonely!

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