Skip to main content

zilch



I sometimes think that the people who have been elected to the Parliament and therefore are responsible for the running, the vision and the future of the country are completely disconnected from the reality that is the Rock. What happened in the Parliament with the Anti Gang Legislation is a great example of the level of disconnect from the everyday problems that we the people experience.

The PMOTT accuses the LOTO of not supporting his Bill by refusing to agree to a sunset clause of 48 months as against 24 months. How could that possibly be a deal breaker? If I was the LOTO I would have agreed to everything the PMOTT proposed and then hold them responsible for their soon to be failure. You said that you needed it to counter crime then here it is. When you fail then you cannot blame us. Everything that has been said today after the failure of the Bill in the Parliament has been blamed on the LOTO as a result of the Opposition not supporting the Bill. It seems that if 'a ants walk across de road is the LOTO'.

The labour unions are at it again as though someone forgot to tell them that the country is in fact in a recession. The assumed head, by virtue of the fact that he walks around with a mannequin as a prop, goes on talking about the boycotting of the 'one percent'. For those who don't know the 'one percent' is a group of business people, mainly from the Syrian Lebanese community. The assumed leader is telling the population to boycott the 'one percent' stores and only buy from the street vendors selling imported, bought with scarce foreign exchange, clothing and toys. I wonder if he knows who actually imports the said vendor items?
The assumed leader makes the statement that the 'one percent' owners of business are letting go workers and actually not paying workers for December. The only organisation I know who is letting workers go and having major problems in meeting salary commitments is the government. What is the assumed leader's problem? During the PPG Administration he dragged a female mannequin around the country making the most derogatory statements about a sitting PMOTT and not a peep from the LOTO. Now that the tables have turned the assumed leader is targeting the business community for trying its best to maintain job security whilst the PMOTT overseers the firing of thousands of workers and the assumed leader says zilch. I guess $15.0M goes a long way!

The Rock is having quite a time in selecting a new Commissioner of Police. I read somewhere one of the main contenders and possibly the favourite is in fact the incumbent Ag CoP. I may not be God's gift to HR but how can the favourite be the same person that has been overlooked for the position for the last ten times the position came up and who is due to retire soon? The current Ag CoP has seen criminality and lawlessness reach unprecedented levels, enjoyed massive fiscal budgets and yet still has not made a single dent in any area of crime with a population running scared. The next question has to be why is it taking a year and a day to make the appointment? We take 12 hrs to vote in a new PMOTT, what could possibly take so long in the appointment of a CoP? Especially with a murder rate of 36 per 100K.

I am afraid that the people of the Rock are getting very 'gigiree'. The talk every where is "what is going on," "what happened to our country, I am ready to head out," "I have told my children do not come back here,  things are getting scary." I for the second time in my short life on the Rock am feeling that sense of hopelessness, of no future, no vision, no reason to spend my life here. Ouch, so what do we do? Curl up and die or buy a one way ticket out of Dodge? That is a damn good question to which I do not have an answer other than we made it so therefore we can unmake it! It is all our doing and we all have a commitment to fix the Rock.

Let us all enjoy the imminent Christmas season with our families and friends and at the same time commit to the New Year of making the change that is crucial. Throw out the stupid politics with the stupid politicians and start the rebuilding of a once proud nation, the Rock, Trinidad and Tobago!

These early mornings are a crispy 21C, nice weather!

Good night and good luck people we have a lot of work to do!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

'apology' expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone

Today Trinidad and Tobago was on fire. The discussions on the 'apology,' discussions on the status of the Parliament, everybody is now a certified meteorological expert reporting rainy season rain, people were out and about being very assertive about things that many of them did not really understand. Heat in the place! The statements being made, which caused the 'apology' to then be made, were being said, I think, without really understanding who we are as a people. This is 2017 and we still are having trouble in coming to grips with many social and historic issues that strangely enough are being discussed every day in many places and yet it is only a problem depending on who makes the statement. Let me say that the statement that was made was, even though to many factual, however it rubbed people the wrong way. This is where I have a problem. You read columns written by certain persons that under no circumstances will offend any sector of the society. That same posi
2 comments
Read more

'the bongo night'

She looks at me and says ' you know what night it is?'. I immediately think of 'the bongo night' and she says 'it's Sunday that means popcorn'. So much for 'bongo'. Love the tropics, it is dark by 6.30 and will be light by 6.00am. This is good for ones being, the daylight and nighttime are more or less equal, good balance. We attended a showing of yet another brilliant artist, Abigail Hadeed, whose work spans decades. Her photography is exceptional and her current show ' the Weight of Water' at the 'Y' is something not to be missed. We are a truly talented people, only 1.3m of us yet we can produce world-class works of art. This is why we are very special, very special indeed. I see the great country of America is having their 'midterm' election.  Why should this be of any import for a small island like ourselves? Well for starters I think there is an equivalent Trini population living in the good ole USA. Depending on h
Post a Comment
Read more

'aghhhhhhhh'

This week has me feeling so down about the rock and what really is our future. I have always considered myself to be Mr. Optimistic. Things would be bad, sometimes downright terrible with little or no hope and I would be there battling it out. The hard part is our present and future position is all man made [excuse the gender] and it seems that no matter what we do, how we vote, who we put our trust in, it somehow ends up bad. In 1956, the hope was there, a mass appeal, in 1986 it returned and was destroyed by 1990, in 2010 432,026 electors voted for the Peoples Partnership, in excess of 60% of the population. By 2015 a lot of the love disappeared and we found ourselves in a position of no-where once again. I use these years because the popular vote was there, the majority voted overwhelmingly for the winning party. Even though the winner in 1956 did not win by any semblance of a majority, over 80% of the electorate cast their vote. It is interesting to note that in 1956 the PPPG
1 comment
Read more