Well, mission accomplished! I am the proud recipient of an old persons driving permit. It was a seamless, effortless transaction. What is going on with our public service, it is working like a zwill. I was in and out in less than 30 minutes, the staff were the best. 'Dat is still your signature, well we have dat already so you good to go'. When I sat in front of the lady photographer she was carrying on a conversation with persons unseen " .....he tink I could remember he, an wha he say he doh remember, only d one who looking pregnant.... I looking pregnant?" Love my Rock, political correctness has not yet arrived and I hope it never does.
News coming out of Tobago today that a young boy was killed using a jet ski. We were in Tobago recently and I wrote on this blog about the situation we had experienced at Pigeon Pt with the use of multiple watercraft occupying the same space as bathers. Another fatality in Tobago, what exactly is the THA going to do? This problem will not go away, there will be more accidents, more fatalities. Is it that someone of importance will have to suffer the same fate before the THA comes to its senses? The THA must understand that accidents like this are as bad news as crime. This inaction on something as serious as this is a direct reflection on how the THA views tourism. Too bad! On the news tonight is also the cry by Tobago tourism interests that arrivals are down by a further 50%. Let us not forget that Tobago in 2004-5 accommodated over 87,000 foreign visitors. The head count now is below 20,000 and dropping. Surely someone somewhere must be concerned. The PMOTT's answer to this is to raise the SANDAL'S flag. The 87K came without the 'S' flag, what has happened since then? Jet skis flying low amongst bathers may have something, albeit slight, to do with it.
With all that is going on who would have thought that a swimming pool would have made the news. The upside down hotel, owned by the State, renovated the swimming pool after 55 years. The taxpayers of the Rock are up in arms over the TT$7.4M expenditure citing the many projects that the same sum could have been spent on. On the heels of that a new swimming pool is to be built in one of the most depressed areas for TT4.0M. More bacchanal, how could you do that when people have no water, no housing, no medication, no buses, no jobs, no money for Carnival, no money for contractors, no money for anything.
This is a very valid question, who determines where money should be spent especially where funding is very tight. I understand the expenditure at both the hotel and the Constituency. What about the two TT$400.0M highway projects? Is a highway to Manzanilla that critical? Is the interchange at Curepe a better deal than a highway from the Caroni bird sanctuary direct to Piarco which would cost less than either of the two highways and serve the purpose?
The biggest problem on the Rock is for any Government to make the mistake and continue the previous administration's projects, the same projects that were demonised whilst in Opposition. The obvious problem with this style of governance is that it is taxpayers money being spent, not your money. Hence we have billions of dollars in unfinished projects, built for the people, just sitting there. I remember during the PPG I had 2 Community Centres in my constituency that were in different stages of completion and it took a lot of convincing to have one completed. The other is still only 70% completed and therefore not in use. A total waste of taxpayers money by playing politics!
Enjoy the pool!
It has been 7 years since the Rock has had a Commissioner of Police. All appointments since then have been acting positions. The same person has acted for 7 seven years. I see that both Government and Opposition are all now hot and sweaty to have a person confirmed in the job. Now, are we understanding what is happening here, it has taken 7 years, 2 Administrations and we continue to screw it up. The scary part is that both the PMOTT and the LOTO are agreeing that the process was screwed up but as usual not a single person is claiming responsibility for the debacle. In the meantime we have 62 persons murdered on the Rock. I remember an AG saying that it was better to have an acting CoP because he would perform better than if he was permanent, that people is a true fact.
The week has arrived, the Rock is going to be rocking, wining, jumping with or without permission and the Carnival children will have the best time of their lives!
Good night people on the Rock and good luck!
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