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a time warp


What a day! The tennis sharing time with the football (not soccer). At the end of it all, we saw the world come together to play the best of the best. Today should send a clear message that the world is made up of 7 plus billion people, a relatively small number who are refugees, who play a major part in civilization. Not because we may be poor and destitute are we a lesser people. It is simply our circumstance in a particular period. Events preceding us have us where we are and strangely enough the current world powers had a major part to play and therefore they must accept some responsibility for where we are today. The French football team says it all! Felicitations France!
The 2026 World Cup is being played in Canada/USA and Mexico. How is that going to happen with the current situation with borders? The POTUS was right there, a stone's throw from all the action and thought it wise to play a round of golf at his own property rather than attend the tennis championships or the World Cup finals with his buddy in the Kremlin. I guess he listened to his advisors or simply was not aware of what the world was doing.

On the Rock today we saw the world behaving in the way the world should be, competing for world dominance in a game rather than one-upmanship, trade deals or war. Croatia will forever be respected, people who never heard of Croatia before all of a sudden will be following the small country of 4 million people. Like so many countries in Europe over centuries, Croatia has been the subject of wars, occupation, annexation and other forms of modern-day politics. We on the Rock have our own stories, colonialism, slavery, and indentureship, curses we seem to not get rid of. I wonder at other countries who move on, understand the past but forge a future not based only on history but on what is the way forward to success. We seem to be stuck in a time warp.

The Parliament sits this week to debate and hopefully confirm a Commissioner of Police. With a murder rate in excess of 40 persons per 100,000, one of the highest in the world, the Rock continues with its mediocre, foolish policy of the hiring and managing a Commissioner. Whatever happened to performance on the job? Surely this takes precedent? How can we have an acting CoP who has been shown to be totally incompetent, useless and inept at doing his job and now confirming him in a position for what, a couple months before he is due for retirement? so he can retire on a full pension? People are being murdered every single day and we are concerned about someone's pension?

This Rock needs to be shaken at its foundations, scrap the stupid old colonial way of doing business. It has not worked for us and will never work for us. We need a structure of government that will deal with nepotism, racialism, and just plain stupidity. What we have does not work.

This coming week has no tennis, no football but more importantly, the boat arrives!

'I am a Rock, I am an island'. Simon and Garfunkel.

Keep cool people, good night and good luck!







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