Murder and a Happy New Year

I heard this evening that a thief allegedly removed several items of value from Dana Elaine Owens aka Queen Latifah’s room while she vacationed on the Island of Tobago. She was not in the room at the time of the alleged robbery, and Tobago police are mum on the alleged theft.

Today the eve of New Years Eve the Murderer’s have run rampant on the Island of Trinidad. To date over 500 people have been murdered, it is as if it was some sort of national contest “the person with the most blood on their hands wins the prize, yippy”. Trinidadians have become numb, deaf to the death bell’s toll. “Ah glad it not me” whispered under the breath when the bell tolls. In my head I can hear that kid from that show who said “are we there yet?” but instead the voice is saying “are they Dead yet?”. No but really are they all dead yet?

Are we to become accustomed to this daily onslaught to our senses and to our collective bodies, the soles of our feet are ah-washed with blood of our fellow countrymen our breath stifled with the stench of their collective rot while some of us party and drink to distract ourselves from the reality of the situation.

As a people we find unity in distraction, everything is a reason for a party. We work hard and party harder (some may say party the hardest). If someone were to conduct a survey to find out the ratio of churches or places of worship to bars I think that they will discover that for every place of worship there is a bar (a place for the enjoyment of alcohol). Ours is a place where teenagers freely walk around with alcoholic beverages especially on carnival and borough time in obvious view of the police and it is cool.

There is no place better than Trinidad and Tobago.

For the year 2009 I wish for Trinidad and Tobago, prosperity for all, No Murders, no Kidnapping, better health care for all, a greater tolerance for all and the love of God.

Have a Happy New Year all, be safe.

Lov.

Yes we did it 500!

This was an eventful year for this world. Sadly the lack of death was not part of it. I think that we should celebrate. Killing 500 was the game that we here in Trinidad and Tobago played and we won whoo-hoo! In fact we beat the 500 dead bodies’ high score. It remind me of the line from that song that some of you may know “let the bodies hit floor” and the bodies sure did hit the floor, I wander if next year the chant will be

“we want more, we want more, more bodies hit the floor, more bodies to hit the floor”.

I can hear it now like an insane early carnival morning jouvert rhythm I can taste and feel the mud on my skin like cemetery dirt on a coffin.

The government seems to catching its tail in trying to deter and catch these criminals who have engineered such a ghoulish rhythm.

Someone out there in this bright and wonderful world finally realized that the world was in a recession and shortly thereafter the government of Trinidad did recognize this fact. “Tighten your belt” was the instruction given by the Prime Minister Mr. Patrick Manning. In usual Trinidad fashion we said sure boss sometime after carnival.

Other than that I am alive, friends and loved ones too. Everyone is in relative good health and that is something to celebrate. It is a blessing to be alive and even a bigger bonus to be in good health.

What will happen in 2009? I hope only good things but you and I know better evil is not likely to end soon but good is always there like a worm blanket in the cold.

So if I don’t write on this blog before this year ends Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year. Love To All.