What do we care? Really what do you care about?

Is there anything that we as Trinidadians will stand up and fight for? What I am talking about is going out on the street and protest, active participation to encourage change. What are we willing to fight for?

Yes I know if the Government was to ban Carnival there might just be riots on the street just imagine if rum were to become illegal, for sure bush rum (babash) sales will go through the roof and more people dead, but for sure that will almost like not happen.

The cost of food and the basic amenities are increasing in almost daily yet we do nothing. We are a country of frivolity, fun, excess and rum. In a lot of ways showing off is our passion “I will buy it just because” and corruption is almost second nature. Your parents sending “gifts” for the teacher/principal to encourage favor, or you long lost uncle pulling some “string so that you can get that sweet position. For sure it is not all bad but it is like almost all bad.

Really, criminals killing people almost at will and we are almost numb sorry not almost we are numb, citizens engaging in all manner of petty crimes, small thing? The police seem unwilling to engage the criminals head on, are they afraid? Well I would expect some sort of fear after all they are human aren’t they?

May be the real reason for this sluggishly cautious approach is that some of their members in high and low rank are actively and passively engaging in and encouraging the criminal elements in their pursuit of criminal power, allegedly.

Do you detect a little frustration? Hell yeh!

Where does our belly lie?

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.