New Prime Minister

Ok So it is done, we have a new Prime Minister Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Yes a woman and she has made history as being the first Female Prime Minister Of Trinidad and Tobago.

Mr. Manning the now former prime minister said that it was all a "suprise to him" that the internal poles suggested
something different. The shock of it all was very apparent on his face as he gave the media briefing conceding defeat and congratulating the new prime minister. Oh please I say that his head was stuck in the perverbial PNM sand and therefore he nor his advisors were paying any attention to what was going on around them. They fail to understand the mood of the people the young people. Advice to the new prime minister, talk less listen more. It might me beneficial.

Now it is time for the new prime Minister to perform, to perform the very intricate dance that in the Dance of
Trinidad and Tobago Politics.

I wish her all the best.

Bless.

Huh And what do you Christians say?

Wild Boys? Or Fun Boys?

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?

5th Summit of the Americas And?

Well it has ended. The summit has come and gone the zones red and yellow has been dismantled. Now we can get back to normal.

It is now wait and see what the outcome of this event will be for the twin island state and the rest of the Caribbean and the Americas. What will the future be for Cuba our Caribbean sister?

Little focus was given by the media to any murders or criminal activity that happened over the summit weekend. I have heard of about three or four murders, who knows, there might have been a lot else that went unreported. I guess we were all excited by the goings on at the Hyatt and nothing is wrong with that.

There were times when things were tense between the security forces and some activist citizens. They even called drumming illegal in an attempt to stop the drum it to the summit and there was a tense standoff but cooler heads prevailed and the police was ordered to leave.

Looking at the news channels CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and the BBC there was some reporting on the summit but I don’t think that it was enough. Then again I wandered what was enough reporting? At least our country’s name was highlighted, Trinidad and Tobago.

Well I have work tomorrow, sometimes I wished I had enough money to live comfortably. I might happen...

Two Dotish old Men a Carnival Thing.

On Sunday morning on my way back home to Cap-De-Ville from Point Fortin via the Guapo/Cap-De-Ville main road, I got a taste of what I would call Carnival dotishness.

This should have been a normal Sunday morning drive back home, this was not to be soon we realized that cars were starting to slow down and stop. The first thing that came to mind was car accident further up the road, reason being today carnival Sunday nuff drunk people on the road and not more than 4 months ago a car flipped over mashed up a wall and the driver was killed within this same area.

I got out the car and started to walk only to realize it was not an accident but two vehicles parked on the bridge whose drivers decided that they not moving a fire truck from Point Fortin fire station and a private citizen "Mr. Mitchum".


By this time people from the neighborhood were out at the roadside, passengers and drivers had exited their vehicles. People pleaded with the drivers of both vehicles to reverse but both said that they were in the right and that they were not moving.

This was the position of the vehicles on the bridge. The cab and the front tyres of the fire truck was on the bridge and the car (an old model sunny) was three quarters of the way on the bridge, a little over 10 feet before he would exit the bridge. The drivers of both vehicles were older men, the driver of the sunny was the elder of the two both stubborn old men.

The police arrived about 20 minutes after I arrived on the scene. The people voices were sometimes raised passionate that the fire truck should reverse; it had the least distance to reverse about 15 feet where as the car about 30 feet. The lawmen talked with the drivers of both vehicles, people shouted " that why it have so much crime in the country big people no common sense" "too much damn pride" said another. These two men serve as a bad example to all young people.

This is an example of how most of the people in the protective services treat the public. They thump their chest "I am the Law clear the way when I come through, I am right all the time". They show little respect to the citizenry. It would have taken less than a minute for the fire truck to reverse instead of this almost two hour showdown before high noon.

Eventually the firemen were persuaded (after the police realized that the crowd passionate people was getting bigger) by the police men to reverse which took all of ten seconds and vehicular traffic was flowing again.

A little excitement in Cap-De-Ville was nice... Carnival Nice eh!

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.

Who the Hell Is Patrick Manning?

This is what happen (in my own words) Mr. Manning is in a barber shop the radio is playing in the background and the two DJ’s announcers are complaining about the cost of gas for vehicles that the average consumer uses, they go on about the cost of CNG conversion kits and all while inferring that Mr. Manning was to blame for additional expense on the consumers pockets. In the last budget presentation the Government of Trinidad and Tobago increased the cost of premium gasoline. Justifying the increase by saying that the average consumer doesn’t use premium gasoline. Apparently Mr. Manning did not like what he heard so he enquired of the barber the name of the radio station and personally visited the station after he concluded his business in San Fernando.

After Mr. Manning complained in person at the radio station, the station held its own investigation and as a result the two (2) DJ’s were suspended.

Now this is my problem, why did Manning have to go there personally? He is the Prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago; his person visit ensured that the two DJ’s were suspended. Why did he not use the normal route for making complaints? Can we as ordinary citizens do the same, why shouldn’t we follow the Prime Minister’s example? Is it because as he said “I run the country” he could do what he wants? Mr. Manning I have a complain the cost of food stuff for the ordinary man is to high, criminals in the country has killed over four hundred (400) people I have a problem with that it offends me that so many of my fellow countrymen have been killed and it seems that you can do nothing about it may I come to your office and complain anytime?

If you run this country as you say be a proper example and follow the right procedures, complain you should if you are offended everyone should but there are rules and you must follow it, even you Mr. Patrick Manning. Arrogance does not become you or perhaps, that is the real Patrick Manning.

Reaching out

Looking at the TV I am, at that little clock digital on the cable box
When should I do it? touch the raised knobs
The ones with the letters let them spell for me.

Reach out and touch,
Reach out and touch. What is the timing? At what time should I?
Hesitating, questioning, waiting to reach out and do such
Touch, not if but when? When?

Hate this do I, the waiting, the wanting to but still deciding
If
Should I? That I do know is yes, bloody yes!
Smile, do I
Depress the knobs I touch, I don’t.

Why the hell not!

The while all the time is crawling on
Still have I not touched it
Frak!
A fool such am I, wasting time when I could be conversating
About what should I be talking?
Commonalities established I have not, pathetic

Hard this is
Is this hard?
Hard this is
Touch back I can’t, I would if I could
Now for I can’t

But is there a future? A future is there.

A Child Killed

Our bodies went cold, everyone who heard the news for the first time paused, their jaws dropped a bit some still tears came to their eyes. When the picture of the beautiful little girl made front page the anger level of the people of this nation raised they tasted the blood on their tongues.Hope

Another child is dead, dead at the hands of an adult, dead.

Why do people kill children? I can’t answer that but think about it, some of the murders of children tend to occur as part of a murder suicide when a relationship goes bad. As for the latest murder the question as to why this little girl was killed is still unanswered. This question will never be fully answered because the alleged killer, her step-dad, allegedly killed himself whiled being held in isolation away from the general population of the prison.

What can we do to prevent the next child from being murdered?

Do you know where your child is at this very moment? Do you know who they are with? Knowledge is the proper use of that knowledge is even better. Monitor your new boy/girl friend(s) when they are with your children, their probation period should be long and carefully monitored. Talk to their friends, family and associates. When you see flags address them immediately do not wait confront him/her and do it with tact. Do not be paranoid; paranoia makes the situation more difficult.

Legislation is way behind where it should be, protecting the nation’s children seems to be low on the government of Trinidad and Tobago list of priorities.

May be I am just wrong and things are being done and we haven’t heard about it.