TT reaping bitter harvest of local hate

THE EDITOR: Self-preservation is the first law of life: it is that intrinsic need to want to defend ourselves in whatever challenges.

Yet, there is a natural tendency to want to help; even when, sometimes, our basic needs are minimally met. And this wanting to help will always be noble, to yield grater love and, so, to share with each other a harmony of existence. We may consider ourselves living in one big yard — the West Indian family. Then, War-like it is, when our Prime Minister is openly criticised for wanting to bail out a financially strapped neighbouring airline — by the platitudinous excuse of ‘the thousands of hungry and starving’ of Trinidad and Tobago. Really, what is hungry and starving are those mouthpieces which expose their emptiness of any sense of self-preservation.

Today in Trinidad and Tobago we are reaping the bitter harvest of ‘local’ hate. And remember, our yard is big! To lift off to any respectable world order, we must ground with our brothers — the ‘Caribbean Man’. Finally, and in the spirit of our new President’s opening salvo, we are all part of each other. And, we are either nobody or a nation; of Caribbean people. And this, I am sure, is the full text and stroke of a master teacher, batsman statesman — slapping that dissenting voice for six.

RICHARD DINDIAL
Cunupia