Too much comess in Trini

THE EDITOR: Oh what a country? Confusion reigns supreme both at the political and cultural level. No Carnival without bacchanal. You must hear, “We eh make no money or they theif we.” As the visitors, including Trinis in exile, return to their various countries, the locals’ concern is how safe and free they are to travel the country without the fear of being attacked or robbed. We will make our judgment four months from now, crime we are told is on the decline. To date, it is only 52 people murdered, don’t panic yet.

I wonder aloud what will be achieved with the airport inquiry, but then we like bacchanal and “tay lay lay” so like all other inquiries, this one also heading for the shelf. David, Ian and Carl must be congratulated for putting a level of consciousness among the people. Everybody is now Trini to the bone, yet one could not help but observe how we are fast fooding ourselves with KFC and Church (not the Catholic) into cretinism so bewteen Ali’s doubles and the fast food outlets, who or what is really Trini to the bone. Unfortunately Ali’s doubles is losing out.
Mr Chin Lee do not let the kudos you received for Carnival go to your head. Check out our Carnival history, read about camboulay and don’t mess with TT Carnival with that legislation you have in mind. We are not Barbados or Toronto, a bill where kidnappers won’t get bail is more important. Thirty million to stop bobol and corruption and so far not one person in jail. Shades of yesteryear who will forget the cockfight minister, Kenneth Tam, Sam P and most recently our airport, that expensive state of art.

PNM, NAR, UNC are all responsible for the dilemma that is taking place in Caroni and as usual the working class people will suffer in the long run. Quite a large percentage of drivers in TT should have been in Minshall’s “Ship of Fools” but he would have had to rename it “Vehicles of Fools” because our citizens keep getting killed and maimed on the roads due to ignorance and stupidity. I always maintain, a vehicle driven with the hands of a fool is no different to a loaded gun in the hands of an idiot. Chalkdust’s “Somebody In White Hall Mad” comes to mind but then money eh no problem. Mr President, in the interest of culture, next time quote a few lines from “Progress” by King Austin. This is not a hip hop country. We could do without the offensive ‘N’ word, be it Walcott or Naipaul quotations. In conclusion, we are told to pray and trust in the Lord. According to Rudder’s “Somebody say God is a Trini”, sorry fellas my God has no nationality, yet there are times when I wonder if the person in charge (not Mr Manning) is on holidays. I hope not though because we surely need help.

ERNIL COKER
Cascade