Don’t blame unc for govt failures

THE EDITOR: It was during the reign of the late Dr Eric Williams that the DEWD programme came into being. He introduced this programme to facilitate the prisoners who could not obtain employment after they had served their term in prison. In this case most of the foremen were as we would term them “Bad Johns”, so this programme started with a bad stigma. This was done too for making the bad element work for their livelihood, but it had those who took their names to different venues with certain arrangements, but in reality never went to work so the malaise started long ago under the People’s National Movement.

This bad attitude started in the days of the PNM and still continues. Changing the name of the programme made one difference; it was a matter of encouraging certain people to go along this way for political mileage. This did not make these people more responsible but created more idlers, and malingerers. The Prime Minister says that placing the URP in a contractual system to remove the criminal element which took place and blossomed under its predecessor “The United National Congress” is a shameful and untrue statement, because Mark Guerra was murdered serving under the present regime where murder and kidnapping are the order of the day, and he was a member of the same PNM and a big Jef? with the URP, but the PNM continues to blame the UNC for all their shortcomings.

The present government is only surviving on excuses, and promises while blaming the former regime for their dismal failures. They are in a quandary to know how to govern this country, and its priorities and as this continues Trinidad is going down the drain, and the abyss of destruction. All the utilities are in shambles, and I believe foreign investors are afraid to come here for fear of being kidnapped and fear for their lives with all that is happening around us on a daily basis.

Incidentally, the police had no right to brutalise the man of Beetham Estate. These law-abiding citizens are always well behaved and do not interfere with anybody, but only at times while doing their jobs some people may disturb them when they ask for what is theirs, a donation and if they refuse they use a little force with a sharp instrument or an object that pushes out some lead which at times may be generous enough to send their victims back to their maker without charge. If the police had spoken to the man softly or hug him up, the police would have been accused of something else. Trinidad is in a very bad way, and if it continues like this, the 20/20 vision would cancel out itself like in Maths, and we would have to creep all the way back to be a third world country once again.

HORACE  DESORMEAUX
Maraval