Figures speak for themselves

THE EDITOR: Thank you for publishing the monetary sums assigned by the two parties in recent times, to the Regional Corporations. The figures speak for themselves. On a day when another major paper continues to lambaste the present party in power on its failure to “stem the tide of crime,” you demonstrate where the real crime lies, in the disproportionate sums disbursed to regions controlled by the UNC, under the UNC and what was given to the corporations that control the most populous areas of the country — nothing. How many jobs could have been created in the Laventille and east Port-of-Spain areas in those years, that may have turned the youth away from the easy money of drugs and crime into productive work? Could this result have been deliberate policy?

When you put that editorial next to Colm Imbert’s statement in the House about the Medical Board’s recalcitrance, apparent lack of ethics and blatant self serving, I am glad, so glad, the ex-President Robinson examined his soul and handed the baton of government to Mr Manning. That decision set the stage for the end of Dacoity and high level banditry that was the norm for TT under the UNC. When a newspaper tells the truth, it is often accused of being pro-this or pro-that. It is possible to be for good government, no matter who is practising it.

LINDA EDWARDS
Houston, Texas