Piarco project dragged on to fill pockets

THE EDITOR: Things that epitomise TT today:-  PATT places press ads advising the cancellation for three consecutive days of MF Panorama sailings which end “Your Tobago Ferry — Don’t take it for granted. It works,” Yeah! Right! Now and again! Headlines in Sunday Newsday July 6: “Panday: Airport Inquiry dragged on to fill pockets.” Yeah! Could be, but for about three or four years or more on any day, in any daily, there could relevantly have been headlines over a factual article reading “Piarco Project dragged on to fill pockets”, and, maybe infinitely more pockets, Mr Panday, and infinitely more filled, eh? A water leak, bubbling in full view from under the tarmac on Rodney Road, opposite its junction with Western Avenue in Chaguanas, has been unattended for countless months, probably over a year. The operators of the vegetable stall located three feet away say they have “lost count” of the number of times it has been reported. No one came.

Meanwhile WASA takes out ads advising the public not to leave their pets’ water bowls exposed to the sun for fear a few millilitres will evaporate!! No matter what CEO, at what salary driving whatever motorcar, under whatever Government, WASA remains the most recalcitrant, obtuse, careless, brazen waster of water and poses to tell others how to save it! By the way, why not take a few thousand of those CEPEP workers presently white washing every superfluous piece of rock in sight and put them to find and repair the tens of thousands of leaks in WASA’s distribution system and save the 30, 40 or 50 percent of potable water being lost? Would this make too much sense for our politicians ever to put into effect, like converting now redundant caneland to pasture and thereby shortly being totally self reliant in our meat and dairy product requirements or decongesting our North-South Highway system by providing a very speedy, comfortable, hydro-foil cross-Gulf, Port-of-Spain to San Fernando passenger ferry? Having newly entered the twenty-first century TT, in the mindset of its political, so called, leaders, is ill prepared to even enter the twentieth!

GEOFF HUDSON
Port-of-Spain