Congrats to O’Connor

THE EDITOR: Please publish this letter to Mr Peter O’Connor. Congratulations on your ongoing (and maybe “impossible”) missions to educate the various authorities on reasons for several national problems and also possible solutions. Your recent article on the Port-of-Spain Storm Drains is a classic illustration of our national tendency to refuse to acknowledge or accept the truth — no matter how clearly it sometimes stares us in the face.

This refusal by seemingly so many of our media “intellectuals”, business communities, politicians and John Public all add up to making Trinidad a distinctly frustrating place, despite its huge wealth, apparent talent, charms and natural beauty. Having myself once stopped trying to influence or educate anything locally for 22 years, I particularly admire you (and Mr Alloy Lequay and ANR Robinson) for your “belly”, brains and leadership over such extended periods and in the face of much criticism. Here’s hoping that your good work in football, cricket and other numerous projects will soon force hundreds of thousands of citizens to change and truly appreciate you gentlemen. I’m sure there must be a few more who I can commend in similar fashion.

STUART H
Gasparillo