‘Manningitis’ spreading

A young lady was shot dead outside Movie Towne and — because she was not the intended victim — Patrick Manning flippantly classified her death as "collateral damage."

More recently, the unending killings, robberies and kidnappings were deemed to be "temporary" in nature. Does "temporary" mean until the next PNM fete? Unfortunately, others have contracted the dreaded "Manningitis" virus.

The Principal of Barataria Senior Comprehensive School described the chopping of a Form Four student by a Form One — in a classroom — as "isolated." Were the chop wounds also "isolated?"

Jarrette Narine, Minister of Agriculture, knowingly informs the nation that high food prices were caused by "lack of water." They way out, he predicts, will be in "two to four years." We just have to wait.

The police couldn’t be left out in this new wave of unrealistic application of language to real-life situations. A man was killed in Valencia, and the tractor he was watching was blown to bits. With all the high tech crime-fighting gear the final verdict was: he was in the "wrong place at the wrong time." So too, the young couple executed in Blue Basin, were "in the wrong place at the wrong time." Is there a right time for any of these things to happen?

Camille Robinson-Regis took the cake — and our grandchildren’s inheritance — when she revealed that the Stabilisation Fund — set up for excess oil revenue — was really the "Interim Stabilisation Fund." Will "interim" soon evolve into to "non-existent?"

I will not waste time on Martin Joseph’s nonsensical "crime is now a percentage of the last percentage figure."

Come on Hazel — Education Minister or Rahael — Minister of Health, step in and cure this Manningitis.

JEROME CHAITAN

Arouca