Envy and poverty of thought killing us in TT

They give their lives in exchange for the advancement of their countries when there are wars. We can offer no tangible thanks for self sacrifice.

In my estimation, trade unions had to come into being because there had to be guidelines about how we treat the working classes of the world. There had to be honour and respect for the working poor.

We do have it in TT but, when our trade unions decide that theirs is the one and only yardstick to measure success, we have a problem. Somewhere, along the way the politics of envy has invaded and is slowly poisoning the goodness of effective trade unionism and destroying worker attitudes regarding entitlement.

Out there on the ground, we have an out of control level of crime and criminality that appears to be based on envy. The expression, “’So poor as to thief” is really a poverty of thought and education.

We envy the success of others without caring how hard they worked to get their possessions.

Cars are stolen, houses broken into, money, farmers’ fruits, anything that can be moved and resold, gets taken. The must have syndrome of envy is killing us off in TT .

We have become a derisive nation. We intentionally use negative remarks to damage opponents.

Shortness of stature, blackness of skin, ugliness of face, over weight, under weight and remarks about sexuality, gender and mental capacity are thrown negatively at people to diminish them.

We need to get out the dictionary and look up the word “respect”. We also need to understand what is true self-respect because we are drowning.

There is a dangerous paucity of self belief holding back individuals.

T here is no race but the human race. All human life is reputed to have begun in Africa.

But, hear this-The face of the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, many thousands of years old, is that of an African man.

Until the African people know their true history we will continue to self destruct and remain buried in the Sands of Time, forever.

Lynette Joseph Diego Martin