Baffling words from Govt ministers

THE EDITOR: It is amazing and amusing the strange statements that our ministers of Government make from time to time in relation to certain events that take place. After a fatal auto accident on the highway in which one occupant of a car which had been parked on the shoulder well out of the path of moving traffic had been killed, as the result of a large speeding truck slamming into the back of it, pushing it off the shoulder and then falling on top of it, Mr Franklin Khan the Minister of Transport in a TV statement said that the cause of the accident was a roadside vendor from whom the occupants of the car had stopped to buy “peewah.”

Now there are large signs on all our highways that read as follows, “No Stopping. In Emergency Use the Shoulder.” Although I am not suggesting for one moment that buying peewah should be considered as an emergency, except perhaps to satisfy the cravings of a pregnant mother, the driver could have stopped on the shoulder to change a flat tyre and suffered the same fate by the same large speeding truck that could not stop behind the line of stationary traffic and had to use the shoulder of the highway to avoid running into the last car on the highway and slamming into the one that was parked on the shoulder instead. Had that been the case, perhaps Mr Khan would have laid the blame for the accident on a flat tyre of the car that was parked on the shoulder well out of the path of moving traffic.

In a more recent statement by John Rahael, the Minister of Health after viewing the three-part report shown on TTT, his comment to viewers was that he could not believe what he was seeing and that he had no idea that such conditions existed at the San Fernando General Hospital. What Minister Rahael should have actually said is that like most if not all the ministers of Government, he does not have a clue as to what is going on in his Ministry of Health. Straying away from ministers of Government for a while, I was a bit amused at the recent article in the newspaper in which, it was stated Professor Ramesh Deosaran was suggesting that prisoners serving time should be allowed visits from their spouses in order to satisfy their sexual cravings at times.

This led me to wonder whether non-married offenders who were serving time, would be furnished with prostitutes at State expense to satisfy their sexual urges. There is no telling how far reaching such a suggestion could end up, it would no doubt require the construction of several “honeymoon” suites, condom vending machines and quite possibly a well stocked bar where the inmates could get a drink or two to put them in the right mood for such an encounter. Just a few random thoughts. With jails of that type, there might very well be an increase in crime, as a result of more persons wanting to get into them, what with three square meals a day and sex? It would sure beat unemployment.

MARTIN KAVANAGH
La Romaine