Trinity Cross smoke screen

It is so difficult to understand how grown and so-called educated persons could waste so much time on such a trivial matter as the name of an award or the shape of that award.

I would imagine if it was in the shape of an A, B, and C or X, Y or Z somebody would find some reason to object or if it was called a Dog or Goat for that matter.

The fact is that it is a medal of honour, not a religious symbol and for that simple fact it should be left alone.

The Government has decided that the name and shape should be changed. Does that mean that recipients in the past should trade in their medals for whatever is the decided new form?

Trinidadians get serious and stop the nitpicking. Let us deal with the serious issues and see this for what it is. A smoke screen.

The UNC has been chastised for the $1.2B airport but here we have a government willing to spend $1.55B for fun and games. I am referring to the $850M stadium at Tarouba and the $700M Grand Stand at the Savannah.

That money could be better spent on hospital equipment eg dialysis machines since there is such a high level of diabetes in this island or possibly subsidising private health care. How about mechanical street sweepers, and since we are hearing so much about first world status by 2020, how about a separate highway lane for emergency vehicles only.

I expect there would be a flood of letters in regard to this last suggestion, so I will offer a solution to the problem that every road-user has in his/her mind. Any private citizen caught using the emergency lane would be taken directly to jail for a term of not less than two weeks including all passengers within the offending vehicle.

RICHARD DEANE

Diego Martin