Carnival evil, US President unjust

FORMER ambassador to Caricom, Kamaluddin Mohammed spoke out against Carnival and United State President George M Bush when he addressed the Penal Rotary Club at the South Sea Restaurant on Wednesday night.

Mohammed supported the position of Roman Catholic priest Father Ian Taylor who called for Catholics to withdraw from the festival. He described Carnival as the work of the devil. “It brings out all the evil imaginable in life,” he declared, adding that it has degenerated from a traditional festival of talent and pride into a festival of vulgarity and immorality. “We are wasting away our lives when we go to places of fetes and get high on alcohol on the pretense of having a good time.
The fetes are the grounds where substance abuse is like a disease plaguing those who are hooked and the ones who are innocent,” he said. Mohammed criticised British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the US President George Bush for calling for war against Iraq. He accused the two leaders of conspiring against a nation.