Difficult time for TT? Take a deep breath

With a Police Service that is overworked and underpaid and an uncooperative public, how can we expect the criminals to be defeated once and for all? We watch television show like CSI Miami and wonder why TT doesn’t have the things we see them. Yet when it’s time for gas subsidies to be removed and taxes to be implemented we more upset than anything else. We can’t expect to put all the blame on the Government and everyone else but ourselves for the shortcomings of the country. We are the nation, we are the government, the responsibility is ours to pay our taxes and report crime.

We need to take a deep breath and begin to think differently.

Changing the way we have been conditioned to think by society is not easy to do from our limited perspective.

We are who we are, and thinking positive and about solutions to difficult problems is not part of our nature. It’s difficult to imagine, let alone do. It is so much easier to shift the blame unto someone else.

The point is when our nation looks to be in chaos, seems to be hopeless, there appears to be no end to the downward spiral, we must take a deep breath and take an inward look at ourselves before we continue with the blame game, a game where there are absolutely no winners, where all of us end up on the losing side.

SIMON WRIGHT Chaguanas