These concerns made out as if TT did not pass the Bill by the set date, the sky was going to fall in on us.

We were going to have problems with the banking sector, with credit card payments, with foreign exchange, with money transfers, purchasing and payments of foreign commodities and others.

It sounded at the time like the end of the world for sweet TT .

Well the Bill was passed with a big sigh of relief only now to find out that many of the concerns expressed by the “experts” are in truth and in fact happening.

It is still a problem to get foreign exchange to travel.

Companies are having problems to secure foreign currency to pay their overseas bills and there is a limit, from certain banks, on credit card expenditure.

FATCA or no FATCA, it would appear the sky has fallen in on sweet TT .

So the question is: what was the great haste to have FATCA passed, except maybe for the benefit of certain institutions and individuals?

C Peters via email

Three of the murders occurred in Chaguanas and investigators have linked them to an ongoing war between Enterprise gangs, Unruly Isis and Rasta City Muslims.

The fourth man was gunned down in Diego Martin.

Hours after 22-year-old Terrance “Boomy” Patrick was shot dead in Enterprise, Chaguanas at about 4 pm, his friend Christian Mohammed, 23, who was wounded in the shooting died at hospital early yesterday morning.

In the interval, at about 11 pm, Kareem Gomes was gunned down near his home at Edinburgh 500, Chaguanas.

Detailing Friday’s events in the borough, police said Patrick and three friends, Mohammed, Candice James and Daniel Tannis, were liming at a house on the corner of John and School Streets, Enterprise when four men got out of a white Nissan Tiida and opened fire. Patrick was pronounced dead on arrival at the Chaguanas Health Centre while the others were transferred to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope.

Police said Mohammed, of Cunupia, succumbed to gunshot wounds at about 12.15 am yesterday.

James and Tannis remained warded in stable condition under police guard yesterday.

Three men, reported to be in their 20s, have been detained for the Enterprise murders. One of them has been identified as a relative of murdered community activist Selwyn “Robo Cop” Alexis.

Investigators believe the men are also responsible for Gomes’ murder.

They report that Gomes, of Jade Avenue, Edinburgh 500, was at a neighbour’s house when a gunman walked up and began shooting. While his neighbour escaped unhurt, Gomes was not so lucky as he was shot several times and died on the spot.

Police said the arrest of the three suspects is a major breakthrough in their investigations of shootings in Chaguanas, which they believe are reprisals for the murder of Alexis last year.

“There is a lot of grief in the community,” a police source said.

Police also disclosed Patrick’s brother was shot and killed two years ago.

Edinburgh 500 residents yesterday called for the return of regular police patrols which they claimed stopped a month ago because the police did not have enough vehicles.

And in the west, 23-year-old Randy Alexander died undergoing treatment after he was shot in the gallery of a neighbour’s home in Diego Martin.

Police report that at about 9.30 pm, Alexander, of Farm Road off Richplain, Diego Martin, and a neighbour were liming in her gallery.

She left him, went inside and then heard loud gunshots. When the shooting stopped, the woman returned outside and found Alexander slumped on a chair, bleeding from small holes about his body. Police said Alexander had been involved in criminal activities since he was a teenager and, just four years ago, he was shot in his right foot which had to be amputated.

Alexander was taken to the St James District Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Investigations into his murder continue.

There were also unconfirmed reports of the discovery of a man’s body in St Joseph yesterday.

Officers of the TT Police Service and Coast Guard returned to the Beetham and Sea Lots areas to search for the missing woman, whom it is alleged was killed and buried in a shallow grave.

Up until news time, however, there were no leads on the disappearance of the policewoman.

Joseph, 22, went missing on Thursday after leaving her home at Marie Road, Morvant, reportedly to attend to police matters.

Joseph’s mother, Paula Guy, later filed a missing person report at the Besson Street Police Station after her daughter did not return to home. Calls to Joseph’s cellular phone also went unanswered.

A 39-year-old man of Sea Lots, believed to be Joseph’s boyfriend, has since been detained by police and is assisting with the investigation into her disappearance.

Guy was not at her home yesterday when Sunday Newsday visited the small, unfinished concrete structure, perched on a hill just off Marie Road.

A neighbour said he had last seen Joseph on Tuesday when she had come to bring items for her four-year-old daughter, who is being cared for by Guy.

Although he did not know her very well, the man described Joseph as a respectable young woman. He expressed the hope that she was still alive.

Sources in Sea Lots told Sunday Newsday that Joseph and the Sea Lots man were inseparable.

“People always see them together.

They were together since she was about 16 or 17-yearsold,” a source said, adding she did not know much about the quality of their relationship.

“I cannot say if she was abused or not.” She said the man, who was once an employee of Stateowned National Flour Mills, later purchased a car and began selling DVDs in downtown Port-of- Spain.

The woman, though, said the time had come for men to engage more freely in discussions affecting them, particularly in relationships.

“Men are not talking to men enough. I feel it is a macho thing,” she said. “Too often, they just laugh it off and society has not helped by telling me that they should not cry.” Meanwhile, a release from the TT Police Service Public Affairs Unit confirmed a search was conducted yesterday for Joseph in Beetham Gardens and Sea Lots..

The release said Joseph enlisted in the Police Service on November 10, 2016 and, was, up until her disappearance, assigned to the Morvant Police Station.

The search for the missing policewoman, the statement said, began on Friday when she did not report for duty on that day. She was last seen by her colleagues at about 11 am on Thursday.

The statement said anyone with information concerning Joseph’s whereabouts should contact the nearest police station or 999.

The packed Central Bank Auditorium in Port-of-Spain came out to witness Weekes receive the Noble Spirit Award from the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Committee for his contribution to West Indies cricket, and to hear globally acclaimed Trinidad-born broadcaster, Sir Trevor Mc Donald deliver the feature address on the occasion. The committee which was formed to assist West Indies cricket was also celebrating its 10th anniversary.

The event commemorated the 50th anniversary observances of Sir Frank’s death, and the late West Indies captain’s greatness was trumpeted by all speakers. But it was Weekes who brought the house down with some fine strokes in his impromptu address.

At age 92, Sir Everton made it to the auditorium stage with scarcely any assistance and spoke from memory without any notes.

“Frank is not in heaven,” Weekes said referring to the late Sir Frank, leaving his audience a little confused initially, but clearing up the matter quickly.

“If he were there, I would have heard from him by now. He would have called me to join him because we did everything together.

I speak to him every day because we spent most of our time together when he was alive together. There are pictures of myself and Sir Frank everywhere in my house.

But I thought I would have heard from him by now.” Sir Frank, who became the first black captain of the West Indies in the 1950s, died of leukaemia on March 13, 1967 at age 42. Sir Frank, along with Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Everton Weekes, were popularly known as The Three Ws.

Sir Everton in his address said Sir Frank should be remembered for what he did for cricket.

“So many nice things were said this evening about Frank, and we should all be cheerful at what he has done for the game and for the Caribbean,” he said.

Sir Trevor took a more serious note about the legendary late West Indies cricket captain. He hailed the late Barbadian cricketer as one of two iconic figures that left a memorable impact on his life. The other was Nelson Mandela whose release and aspects of his life Sir Trevor covered as a UK-based television journalist.

Sir Trevor said Sir Frank never had any hard feelings about why it took so long for the West Indies to appoint a black captain.

Sir Trevor told the Central Bank audience, “I talked to Frank about it many times, he shrugged and smiled and then laughed loudly. Frank was incapable of bitterness and of harbouring any grudges, he was much too big a man for that.” Sir Trevor said, “Frank was above all a leader. He believed in that nurturing quality of leadership. He also believed very, very strongly in West Indian unity and in the cores of West Indian unity. He saw the cricket team as a core part of that.” Sir Trevor said being invited back home to Trinidad by the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Committee was an honour. “After tonight I would boast to everybody I meet, that one day last year I got a telephone call from Port-of-Spain asking me to come to Trinidad to deliver the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial lecture and it’s a boast about which in all my years I am most proud.

Thank you so much for inviting me here this evening.” Sir Trevor also recalled a conversation with Mandela that demonstrated the late South African president’s humility. “I remember once at a dinner in London asking Mandela something about the South African economy,” Sir Trevor said. “He was president of South Africa.

He said to me I don’t understand very much about economics.

He had such humility.” “I was really enthralled to watch the change in South Africa.

I went there during the years of apartheid and I saw the condition of the lives of black South Africans.

I must also confess I still think I was enormously privileged to have known a man like Mandela.” Sir Trevor, who attended Naparima College, joined the BBC in 1969 and became one of United Kingdom’s leading news anchors working with the BBC and ITN.

Sir Trevor, interviewed by Newsday’s Editor-in-Chief Jones P Madeira, and taking questions from the packed auditorium, reflected on his journey in the media. He had earlier in the day gone to his alma mater in San Fernando to visit with students there.

Videos of Sir Frank, Sir Everton and Sir Clyde in their playing days were also among highlights of the evening.

Participating in the Life in Leggings TT: Women’s Rights March and Rally in recognition of International Women’s Day, which was celebrated on March 8, they held signs with various messages including Gender Equality Now; Men of Quality Do Not Fear Equality; Time to Change the Things We Can Not Accept; and Women’s Bodies Are Not Commodities.

They also chanted loudly as they walked: “What do we want? To feel safe. When do we want it? Right now!; Love and licks doh mix; Stop the abuse. Protect the women.

Right now!; and Gay rights are human rights.” One of the event’s organisers and co-founder of NGO Say Something, Attillah Springer, told Sunday Newsday people were encouraged to “bring their issues” and she was very excited that they responded to the call and felt comfortable enough to do so.

“The point of events like this is to raise consciousness. There might be 2,000 cars passing us and 50 percent might not know what we’re talking about but they might be motivated to go and find out if they read a sign or hear a chant…

Also for those facing similar issues to know that they are not alone.

“It’s important for us to stand up publicly in a society where silence is perceived as consent in a lot of situations. It’s important for us to stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves,” she said.

Springer described violence against women as “off putting” and said it was terrifying that women could disappear or that men view women as property with which they could do what they want.

She gave the example of missing woman police constable Nayasha Joseph saying, “That just goes to show you that no matter what you do or your station in life, it doesn’t matter. Once you are a woman, and you are considered as property by the person you are in a relationship with, then you have a problem,” she said.

Springer stressed that it was important to the various gender-based and equal rights organisations that organised the march that girls be conscious of their rights at a young age as they did not want another generation to have to demonstrate for a right to be safe.

“The more that we change how we approach various issues like sexuality, women’s rights to their bodies, how people process trauma and how victims should be treated, is the more that these pre-teens will understand that they have to actively make the change that is necessary in society. Hopefully they won’t have as difficult a fight as we have now,” she said.

Nailah Clinton of Chaguanas said she was at the march because believed she needed to take an active interest in women’s issues and appreciated that multiple groups joined together to support those issues. She appreciated that the march kept general issues that impact on a woman feeling safe in society in the forefront at this time, and not only when a woman goes missing or is murdered.

“It’s very easy to sit and comment on the sidelines about things. I realised this is not something to leave to anyone. Violence against women is something we have to band together to resolve across the board,” said Clinton.

Patrick Rasoanaivo from Madagascar who now lives in Carenage said, “It’s really important for men to show that women’s issues are everybody’s issues. It’s not women who need to change but society that needs to change, including men.” He added that everyday, in little ways, people need to work on and apply the changes they want to see in society.

Also participating in the event were several prominent women in the local gender affairs arena including Ayanna Webster-Roy, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister; Dr Gabrielle Hosein, lecturer and Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies; Hazel Brown, coordinator at Network of NGOs of Trinidad and Tobago for the Advancement of Women; and Professor Rhoda Reddock.

“Hopefully after this we will hear people speaking out for the need, not just for the police, but for the State to take responsibility for situation we have in Trinidad and Tobago in the absence of a gender policy,” said Brown.

The 22-year-old officer was one of five females, most of them 12 to 19, whom parents, relatives and friends have not seen nor heard from this past week since they left their homes to go about their normal business.

It’s what prompts us to return to this issue of the missing, especially girls.

Surely the energy and goodwill of the local celebrations of International Women’s Day can be directed at solutions to TT’s crisis of missing girls.

In cases where girls abscond from home, the reasons and remedies must be discussed by us as a society, with initiatives lodged to stem such. Parents, schools, NGOs, academia and governance must address this issue, with perhaps an agency like Childline having a specific sub-remit to offer counselling all around on child runaways, akin to the UK agency, Re-unite.

In line with an age of consent of 18, the law must deal very harshly with grown men taking advantage of a runaway girl and those who might initially have lured her away from home.

While a child gradually becomes an adult – in those transition years of adolescence – there is certainly a danger of a young female physically appearing to be matured, yet psychologically immature and ill-equipped to fend off the attentions of older males.

Astonishingly in this highly sexualised culture of Carnival, dancehall and pornography, most State schools do not offer a comprehensive programme of Human and Family Life Education. In this context, it should be remembered that an educated student can best make wise choices to stay safe.

For example, youngsters must be warned of the danger of strangers entering their living room via their smartphone and/or social media.

While a girl may feel she is running away from problems at home, she must be told of fresh hazards she may meet on the street such as sexual abuse, drug and alcohol addiction and violence.

A girl may be lured away by an older man, become pregnant and then be ditched by him. Girls run away often after conflicts with parents, when facing abuse (physical, emotional or sexual) at home often by a family-member, when undergoing a personal crisis (such as unwanted pregnancy), or due to drug or alcohol abuse by a family member and/or the girl herself.

Signs of a child at risk include her having unexplained gifts or money, secretive behaviour, staying out late, drug/ alcohol use, depression, and new friends.

We encourage parents and children to cut each other some slack at home, each recognising the other’s stresses and need for space. We would hope that spaces can be provided for our girls – whether at the homes of trusted relatives or by bodies such as sports clubs and places of worship – as a release-valve of the pressure to run away.

Just as some of these matters have been resolved recently with the missing either making contact or actually turning up safely, so do we hope would be the case with all those who have been reported missing this past week.

But we cannot help feeling that we are facing a deepening crisis of missing girls.

We have a lot of that all over the country, a challenge which Local Government Minister Kazim Hosein and the regional corporations seem prepared to attack with full force now. But rubbish is also described as absurd ideas or suggestions.

We have these too, keeping the democracy dynamic.

The first definition, “refuse, litter,” can make you physically unhealthy, the second, “absurd ideas,” can make you mentally unhealthy except that often an absurd idea today can become tomorrow’s brilliant idea. But I return to Mr Hosein’s national clean-up crusade.

The Rio Claro/Mayaro Regional Corporation is attacking our ugly, rubbish-ridden environment.

There is hope. Growth is about money, development is about health, education, transport etc. But I am now about having a civilised society – about attitudes, collective responsibility and civility.

How civilised are we? The Rio Claro/Mayaro Corporation last Sunday published a big 20 x 15 mm advertisement (Newsday p.30) which sternly warned residents in Mayaro: “Please be advised that pursuant to Public Health Ordinance Ch 12. No 4.

Section 72 (1), the Local Authority for the Regional Corporation has served notices requiring abatement of a nuisance on the following premises found to be in a ruinous and unwholesome state.” Six ruinous and unwholesome premises were publicly listed, four of which I have seen. And believe me, each is an open-house for drug abuse and trafficking, even prostitution.

A few other corporations have issued similar notices. All corporations should implement aggressive rubbish-clearing crusades in this small, lawless country. We need aggressive law enforcement. Too many well-intentioned national campaigns, petitions and marches have aroused big expectations, but soon after…well, you know the story. So I ask, how long will it take for the Rio Claro/Mayaro Corporation to complete the job. Its public notice threatened: “All owners/ agents are expected to comply with the notices.” It added: “Failure to comply may result in the corporation taking the necessary action to abate the nuisance and to recover the cost.” What really does abate the nuisance mean? These long-standing broken-down buildings are enemies of community policing.

So let Minister Hosein and the legally- equipped corporations get cracking – attack these criminogenic structures and other illegal buildings with full force.

It is high time that the authorities put law enforcement into full action and properly equip the prosecution teams. And hope the magistrates and judges understand this nasty problem. Toughen the legislation and education programmes too.

A big idea – hope it’s not an absurd one – is for Mr Hosein and all local government bodies to work up multi-partnership relationships in each community, starting first with members of the Opposition.

A working partnership for sustainable results. This is a national clean-up campaign, not so? At Hosein’s Chaguanas launch, it was Opposition MP Ganga Singh who offered his support, declaring it as a national campaign – for everybody and involving everyone. I encourage both Hosein and Works Minister Rohan Sinanan in leading the charge for public service efficiency.

Remember former works minister Suruj Rambachan opening the much-needed Valencia Bypass? Mr Hosein seems to mean business.

Last week, he warned litter wardens that instead of working two to three hours a day, they should do a full day’s work. Imagine that! That’s a major problem in this country. No proper supervision and accountability! Hosein explained that after a Chaguanas river was cleaned of fridges, stoves and tyres, etc, “lo and behold,” rubbish was found in the same river two weeks later. (Guardian, March 5) How many people were found and charged? This example shows Hosein’s clean-up campaign may not be sustainable. He might win the battle but lose the war. Where are the dumpsters? Island-wide dustbins? The monitoring? The litter wardens? Municipal police? Look Mr Hosein, please work with the relevant agencies to fire those who can’t do their jobs properly.

Include the beaches at Maracas, Toco, Mayaro, etc. And those old cars parked on the streets. And those groceries unlawfully opened a few inches from busy roads? Friends, if we miss fixing public health, education, the e nv i ronment, and of course, crime and pol i c i ng, things will get worse.

Attack with full force now!

“Competitions like this help that to happen,” he added, addressing the First Lego League National Championship at Bishop Anstey High School East/Trinity College East, Trincity.

Some 10 teams from across the country undertook “co-opertition” (that is cooperation mixed with competition) to use computer programmes to manoeuvre their robotic devices around an obstacle course and perform simple mechanical tasks involving scenarios of animal welfare, such as fitting a prosthetic leg onto a horse.

Garcia said that in a fun and exciting way the students had learnt key insights into the growing field of STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

“You are the pioneers and have set the bar.” He said the event motivated the youngsters to pursue STEM, and build their self-confidence and lifeskills, in a project that was taught in a fun, dynamic and problem-solving manner.

NIHERST president Sylvia Lalla hailed robotics as “sports for the mind”.

Tournament organiser, Mark Mc Combs, of the Florida-based non-profit group, Renaissance Jax, hailed all participants as winners. “You are winning, in ways you will not yet realise.

All of Trinidad and Tobago is winning. It means a lot to see young people doing extraordinary things.” Going even further than telling the youngsters to think outside the box, Mc Combs said, “There is no box. You can create your own box.” He repeated advice that he had once heard as a teenager meeting Google co-founder Sergey Brin. “Each one of you has the same opportunity to have the idea that will change the world.” Shell engineer Monifa Graham told the youngsters that STEM studies lead to many career paths.

Wepala Team X was adjudged the Most Rounded Team, and the youngest, and will represent TT at the world finals in Houston, Texas, in April. North Gate College Aristos won the Core Values Award.

Palo Seco Secondary School won the Robotic Design Award. Trinity College East Robo Hawks won best Research Project. Best Robotoc Performance went to the SCRATTCP NIHERST Tech Club.

The event was arranged by NIHESRT, the Education Ministry and Shell oil company utilising devices supplied by Lego.

Typically, the elderly woman would have mastered her technique in piecing together the chain links for the necklace she began creating three weeks ago.

But on that day, Cynthia wore a glum look as she pondered the future of the jewellery class and by extension, the senior citizens activity centre.

She said her visits to the centre now seems uncertain following news that the facility may be closed down if monies are not disbursed from the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services, through the Division of Ageing, to keep it afloat.

“Is a very good thing we have going on here but we cannot get any money.

So, things slowing down,” Cynthia complained during a Sunday Newsday visit to the centre.

Saying she had no regrets about being at the centre, Cynthia said it would be a pity if the institution had to close.

Sources told Sunday Newsday that other senior citizens activity centres are facing a similar fate.

In fact, the Chaguanas centre has already closed its doors and others, in south and east Trinidad, are also on the verge of calling it a day.

“Everybody has their problems but in different ways,” one source said.

The source said for the past six months, the 11 centres operating throughout the country have not received their government subventions, which covers staff payments, overhead costs and incidentals.

The subventions, which are usually paid every three months, amount to just over $90,000.

“But we have not been getting anything for the past six months,” she said.

The development, she said, has resulted in many of the centres having to cut back on their programmes.

Even more unsettling, she said, is the reality that the centres, which have been a virtual lifeline for many elderly folk, could be discontinued altogether.

“We are just there trying to survive and we don’t know when we are going to get the subvention,” she said.

Another source, who is affiliated to a centre in north Trinidad, said many of the senior citizen activity centres were managed by non-governmental organisations and churches “and so many of us cannot afford to pay our workers the stipend they usually get.” “Most of us have to pay rent. So, we would like to know what is going on,” she said.

The source said her centre had called the office of Minister of Social Development and Family Services Cherrie-Ann Crichlow- Cockburn last week to no avail.

“A young lady there said she cannot say what is happening and we have also written to the minister inviting her to visit the centre. We have not gotten a reply or seen anybody yet,” she said.

“But we have the intention to rewrite the letters again and even writing the prime minister (Dr Keith Rowley) to find out what is happening with us.” The source claimed that they began experiencing problems last year after a meeting was convened for coordinators in the 11 senior activity centres.

“That meeting was to update us about the running of the centres and to provide a feedback on what we have been doing,” she said, adding that reports are usually submitted on a quarterly basis.

Referring specifically to the problems at her centre, the source said funds were depleting rapidly.

“This month, I know I will not be able to pay the stipend to my workers.

We have even decided to open just three days a week instead of the usual five days,” she said.

She said the senior citizens attending her centre were extremely disillusioned about the situation.

“We have past schools principals, teachers and permanent secretaries who have come here in a depressed mode, some with Alzheimer’s Disease and if you see how they laughing,” she said.

“You would not believed the kind of changes we see in these people. For Carnival, they put out their money and went to several calypso tents. They really enjoyed it.” She said most of the activity centres offer aqua therapy, yoga, jewellery design, arm chair exercise, card making and painting.

“So, it is not a matter for the centre to close.

“They just need to be upgraded,” she said.

“The people would be very depressed if they were to learn that the centres are being closed down.” If that were the case, she said many of the seniors would most likely be placed in elderly homes “which are not conducive to being up and around and alive.” A senior citizen, who spoke to Sunday Newsday at the centre in north Trinidad, said the effects of the non-payment of the disbursement, were being felt at the facility.

“Things not going too good these days,” said the woman, who, for the past several months, has been learning to use the computer.

“The staff is out of touch because we cannot get our courses done.

“The teachers are not getting paid and we are accustomed to the courses because it is an activity centre.

“The people don’t just come here and sit down and lull. There are people that take computer courses, swimming, painting, all the other courses but the teachers are not coming because they are not getting paid.” Crichlow-Cockburn and Dr Jennifer Rouse, director of the Division of Ageing, could not be reached for comment.

The Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service yesterday issued Rough Seas Bulletin Number 11 stating that conditions in open waters had become more agitated along the north and east coasts.

It said wave heights were three metres and higher, that the seas were choppy and strong winds continued to agitate the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. A Maracas lifeguard told Sunday Newsday the water was “really terrible” yesterday and was even worse on Friday. She said the waves were large, the water was rough, and there were strong currents throughout, but people were still going into the water.

She said there were red flags all along the beach yet the lifeguards were still having difficulties trying to keep bathers from going beyond the breakers.

“We are trying to encourage people to stay in waist-high or even knee-high water so that if they get into trouble they can hopefully stand up and walk out, but short of tying a rope around their waists, it’s not happening,” she said.

Mayaro fisherman Ramesh Cooblal also said the sea in his area was very rough, mostly because of the high winds.

He said usually fishermen caught a lot of fish around this time of year but there have been rough seas since December and it seemed to be getting worse.

He said all but one or two “stubborn people” were pulling their boats onto the shore, and those who went out were not catching much fish.

In addition, he said the rough seas were churning up a lot of seaweed that was getting hooked up in the nets and tangling them, making things worse for the fishermen.

Toco fisherman Eric Miller had a similar story of high winds, rough seas, and large waves “near the shore and outside.” He said it was so bad that last week one man anchored his boat near the shore but the water was so rough that it got swamped and sank.

Miller said the result of the rough seas was that none of the fishermen had been going out to fish at all.

However, he expressed the hope that next week things would calm down enough to allow the fishermen to catch some fish to sell and feed their families.