By Pierre Small
February 26, 2009
I am quite astonished that Mr.Chin-Lee still haven’t learn from the numerous false promises he made the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago during his tenure at several ministries.
Mr.Chin-Lee promised us, “he will smoke all the terrorist {criminals} out of their holes,” while he was Minister Of National Security. Well, we all know the crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago today. In reality it is the so-called terrorists {criminals} who have succeeded in smoking him out of his hole at the Ministry Of National Security.
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BY the time people are sober or sane enough to read this column, this year’s Carnival celebrations will have been just about over, or close to it. A Carnival Sunday column is one of the toughest the average columnist must write as he stares at a blank computer screen. As a Trini-to-the-bone who follows the festival closely, scintillating notes from Wednesday night’s Panorama finals (small and medium bands) still echo in my mind, much the way last night’s (Thursday) calypso-categories-finals’ lyrics and melodies do.
The Food and Fuel Forum of Trinidad and Tobago offers, through the General Union of Guadeloupean Workers, UGTG, its deepest solidarity with the LKP, a grouping of forty seven peoples organisations, the workers and people of Guadeloupe as you pursue your general strike against the extreme exploitation that has been the lot of the masses of people in the French colonies in the Caribbean. We in Trinidad and Tobago also suffer the effects of the capitalist economic crisis and strongly empathise with the people of Guadeloupe.
Those tired-looking and lethargic T&T Soca Stars played as if they were in the twilight zone of their career in San Salvador. They were a disorganized and uncoordinated outfit, lacking- in- both team spirit and fight bunch of footballers as if belonging to the Eddie Hart League. Mind you they had just returned from an expensive exposure to best soccer training facilities in Argentina at enormous expense to the tax-payers of this country.
BUNJI Garlin is correct on two points he made regarding calls to ban his runaway hit, “Banana”, from the airwaves. First, censoring any artform, be it music or dance or “bois” simply makes the censored item more popular, more appealing to those who want to know why it was banned. And second, his song is no more suggestive than a thousand (well, maybe I exaggerate) songs of differing genres that became monster hits long before Ian Alvarez was born. Which is why I think the Jamaican Government’s bid to use cultural censorship in a bid to curb crime is an exercise in futility.
It is patently clear to me that had not CL Financial magnate Lawrence Duprey made his pre-emptive approach to Government in mid-January to mobilize State injection of liquidity into his cash-strapped investment bank, CIB, CMMB and insurance giants CLICO and British American it would have been business as usual to date.
In countries where people often face persecution because of race, ethnicity, religion and a myriad of social constructs intended to divide and rule, I often wonder how many brilliant minds have never come to blossom. Historians bemoan the knowledge that was lost when unenlightened foreigners invaded ancient lands burning books and reducing to ash what had already been known about the universe and about our progress as a species.
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