Jamaica Gleaner: Bombastic Trinidadians

By Dawn Ritch, Columnist
www.jamaica-gleaner.com
March 25, 2007

Trini PeopleAny reader will know that I think the country’s domestic financial sector was handed to Trinidad and Barbados on aplatter. By any measure this is a strategic industry.

Also by any measure there is nothing more bombastic than a Trinidadian. The Barbadians are still conscious of the fact that they occupy a little atoll, even if its real estate prices now beat those of the Bahamas, which were high to begin with. Their sea-front villas are being snapped up by rich people from the industrialised world. As a direct consequence, the Barbadian prime minister has had to defend himself against charges of selling out the country to rich foreigners. In effect, he’s replied that he doesn’t regret it.

In the case of Trinidad, nobody wants to live down there because there are poisonous snakes and no mountains. Murder down there makes a speciality of mutilation. The only part of that country which is any good is the island of Tobago. But a luxury hotel there has made its guests violently ill three times over the last five years according to the Sunday Times, a U.K. newspaper. It seems to me nobody would want to go there, except another Trinidadian.
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36 thoughts on “Jamaica Gleaner: Bombastic Trinidadians”

  1. Dawn Ritch called us cannibals and yet she ate us alive in her article. What would Jamaica have been if Cuba was allowed to remain America’s first choice of the Caribbean? They owe the World Bank a significant amount of money that they will never be able to pay back unless they legalize it. Dawn Ritche symbolizes cannibalism with her comments about TNT. Who is she trying to impress? TNT has everything (on a smaller scale) that Jamaica has to offer plus natural resources.
    Tourism may be big business, but at what cost? Everyone running around from resort to resort singing Bob Marley remakes is not for TNT.
    If we don’t start thinking as a region, then some of us won’t make it much longer. First thing first, we must become more efficient with our natural resources and geographical position. Despite what Dawn says, we hold the key to our future and that’s probably where all of her self hate comes from.
    How is it that Amsterdam has more tourist than Jamaica when it grows wild in Jamaica? Clearly they aren’t as significant as Dawn believes them to be.
    Our enemy, opposition, or rival is not Jamaica in my mind. Lowering the bar that low will definitely stunt our economic, social, and political growth.
    She was successful in getting me to waste my time on this.

  2. Neal, instead of countering my points with facts, you degenerate back to your base ways with sarcasms and insults. If that is what you do best, you will beat me every time, because I don’t know how to sling mud. Stay in your mudpit by yourself, because I can’t join you in it.

    1. It would seem that everyone has been hit by the unslaught of this “interlect” of sorts. This type of vomit is what distract from the real issues. Pls people lets stop this dotishness.

  3. You got me there Richie, I did indeed go a bit overboard.Please forgive me though , for as Rambo once said , “you drew first blood.”
    Seriously Richie, you might not believe it , but I agree in principle with most of what you’ve said about these sometimes childish , pompous , confused , tribalistic , happy go lucky Trinis, that often don’t give a darm if “Good Friday falls on a Monday.” It is just that sometimes hearing it from ” the other,” can be so disconcerting.
    I too have frequently lambasted fellow nationals from top to the bottom,for what I perceive as attitudes that have contributed to them being not only underachievers , but the laughing stock of the entire Caribbean.
    I look forward to continued honest communications with you down the road, as who knows where it might lead – the creation of a Think thank that can serve as a guide for proper ,and transparent leadership that can eventually bear dividends for the region as a whole.
    I wish you well.

    1. the creation of a Think thank that can serve as a guide for proper, and transparent leadership that can eventually bear dividends for the region as a whole.

      If we could only stick to the issues and leave out the plethora of insults that dominate you comments Neal, we would be on our way to creating such a vehicle for our journey.

  4. “The only gracious way to accept an insult
    is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it,
    top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you
    can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved.”
    J. Russel Lynes
    There was a time when all and sundry in Sweet T&T called this mild ,verbal interplay, piccong. Four O’Clock on Monday morning each Carnival, it is described as old Mass Jouvet.
    Care to guess what these thin skinned , egomaniacs , savage animals from Jamaica, with the inferiority complex ,and chip on the shoulder ,do to each other when offended by a slight mramps? Yes you guessed it ,they either shoot , or hack each other to death.
    Do you think that Jamaican Yardee Dawn Rich was insulting to us mmramps, and if so ,do you think that she was better able to garner Trinis attention , as opposed to if she had resorted to writing an uncharacteristically complementary ten paragraph article about her much revered Trinidadian neighbors?
    Just think about the possibilities , if that ‘pseudo religious’ thug Abu Bakr , had access to Trini View forum back in 89 /90 , how much we could have been spared as a nation.
    How else do we get catharsis mmramps, except than by being honest and unleashing the pent up venom ,inner child , poison, and ugly bile?
    I wish you well my friend.

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