Tantie Talk
So, is who could explain what really happening wid TSTT dese days?
Anywhere yuh look it have a setta people complaining and wid good reason
to boot...if it ent de phone repairs taking too long is because yuh getting
wrong bill, and if yuh try on yuh cell all yuh getting is system busy/redial message. Doh ask fuh if yuh decide to sen' a SMS message wid
de Lingo service, yuh could quicker walk dong by de person an deliver de
message, no matter what part ah T&T yuh living...and if yuh feel yuh could
pass all dat by and use de Internet, well chile yuh has a whole nex odder
think coming.
It really strange de way it seem dat EVERYTHING gone wrong wid dem all at
once, but what stranger still is dat dey seem to be stumped as to what
going on and how to fix it...talk is de call from on high say fix it no
matter what de cost! Even stranger is de fact dat de troubles wid de
Internet not affecting dey brand new ADSL Broadband service and yuh know
how Trini does be...Town done saying dey messing up de dialup service so
people go take ADSL instead! But Tantie know dem ent dat chupidee, dey
know if dey did try dat it woulda bound to backfire on dem. What I cyant
understand is why dey still using '60s thinking in 2002 and feel dat ADSL
is only for business place to use. When yuh check de price dey asking for
dey basic service, it still kinda high for de speeds dey offering...is true
dey ent like dem big boys in de USA dat have 2-3 million customers, but I
feel if dey did really do dey homework and suss out de general public and
de technical people in de business places, dey woulda get a better idea of
de kinda potential for broadband in T&T. Dey forget people watching cable
and DirecTV ads for ADSL all day long, and, not only dat dey does be
watching TechTV to boot and know all 'bout how it does work. So when TSTT
feel is only de Chamber of Commerce and AMCHAM and de TTMA dey need to
survey dey couldn' be more wrong...yes yuh have to talk to dem, but after
yuh talk to dey technical people, because yuh know hardly any of de
bigshots an' dem know anything 'bout Internet - dem so does have computer
on dey desk, but dey secretary does still have to check dey email and print
it fuh dem to read.
Is when we go come into de real world at all? De PM talking tata 'bout
Trinidad Hollywood, but yuh know is jes words somebody put in he mouth
because dey feel it would go down good at de opening of de cineplex. Is
true dey talking 'bout tax break for investment in productions, but until
dey get it right and decide to fully stand behind culture in all forms as
a good and desireable thing, we go be still laughing at "Scrunting for
Talent" in 2012 (if we lucky and still have anything local on de TV besides
news) instead of laughing, crying and cheering in de appropriate places
when we watching a locally produced movie, cartoon, soap or comedy series
on de screen...which if TSTT get it right might just also be a computer,
phone, PDA or whatever else dey will be calling it when T&T hit de half
century.
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BACKCHAT: Issue 47
ah was so glad to read yuh column today about verifying de rumors dem
before passing dem on. tantie fuh a long time now ah been hearing dat we
former pm, yuh know Panday, was a Guyanese by birth and a Trini by boat but
ah caint find no wey to verify dis on de internet
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