Dis place sweet too bad oui...jes when yuh feel all hope done gone out de door, yuh does get a likkle glimmer to ease yuh soul. Is why we cyant learn from de endless mistake we ALWAYS makin'? De odder day, Tants did have to go Piarco to meet some
folks comin' in fuh de Carnival...well tonnere, is fus it had people in de place! I did had to wonder if dey was givin' way freeness an' I didn' hear 'bout it. Is only when I hear what people was sayin' when I stannup waitin', dat I realise why it had so much people in de place.

It go be real bacchanal when de World Cup start an' plenty much people from all kinda place want to come in we country. Is mass confusion wid dey new security arrangements - instead of de old "Green Line" in front de exit door dey now have scanner (fuh de people who say dey ent have nuttin' to declare) to pass dey baggage through, an' of course wid we people who does only travel wid 4-5 suitcase minimum, de back ah de line so far it nearly endin' somewhere out in de middle of de runway!

It doh take no big setta rocket scientest brains to realise dat if yuh take a mass ah people an' luggage an' funnel dem into one point it bong to mus get clog an' backup. Oh gorm, yuh mean to say dey couldn' pass all de bags through de scanner as dey come off de planes, an' jes follow de interesting ones to see who claim dem? An' doh talk 'bout de utter an' total dotishness wid de luggage cart an' dem...Piarco have to be do only airport in de world wid luggage cart dat pale an' sufferin' from rickets is so dey doh see de sun. Is why mankind have to tote dey bag from half inch outside de customs area? Is why nobody ent outside de place collectin' de carts an' sennin' dem to arrivals or departure as dey needed? Mus' be makin' toomuch sense...

But after dat confufflement, de silver linin' did peek out...Tants did take in de Under De Trees openin' night , an' I come away from de show hummin' an' smilin' like everybody else who was dere, fus de show was good.

Yuh bwoy Stalin was de MC, an' he was as good as usual showin' dem young people how to lime... As de sayin' does go, a good wukking old ting better than young thing an' dat night did have three 'veterans' who showin' we dat Kaiso didn' die out wid Kitch an' Preddie.
Besides de Black Man, it was Denyse Plummer an' Crazy who did rounds out de Kaiso section of de show, an wid All Stars as de second half of de show, yuh jes couldn' go wrong fuh de price. Crazy did come good wid he songs, a real throwback to when kaiso was kaiso an' de concept of 'Par-r-rdy Tune' was at best a bad nightmare. He seriously come real good wid Cold Sweat an' One Foot Cock...it take me back to de days of de blue-green Redifusion box on de wall dat had ONE control dat went from OFF to ON an' was also de volume control...simpler times when life in T&T was someting to enjoy.


 

BACKCHAT: Issue 06

I'm glad somebody agreed with my suggestion that Christie Ann Morris Alleyne be put to clean up the police service. But while we wait for the politicians to hear that, can we find some way to ensure that there is a performance management system in the public service? It is ridiculous how good law-abiding citizens have to be dehumanised when they have to wait to get goverment service. It seems someone(s) is keeping the chaos so they could continue to get money under the counter to do what we (the owners of the resources of this country) are already paying them to so - or suffer long hours waiting for someone to take pity on you, or pray that you meet some dedicated public servant who determined to do a good job inspite of the slackers around. Who has the solution?
//Concerned Trini/Yahoo user


If we take trend from Europe we would have a very small obligatory recycling fee included in the price of every appliance we purchase be it computer, TV or whatever. This fee is approx 5 Swiss francs here in Switzerland. You can therefore purchase any item wherever you choose and the vendor has to take back your old one (even if you did not buy it from him) and take care that it is ecologically recycled. If you make no purchases you could return to where you purchased the item and give them it for recycling.
Like this we do not need to beg anyone to drive our old items to the river and dump it or however they choose to dispose of it.
Trinidad had better take care, that one night in their deep sleep they are not vacummed away in with tornado. Chances of it happenning is not unreal today!
Our careless sins now will come back to haunt us!
Patrick Manning or you could be the first with this dam smelter plant !
Do not let this happen to you...this is a real wake up call....stop laughing Trinis...this is serious.... your life is in danger!
//Trini in Switzerland