Now allyuh know dat I does try to get de real story from mih neighbour-sister-cousin-deputy-padnah who wukking CEPEP and does get real information about wha going on. And when I get dat yuh know I bong to pass it on to allyuh.

But ah has to be careful from now on bout wha I saying over de nex six weeks or so in trute. Yuh see I ent have neider clothes for court or money for Ramesh and I fraid dat I get a solictor lettah fuh what I tell allyuh.

So before de ting start and dem boys want to ress all kinda injunction on yuh ole Tants leh mih tell allyuh de SCORE. Because after tomorrow it have word dat yuh cyar use jes so no more.

Leh we start wid de SCORES. Is long years dat we accustom calling we pardnah and getting de SCORES, it have all kinda SCORES. Who mekking baby, who horning who, who get Larry cuss out in Point. But dem WORLD CUP boys moving sad, dem tie up all ah we wid a setta laws call Sunset Legislation dat want to put all ah we under heavy manners.

Dem so telling we what we could wear when we go to de CRICKET, dem telling we what words we could use, and dem even want to tell we what we papers could report. De ting name well and trute because is like de sun set pon we freedom. Mudder England reach back and recolonise we in trute.

So it ent have no SCORES to tell over de nex six weeks, because dem ICC boys say dat de SCORES is dey own. Yuh cyar get no SCORES unless de ICC get pay dey fees.

And allyuh feel dat I making mamaguy, allyuh do mek de mistake and want to say dat yuh having a CRICKET lime because dat name done get sell off.

Now it always have a silver lining in dis ting. If all dem CRICKET tings get trademark and cyar use no more in de public domain den we might see some improvements in de way tings happening in dis Trinidad & Tobago.

Fust to begin de CJ and de PM go have to stop playing like is a TEST MATCH and Boycott only PADDING UP. Dem go have to step out dey CREASE and show we how dey could eider BAT or get CLEAN BOWL and go back in de PAVILION. Is time dat dem fellas stop getting orn like dey APPEALING to de UMPIRE for BAD LIGHT and stopping play for a nex day.

De nex improvement is dat dem politrickians who as yet cyar gih we a straight answer about what de Brown Package doing after it hit de FANS go have to stop BOWLING GOOGLY and give we a FULL TOSS and tek dey licks when dey get dispatch to de BOUNDARY. Ah likkle straight talk go be like
a fresh breeze.

All ah dem PR people who does want to sell yuh one ting when dey know dat is cat in bag, go have to sit down and keep quiet because it ent have no more SPIN for de nex six weeks.

I mekking sure I use up all de words today before I has to watch mihself. It ent have no more Mahaica OVAL and yuh done know dat LARA brothers jes lucky dat Parang done till Christmas.

Even de crime go have to park up and wait till de ting done, because dem bandit could no longer tell yuh to have OVER yuh money, and doh even tink about aksing HOW'ZAT de nex time yuh heng yuh pardnah Jack.

Allyuh feel dat I mekking joke, is all over de world dat dis ting happening now, I jes read dat a big country like Canada now find dat de IOC want to copyright de word Winter fuh when de Olympics roll into Vancouver in 2010.

After 500 years we still ent learn oui. Dey did come den and we did sell we self fuh de pretty glass beads, dey come back and we sell we self again.

Is what yuh say about mih SLIP showing? Catch yuhself fuh de nex six weeks and enjoy de CRICKET.
 

BACKCHAT: Issue 08: Vol 9

Just to say, love reading your news of back home and keep up the good
work. Although I keep in touch with Brother and Sister, your news always
makes me feel right back home in P_O_S.at Cascade.
Good stuff.
//Canada

Tants, I was there with Tribe on Tuesday evening. They were following
the planned route west on the Western Main Road to turn onto Mucurapo
Road and head east back into Woodbrook. But at the turning point they
were blocked by another very large band who (totally against the planned
flow) were heading west on Mucurapo Road to turn east onto the Western
Main Road.
There was little choice but to go on the Foreshore. The Tribe managers
tried to keep the band to the left lane, and the band's security people
were going all out to do that and allow traffic to pass on the right
lane, but u know what masqueraders are like at 6,7pm on Carnival
Tuesday, especially after the long stop at the Mucurapo intersection
while they tried to workout what to do, and everybody know the band
breaking up around 7, 7.30.
Tants, if yuh going to be harsh, leh meh see yuh come dong on the idiots
running the other band that decide to go west on Mucurapo Road and mess
up every other band they meet.
//Trinidad & Tobago

My recent silence is not lack of interest but simply my present
struggle with a new computer with unaccustomed software but I am happy
to see from your column that our National Festival has returned to the
streets and is more TnT than Rio.I hope to get some DVD's or Videos of
the Carnival 2007 if they are available.Your version of what went down
is inspiring and and titillating to say the least.
Keep up the entertaining news of home as we enjoy it.It is Income Tax
time so a lot of folk are busy trying to keep their funds safe from the
clutches of Tax collectors.
Cheers!
//Canada

Hi Tants,

You've hit on a great idea! Let's put mas on the highway! With the
thousands of people playing you would be able to see a nice stretch of
colour from Chaguanas to grand bazaar. Think of the glorious display
that would be. I stood on Carlos street corner on Carnival Tuesday and
stared in dismay as trucks after trucks fought with the high tension
wires above. I mean we've been doing this even before independence, yet
allow ourselves the same frustration every year. The trucks keep getting
bigger and the wires are not moving any higher to accomodate them.
Clearly if we want a different result we need to do something different.
I just love your suggestion!
//Trinidad & Tobago