Is why we feel we have to always prove we self against some furrin ting?
Is de same ting everytime some world class star come to perform we does have to tun de ting into some kinda shootout to show dat how we feel we better.

And we does never learn because we does ramajay we self and trow duss in dey face and say 'ah boy...yuh see how we mash dem up'

And den we does go right back where we was in second place to start again.

Fuss it had Mr. Akon and de Pastor daughter. I feel nuff did say bout dat little madam by now, but when de video ah she and Ghetto Flex surface yuh realise dat is long years she in dis slackness. So yuh have to aks where she family was when she was growing up because is not no 'mistake' she mek sneaking into Zen. I want to know who adult signature on de model release contract for dat video, but I jes old and choopid.

So after all de grand charge from Patos down to de Police Commissioner over Akon and Danah, and dey close dong Zen for a afternoon de story come out dat Mr. Machel and he posse had was to have some bachannal in de same place. I ent see no video on de net yet ah wha happen dey but we done know dat some fella get beat and everyone looking to pass bucks.


De Cricket finally done, I ent know who was still paying attention as India and Pakistan long tun off de radiogram and yuh know dat we people wasn't going where it ent have no grog. But de ICC couldn't leave it alone. No dey had was to turn de ting into a night cricket game wid dem boys fielding wid a flambeau in one hand.

De ting run over to Tobago and Diana Ross get orn because she say dat dey cut she set on de stage because Destra sing too long. Me ent know who sing long and who sing short, but in de world ah international concerts dem ting does get plan down to de second by de lawyers before dem singer even step on de stage. So is like we poops again.

But why is always de wrong ting we does feel we have to show dat we badder dan bad?

It have all kinda problems wid crime and police and water and electricity and education and smelter but Patos have time to run he mout on Akon and Danah! Chuts Man!

But we like it so. All dem tings does be a godsend to Patos in trute. De nation ent tekking on nutten no more - dem have all kinda mauvais langue to talk about instead of de real stories dat we should be dealing wid.

Is since when we ever did care about de age of who going in de bar, rumshop, or club? Is since when we did care about who driving drunk on de road?

Is when we go wake up and realise dat dem is de tings dat does define we as a Nation. And dat changing dem does mean some real change in how we does all behave as citizens.
 

BACKCHAT: Issue 08: Vol 17

Tantie,
I went into a bookstore and took a look at the Guinness World Records 2007 edition. When I looked up the cricket records I did not see any mention of the highest individual test score - 400 not out by B.C. Lara.
Now I wondered why this was. Then I realized this score was made against England. Is this why one of the greatest ever cricket achievements has been left out of the book that chronicles all great world achievements?
Hmmmm.

Then as far as our politricks go. It is time our younger generation got up and started a new party of their own. All of us 20 - 40 year olds need to do like the old PNM did. Start the new thinking with ourselves.
Do not depend on the old leadership to solve the present day issues.
Times have changed and the political parties of the 50's and 60's are not changing with them. Their only concern is to fill their pockets so they can retire nicely. We need another grass roots movement with new ideas and philosophies that have the people and well being of the country as the center of their concern.

An ex-patriot who is always there

Denis Granado
//USA

Tants,

So what if a pastor's daughter wants to get up on stage and wine? How many young women...I'm sure there may have been a lot of minors involved, went up on stage with Machel in the past and wined down to the ground on him, behind him, in front of him and upside down too! I have even seen with my own eyes women touching his crotch on stage and he did not seem to mind. This is a society of mixed up values. Is the true problem the fact that she was a minor or was it the fact that she was dancing in a lewd manner, or was it the fact that Akon flung her around like a rag-doll? I'm confused. At the end of the day it does not matter whose daughter she was, whether a professor, a gardener or a pastor. She was underage and allowed to enter the club, possibly because she looks like a mature, young woman. There is no excuse for Zen, they should have been more stringent in the checking of IDs. Akon was rough with her, but then again at Carnival time, this happens a lot on stage (and off!).
This is just another one of those incidents that makes us go hmmmm and then move on to the next sensational story of the day. At the end of all of this, I truly believe that the young lady will think twice before repeating what she did. Let us move forward and deal with the more pressing matters at hand. After all...it is an election year.

Your girl,
Trini wit' attitude
//Trinidad & Tobago