Dr. Rowley's homonymous amorphousness.

Re: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Rowley_raises_blackmail_issue-115452199.html,

wherein Dr. Keith Rowley raises the chilling spectre of blackmails hovering over our Prime Minister

Dr. Keith Rowley [of late, how opposite to all that's good and proper he seems] has become forkier-tongued than before he was. His bifurcated blusterings don't surprise me, though -he is a PNMite...all PNMites evolve from a Baleezay patch...Baleezay patches are known habitats of the lowdown and cold-blooded and untesticled.

Back then, Dr. Rowley was obsessed with black males in general:

"...Mr. Speaker, in education, if you take time to look at the statistics, if you take time to talk to the social workers, the fact would be demonstrated that the Afro-Trinidadian male is an underperformer in the national community of Trinidad and Tobago.
...The bottom line is the Government acknowledges that that is a problem that has to be dealt with. It has to be dealt with, otherwise the effect of not dealing with it would be there for all of us across the country, because if there is a body of people who have aspirations of the good life, like everybody else, but they do not have the means or the mechanism to enter as productive citizens, they would become a problem for the rest of the country. If all they are left to do is to impregnate the young Afro-Trinidadian female creating another generation of underperformance, they enter into a cycle of perpetual poverty and destruction and the Government has to deal with that..." (See: http://kid5rivers.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-is-national-scandal-and-shame.html)

Now? His obsession has zeroed in only on a special type -the homonymous. And he drives home his bloated point with a venom that suggests an intense jealousy of the way the Prime Minister rebutted her government's critics -that the buck stops with her.

The Prime Minister's handling of what seemed to be a sticky situation, has left all in a state of ecstatic joy...that is, all but those tabankacized by her rising to the topmost position. And, tabanka, as we know, so stupefies the heartbroken that they are unable onwards to move.

Guess then, one has no alternative but to excuse Dr. Rowley for his obtuse behaviour, as he is reeling from a double-dose of tabanka -Manning now has embraced him in order to deliver the coup de grace.

All in favour of my aside, say: "Aye!"

All those against, move aide!

The ayes have it!

Now! Let's onward move, as, in undoing the havoc wrought by the PNM, there's so much to be done and so little time!

Lesson from Egypt: People's Partnership, or bust!

Before the rapid advances in information technology permitted us concomitantly to observe and participate in events in any part of the globe, distant occurrences, as has recently been happening in Egypt, had little immediate impact upon us, or were little influenced by us. But, the world is now changed, perhaps for better, perhaps for worse, but, regardless, for good. Hence, too, the expression "neighbour" in "When your neighbour's house is afire, wet your own!"

Hence, whatever now affects or guides the Zulu in South Africa, the Eskimo in Anchorage, the Bedouin of Sudan or the Maroon in the Blue Mountains can and will be determined, in part, by our response or lead. Now, at last, via real-time observation of and commentary on world events, we have the means to address that to which Dr. the Reverend Martin Luther King alluded, when he enjoined that: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly!"

Our history is inescapably bound to Egypt, if not by genealogy or religion, by dint of the similarity of social structure which permits the minuscule minority to hold and exert overwhelming sway of the commanding heights of the economy.

We made a monumental move to overturn the tables when we rose up against the PNM and put the People's Partnership into office. We never believed that by that mere act, all would overnight become well, for the price of democracy equates that of liberty -eternal vigilance.

Against such backdrop, let us learn from the ongoing events in Egypt to understand that, in Trinidad and Tobago, if any move towards social justice is ever to come out on top, then the people must unite as one congress, for it is only by national, joint action that whatever machinations those who oppose such a purpose have in mind or in train, may be derailed.

Those who don't get it will, sooner or later, get it. Ask Mubarak!

T&T a democracy? Oh, really!

The bare-knuckled fact of the CL Financial Bailout Plan is that taxpayers dollars are being sought and have been committed to cushion a small bunch of private investors -the larger portion is adequately covered by the Deposit Insurance Scheme.

The size of the bailout boggles as it toggles between TT$15b and TT$22b! Billion$ have already been paid!

My question is: "Since we are a democratic country, why must so much be made available to so few?"

Given that the wealth accumulated in our National Coffers was yielded up due to our fortuitious circumstance rather than assiduous effort -we did not put the oil and gas there, He did!- that treasure trove belongs to, therefore is for the benefit of the many rather than the few!

"The many" comprises the 600,000 Trinbagonians living in, or almost in, the firm clutches of poverty. It is therefore to them that any bailout is to be offered, so that poverty in Trinbago may be eradicated once and for all!

To get a good idea of what lasting impact embracing such a stance would have, ponder on this: