Threaten a national leader, threaten a nation.

Regardless of one's station in life, every morsel concerning an imminent threat to one's life, liberty, health or property, needs to be taken without salt, moreso if the one threatened is elected to conduct the national business.

It is only thereby that appropriate measures may be implemented to arrest or avert the cause of danger.

Hence, anyone who is reckless in such regard, is unfit to lead me anywhere or anymore and, seeing I'm just an ordinary, law-abiding citizen, unfit to lead any...except the lawless, or those given to wajankiness.

No salt is needed to assimilate the above advice or the next comment!

Indeed, every problem besetting the world has been born of the recklessness of the one for the time being behind the steering wheel!

So do, so like!

One thing with politicians: they love to be politically-correct. One thing with life: reality is what's perceived.

Loving to be politically-correct, this author will say, "So do, so like!", for that's the most apt idiom by which to describe the response of Dr. Keith Rowley to the alarming news of a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and matters subsequently thereto incidental: to wit

"And Rowley said he was not prepared to share any of the specific information provided to him by Deputy Commissioner Richardson with whom he met yesterday morning. But having met with and having been briefed by the police, he could now tell the national community that he was not satisfied that the Government's action in the last 24 hours, was in the nation's best interest"

So do, so like, Dr. Keith! If you choose to withhold what you learnt, then what you say by way of interpretation is nothing more than the rant of a madman.

300m, divided by 20,0000, cannot!

Just for the records and by way of forewarning:
300 million, divided by 20 thousand, cannot! For, after allowance is made for administrative fees and procurement of goods and equipment, a yield of approximately 10 thousand is left for each of the 20 thousand to earn.

Limited curfew needed.

Dear Madam Prime Minister

and, Head of The National Security Council.

Mark me among those who support your administration's efforts to staunch the crime spree that so blighted our land for many a PNM-ruled year.
Because of such, I am here suggesting that what you recently lifted be reimposed, but in limited fashion: so that every known criminal (including every one out on bail) be curfewed between 6pm and 6am.

Wanton outpouring of joy over curfew's end.

It surprised me none that so many of our population seemingly took to the streets in wanton display of enthusiastic joy over the lifting of the curfew, for, over the decades, with official encouragement, we have fine-tuned Carnival mentality to such an extent that things which warrant sobriety are taken with frivolity unseeming.

Did someone once urge that the fête over, back to work?

Secrets laid bare.

The time shall come when all secrets shall bare be laid.
Such is the promise of The Ancients.
Thus far, The Ancients have been unerring in their accuracy.
All we thus have to do is wait.
And, as we wait, make amends so when the time inevitably arrives, our slate is clean.

Concerning the rape of the under-aged and mentally-challenged girl.

When officialdom declares itself more enraged over the breaking of the law that protects the identity of a victim than over the crime perpetrated against the victim and its own tardiness in apprehending the known perpetrators, it is time for right-thinking citizens to rise up and get rid of that officialdom.

No end to exploitation.

People who know their value, appreciate it.
People who appreciate their value, exploit it.
People who exploit what they appreciate, profit by it.
Thing is, some people know their only value is to exploit others.
The latter people are easily identifiable: they simultaneously straddle several bandwagons...or switch 'twixt bandwagons with consummate ease, like the razor grass in the swirling storm.
Hence, come government, go government, their calves become fatter and fatter and fatter, while the herded masses more magger grow.

Dr. Ghany! You lie!

Re: http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2011/11/04/ghany-senators-can-act-pm

wherein Dr. Hamid Ghany is reported to have intoned that:

The Constitution makes provision for a senator to act as Prime Minister in the absence of the PM.

Dr. Ghany! You lie!

And I say so without equvocation, having long ago argued the point at length.

Dr. Ghany and others who share his view are prone to take things out of context to justify a point. One may not adopt such a position with legal interpretation, even though the practice is to turn this way or that.

So, while the reality of the relevant constitutional provision allows that a Cabinet Minister may be authorized to perform the functions of Prime Minister, only the dumb would ignore what the constitution elsewhere says of what qualifies a person to become, or temporarily perform the functions of, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago!

Like I said, I have already written at length of this topic: way back in July 2008. Any who care to see how I dissembled the Ghanyian position may so do by visiting: http://earlykid5rivers.blogspot.com/2008/06/senator-cannot-act-or-perform-duties-of.html

I gone!

Reflections on the demise of Muammar.

History unerringly informs that, in every era, at some instant and place or the other, the masses of people would erupt in anger at what passes for their leaders, then out the window and into the nearest graveyard fling them. History also unflinchingly advises that very such explosion is catalyzed by leaders who become so consumed with power they believe they are a law unto themselves, thus can neither do wrong, nor be wronged. We have never yet reached that point (though, on the odd occasion past, we came quite close to the brink). As long as this administration sails close to shore, I know we never shall.