TNN 47
Hello folks… (deep voice) This is TNN….. Dey lookin’ for Jericho… Jericho eh dey…. (background music) More issues, news an’ views from the land of Trinbago…..
DEY EH LIKE MEH...........!
Look trouble…. yuh know whole week people writin’ an’ askin’ meh what ah t’ink about Manday an’ he stupid talk (it have tuh be dat… ah mean, de fella cyah be serious…!).
De man say how he enemies gangin’ up against him an’ he party... (of course when he was in NAR which was 3 party against de PNM, it was ah different story… ah tired tell dem, when yuh spit in de air, it bound tuh fall in yuh face)……. an’ yuh expeck yuh enemies not to be against yuh….?
Small man, dat is why dey is yuh
enemies…..! But de man call de President, de Chief Justice, de media , de PNM, Independent Senators, two ah we
economists…. toute bagai ….. Buh wait, like he eh have no
friends…what is dis! An ah nice fella so……?
Now if yuh smart, you wouldn’t call name, or else de fellas go know yuh suspect dem, an’ take “evasive” action…. But sonnyboy decide tuh open he mout', an’ is like ah sewer-main bus’……! If yuh see SPIT! (remember we on de air, so ah decent….!).
Ah
mean anybody who could count to five know dat yuh doh ever attack de justice
system, de press or de office of President in ah democracy….. it show dat yuh
insecure, yuh cyah handle yuh stories an’
might hint broadly at ah lack ah common sense… in dis case no need to
hint…de truth is obvious!
People worried because he attack de office of de preseident, de head of de Judiciary, de media……even Amnesty International people askin’ de man tuh cool off, because all dis talk about enemy an’ war could start t’ing we cyah control….. an’ after all, we is ah democracy…
Manday
say he defendin’ he self like… wait for dis….. Mandela
an’ Gandhi……um hmm…. t’ink about dat…. let it sink
in…….. Buh how de HELL he come tuh dat conclusion...?!
Comparin’ heself tuh WHO?!
Alyuh, is not all de war talk dat frighten meh, yuh know, is de las’
statement, de comparison….. ah ole warbine want tuh swim wit’ shark….?
Ah donkey in ah horse race? Dah
is it…he gone! What little he had left, he lose it……. clean
bowled…. call de fellas wit’ de white uniforms……!
De man jus’ need tuh grow up… he mus’ say an’ do anyt’ing, but nobody have de right tuh comment… an’ so what if people eh like yuh….?! Yuh still have yuh dog (ah hope!)….. he like ah dam ti-marie plant…. oversensitive……he skin thinner dan onion, but he want tuh rub up against wall…….!
Treat all dat talk like yuh suppose tuh treat it…… as Rudder did sing a couple years ago…ah Madmam Rant….! Alyuh tryin tuh make de man behave like he have class….. oh gorm, corbeaux cyah eat sponge cake….!
MAMA, DIS IS MAS.....!?
Yuh know why Trinidad have cable, 14 local radio station, 3 local tv stations, 3 dailies an’ at least 4 weeklies…..? People here like TALK!
It
eh have no odder reason…. now de ole argument over Carnival start again.. once
again Minshall vs. de Rest.
Every year, year in year out.. so if is talk alyuh like is talk alyuh go
get..de Cobra puttin’ in he $100 worth….. yeah man, talk eh cheap by me, yuh
know…!
Minshall
say de odder band leaders who have people in dem skimpy costumes makin’ de Mas
into ah Las Vegas showgirl affair an’ dressin’ up people like street walkers
etc…. Dey should have more respect for de mas an’ do proper
designs an’ all dat…… Man jump back wit’ dat is is what de people
want, an’ if dey gih dem more cloth, dey go cut it away to show de body, an’
people want tuh free up, an’ people eh like too much clothes….an’ on,
an’ on…..
Soooooo….. if yuh goin’ to do dat yuh have tuh READ, yuh also have tuh THINK, an’ yuh also have tuh DESIGN……. ah t’ink yuh enderstan’ de road ah goin’ dong… look jus’ ah coupla days ago, ah see ah band advertisin’ dey costume… is only because one bikini top have ah different colour from de nex’ one, yuh able tuh recognise different section, an’ doh forget.. everybody have ah plume ah feathers on de head….dat is standard….like we mix wit’ fowl…..!
So Minsh have ah point, mas mus’ show creativity an’ say or portray somet’ing….. but ah have tuh say too, if yuh want tuh point on ¼ yard ah cloth an’ jump around (an’ pay $1000 for dat), dat is yuh business….. but I eh pick up my money on de beach, ah work for it…so yuh eh go see dis cheap man in dat….
Ah not sayin’ yuh have tuh wrap ah bedsheet round yuh, but oh gorm, have ah heart nah! Doh go abroad an’ tell people yuh is ah big masman, an’ yuh is ah designer for mas an’ all dat…. say yuh does bring out ah band….fullstop! Yuh does cater to people who jus’ want tuh jump around…… be honest.
If yuh so good how come is only Minshall geh invite tuh design for Barcelona Olympics, Bastille Day, Atlanta Olympics, etc….? Now ah jus’ usin’ de man name to make ah point… me eh tell yuh go an’ play in de man band… yuh know how alyuh like tuh see t’ing dat eh dey….!
What ah want tuh see is young designers getting’ involved in de mas an’ bringin’ out concepts an’ themes, while still allowin’ people tuh move free an’ jump up….. odderwise is jus’ another Brazil parade, it eh have no heart, it eh sayin’ nothin’ tuh we, and fellas who learn wirebendin’, metal sculpting, paintin’ an’ de ole soldiers like George Bailey who was ah designer class by heself, go jus’ roll over in he grave an’ steups……
It have ah nex row about Calypso also but ah go deal wit’ dat nex’ week…… buh how…? I like to talk to, yuh know…..
LNG (Losin' Natural Gas....?)
If yuh ask meh, dis gas issue seem more like hot air….
Ah company want tuh expand usin’ natural gas, de government say dey agree..... since early las’ year dey say dat dey go give it approval, but nothin’ yet.. So de company decide tuh pack up an’ go… suddenly dey get contract…
Now it woulda seem to be jus’ slackness, but what ah watchin’ is dis…de Minister of Energy want de plant, but the fella in charge of the National Gas Company say it ent a good idea, since de company go be t’iefin’ we natural gas, under dem conditions, of low or less taxation..
In fact AMOCO and BP want no increase in taxation atall (dem mus’ be mad!), an’ den the Chairman eh too sure it go have a constant supply of gas to locals if they have tuh supply dat company…. some Cabinet Ministers agree, some eh agree, one setta ole mas…..
Now to me it simple…. is the venture profitable… yes or no? In the short, medium or long term? If de company want tuh try and bully de way to get sweet conditions, tell dem no… if dey go Venezuela, dat is dey business….. doh sell! But if people in the international community see yuh as ah roll over, de nex’ company dat come want de same deal or better…. so yuh give ah inch now, dey go take ah mile later……. De economy go fall dong an’ dead if we eh get dis deal…?
Oh for heaven sakes man, show some gumption! Yuh have boil macaroni for ah spine…? Yuh is cousin tuh ah earthworm…? Say yuh piece an’ say it clearly….. An’ I eh even start tuh talk about de ammonia plant (another natural gas user) which still trying to wring ah bargain outta we since dey las’ contract expire…. but dat is anodder story…. look wha we come too… people want tuh dig out we eye an’ we handin’ dem stick…..?!
GRANDMASTER'S
LAS' LAP....
Ah
boy, ah was hopin’ not tuh have tuh write dis, but de LORD KITCHENER passed
away today, Friday, 10:45 a.m. Ah t’ink de nation mus’ be pause for ah while… people
gather round talkin’ about de man from Arima an’ de radio start playing some
of de fella songs. He was really ah
grandmaster of de art of
calypso…. whedder was politics …