TNN 53
Hello Folks… (deep voice…) Dis is TNN….. Tell meh where yuh been las’ night, Caroline…..? Down at Picadilly…if wasn’t you, den who could it be…? Tell meh where yuh been las’ night, Caroline… (background music…Roarin’ Lion)
Jumpstation: WI Win; Silver Tongue; 4..3..2..1..0..Strike; Is So We Does Talk.
Yes, de West Indies Cricket team remembered how it is to win (dey have ah good memory boy!) las’ week an’ we scored ah memorable victory against Zimbabwe at de Queen’s Park Oval…..
At one time it look like we woulda kell-ke-tay an embarrass weself in we own backyard…ah mean Zimbabs rated as team # LAST in de Test nations, so if we did lose, ten thousan’ wild horses woulda be able to pull dat shame!
Yuh could imagine we collapse and leave Zimbabs wit’ 98 runs to win….? Boy, if yuh hear people run de mout'…! When ah hear de team psychologist say we could still win, I mehself say.. “well, what yuh expeck de man tuh say….? We go lose?”
But boy we went out an’ score ah victory wit’ runs tuh
spare…! Look, when de las’ wicket fall, people hol’ dey head
an’ bawl like dey mudder dead….
dey couldn’t believe it! Of course it have some people who sayin’
dat dat eh nothin’ tuh shout about, because in reality we beat “nobody” in
cricket…. but my t’ing is, when ah man do somet’ing good, no matter how
small, pat him on he back an’ encourage him…doh wait until he do somet’ing
exceptional…dat is why so many young people does give up, eh… dey do
somet’ing small, an’ nobody around tuh encourage dem…no man, de bigges’
man was once ah baby…. an’ proof of dat is we record holder Walsh…..
Hear nah, when dat man did jus’ come on, he wasn’t no
great bowler yuh know…I see Courtney (Courts) take beatin’ from some batsmen
already…an’ ah mean real licks.. de ball fraid tuh go to de batsman because
is only hard lash it getting’…. but look at what happen Monday… de man now
have de most Test wickets in de worl’.. an’ if yuh wasn’t dey leh
meh give alyuh somet’ing to go by:
Boy, Sabina Park full up like ah early mornin’ bus’….. people like sardine in dey… Adams an’ Rose did jus’ set de worl’ record for ah 8 wicket partnership, an’ now we goin’ through de Zimbabs side like ah kitchen knife on ripe pawpaw….Finally de las’ wicket tuh fall. Courts eh have he record yet…if he eh take dis wicket, he eh go get de chance on dis tour again…. Tension, hope, tremblin’…. It have guards all roun’ de field, because if dey didn’t , de invasion woulda be worse dan de Gulf War…..
Light startin’ tuh fade…. Courts turn at he mark, he have de ball in he hand clutch low by he waist…. den he start tuh run… de ole war horse comin’ in at ah canter…den he speed up, chest up in de air, eyes fix on de pitch as he comin’ in…… legs rotatin’ like ah fan belt….. finally at full speed, he straighten up, lean back an’ deliver de missile…. vooooooshhhh! De ball comin’ dong de pitch like ah heat seekin’ warhead… he mus’ be remember he boyhood days when he used tuh pelt mango….. it hit de pitch an’ start tuh go dong de leg side… Olanga decide he go chook at it…man as he touch de ball, it jump up like when yuh hear road march on de Savannah stage…an’ lan’ up in ah fielder han’..!
Man, Walsh jump up in de air like he is ah mountain chicken…. arms up an’ open to embrace every island in de West Indies… He eyes light up like ten socouyant on ah dark night….. "aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!" he yell out…. "batsman's gone! Walk!….."
De res’ of de team rush in….. is bear hug, lift up, high five, man bowin’ dong on de pitch… Well papayo, crowd in ah uproar… de las’ wicket an’ de homeboy take it an’ make worl’ record… dey bawl , dey scream, dey jump, dey skant, dey wave flag, rag, jersey, anyt’ing…! Pandemonium…… we gone clear…. yeah man, dat was Courtney Wa(r)lsh
Ah doh believe it.. all de time nonsense goin’ on, Papatrick almost like ah dumb boy in de midst….. all kinda corruption, etc.. Papatrick helpless…. Yuh believe when de man finally talk, he talk tuh ah foreign magazine an’ if yuh hear what de man say…. how de present gov’t has alienated de country an’ has given de “Indians” in society lots of jobs, etc, while discriminatin’ against de “African” population (ah taught we was Trinidadians…but anyway..) an’ went on to name state agencies where dis was happenin’…
Now yuh get ah chance tuh broadcast TnT to de world, dat is first t’ing dat go come to yuh mind? Yuh eh decide tuh make ah play for de culture, for the education level, for we natural beauty, for we mixed ancestry, for we industrial strength…. NOTHING?! Yuh tryin’ tuh score political points an’ usin’ race to boot? Cuttin’ off yuh nose an’ spoilin’ yuh face?!
Look nah, Look nah, yuh forget what happen in Guyana las’ year, when blood flow because of dis same race nonsense? Brudder, nobody who read dat article comin’ to Trinidad to vote, so what is de purpose of utterin’ dem statements?
Of course it have some people who does play “de race card” as dey say, but if somebody ask yuh ‘bout yuh wife, yuh go call out all she bad points…? Who go want tuh meet she den? An’ furthermore, what is your solution to de problem?
Look as ah national leader, yuh suppose tuh do eveyt’ing in yuh power to stress similarities, to foster unity, to encourage togetherness… what yuh was t’inkin’ (or not t’inkin’ of?) If yuh have ah problem wit Manday, leh we settle it here…nobody outside comin’ tuh help we….. so wha’ yuh tellin’ dem for?
Like he forget speech is silver an’ silence is gold, but in he case, speech is more like stainless steel…!
4... 3... 2... 1... 0... STRIKE....!
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Well, de nurses was on go slow,
Caribbean Ispat workers protestin’, staff in agriculture Ministry complainin’
an’ dey decide tuh split Tunapuna police force between Arouca an’ Curepe
till de Police Station fit for use by humans…. yuh could imagine dat las’
one…?! Somebody beatin’ dey wife or ah t’ief breakin in yuh
neighbour house an’ yuh call de Police tuh come now… well by de time dey
reach, de woman on she way to hospital (an’ remember de nurses on sit-in…preshah!
), or if de t’ief see yuh callin’, he bus’ ah steups, rob de house, come
over an’ rob yours an’ den go he way! Because
by de time Police leave tuh come
(if dey have vehicle, dat is…) dem events is history….
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Almost 3 months now de President an’ de Prime Minister eh talkin’… but now
Robwe askin’ Manday tuh come an’ talk again for
de benefit of de country, people, an’ out of respect for
de Archbishop who write an’ tell dem he willin’ tuh help solve de
problem (well, he cyah come now, eh..?!)… same ole talk… so we waitin’ tuh
see how Manday go respond….
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Dat is how much de CPO offerin’ de nurses an’ dem over de nex’ 3 years tuh settle de dispute (she shoulda be ah M.C…., dat have
tuh be ah joke). An’ hear
dis one, dey want tuh ask England tuh stop takin’ we nurses.. Well
I never!
Yuh
could imagine dat?! Dem mus’ stay dey an’ drive dey big car, waste
money, get good pay an’ kickbacks, an’ when de poor people decide dey cyah
take it no more an’ gone tuh get ah better life for deyself an’ dey family,
you tryin’ tuh stop dem…?! Yuh crazy or what?
You want tuh tell me where tuh go an’ what I cyah do in SOMEBODY else
country? So I mus’ suffer like ah
stray dog, while you eatin’ at table…. nah man… dat is evil!
STRIKE!- For obvious reasons…..
Yuh
know what ah like 'bout Trinbagonians..boy, is what yuh call de “gun
talk”…one setta words, no action, ah “bad boy” stance…de ole “Robber
talk”…an’ is de exaggeration dat does kill meh dead…!
….check out some ah dem….