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Hello folks…..welcome to de Trini News Network… (deep voice) ….. dis is TNN…. ah went awayyyyyy..ah leave an’ ah come back home….. (Background music)….
Jumpstation: Dust in dey face; Neighbour house on fire...; Someting in de pipeline; Three in one.
Remember David Rudder song some years back…? Well like it turn out to be prophetic… it have people eating, drinkin’ an’ swallowing dust near we new airport construction site.
Brudder, if yuh see wha’ goin’ on dey…. people all around de site say yuh cyah tell one t’ing from anodder, because all ah dem have de same colour….brown! Is only by shape yuh could make out de furniture an’ is only when ah person talk yuh recognisin’ dem by dey voice… because is dust in yuh eye an’ de person cake over in dust…!
T’ings bad, yuh know… de Fire Station people say dey cyah take it no more, dey leaving…. de poor people wearin’ masks durin’ de day like dey performin’ surgery, an’ some coughing up blood or have tuh go to hospital for treatment… an’ yuh know how t’ings is in dey… so is ah pressah dis rounds….!
Now do de words “prevalent wind direction” an’ “dust screens” mean anyt’ing to you..? Oh Loooorrrrddddd….! Look, if yuh goin’ tuh build ah big t’ing like ah airport in de DRY season, yuh doh t’ink it might…just MIGHT…have ah little dust….an’ nobody eh check tuh se wey de wind blowin’ (trust me, it eh go change direction overnight) so dey could put up some pole an’ put ah screen between dem.
If dey getting’ water dong dat side, dey say dey ready for ah J’ourvert mud mas’.. just turn on de tap, an’ run outside afterwards…!
An’ tuh add to de melee, yuh believe de airport behind schedule so is more sufferation in dey tail… de PM did say he wanted it open for Independence Day.. what precisely is de meanin’ behind dat?!
Why people like tuh flam so…. small man, open it when it finish please… dis eh one ah dem roads wey if ah pothole appear yuh patch it up an’ t’ings nice, yuh hear? When plane comin’ in tuh land dey cyah swerve from hole or pushstart if dey stick in ah setta mud… open de wretched t’ing when it ready, not before…..
Until den, dem poor people go have tuh do like dem people in de ole cowboy movies….yuh remember when de starboy confront de badman, what lyrics he used tuh drop…“Ah’m gonna make ya eat dust.. boy!”
NEIGHBOUR HOUSE ON FIRE.... WET YOURS!
Ay.. alyuh eh see wha’ happenin’ in St. Vincent boy…! Ah was shocked tuh see de situation… labour unions an’ de Opposition gang up on de government, an’ t’ings get so bad, CARICOM leaders had tuh fly in to cool dem dong.
De Oposition an’ dem say dey want elections now! Not tomorrow! An’ dey say is because de government decide tuh increase dey own salary is why de t’ing bus out so….
Now ah not in de country, eh, but ah pickin’ up some
vibes which ah hope dem odder leaders takin’ note
of…
Yuh see if yuh doin’ de right t’ing or at least yuh
tryin’, nobody eh go mind if yuh take ah small raise… man eh go vex wit’
yuh, but you cyah live nice while odder people
ketchin de nennen… because you is de one who tell people vote yuh in,
an’ life go be sweeter dan honey….. as yuh make yuh bed, yuh go lie… but
for de politicians dem, maybe ah
should say is as yuh LIE, is so yuh go
make yuh bed!
But ah little worried ‘bout ah trend, an ah agree wit’ Bas dey on dat point… we cyah have people callin’ elections evrey two years or every time ah l’il social problem arise… we go be holdin’ elections every odder week, an’ on top ah dat, yuh destabilising de country an’ scaring away people an’ dey money..
We have tuh act mature… ah mean we take Bas an’ de
boys for four an’ ah half years…an’ we eh dead… dying, yes, but we eh
dead…! De longest rope have ah end, man, an’ if de people get in
fair an’ square, tolerate dem unless dey try ah oppression session on yuh…
Ah mean, t’ink about de country an’ de little people.. we have tuh
learn tuh take ah little pressure… we
make de decision so we have tuh live wit’ it….
What ah situation… seems like de National Gas Company had profits of over $800M five years ago, an’ now less dan $10M dollars… like de gas leak out, boy…
An’ here de story… gov’t companies owin’ de people nearly $1B dollars in revenues, an’ like dey eh want tuh pay up.
Now lemme understand dis.. if I eh pay WASA or T&TEC dey bill at de end of de month, meh tap gone dry or ah have tuh look for candle, but dem could run up bills of hundreds of millions of dollars an’ is nothin’ (after all we taxes go make up de shortfall, eh?).
Dat is accountability….! An’
now ah hear dey t’inkin’ of scrappin’ de company (so where all dem
extra dollars goin’?… me smell a rat, an’ a dead one at dat!).
Nex’ t’ing yuh know is some private company set up doin’ de same
job, an’ is somebody fren who own de company… but lemme eh judge dem on dey
past record….
An’ how come dem company like AMOCO an’ dem boys
getting’ special gas prices, but local companies cyah get
discounts…? Um hmm.. de plot t’ickens… outside chilren
getting’ cake but those in de house eatin’ stale bread….
Like I is de only person left in dis country boy… yuh
know 3 more ah we local stalwarts leave
we in de space of one week…? Like dem fellas say, once ah make de
century, ah could t’row way meh wicket…. watch me here…