TNN 70

Hello folks…..welcome again to we news station…(deep voice)… Dis is TNN…. drunk and  disorderly.. always in custody… (background music)..

Jumpstation: Hard to t'ief; Land of (ole) mas an' pan; Olympic corner.

Wellllll boy.. ah never t'ought ah woulda see de day where it get dangerous to be ah bandit.  

Look me here….. in de las’ month was plenty funeral for bandits in dis here country.  Less dan ah month ago, ah did tell alyuh dis one…. some fellas walk in ah doctor office pretendin’ to be sick an’ he an’ he frens dem  try to hol’ up de doctor.  Brudder, de doctor was pretendin’ to fire he gun though, an’ is because is one less to cook for….

Ah couple weeks ago ah nex’ set try it in Curepe junction an’ as de bandit come round to de back of de store is powtow-pow!  Bare lead in he tail! One more job for de undertaker.  

Den two days ago dey try it again in ah home out west… dey make de family call de man home, de man come home an’ finish off one ah dem…. dat is what we mean by callin’ death!  

Look nah, man dem bandit go have tuh take out life an’ health insurance jus’ now!  Ah mean instead ah “puttin’ dong ah wuk” dey go have to go an’ look for wuk!  

De Prime Minister was right, crime really goin’ dong… way dong… six feet to be exact!   We have have to band togedder to protect dem poor bandit now… but on de odder side, we have to watch it eh… we doh want to have every Tom, Dick an’ Jane (yeah.. dem woman could pull trigger too!) carryin’ gun like de wild west… 

Ah mean, we have to devise some system to keep we neighbourhoods safe.. ah hear dey talkin’ about community police (an’ like is only talk in most cases)…  We have tuh get serious man… after ah brudder slave an’ work hard to get he little cacada, somebody want tuh take it from him… is not so it mus’ be… sometimes ah hope de Commissioner takin’ note an’ get dem boys out on neighbourhood patrol, because soon enough some innocent person go get kill.. but as for dem bandit.. at least for de present, like dey shot call!

Why some people always have tuh make everyt’ing ah problem?  Is it too much to be happy when somebody get recognition for somet’ing good?  

De lates’ scenario occurred at de Prime Minister’s Lifetime Achievement Awards for Innovation.  

De award went to Peter Minshall for his contribution to Mas design.  Pan Tribago official vex… dey mout’  stretch long like elastic.. oh, ah steelband man shoulda get it… 

Now I eh arguin about who yuh t’ink shoulda get it.. de fact is dis.. Yuh t'ink Minshall deserve it??  An’ if yuh have any sense atall yuh have tuh answer yes! 

Dat man bring de design of Mas to such ah level dat de man design for Bastille Day in France, 2 Olympics, have everybody world over an’ in Trinidad copyin’ he designs an have enough work to keep him occupied all year now…

Remember, Devil Ray, Papillion, Midnight Robber, Tan Tan and Saga Boy, Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright, Merry Monarch an’ countless others….?  As Kitchener did sing “Mama, dis is Mas!”  

Why yuh mus’ object to de man getting’ ah award… an’ de fella take enough licks when he come out, eh…  All dem odder band leaders give him hell on earth, but he stick to he guns… yuh might not always like what he do, but he is one of de few people who battlin’ to prevent Mas from becomin’ ah bikini  an’ shorts parade… ah losin’ battle so far.  

De man doin’ he bes’ to make sure artistry survive in Carnival while odders jus’ stabbin’ in mercilessly…oh goooorrrmm… gimme ah break nah! 

Maybe yuh panman go get de award at another occasion….. why de crab in ah barrel attitude?  An’ de same panman who complainin’ ask wey pan reach in Trinidad?  De whole world stealin’ it an’ makin’ money… up to now we still lookin’ for sponsorship for steelband competition, year in, year out…

If yuh care about de pan innovator so much, do somet’ing about dat situation!…. monkey cyah see de length of he own tail!

OLYMPIC CORNER....

Yeah until de end of de Games, alyuh go hear de Cobra wit’ he own commentary on de Olympics.... an’ doh change de channel either…!

Beholden to Bolden 

Well he eh “Golden Bolden” yet, but we boy performin’ man…. yuh boy was up from 3:20 in de a.m. to watch semi finals an’ finals of de hundred metres final!   6:30 an' ah now climbin’ back into bed!  

Race boy… Ato get ah good start… comin’ down de track.. take de lead at 40, holdin’ at 50…. Greene pull up alongside.. put down power an’ start tuh pull away…   Ato start to fly… but too late… he make ah silver…  but ah was happy.

When ah tellin’ yuh… 5 Caribbean athletes in de final and we come two an’ three, silver an’ bronze…   It was kinda dark in TnT, because de Caribbean sun was shinin’ in Syndey!   We show we back an’ spikes to de rest of de field!  An’ flag big like bedsheet fyin’ in de wind after dat!  

An’ we eh finish yet… Ato and Oba still have de 200 m to come… we eh takin’ no prisoners dis rounds… so far Ato have 2 bronze (1996), one silver (2000), so what he missin’…eh?!  Tell meh.. leh meh hear yuh!  

Come Wed. when we finish, dey go have to hose dong de track after we burn it up!  We cyah say “Golden Bolden” yet, but at least we could call him “Quicksilver”! 

Makin’  ah point…

When she hit de turn on de las’ stretch so, she was behin’ but at about 330m, like she decide.. nah boy.. ah have tuh win dis one for meh people... an’ she jus’ put pedal to metal an’ start to pull away from de field…. stride, stride, stride… man, crowd goin’ wild… every Aborigine ancestor must be look dong an’ smile…. 

She wasn’t equal, she was better dan what de world had to offer…..!   Well done girl… we hope at least all dem downtrodden people of de world go be Freem(e)n soon!

Dat’s all for dis week, folks see you on soon…  take care….. Remember any comments, queries, ole talk, greetings, hail outs, etc… write to we anchorman Cobra at ttcobra1@hotmail.com an’ we go be in contact with alyuh…  Special hail out to de new New Yorker, Jacqueline… it ah little col’ eh?!… Ah gone…. Five days ah Carnival is too much ah baccahnal…(background music)…Special