TNN INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Well folks, de Cobra was on ah little trip abroad, so ah wasn’t writin’ as much, but take ah touch of TNN International since ah couldn’t sen’ de news from home…. Ah say we jammin’.. to de songs of the Caribean we movin’.. tuh calyso an’ steelband…(Merchant).. . background music…
World Turn Ole-mas.....
Hay, Hayyyyy.. alyuh check out de Seattle scene wit’ de World Trade Organisation (WTO)…? Hear nah, ah say is civil war break out…. ! Ah never see so much people mash up de place so since las’ year Christmas rush in Trinidad.
Boy, ah hear we sen’ Assam (Ass-I-am) an’ ah couple odder people up dey an’ dey get some rough up too… but yuh know how Trini does get news dat never happen… Remember when we had de attempted coup in 1990? People say how Robbie dead, how is de nurse in de hospital say so, how she see when dey bring him in…. 2 days later de man limpin’ out de Red House….
We good yes, but ah
strayin’.. Free Trade dey say, de New World Order (same oppressors) eveybody should
compete an’ sell.. an’ who goods cheapest an’ bes’ go win… which
soundin’ like dog eat dog, eat cat, eat rat tuh me… oh gormmmmmm…. what yuh
expect Haiti tuh produce an’ sell when dey cyah even feed dey people ?
Yes man, dem rioters say dat de t’ings dey propsing go cause trouble especially since some countries have chile and slave labour, so dey goods go be cheaper an’ so dey go under sell dem odder countries, so dey have tuh put sanctions on dem nations dat employing dat…all kinda ole talk…
Is not dat ah agreeing wit’ chile labour eh, but remember if some children in dem countries doh work, dey family go literally starve tuh death. So be careful, yuh have tuh make sure dat de people could get ah meal first (which to me is de real issue, but ah wasn’t up dey to inform dem bright, bright folks).
An’ how come dey talkin’ about slave labour.. leh de cobra refresh alyuh min’…de same WTO allow dem to remove de lil cacada we use tuh get from Europe who used to ensure dat we get we bananas sell, so poor people could make ah bread. Yuh know how much people build house an’ educate dey chilren on bananas ?
But de US say it ent fair, take way de lil market an’ leh we compete wit’ Central America, wey dey payin’ people dog wage, an’ peope getting’ sterilise because dey usin’ so much chemical on de plantations, an’ de poor people cyah ever make enough money tuh free deyself from de system.... yessss, check it out.. dey doh tell yuh bout dem t’ings.. but now, when dey fraid cheap goods wash dem away, dey quick tuh want tuh put sanctions on dem countries… do so doh like so.
Now de shoe on de odder foot, like it squeezin’ lil bit, eh…? An’ dey want tuh sanction de WTO tuh get dey way… well boy, if dey get away wit’ dat, de WTO go be for me, as it is for ah lot ah people already ah World Terrorist Organisation… !
WE NEED HELP... NOT AIDS....
Well last week, dey had World AIDS Day, an’ dey had all kinda program an’ t’ing showin’ wha’ really takin’ place… Millions of children getting’ orphan in Africa, child prostitutes getting’ it from some sick adults (an’ ah mean SICK !) an’ den deadin’ in de streets.. an’ hear nah, Trinidad right up dey wit’ one of de highest infection rates on dis side of de worl’…
Boy dat eh lookin’ nice atallllll… But yuh see wat worryin’ meh most is dem lil chilren boy… like in almost all cases, is de adults who suppose tuh look out for dem an’ who dey does look up to, an' is dem bringin’ home de t’ing, an’ cuttin’ de poor chilren life short..
Dat eh fair man, oh gosh, dey eh do alyuh nuthin’ …control yuhself nah man… now when you dead who go look after dem.. look nah, if yuh see chilren livin’ on de street like rat, hustlin’ ah lil somet’ing,
In Trinidad dey fin’ is de over 30 fellas givin’ it to de teenage girls….have ah heart nah, tell dem study dey books, an’ man will come later…. an’ doh tell meh how de young girls today different.. dat is obvious, but NO in any language mean de same t’ing…yuh older, yuh suppose tuh help, not hinder dem….
In spite of all dat, ah eh seein’ one documentary on tv to educcate de public an’ especially young people No programmes in school, nuthin’… fiddlin’ while Rome burnin’…..what tuh do boy..
Anyway, de Cobra want tuh remember all de people who dead from AIDS, especially de chilren, an’ all those who on dey way out because we eh fin’ ah cure yet…. an’ ah hope de res’ ah we learn somet’ing…is one worl’ an’ all ah we connected.. so careful how yuh go, nah….. give hope and aid, not AIDS…..
CHECK OUT CHECHNYA....
Yuh know yuh does really know who yuh fren dem is when t’ings goin’ against yuh…Yuh see what Russia doin’ to dem poor people up dey, boy ? Two bombs explode in Moscow an’ nex’ t’ing dey invade ah entire country, bomb up de place, surround the capital an’ preaparin’ tuh turn de place tuh rubble by dis weekend…because ah 2 BOMBS…An’ nobody, the UN, nobody eh say boo ? !
Wait nah, like I is de only sane person left in dis world… is so we does operate now? An’ tuh t’icken de soup, dey bombing de people in winter time… alyuh know what ah Russian winter is? Dat same winter stop Napoleon an’ Hitler, yuh know dat brudder? How yuh expect hungry, weak civilians tuh survive? De so called guerillas dey lookin’ for well armed an’ mobile.. so as usual is de po’-me-one people have tuh drink bush tea for odder people fever…
Same t’ing
happen in Bosnia.. de talk is since de people is Muslim de West eh interested…. ah
hope ah hear wrong… If dat so, dem
fellas have tuh be beast in human form… an’ who leadin’ de charge, dat
ol’ drunkard Yeltsin… yeah tell him de Cobra say so… de man always sick,
jus' de odder day he have pneumonia…de man is ah rum cork, always have alcohol around
him…. but he an’ de US is suppose tuh be frennin’ so is bes’ people
dead so dat we could remain fren.. not so ? How ah talk Yeltsy….? Yeah man, take
ah drink for dat ! As for Billy
boy, he cyah talk too much about morals while Monica still alive…. an’ dese
fellas runnin’ country ?…prayers, boy, prayers…..
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND....
Yeah man de Cobra
was overseas on a break for ah while, an’ yuh know only one person write in tuh see
if I man dead or not ? But like alyuh eh
care bout me atall? Tanks, boy, Junior, tanks.. at least one person remember
de Cobra…
Yes man, ah wouldn’t tell yuh wey ah did go, but leh me jus’ tell yuh ah had tuh speak Spanish or Spanglish as de case might be.. boy, talk ‘bout culture shock!
Alyuh ever try tuh put 4 people in de back seat of ah small Lancer, an’ two people in the seat in front? I eh talkin' bout de time when transport fail alyuh in de fete an’ alyuh had tuh pack up like sardine in de one remainin’ car… dat was de exception, not de rule…
Boy, when ah come out of de car, ah feel like ah was closer to dat person dan tuh meh mudder…. An’ if yuh see dem maxi taxis (ah eh make de mistake an’ take one !)…. Jeeeezz, dem t’ings never full, an’ instead of a back glass some ah dem have plastic, de van start off in one colour an’ end us as another….preessah !
Ah know exactly what de roads dem look like, because when yuh travel in de little taxi, yuh seein’ it clear under yuh foot…. yuh know when ah travel ah like tuh travel wit’ DE PEOPLE DEM, simply because ah cyah afford tuh do odderwise…... an’ oh goooood…everywhere is ah monument, an’ dey have ah trend, everything must be big an’ flashy.. make sure yuh wearin’ yuh darkers or dey go cook yuh retinas……an’ doh ask meh how dem women does breathe in dem clothes…tight, tight, tight…weeeeyyyyy, boy!
But give Jack he jacket (an’ tie, or he go look incomplete), yuh cyah miss de culture, eh.. if yuh go in ah club is local dancin’, every station have Spanish music, an’ if yuh see some nice handicraft…. no imitation.. we coud learn ah couple t’ings from dem…. except how tuh drive…
Look, when yuh
crossin’ de street, yuh takin’ yuh life in yuh hands, traffic flowin’
around yuh like water, nobody stoppin’ ..an’ dem fellas does drive like ah video
game… …vooosh, voom, pe-ung, swerve, honk….an’ doh worry
‘bout indicator tuh change lane, everybody telepathic….
How ah make out
wit’ de language…. ? Easy man…check it out …
Como va, bebe (How yuh goin’ baby ?… Dah was one ah mih pick lines…)
En coche …(In a car) ..ah eh get too far wit’ de ladies like dey eh understand dey own language, boy…
An’ when ah
see somet’ing ah want tuh buy …..