Liar Liar!

Acting CoP James Philbert

So here we have a new acting police commissioner who admit to lying and thus failing a polygraph test. The explanation he give, and one he really feel people would believe, is that he lie to protect matters of national security and he did it to save life and limb. What bulldoody is that?  If I in charge of matters pertaining to national security and someone asks me a question on matters of national security, my response would be ” I cannot answer that, as it is a national security issue”.

Furthermore, what could the person who asking the questions know about national security and covert operations?

So we have here a acting police commissioner who actually stupid enough to believe he could outsmart a lie detector, and actually stupid enough to think that he could even lie about lying and people will believe is the truth.

Wait! That sound just like a PNM minister. No wonder the government prefer him to be Police Commissioner. He go fit in just like hand in glove.

Murphy won’t go away

Everybody has one of those days where nothing seems to go right. For me, this whole week hasn’t gone right at all. Got a flat on the highway on Tuesday that almost made me lose control of the car. Wednesday was the fiasco with the water pipes that lasted until Friday afternoon. Did a temporary fix using lots of PVC, and working with an aching back in the hot sun and mud. After I was all happy, I did some cleaning. I cleaned out my deep freeze quite nicely, and when I plugged it back in, BOOM! the outlet shorted out. The freezer is ok though, thanks for asking. Then on Saturday morning, a leak sprung INSIDE the house. I had to shut off the main, since I had to got to work, having skipped it for 2 days. I only just located the leak, luckily without having to demolish my entire wall. The laundry room floor is flooded though. Oh and if anyone finds my flash drive please return it to me. I’ve got some important documents on it. It’s a white Titan 4 gig. Right now, Murphy’s Law is being soundly proven in my life. Something good has to happen this week, because things can’t get worse than they already have.

Now where did I put that mop……?

It’s a disaster!

The past 36 hours or so have not been good for me at all. If I had hair I would pull it out. On Wednesday evening while watering my very thirsty plants, the stream began to sputter and choke. I found that strange, since it would mean that my water tank was empty and there was no water on the line. We hardly ever get water problems in my area, so imagine my shock to find no water in my tank or in the main. Even more strange was the fact that all the other neighbours seemed to have a healthy water supply. This was certainly a mystery. I began to wonder if WASA (the water company) had disconnected me, but I dismissed that because my bill was OK and WASA hardly ever disconnects anybody anyway.

The last thing was to check the main lock-off valve that’s at the front of the house. Sure enough, it was closed and I had a sinking feeling. I opened it, and water started spraying all over the property next door.

What do you think happened? The neighbour demolished his house last week to rebuild and the excavator operator, without checking, ripped up everything, including my main line which was also joined to the neighbour’s main. When water started spraying, apparently they turned off the main valve and said not a word. To add insult to injury, the main valve is on my property! I was unaware that this had happened because my plumbing is set up in such a way that water from the main fills the tank from the top and the pump pulls from the bottom. So the tank wasn’t being filled and I was merrily using water all week. So now I am here with no water in my house except for a few containers and I don’t have to describe my position for you. I made a temporary tap off from the mains on Thursday morning, but as luck would have it, Thursday is the day that they shut off the mains. Yes, I live in a banana republic. WASA is in a mess and s an ex employee, I know this first hand a My ex-employee status allowed me to get them to send someone to look at the situation, however, and they agreed that the two connections needed to be separate. SO they’re coming later today to do that (hopefully) so I’ll be connected again. But then there’s the issue of the locked valve. I have to wait until tonight to get water flowing again. In the meantime, I’ve decided to vent my frustrations with the written word.

I think I hear rain coming. I going outside to stand up in my jockey shorts

Good Heavens! Look where we reach

Headlines on Page nine of the Trinidad Express on Sunday February 17:

Baby Jesus back in Mom’s hands but….. ( Reference to a 15-month-old baby that was kidnapped from his home at Bon Air Arouca on February 10)
‘God’ shot dead in his bar ( A suspected drug lord from El Socorro nicknamed ‘God’ was shot down in a bar he owned by three men pretending to be customers.)

So Jesus was kidnapped and ‘God’ is dead. My word! Look where we reach. Nobody is safe in T&T anymore. Who can we turn to now? My beloved country, I grieve for you.

Dog work has profit in T&T

I heard an interesting story yesterday. Apparently some enterprising young men from the East of T&T came up with an ingenious method of distributing their illegal narcotics. These creative lads trained a dog to deliver their drugs for them. That’s right..a pure breed Rotweiller was recruited as a drug dealer. Apparently the customers would wait at a predetermined spot, and while the young entrepreneurs conducted surveillance from a rooftop across the street, the dog would go out with a bag of narcotics on his back, meet the customer, deliver the goods, collect the money and bring it back to his owners. Yes, I kid you not. This was Lassie, gangster style.

What I wondered, then, is how much training and skill it took to make that dog a drug dealer. Clearly these fellas were talented. So how much better would it have been for them to use this talent legitimately and offer to train other people’s dogs for a fee. But of course, the allure of quick cash is much more appealing than hard work and dedication to building something where you don’t have to sleep with one eye open looking out for police who want to kill you or rival gangsters who also want to kill you.

Trinidad and Tobago is full of people who are talented and could do great things to uplift themselves and the country, but instead many of them decide to use the talent for the wrong thing, and drag themselves and the country down.

Still I keep hope that one day things will get better. I have to, because the alternative is to painful to think about.

On a lighter note, suppose the dog had to go to court to testify and the prosecutor asked him where his owners were when he was delivering drugs for them. He just might answer: “Woof!”

Happy New Year?

People keep wishing me a Happy New Year, but how happy will this year be when already the murder toll is 7. The prime minister is saying that the government has “identified the cause of the crime” as drugs. So they take so long to discover what everybody know already? I think the government has their head up their anatomy. Sorry, but I think this new year will be more crappy than happy if something doesn’t happen soon. I’m really hoping that somebody proves me wrong.

Best Trini quote of 2007

"If a man comes to attack you and he is armed, you do not have to wait
for him to kill you for you to defend yourself," – Ramesh Lawrence
Maharaj

Source: Trinidad Guardian Dec 9th, 2007

Waiting for Justice

According to Wikipedia, the population of New York as of 2006 was 19,306,183. New York is a total of 54,475 square miles (141,089 km²) in area, making it the third most populous city in the USA.
According to Wikipedia, the population of Trinidad and Tobago as of 2005 was 1.3 million. Trinidad and Tobago is a total of 1,979 square miles (5,128 km²) in area, making it a fraction of the size of New York.
According to the BBC, the murder rate in New York for the year was 428 as of November 18.
According to the Express, Guardian, Newsday, Bomb, Punch, Tanty, Granny and everybody else, the murder rate so far in Trinidad and Tobago is 338.
So could someone explain to me how the hell a country that is the size of a pimple on the face of New York could have a murder rate that almost as high as that of New York? Even more disturbing is the fact that while New York’s murder rate is going down and is presently at the lowest it has been in 40 years, in T&T ours seems to be going up.
According to the BBC,

The soaring murder rate of the late 1980s and early 1990s was largely a result of turf wars between gangs running the crack cocaine trade. The turnaround in violence from the early 1990s was attributed to the city’s zero tolerance policy, which saw police crack down on minor offences and drug dealing.

Gang warfare? That sounds familiar. But zero tolerance policy? Even on minor offences? Eh eh. Not in sweet T&T where anything goes, and our national motto is “Free Up Yourself”.
In addition to the attitude of citizens, a big part of the problem is the ridiculous justice system where cases are tied up in courts for years and years. The Bible as a book of wisdom explains T&T’s position quite simply but accurately in Ecclesiasties 8:11. It says:

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.

Plain and simple, there is the root cause of our problem. Everybody could do anything and get off scot free, so everybody does what they want.
Even in the schools, students rule because they can’t be disciplined or expelled for bad behaviour, so they do what they want.
Murder, crime, violence, road deaths; all are tied in to the lack of accountability in T&T. Anything goes in this sweet land of ours.
To the authorities… Bring back accountability. Please fix our justice system or lack thereof. It’s killing T&T.

P.S. If you want to have media briefings from the police, please find someone who can speak clearly and fluently and who will not pause after every three words to think of what to say next. It’s annoying to have to listen to that sort of nonsense and it makes those who run the system appear even more incompetent.

Panday’s last stand

Basdeo Panday, you are an idiot. I have to say that after listening to the tirade you unleashed subsequent to losing the general elections in Trinidad and Tobago. You practically blamed the Congress of the People for the UNC-A’s loss, saying that they split the vote and took away votes that would have gone to the UNC. Mr Panday, for your information, if somebody wants to vote for you they will, whether or not there is another party on the scene.

I know for a fact that a great many of the people who voted for the COP were people who would have traditionally voted for the PNM as what they considered the lesser of two evils, the greater evil being you. These folks were tired of both the PNM and the UNC and wanted change. The people who voted COP didn’t want you, Bas. What they wanted was something new, and not the same old stupid talk. You have nothing new to offer. So sit down, take back the Opposition Leader post from Kamla (like how you take everything else from her) and shut up. You will never be Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago again.

The real meaning of politics

Politics: from the Greek “poly” (meaning “many”) and “ticks” (“bloodsucking parasites”).
A lot of bloodsuckers are running around this weekend. They’ve already bitten thousands, but I’m not worried. The invasion soon will be over. They’ll disappear again and go back to their own pursuits come November 6.