THE EDITOR:
WILL the government in power please wake up and bring our
country together.
A simple step towards this lofty goal will be the changing of the
Trinity Cross or some compromise.
The people of this country are virtually powerless since we have
no form of referendum (in spite of what the Keith Noel Committee
says) or any form of pressure groups that can meaningfully impact
on the political directorate.
While there are no doubt religious and racial groups that would
like to continue with the status quo, a couple of suggestions advanced
so far would make for a far more harmonious country than what pertains
... with or without the crimes.
While we had no say about the naming of Trinidad 500 years ago,
we did in our very recent past create a mistake (perhaps unknowingly)
with our flawed 1962 constitution.
It is very much in our hands and in our majority interest to fix
these seemingly trivial errors (or is it trivialised errors) of
our immediate predecessors who themselves admit their errors.
If we are waiting for a new constitution, which has not even been
discussed far less tabled in the past five years, then it will certainly
take another decade before any form of implementation can reasonably
be expected with the current progress (or lack thereof) of our system.
In the meantime, TnT need action now before it degenerates into
total anarchy and non-governance, the signs are there for all to
see.
Our Administration, with their singular ability to bring or not
to bring new legislation or amendments is doing us a grave injustice.
They twiddle their fingers and fatten their pockets and stomachs,
while we beg for simple remedies to our declining society.
The country is far too rich with natural and human resources to
go around for every man, woman and child.
Instead, our rulers are playing games like our colonial masters
of eons gone by, where oppression was the way for the minority to
rule the majority.
But in contrast, today, even the Brits have put in place systems
to empower and embrace minorities in their society ... why can’t
we.
Little colonial TnT is said to be potentially richer than even the
once great UK.
The bankruptcy is in our minds, attitudes and thinking of our petty
leaders.
The people of this country are crying out for equality and transparency
of treatment, justice, work, pay, protection and so much more.
When put into the pespective of East Indian versus African, our
PM may see no need to act, but in actuality the system is equally
damaging to Africans who must grovel or face the music.
These are not elusive or hairy fairy respect for others, but laws
that are at work in many countries around the world that make for
a better society, where people can identify with their country.
Please Manning, it is not rational for a country endowed with all
the goodies of TnT to continue on the current course of ruling by
fear, inequality, oppression and decisions that are massively out
of sync with national aspirations, with no hope of even a universal
tool like a referendum to indicate our collective displeasure.
Until our leaders get the big picture, we will be a nation in upheaval.
Our best brains will leave for the developed world and the foreign
corporate companies will exploit us for the collective fools our
leaders have made us.
In short, we the population are incapable of saving our country,
because the systems used (and abused) by our politicians, deprive
us of any meaningful participation.
Our only hope is to challenge authority (legally or by protest)
in the hope of a lucky outcome.
Last month, a very old street in New York has renamed after Martin
Luther King Jr., with no outcry from anyone. |
