Misplaced Priorities
You know them people who does be real poor, dey doh have nothing to eat but yet they rocking out with the latest fashions? Dem so does be fighting other people for 10 days, but dem have the latest Jordans and all kinna brands your working self can’t afford to try on? If you lived just one day of your life in Trinidad, you have to know someone like that. I know people like that. In fact my cousin is their de facto leader.
How about you passing by Beetham Gardens and you seeing rows of shacks and on the shackiest of shaks you seeing big maco Direct TV dish heng up on front of the house? Yuh doesn’t ask yuhself why? You want Direct TV too and you want Jordans too, but you know you can’t afford that and toilet paper, so you choose toilet paper.
I think the scientific term for that is misplaced priorities. And you think this mentality is reserved for some people only, meanwhile our very own Government Ministers sho signs of this illness.
Enter Colm Imbert. In the wake of Monday’s flash floods, Minister Imbert has voiced his Government’s intention of ensuring that the new rapid rail system is elevated in some areas so as to avoid contact with the ground in areas that are prone to flooding. Now I’m thinking, why not fix the flooding itself?
I’m sure the rail system when it arrives will be the most complicated, technologically advanced infrastructure Trinidad and perhaps the Caribbean will have ever seen. It’s going to take all the expertise we have here as well as from foreign sources in order to get this thing started and to keep it going. So if we could accomplish that and yet remain unable to tell some rainwater, “No, you doh stay here, you go so. You go down in that drain and take a left. You set ah water, go down so and take ah right. I eh want to see allyuh liming in this area here.” What business we have building billion dollar rapid rail?
Why do we want to develop from the top go down? it’s like a caller to a radio programme said, “They want to build a houssse by building the roof first”.
It’s not like they don’t know what’s causing the flooding. They know. They just won’t deal with it.
People who live in areas prone to flooding, must accept that that’s how life is.
9 Responses to “Misplaced Priorities”
By Hottie Hottie on Nov 15, 2006 | Reply
“In the wake of Monday’s flash floods, Minister Imbert has voiced his Government’s intention of ensuring that the new rapid rail system is elevated in some areas so as to avoid contact with the ground in areas that are prone to flooding.”
You joking right?! Nah, Mani, you kyah be serious.
By Mani on Nov 15, 2006 | Reply
Gyul, dat is Direct TV dish on shack, if there ever was one.
By Hottie Hottie on Nov 15, 2006 | Reply
And $1000 Tims on foot. But dat is true talk yuh know. Them spending $100 and ting easy easy in KFC when we prefer to pick up a lil bag a flour and some rice with that money.
By Hottie Hottie on Nov 15, 2006 | Reply
I travel in a taxi with two girls once. One ah dem was talking about a lil ten days she wuk and as soon as she get the money she going and buy this “real sweet” grey tims for $1000 she see to rock with the grey track suit she buy. You know if I get $1000 in my hand, me eh buying no boots I only wearing bout 3, 4 times. When concert coming them does go and buy new hair, new nail, new “kit” to go. We so does just dig up in de wardrobe and see what we eh rock in a lil while that we could wear.
By Vami on Nov 15, 2006 | Reply
i like the way imbert does think on tangents=0) misplaced priorities, oui! this is sad!
By boysieringo on Nov 15, 2006 | Reply
Haahaha oh gorm Mani i cyah laugh with all this pain but really again education is a funny thing. I used to wonder bout them direct tv dishes but when the leaders talk like this I really can’t expect too much from the poor man. There should be a list of all the tata blurted out by politicians and at the end of the year a live broadcast so we can ask them “Remember when you said….”
By Hottie Hottie on Nov 16, 2006 | Reply
LOL! Excellent idea boysieringo.
“Let’s go down the road together.” -Manning
“You cannot expect me to survive on a minister’s salary. I’m accustommed to more money than that. I guess I’ll have to sell one of my apartments or something.” -Brian Quai Tung (WHY this statement did not send off warnings bells in anyone else’s head I’ll never understand.)
By law on Nov 17, 2006 | Reply
Mani, sad but so true, Direct TV on ah shack. Talk about misplaced priorities. And dat Mr. Imbert, leh anybody write about his stupid statement in the letter section of the Guardian, and watch how fast he go post ah letter back to de Guardian justifying his logic.
By Mani on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Hottie, ah does be shame ah dem kinna people yuh know. Kuei Tung really say that in serious? Well I guess we know why he’s facing charges now.
Vami, you and me both.
Boysie, attitude reflects leadership…them thing does come from the top. How the healing going boy?
Law, yeah he will write fas, fas and say he didn’t mean it so. Is always the intention of the Government to fix the flooding,, blah, blah, blah.