I understand your concern and your reason for writing this article but you fail to realise that it is not the “Trinidad and Tobago Police Service that should be blamed but the PNM who are the ones insighting certain officers to use their power to keep the voice of a people done.

There are hundreds of Police Officers who are on our side and then there is the elite group who is “taken care” of by the party in power so they have nothing to be afraid of, they are ordered by the Prime Minister and his Ministers.

I’m sorry I never heard Kurt Allen’s song, because I never got over him abandoning calypso for the soca bandwagon at the end of the 1990’s, and if he was as good as everyone suggests, he may be on his way to redemption.

I think that the real travesty took place in the semifinals. For example, how did that girl that sung the “Its all because of you” Akon song not make it to the finals?”

As far as Cro Cro’s diction goes, it has always been poor, and has become somewhat of a signature style, like Kitchener’s stammer. As for the song itself, nobody aint go know is as “trite” as Melody’s Peddlars. I personally thought it was a fitting return to some of the early roots of calypso. Whether it deserved to win or not is another issue altogether. The one song format has officially killed this competition.

The bottom line is that many of us went through similar phases (albeit performing different actions) when we were younger. Most of us grew out of it.

I think Mani is addressing the much more important point regarding children filming themselves and putting it up on the internet. Ignorance of the technology that surrounds us these days is bad enough, but when you’re ignorant of the technology that you put into the hands of your children, or that they interact with regularly…it gets downright dangerous.

Sometimes people need to be shocked into action. I see the video’s been taken down. Looks like the shock was sufficient.

The saddest aspect of this issue to me is that so many people like this young girl and the audience she caters for will never really explore the wonders of this internet thing.
Their whole experience will revolve around MySpace, bullsht vids on youtube, celebrity gossip and mp3s.

i guess some parents don’t realise just what their kiddies can get up to when they’re not around. my parents certainly can’t keep an eye on me 24/7 - and with the advancement of technology - some parents can’t keep up with all the webcams, facebook, you tube etc..

It isn’t exactly child porn, she kept everything on right? I stopped watching. It just is a reality of today’s youth - way too sexual before they are even ready!

11 years old you say, my daughter is 10 in Nov and still a baby in many ways, I’ve seen her dancing and it looked nothing like that at all but then again she is still all Disney Channel where they don’t exactly rock back then bend down low if ya know what I mean

my point? we create scandal out of young people expressing the same sexuality we surround them with, then punish them for it and peddle recordings of their adolescent mistakes a la Dana Alleyne like it’s pornography

what’s also interesting is that these are middle class kids with cameras and internet access; what goes on in poorer communities is not so stylish

if your daughter had made the film u wouldn’t want her further embarrassed. da’s d point

i done

suck meh soucouyant …. remember dat dotish song?

Devi, lord fadda indeed. Where the parents?

Bandwagonist, with almighty God as my witness I can’t remember how I happened upon this video. I could tell you for sure that I wasn’t looking for it. It’s one of those things where you are looking at one video and you end up watching 20….this was one of that twenty.

Soucouyant, what are you talking about four or five? I’m confused. So let me get this straight, if something happens at a school carnival fete that makes it ok? If you think so, then brother we were raised differently. And if you don’t see a scandal, why did it sicken you and why would you accuse me of being a child pornographer? I’m all for constructive criticism, but I’m not sure that you really know how you feel about this post.

As for me, I thought the larger point was that parents need to take note of what their children do on the internet especially with all the technology around and with all the access children have to the internet. It hits you like a kick in the teeth, doesn’t it? Good! And I did weigh the pros and cons of doing this post and I decided to go ahead with it with the hopes that that larger point would be taken - however graphic or non-graphic you deem that lesson to be.