The situation with the government is at an all time boiling over point. Today the Maxi taxi association has made good on their promise to strike - or as they termed it, rest and reflect on the status of their jobs. What they are asking for to me, is so basic...better working conditions. A more comprehensive way to settle their drivers permits as commercial drivers....come on, couldn't the Minister of Transport met with them over the weekend to resolve these things? Instead what the nation saw was our Prime Minister enjoyed reenacting Indian Arrival Day by going to a nearby river with a few unnamed people for a photo op, where she and everyone else were waving the Indian flag. She then let it be known....our Prime Minister does not do taped or real addresses to the nation this time around. She let it be known that she plans to change the indigenous name of our airport to that of our first Indian Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday.
I have not been writing much about what is going on in Trinidad and Tobago because it is a blow by blow, hour by hour situation here. Something is happening all the time! I cannot keep up and I am concerned about my own mental state in all of this, absorbing the foolishness we deal with!
It is so weird! She won the unexpected election. She had campaigned for 'all of the people of the island.' She claimed to love all the citizens and would be fair and honest, supportive and listen to our needs.
None of this has happened.
The maxi-taxi association plan to protest for two more days and they say that they may do even more if the minister does not meet with them and resolve their issues. Then on Friday, the group of people who have stepped aside for a moment for this protest, was also dealing with a 19 days for nineteen bullets....the unlawful killing of Joshua Samaroo. His common law wife, Kaia Sealy who was paralyzed because of the police shooting into their vehicle while Joshua had surrendered by placing his arms outside of the car and raised...she was accused of manslaughter. This enraged the public to activate a response.
Then before that, a little two year old in Tobago was murdered and we still have no idea what happened to his body. People want answers for that.
Nine influencers found lucrative jobs with no real resumes at our Water and Sewerage Authority.
The Housing Development Corporation (HDC) is involved in a questionable procurement plan where the government is telling the nation that two contracts, both billion dollar ones, do not require state funds. However it is state lands. Why give state lands to multi-million dollar developers?
I Show Speed an international Blogger came to Trinidad on a worldwide Caribbean tour and after he left, the Minister of Tourism did an AI poster acting as though he had invited him to the island.
The Ministry of Health may be facing a small pox and tuberculosis outbreak! But no one is saying anything to the public.
The Minister of Finance is never available to speak about still outstanding money's owed to many public servants.
The Minister of National Security is blaze about anything he must answer when the desperate media try to catch them going into parliament. This includes blowing into a plastic bag and walking off.
When the television stations and radio stations tell us the daily news, no minister is ever able to be reached. No one answers the questions that are asked!
The Minister of Energy keeps telling us that the government shall be meeting with Venezuela's interim?! President, Delcy Rodriguez - this after the Prime Minister went out of her way to insult Ms Rodriguez many very public times. The Prime Minister also has rubbished CARICOM, the body that happily accepts a large quantity of our local products and keeps our economy in the non oil sector, stable.
That's what I can remember off the top of my head for today.
It has been a lot and they have only been in power for one year and a few days!
