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Gladiator wrote:j.o.e wrote:I love how ppl like to show the 1% success as the failure of the govt. Here’s news for you. They will do well either way because they are builders of business and capital. You think they’re gonna suffer if/when govt changes? Of Gov’t has you suffering I have some news for you. It’s probably your fault more than theirs
Wow, you must live under a rock. That 1% community not only has all the money and business but an unfair advantage over everyone else for the past 3-4 decades. How many years they rented empty buildings to the Govt and collected millions and still continue to do so, how many acres of govt land they get to lease for $100 to build empires to rake in more money, how many govt contracts they get to supply vehicles and office supplies, how many tax concessions they alone get to bring in their garbage to offload on the public?
Give a black man a chance and he might be able to get something too and make an honest dollar.
1% grandparents where the hard working folk just after WW2 when they came. They were the ones that really worked hard selling cloths for door to door. They sold cloths all over trini and even on credit. They just got big selling door to door and eventually buying stores.Rovin wrote:1% started from d beginning probably even b4 T&T got independence & republic
though is only since d anthony bourdain show we all started using d term 1% alot .....
zoom rader wrote:1% grandparents where the hard working folk just after WW2 when they came. They were the ones that really worked hard selling cloths for door to door. They sold cloths all over trini and even on credit. They just got big selling door to door and eventually buying stores.Rovin wrote:1% started from d beginning probably even b4 T&T got independence & republic
though is only since d anthony bourdain show we all started using d term 1% alot .....
During this time they gambled hard with known gansters of thar era like Boysie Singh and other mobsters. They were hustling these gansters and milking them . They was always dealing with the underworld. Read the book the murders of Boysie Singh, there is a chapter on this explaining how they stated to get big.
Their offsprings just expanded their cloth bussiness and grew in the 1960s. They were always dealing in shady businesses and kept a very low profiled.
That's how they all stated out.
Anyone who thinks they are respectable and honest are really stupid clowns.
Zetski wrote:zoom rader wrote:1% grandparents where the hard working folk just after WW2 when they came. They were the ones that really worked hard selling cloths for door to door. They sold cloths all over trini and even on credit. They just got big selling door to door and eventually buying stores.Rovin wrote:1% started from d beginning probably even b4 T&T got independence & republic
though is only since d anthony bourdain show we all started using d term 1% alot .....
During this time they gambled hard with known gansters of thar era like Boysie Singh and other mobsters. They were hustling these gansters and milking them . They was always dealing with the underworld. Read the book the murders of Boysie Singh, there is a chapter on this explaining how they stated to get big.
Their offsprings just expanded their cloth bussiness and grew in the 1960s. They were always dealing in shady businesses and kept a very low profiled.
That's how they all stated out.
Anyone who thinks they are respectable and honest are really stupid clowns.
the ones that started in the 60's were the ones that brought them to this high position they in right now... their offspring (present) dont know what the hell they are doing... they inherited the business so they just lackadaisical
not saying all offspring that took over are not carrying the torch but i know a good few of them that lazy, travelling 10 times for the year, barely around and just letting others run their business to the ground
Clinging to a straw in a nation on the brink
THE EDITOR: Immersed as a citizen of this nation “in a sea of troubles,” I feel like a drowning man clinging to a straw in finding a small measure of comfort in three recent developments: the dispelling of the rumour that the funeral service of a recognised gangster would be held in a place of learning, that the DPP would revisit the AV case of the allegedly abused journalist and the coming together of Government and Opposition to pass the bail bill.
The first, if brought to reality, would have wreaked of the ultimate insensitivity to the contradiction involved in that happening and the inevitable negative reaction ensuing, the avoidance of which is to the credit of the Education Ministry.
Secondly , the return to the AV case puts to bed, at least momentarily, that loss of faith in the justice system which seemed to have set aside due process in this instance.
Thirdly, the unity on the bail bill of perennially warring factions in a just national cause of mitigating a runaway crime situation which was likely to escalate further, the nation being on the brink of anarchy, is reason for some small celebration.
Finding some comfort in these seemingly insignificant events is a measure of my yearning for something to rally around, a small step to the way forward. For of late I had put a halt to my letters to the editor, for the simple reason that continuing in that vein seemed such an exercise in futility since the ethical, moral and professional standards which often underpin my commentary and the logic and good sense I often appeal to, evidently continue to blow idly in the wind.
For example, the continuing war between the leadership and the judiciary which is escalating by the hour shows no awareness on both sides of the negative effect such can have on the effective administration of justice and the public confidence in same.
Again the singling out of one ethnic group in terms of its under-achievement as against the perceived government indifference to the plight of another now in the throes of mourning for their dead at the hand of criminals, can only exacerbate racial tensions, as the near confrontational stance between these two groups on the waterfront amply demonstrates.
And what can be said about the crime? The plaintive cry of a father from Carli Bay that “they coulda tie dey hand and let them go…why did dey have to kill dem so?” tells of man’s inhumanity to man in this country, how we have become “monsters of the deep,” in the words of Lear in that great play by Shakespeare on the unnatural “ingratitude of his daughters,” with the slaughter of the helpless, handicapped, granny of Cachipe, Moruga, speaking no less.
And I can go on and on and on…But the point is clear.
We are a nation on the brink of anarchy, which is why these three small incidents are important to me for it gives me hope that those who control our lives, that despite everything, they have the capacity to think critically of the consequences of what they say and do, and possess the humanity that attends it.
We are ever aware, however, of the psychology of power, and that despite the best of intentions, how it can “corrupt,” and often “absolutely” so.
Even as I write and draw sustenance from the Opposition/Government unity on the bail bill, already a government official, according to a news item, instead of building on that unity, is virtually scoffing at that unity, suggesting that the Opposition voted for the bill because of “public” pressure. The road is indeed long.
Perhaps I am a drowning man clinging to a straw but as tenuous as this is, I still seem to have much more than the fishermen of Carli Bay, forced to drown in the deep ocean without even a straw to hold onto.
DR ERROL N BENJAMIN
via e-mail
DTAC wrote:Yup. Warrant executed. Officers still on scene. Misappropriating of Funds.
Drugs - > $$$$ - > influenceeliteauto wrote:Gladiator wrote:j.o.e wrote:I love how ppl like to show the 1% success as the failure of the govt. Here’s news for you. They will do well either way because they are builders of business and capital. You think they’re gonna suffer if/when govt changes? Of Gov’t has you suffering I have some news for you. It’s probably your fault more than theirs
Wow, you must live under a rock. That 1% community not only has all the money and business but an unfair advantage over everyone else for the past 3-4 decades. How many years they rented empty buildings to the Govt and collected millions and still continue to do so, how many acres of govt land they get to lease for $100 to build empires to rake in more money, how many govt contracts they get to supply vehicles and office supplies, how many tax concessions they alone get to bring in their garbage to offload on the public?
Give a black man a chance and he might be able to get something too and make an honest dollar.
How did they become so influential?
hydroep wrote:Clinging to a straw in a nation on the brink
THE EDITOR: Immersed as a citizen of this nation “in a sea of troubles,” I feel like a drowning man clinging to a straw in finding a small measure of comfort in three recent developments: the dispelling of the rumour that the funeral service of a recognised gangster would be held in a place of learning, that the DPP would revisit the AV case of the allegedly abused journalist and the coming together of Government and Opposition to pass the bail bill.
The first, if brought to reality, would have wreaked of the ultimate insensitivity to the contradiction involved in that happening and the inevitable negative reaction ensuing, the avoidance of which is to the credit of the Education Ministry.
Secondly , the return to the AV case puts to bed, at least momentarily, that loss of faith in the justice system which seemed to have set aside due process in this instance.
Thirdly, the unity on the bail bill of perennially warring factions in a just national cause of mitigating a runaway crime situation which was likely to escalate further, the nation being on the brink of anarchy, is reason for some small celebration.
Finding some comfort in these seemingly insignificant events is a measure of my yearning for something to rally around, a small step to the way forward. For of late I had put a halt to my letters to the editor, for the simple reason that continuing in that vein seemed such an exercise in futility since the ethical, moral and professional standards which often underpin my commentary and the logic and good sense I often appeal to, evidently continue to blow idly in the wind.
For example, the continuing war between the leadership and the judiciary which is escalating by the hour shows no awareness on both sides of the negative effect such can have on the effective administration of justice and the public confidence in same.
Again the singling out of one ethnic group in terms of its under-achievement as against the perceived government indifference to the plight of another now in the throes of mourning for their dead at the hand of criminals, can only exacerbate racial tensions, as the near confrontational stance between these two groups on the waterfront amply demonstrates.
And what can be said about the crime? The plaintive cry of a father from Carli Bay that “they coulda tie dey hand and let them go…why did dey have to kill dem so?” tells of man’s inhumanity to man in this country, how we have become “monsters of the deep,” in the words of Lear in that great play by Shakespeare on the unnatural “ingratitude of his daughters,” with the slaughter of the helpless, handicapped, granny of Cachipe, Moruga, speaking no less.
And I can go on and on and on…But the point is clear.
We are a nation on the brink of anarchy, which is why these three small incidents are important to me for it gives me hope that those who control our lives, that despite everything, they have the capacity to think critically of the consequences of what they say and do, and possess the humanity that attends it.
We are ever aware, however, of the psychology of power, and that despite the best of intentions, how it can “corrupt,” and often “absolutely” so.
Even as I write and draw sustenance from the Opposition/Government unity on the bail bill, already a government official, according to a news item, instead of building on that unity, is virtually scoffing at that unity, suggesting that the Opposition voted for the bill because of “public” pressure. The road is indeed long.
Perhaps I am a drowning man clinging to a straw but as tenuous as this is, I still seem to have much more than the fishermen of Carli Bay, forced to drown in the deep ocean without even a straw to hold onto.
DR ERROL N BENJAMIN
via e-mail
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/08/06/clinging-to-a-straw-in-a-nation-on-the-brink/
zoom rader wrote:DTAC wrote:Yup. Warrant executed. Officers still on scene. Misappropriating of Funds.
Stupes, nothing will come out of this .
Mere window dressing
This is to fool the pnm publicZetski wrote:zoom rader wrote:DTAC wrote:Yup. Warrant executed. Officers still on scene. Misappropriating of Funds.
Stupes, nothing will come out of this .
Mere window dressing
only thing will come out of this is another cabinet switcheroo
These people are the reason why we are a chit hole.shake d livin wake d dead wrote:all them seats in the west will never change color....NEVER....all they see is red....
zoom rader wrote:These people are the reason why we are a chit hole.shake d livin wake d dead wrote:all them seats in the west will never change color....NEVER....all they see is red....
sMASH wrote:zoom rader wrote:These people are the reason why we are a chit hole.shake d livin wake d dead wrote:all them seats in the west will never change color....NEVER....all they see is red....
are they presented with viable alternatives?
In the Panday era we was on the right track.sMASH wrote:zoom rader wrote:These people are the reason why we are a chit hole.shake d livin wake d dead wrote:all them seats in the west will never change color....NEVER....all they see is red....
are they presented with viable alternatives?
sMASH wrote:if they dont see a viable that can help them improve, then might as well stick to what they know. better the devil that u know.
i say, the other parties need to do more to make inroads.
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