PNM R.I.P. (Nothing left to say)

Almost daily when I look around at the death and destruction being wrought in this country caused by the greed of a few I think of packing up my family and leaving these shores.

What was done to this nation and by extension a large section of its people by the cruel and unfeeling PNM administrations that had domination over them for so long is nothing short of organized crime and somebody should be made to pay.

An estimated one hundred and fifty thousand people live lives of utter desperation in this land of plenty.

Confined to a small geographical area, their problems should realistically be no one else's problems, but their reaction to their condition is the fuel of violent crime which is being felt island wide and that is what makes their condition everyone's problem.

There is no escaping the twinning of poverty and crime, and the pauperizing of a sector of society and the creation of a social underclass either by accident or design is the only real issue to be dealt with and, if dealt with effectively would return this country to paradise in quick time.

We must not bury our heads in the sand on this one and I believe that the only activism worth fighting now is the plight of our black brothers and sisters in the ghetto, and the expenditure of effort and treasure to raise their condition and their surroundings to something like acceptable standards for a (hopeful) first world nation.

I have made a suggestion to this Government that the name of Beetham Gardens should be changed to PNM Gardens, the name of Laventille to Balisier Park and Morvant to Manning Heights so that the people of this nation in general and those in those depressed and squalid areas in particular will never forget on whose watch and through whose dereliction their lot in life was enshrined.

Politics in this country is a dirty and mind numbing business, and so much of the social ills that plague our nation have such deep political roots that to change anything one has to change the way we express ourselves politically. 

To resolve a crisis one must first confront it.

I have been told of a PNM plot afoot to destabilize the country and make it ungovernable using mass labor unrest and racial conflict and if this is true it is unforgivable to the extreme and must be recognized for what it is and resisted nationally.

We had hoped that with his (Dr. Rowley's) ascension to power in the PNM that he would have brought reason to bear and would have begun the process of identifying the culprits who misused their opportunity at the helm to enrich themselves at the people's expense, but this does not appear to be happening.

I have also been told that he is besieged within the Party and is under constant challenge from all sides making such a position untenable; if this is indeed the case then internal change is impossible and the people of this country need to turn away from the PNM and discard it as political history.

We the people of Trinidad & Tobago need to mount a rescue operation for the people in the at risk communities and save them from the destitution imposed on them to keep them subservient and enslaved in total poverty and squalor.

There should be none of us living below the poverty line and we the people have the power to make it so.

Racism should be given no quarter in our plural and multi-ethnic society, and the Government is advised against being drawn into a war of words that can help nothing or no one, save and except for the disingenuous few and needs to be seen for what it is, the last gasps of a dying 'once great' political Party.