Failures, Layers and Twists of Stagnant and Dying Caribbean Life

Love how life in this country slams together situations to reveal so many layers of our twisted ironic selves.

 Wake up to hear some man whose name I have yet to Professor Colin Palmer talking on The Challenges of Caribbean Leadership, Where all on the landscape are bereft of vision, give no inspiration. They come to the platform with no idea of how and what the Caribbean can be. And in fact, says, “One of the chief qualifications of leadership is mediocrity and other unseemly kinds of things” And few of them, the current leaders command our respect. And he is not excluding any Prime Minister to this assessment> But CNMG stops his informative talk to listen to Gypsy Peters on the passing of Wayne Berkeley at 70. And I think of what I grow up knowing: To let the dead bury the dead. And what is the point of stopping what is taking us forward, to what has stopped?

Offering condolences to the family, friends, and culture of Wayne Berkeley, I am struck that at 70, the landscape and families are being robbed of grandfathers. Seventy is too young to die. Though everyone thinks they have lived if they reach to seventy; to me that is a life cut short of its full cycle. At seventy, one should be laying down their work life and building a life of collection, reflection, leisure and giving training and support to the young ones and the grand children around them. At seventy, is the last stage of life, where one finally trains others, usually, your sex, mainly, of what you know and learned of life living. Seventy should be a bridge to becoming an old man, not a door to death/ It is to be a bulwark to the grown men about them to lead and guide and hold their hand through the challenges of adulthood. But no, we are absent those opportunities; they go up in smoke.  There are no adults, just grown people. There are no parents just breeders. There are no mothers just litter bearers and guardians. There are no fathers, Well, There are No Fathers. There are no men, only males. And we see here, how at Seventy, there are no grandfathers, only Death.

Professor Colin A. Palmer is speaking at the Central Bank , needs to be watched by all and sundry in this country.  And the show ends without a final announcement of date and WHEN he will be appearing The wonderful grateful thing is that it will be televised, “live” Paul Richards said… Write and ask Jessie May Ventour and Paul Richards WHEN!! We need to watch him> And I will try to get his speech to post.

central bank auditorium
Saturday June 11, 2010 WHAT TIME>??
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Afterthought/PostInformation

and if we are stagnant and dying now, no vision and leadership currently, where are we going with news and reports like this? >

First Up

Prof Jean-Claude Mbanya: “We have 175,000 people in T&T living with diabetes. More than one-tenth of the adult population in T&T has diabetes. Too many of our children are obese and being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes before they are 20 years old, which means they may have heart attacks and blindness among other issues by the time they are 40.”

Prof Jean-Claude Mbanya, President, International Diabetes Association