Ajeet Sienarine:
LIFE IN PARADISE AKA TRINIDAD
You're born in a free health care institution. Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Education are free. Laptops are provided. Our telecommunication rates are some of the best even beating North America hands down. You can get an internship and job placement through the ministries. There is NHA for housing.If not, your parents/grandparents, probably has land that you will get or you live with them in their house till you move out/they die. Parents 'mind' their kids all throughout their life, all the while forgetting to teach them the value of financial independence.
With the work ethic, you can come in late, take however much days off, and not be worried about getting fired because your supervisor is doing worse anyway. We dont have a laissez faire approach, its more like a lazy fair approach. One job is enough, You dont need a 2nd job or a business and in some cases, one person employed is enough to fund the entire family. Oil/Energy sector funds the majority of the country's bills so we dont worry about anything or even diversification or a contingency plan. We allow foreign companies to rape T&T of our natural reserves and pack up and go when they're done. Our seas face the same consequence, with chinese companies raping our seas of our marine life and now some have packed up and left.
The government keeps its citizens happy and distracted by "dont worry..everything will be ok". 50% oil prices went down..while their pockets filling UP. None of the political parties care about you,it is all greed. its just about the lesser of the evils. We have thieves in the senate. Harrnarine isnt concerned about his own Hindu people, Duprey say he not coming to no court case, he out the country, Bhoe Tewarie was supposed to account for Clico n didnt bother, Anil Roberts & Lifesport, Reshmi fradulent resume as SIA, these people are never held accountable for anything, instead they are rewarded with high positions and power. They do what they can to get your votes and then when they're in power, they become dictators. They make decisions and spend taxpayer dollars as they wish disregarding the voice of the people. They are only 'concerned' about the citizens when the next election is coming up then they want to shake your hand and kiss your baby.
It's easy because we are distracted by the comess and bacchanal. The gossip about whats going on with celebrities and popular figures without bothering to take anyone to task for their actions, because..we've been grown to be lazy. Keyboard warriors at best, with no one having the courage or even have the effort to display a stance of solidarity. The only time we become interested in anything is when it affects us/our loved ones. By the time any movement gets some steam, some of the government influenced media downplays that while the populace is busy looking for what holiday is coming up next and where the lime will be. We lime friday/saturday and sunday when its time for church/temple/etc, we are too tired or hungover. We are more concerned about the 'spirits' and less concerned about the 'spiritual'
We have many issues plaguing the country: domestic violence, substance abuse, crime etc and a lot of this is taught at a young age. Kids think this is OK because this is what they are seeing and this is what their parents/family/peers do. You go to parties with songs with lewd crude lyrics, the outfits are getting smaller n smaller to the point where Amerindians had more cloth than your mas costumes that you paid 10,000 for. Lets not even talk about how people have been naked in fetes. We see people doing duttier wines than Tony Matterhorn couldve ever imagined. Chutney is all about rum & horn. Songs are telling our generation how to behave, how to dance...with vulgarities and cursing in them and it doesnt matter cuz we're having fun while at the same time making a worse world for our own children to grow up in. We spend more effort on our outer appearance than we do on our inner.
Looking good and being good are totally different. But that doesnt seem to matter, we can do what we want and it is ok, dont worry about it because we dont even take ourselves to task, looking for an excuse for our own actions. We have this 'excuse' that oh the people in certain crime hot-spot areas cant get a job so they resort to crime. That is an excuse, there are jobs but the fact is the majority of these individuals have no interest in hard work, its all about a 'quick buck'. Our crime level and the police corruption is so high that imagine, the public turns to private individuals instead. They have turned to Inshan & Ian Alleyne. Whenever something happens, you dont hear call the police anymore, its "Call Ian" or send this to Ian. there is no trust between the public and the police. This of course is not to say that there are not honest, decent, hard working members of the police force.
The fact is there are a lot that needs to be changed. and it all starts with us. Our mentality needs to change and we need to start by changing and bettering the lives in our circle and growing exponentially. Without this, T&T, as beautiful as it is, will be doomed.
Peace & Love-Ajeet
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written by someone who does not live here I suppose? or who still has resources to insulate them from the truth, like that free health care the murders, slaughters, maims and botches human bodies, infants and babies, daily.
Like the free education that makes zombies and brainless bureaucrats who watch the same problems and gaps in all areas of existence for fifty years or more untouched.
Like the internship and job placements like cepep, urp, youth programs that open and close at will, that train without permanent jobs, and that leaves the truly competent and trained without work for years, six and up, or has those who take these programs on a circulating ten days , three years, or as your party gets elected, whichever, but no true meritocracy or reward for tru training' a system that rewards frauds more than those who really worked to develop competence
the nha housing for outside women, family and friends to make more money and rent to the needy public, meanwhile the numbers of those squatting, young and old professionals living in their parents homes, or menial workers living in tenement yards, along the east west corridor in 2016 is not a historic artifact but truth
the financial independence you talk about relates to squatting on land, getting agriculture land and eventually building a big macco house on it or compound for the clan, or being a contractor to the state enterprise of government, building them shitty schools, buildings, and hospitals for millions and billions of dollars and being part of a construction mafia that every time a new govt comes in they squeal debt, monies owed and to grind up the mill again to give them work
not many people in trinidad NOT on a five year plan and cycle of government largesse and political patronage
foreign companies, chinese government, indian uncopp or indian syrian pnm...all raid the country and the treasury. each cycle to break the record of the previous. check it. it is the same tenet that has workers coming in late and leaving early and not working, for a paycheck. all forms of raiding and marauding
i started writing because this piece is predicated and repeats so many fallacies here it is amazing.
" there are jobs but the fact is the majority of these individuals have no interest in hard work, its all about a 'quick buck'. "
there are no damn jobs. if there were the govt would not have so many schemes to 'employ; people. and in case you do not know..there are a lot of exceptionally trained trinidadians in this country unemployed, and not conferred by any fraudulent degree mills in the country. there arent even sufficient employment for the people currently working, else they would not have so many workers, working for so little money across up and down all sectors, fields and areas.
and why do you focus on the lower rungs who on a quick buck. ? why not the conglomerates who import everything and mark it up to 100% and over? from food to cars, to clothes?
everybody is on a quick buck but somehow only a certain class and color of people are described and maligned. what was the last uncpp govt about? not a quick buck for empires?
" Our crime level and the police corruption is so high that imagine,"
even the police, political parties,politicians, governance, doctors for health and lawyers for justice are all about quick bucks, and building of empires and the cost and loss to the regular citizen is exacted
stop cutting and dicing
Stop proliferating lies that are national myths and delusions
All of this correction to agree with you. We need to be and bring about change, each one of us, and it starts with the end of lies and masques, masquerades and depictions that are the furthest from the truth
We are not the happiest country we are the most traumatized, debilitated, unconscious , asleep and powerless, and our gaiety is our coping mechanism that is nothing but self medication: sex, alcohol, the lime that never ends, carnival, sabotage, undermining and ethnic battling.
wow. even I am tired/ cause even when you survive you realize it is without any battlements to go on, move on, or with anything to build, so you slip into that comatose culture, again, of just drink, eat, distraction, sex, bobol, voyeurism to maintain.
whew. wow!
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