10 hard questions for Trinidad and Tobago.

  1. When will we get serious?  The world is getting tougher and people who we normally turn to for help, need help themselves.  We must turn to ourselves.
  2. What do we want T&T to be?  What’s our mission statement?  Disney’s is to make people happy.  What’s ours?
  3. Whose responsible for T&T?  Is it our PM Kamla and her team?  Is it my Mom Aileen?  Is it the Unions?  Is it the Church?  Is it the Baliser boys and girls?  Or is it us/me?  Is it you?
  4. When will we all stop cheating?  (getting a contact to help us with our driver’s license, refusing to line up at the bus stop, driving on the shoulder or breaking a red light  and the list goes on forever)
  5. When will we recognise the power of the arts?  Our dance, our music, our film (flim) and all the stuff that makes us who we are. (50% local content on radio should be legislated)  The oil will run out eventually.
  6. When will we pay more attention to our aged and disabled?  Presently they both get the left overs, though the government has made life a bit easier for them in the recent past.  And how about some respect and recognition.
  7. When will we be ourselves?  Bikinis and beads belong to Brazil, why the self inflicted wound?
  8. When will we be able to speak up without fear of victimisation?  If you’re not for me, you’re against me.
  9. When will we become civil to each other again?
  10. When will we believe in ourselves?  Next year we turn 50.  Maybe we can make a start.

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2 Comments
  • Liliana Ragbir

    22 December, 2011, 7:59 am

    I think a major problem that T&T has is how difficult it is to do anything to help fix the situation. I know many young people who have great ideas on how to address the traffic woes, flooding problems, bureaucracy at government offices, etc. but where do you go to be heard? Is anyone in authority listening or even interested in suggestions? Even at a private company level, the boss is only interested in his/her own company and not the impact on the economy. I think we have become a selfish country and until we start caring more and stop complaining, then we’ll never become first world status. Every election the winning political party has a great manifesto but where is the accountability? Who is tracking that the promises made are kept? What about the integrity commission? It seems we have no one of integrity to even last as a member.  T&T has many blessings and brilliant people. We just need to harness our people resources instead of only oil & gas. That will soon run out and there must be a sustainable plan for the future. Is anyone out there listening?