Last night while lost in the hinterlands of south Trinidad we could not help but plot our journey using the lit up playing fields as landmarks.
We must have passed ten, all well lit, all full of people playing football or other games, community spirit and the extended family being given an expression space.
No, crime won’t be solved overnight, but one by one communities are being freed. People are being given their lives back. being given options. The other side of that are the MIC trade schools blossoming like good fruit all over the country, making a space for those who had no options before but a to hope for as ‘hustle&# 39; or a low end government job.
Now they are becoming skilled and qualified, given hope and opportunity.
Nurses too, the forever shortage of nurses is over as we now have a world class nursing academy that actually pays a stipend while you study.
Contrast and compare to the nonsense of SAUTT and blimps, government make work-schemes and PNM drama and you would understand why I, as a long time people’s activist, have no choice but to support this government.
IS it perfect? No, far from it, but it’s people, and anything that requires people to run it in this country going to have a bacchanal at some point.
But look at the sheer volume of deliverables. Forget the big things, look at these things that impact lives in the far flung corners of this country.
The Ministry of Sport is building a world class cycling arena and swimming pool. They are working on a car racing velodrome and a sports academy for those who prefer the athletic pursuits.
The country is being developed like a first world nation.
Soon your children will have choices no one else in the world has.
From pre-school to University is free, if you are not bettering yourself it is because you simply don’t want to, and even that, even vagrants and the homeless are suddenly being cared for. No things are not perfect but they are so much better than they ever were.
Four years of pressure, of hunger strikes and marches by a shrinking recalcitrant opposition desperate to deliver the treasury back to the South American drug lords who used this country as a laundry, fronted by some unscrupulous businessmen whose wealth makes a mockery of their earning capacity, yet the government has delivered and continues to deliver.
Forget ‘two-pulls&# 39; and nipple biting and ask yourself, if the economy is now on four quarters of galloping growth despite having to bail out two failed financial institutions to the tune of billions of dollars, if the Heritage and Stabilization Fund is at a record high, if inflation and unemployment are at all time lows, if crime is at its lowest ever, no not zero yet but heading in that direction, if food prices are down and delivery is up, if five times as many people are getting water 24/7 as was the case prior to 2010, surely it is clear that this government is the best government hat we have ever had.
The San Fernando hospital is now first world, the plans for the Port of Spain hospital promises to be so good they are talking about medical tourism.
Is Ish still walking free? Yes he is, but so is Calder Hart and Lawrence Duprey, so clearly there is something wrong with the system if Bernie Madoff and Allan Sandiford are both in jail for their crimes and perhaps we need to march for that.
This government has not hidden its mistakes, not covered up for its Reshmis and Section 34’s but faced them head on.
The last government was an exercise in subterfuge and theft.
The billion dollars stolen at Tarouba has never been accounted for and until it is tell Keith Rowley to bugger off. He sat in the Cabinet that allowed for not only that theft, but the 800 million stolen at Scarboriugh, the almost billion in overruns (another word for PNM theft) in NAPA and SAPA, hid from public scrutiny the actions of ministers and their financiers, spent billions on international conferences so their members could hug world leaders.
Things may not be perfect, but the 78 long outstanding union agreements that have been settled makes life better for some. There are massive systemic issues still in need of intervention, but this government has only been in power for four years.
They had to contend with the immobility of the public sector at times, the open politicising of the public sector workforce by cronies of the PNM and STILL they have been able to deliver like no other government in our history.
There is an estimated 250,000 people living below the poverty line in this country, the vast majority of them living in PNM die hard communities. Ask yourself why.
Ask yourself why the functionally illiterate, under educated, criminally inclined are usually people suffering under the PNM yoke trapped behind the lie that they care about them.
Go Beetham, go East Port of Spain, go Sea Lots, go Laventille and see the legacy of the PNM.
Go Goodwood Park too. Drive to the top of the hill. That is also PNM legacy. The disproportionate allocation of state resources to consolidate power.
DO NOT allow yourself to be fooled with the barking of the deranged quarter. LOOK at who makes up the opposition cabal. LOOK at the assemblage of hate, bitterness and failure. LOOK at Abdulah, Roget, Rowley, Warner, Waithe, Inshan, Ramesh. LOOK AT THEM.
Then look at your children, and imagine consigning them to having to be governed by that much failure, hatred and noise assembled as one group.
Don’t be fooled by marches to nowhere and banging sounds designed to install fear in a country that is getting better every day.
Phillip Edward Alexander Social & Political Activist
Why you should support the People’s Partnership
Last night while lost in the hinterlands of south Trinidad we could not help but plot our journey using the lit up playing fields as landmarks.
We must have passed ten, all well lit, all full of people playing football or other games, community spirit and the extended family being given an expression space.
No, crime won’t be solved overnight, but one by one communities are being freed. People are being given their lives back. being given options. The other side of that are the MIC trade schools blossoming like good fruit all over the country, making a space for those who had no options before but a to hope for as ‘hustle&# 39; or a low end government job.
Now they are becoming skilled and qualified, given hope and opportunity.
Nurses too, the forever shortage of nurses is over as we now have a world class nursing academy that actually pays a stipend while you study.
Contrast and compare to the nonsense of SAUTT and blimps, government make work-schemes and PNM drama and you would understand why I, as a long time people’s activist, have no choice but to support this government.
IS it perfect? No, far from it, but it’s people, and anything that requires people to run it in this country going to have a bacchanal at some point.
But look at the sheer volume of deliverables. Forget the big things, look at these things that impact lives in the far flung corners of this country.
The Ministry of Sport is building a world class cycling arena and swimming pool. They are working on a car racing velodrome and a sports academy for those who prefer the athletic pursuits.
The country is being developed like a first world nation.
Soon your children will have choices no one else in the world has.
From pre-school to University is free, if you are not bettering yourself it is because you simply don’t want to, and even that, even vagrants and the homeless are suddenly being cared for. No things are not perfect but they are so much better than they ever were.
Four years of pressure, of hunger strikes and marches by a shrinking recalcitrant opposition desperate to deliver the treasury back to the South American drug lords who used this country as a laundry, fronted by some unscrupulous businessmen whose wealth makes a mockery of their earning capacity, yet the government has delivered and continues to deliver.
Forget ‘two-pulls&# 39; and nipple biting and ask yourself, if the economy is now on four quarters of galloping growth despite having to bail out two failed financial institutions to the tune of billions of dollars, if the Heritage and Stabilization Fund is at a record high, if inflation and unemployment are at all time lows, if crime is at its lowest ever, no not zero yet but heading in that direction, if food prices are down and delivery is up, if five times as many people are getting water 24/7 as was the case prior to 2010, surely it is clear that this government is the best government hat we have ever had.
The San Fernando hospital is now first world, the plans for the Port of Spain hospital promises to be so good they are talking about medical tourism.
Is Ish still walking free? Yes he is, but so is Calder Hart and Lawrence Duprey, so clearly there is something wrong with the system if Bernie Madoff and Allan Sandiford are both in jail for their crimes and perhaps we need to march for that.
This government has not hidden its mistakes, not covered up for its Reshmis and Section 34’s but faced them head on.
The last government was an exercise in subterfuge and theft.
The billion dollars stolen at Tarouba has never been accounted for and until it is tell Keith Rowley to bugger off. He sat in the Cabinet that allowed for not only that theft, but the 800 million stolen at Scarboriugh, the almost billion in overruns (another word for PNM theft) in NAPA and SAPA, hid from public scrutiny the actions of ministers and their financiers, spent billions on international conferences so their members could hug world leaders.
Things may not be perfect, but the 78 long outstanding union agreements that have been settled makes life better for some. There are massive systemic issues still in need of intervention, but this government has only been in power for four years.
They had to contend with the immobility of the public sector at times, the open politicising of the public sector workforce by cronies of the PNM and STILL they have been able to deliver like no other government in our history.
There is an estimated 250,000 people living below the poverty line in this country, the vast majority of them living in PNM die hard communities. Ask yourself why.
Ask yourself why the functionally illiterate, under educated, criminally inclined are usually people suffering under the PNM yoke trapped behind the lie that they care about them.
Go Beetham, go East Port of Spain, go Sea Lots, go Laventille and see the legacy of the PNM.
Go Goodwood Park too. Drive to the top of the hill. That is also PNM legacy. The disproportionate allocation of state resources to consolidate power.
DO NOT allow yourself to be fooled with the barking of the deranged quarter. LOOK at who makes up the opposition cabal. LOOK at the assemblage of hate, bitterness and failure. LOOK at Abdulah, Roget, Rowley, Warner, Waithe, Inshan, Ramesh. LOOK AT THEM.
Then look at your children, and imagine consigning them to having to be governed by that much failure, hatred and noise assembled as one group.
Don’t be fooled by marches to nowhere and banging sounds designed to install fear in a country that is getting better every day.
Phillip Edward Alexander
Social & Political Activist
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