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Page 6 ISSUE 146 Friday 4th MARCH, 2016 TOWN TALKING IMPORTED FOOD PRICES HAVE GONE SKY HIGH Talk in Town is how the prices of imported food have gone sky high since the PNM government came into power. But the importers are saying they are not to blame since shipping freight has gone up and they are also forced to buy US dollars on the black market to pay their creditors. Consumers say the price of a bottle of Sunflower oil which previously cost $18. 40 has gone up to $22.95, the price of Olive Oil has increased by $4 (small bottle), Soyabean Oil, Vegetable Oil, smoke herring, sardine, saltfish, butter, and other foodstuff have increased by leaps. People are saying when Finance Minister Colm Imbert removes NO MORE RIDE IN PM1 FOR PRAKASH Talk in Town is how Prakash Ramadhar had no choice but to step down as political leader of the COP because under him the party would never again win a single seat in either Local Government Election or General Election. People are saying that Prakash was holding on to the dress tail of Kamla Persad-Bissessar when she was prime minister, but now he sees there is no chance of Kamla coming back as prime minister, he decided to “duck” out from the leadership post. They say that Prakash has now more items from the zero-rated Vat list it go be real hardship for the poor. One supermarket owner said that some distributors have increased their prices by 2.5 percent, to make up for the reduction of the 15 percent VAT to 12.5 percent. Talk is that most of the supermarkets in Arima have increased food prices by as much as 25 percent. There are no price tags on some items so consumers have to wait until they reach the cashier to know the prices. Consumers are calling on the government to implement a Prices Council to help monitor rising food prices. People are wondering where realized that he would never be able to act as prime minister again, ride in PM1, sleep on the prime minister’s bed and take his family to the Zoo in PM1- except in another reincarnation. People are saying that Prakash should also resign the UNC St Augustine seat he won in last year’s general election and go back up as a COP candidate in a by-election and see if he can win back that seat. Some people say he could do like Jack Warner, who resigned his Chaguanas West UNC seat and went back to the electorate under a new party name (ILP) and won. Finance Minister COLM IMBERT they can get the prices of the list of food items that the Ministry of Trade and Industry published last week because most of the Supermarkets don’t carry those prices. PRAKASH RAMADHAR FORMER UNC MINISTER SEALED $3 MILLION HOUSE DEAL IN CANADA! Talk in Town is how a former UNC Minister has bought a house in Ontario, Canada for TT$3 million cash. There are whispers that the deal was being negotiated before the general election but was sealed after his party failed to return to power. Some of his close friends are saying the house was not bought in his name but that of a woman who is his close friend. People are saying the former minister’s name is not listed as the new owner. The house was previously owned by a Trinidadian-born family living in Canada. GOT NEWS, VIEWS OR ADS TO SEND... CALL SUNSHINE at: 692-6781/6782 Fax: 692-6940 | Email: info@sunshinett.com UNC ATTORNEY NOT SUPPORTING HIS SON FINANCIALLY Talk making the rounds is how a UNC millionaire attorney is not supporting his Indian-born wife and son and appears to have abandoned his family for a sexy host of an Early Morning television show. People are saying that the wife is saddened how he has dumped her since she had gone against the wishes of her parents who were nationals of India, living in Barbados and got married to him. Talk is that she met him in Barbados while he was studying law before coming to Trinidad to settle down. People in Town are saying that probably Hema Ramkissoon, who is close to the attor- HEMA RAMKISSOON ney could probably get him to financially support his son. Even former AG Anand Ramlogan who is the attorney’s close friend could advise him to support his family. PM ROWLEY SHOULD NOT DESCRIBE CHILDREN AS ‘MONSTERS’ People in Town are saying the monster children PM Dr Keith Rowley are talking about in the schools are not “baby monsters”- they and their parents were not born overnight. Some angry people are calling them PNM “monsters’ because these teenage children grew up and were educated under the PNM. Some parents are vexed with the PM for calling their children monsters. They remember last year he had described some bad behave school girls as hyenas in the African jungle. Dr Rowley said parents are breeding monsters and sending them to the teachers in the wake of the threat of a gun attack at People in Town are asking how come there are over 50 percent vacancies in the primary school system especially in Catholic schools which have not been filled for months. Town is saying that though the various denominational boards have been recommending teachers to fill the vacancies there is an HR Manager at the Ministry of Education who is stonewalling the appointments. People are wondering if, consistent with Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s description of some of our school children, this HR Manager wants to contribute to the development of “monsters” PM Dr. KEITH ROWLEY the Chaguanas North Secondary school. People are hoping that the PM does not put his foot in his mouth like former Port of Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee. WHY VACANCIES IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ARE NOT FILLED? Education Minister ANTHONY GARCIA in the society by maintaining the severe teacher shortage in the primary schools. They are calling on Education Minister Anthony Garcia to look into the matter.
ISSUE 146 Friday 4th MARCH, 2016 EDITORIAL By Publisher JACK WARNER What hypocrisy! For the past 10 years 300 women have been killed at the hands of domestic violence abuse but one Japanese woman found murdered in the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain and all of a sudden the nation is in pain. For the past 10 years 300 women lost their lives at the hands of men they loved yet this gender movement never thought it necessary to begin the conversation about women abuse in this country but a high coloured Japanese woman dies and all of a sudden abuse of women becomes an item of importance on their agenda. I argued with many who felt the big hullabaloo about Tim Kee’s statement had nothing to do with what Tim Kee said. I rejected the notion that the call for him to go was based on the colour of the woman’s skin and discarded the idea that had it been a woman of African or East Indian decent, Tim Kee’s misplaced statement would not have received the national attention that it did. Many PNM activists who wanted Tim Kee to stay told me that it was a status thing and Tim Kee was being used as a scapegoat. I have concluded that maybe these PNM activists are right because so far the Mayor of Point Fortin, His Worship Clyde Paul whose statement was just as bad or even worse than Tim Kee’s has not to date even been given a slap on the wrist for the comments that he made. Womantra has not even picketed his office or held one public meeting calling for him to go but that is nature of this country. This gender thing is nothing more than hypocrisy and the deaths of our people have no significance and will only be used as statistics when people of importance to the movement dies. Young little black girls go missing it seems daily in this country and little VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WHERE WOMANTRA FAILS! - They pick their fights only when it suits their purpose Indian girls disappear from their homes almost weekly and not a drum has ever been heard from these feminist groups. The human trafficking of young women and girls has reached its highest point and we have not heard a word from Womantra. Where is their voice? Where is their concern for our local boys and girls? But if a little white European or American young woman goes missing in this country all of a sudden you will hear the statistics of how many have gone missing over the past 10 years and the time has come for us to start a conversation on the matter. But Womantra and these feminist groups are no different from the general behaviour of those with power. Year after year citizens are murdered and the police casually dismisses a large portion of these murders as gang related. The detection rate is at an all time low and of course it gives to criminals the confidence to continue the killing because the chances of them being caught are virtually zero. But in Tobago, one white man dies and a high-powered team of officers descends on the island and within days a suspect is apprehended. It is no wonder the movement “Black Lives matter” has been formed in the United States. Maybe we need a parallel movement that says “Citizens’ Lives Matter” because unless you are a tourist or a national with colour, abuse against you will not be taken seriously. For a while now videos have been posted on Facebook showing the increasing violence of schoolgirls where the traffic flow is female to female. How has Womantra contributed to reduce this phenomenon? The general public does not even know. For a while now, we have been hearing stories about the Bella Mafia, gangs run by women and yet not a statement by the feminist groups to seek to suppress such violence among women. Their only concern is when the violence traffic flow is male to female. Over the past 10 years, close to 4000 young men and boys have been murdered and yet the gender movement has not viewed this phenomenon to necessitate the need for us to have a conversation. Today we are ranked as the 10th most violent country in the world and not even a boo has been heard from these feminist groups Maybe we all should return to our mother’s womb to be reborn Japanese for us to have any value in our society. This angers me to the quick. What I see and what I hear is more than an irritation. I see it everyday. Every time one of our sons dies, children are left fatherless. Every time one of our sons is murdered mothers are left without support. There is no direct initiative to assist the survivors and what pasts for assistance is located in so much bureaucracy that the possibility exists that these children will become mature Womantra participants protested for the resignation of former Mayor RAYMOND TIM KEE Former POS Mayor RAYMOND TIM KEE before approval for assistance is even provided. But does Womantra care? These seem as just statistics and nothing more for the Unit for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies. As I see it, these feminist groups are nothing more than opportunistic organizations. They pick their fights only when it suits their purpose and when they can attract international sponsors to fund their cause or give them tickets to traipse to the next international seminar. But to fight at the frontline for both genders is most certainly not their agenda. I would not apologize for the Sunshine’s attack on Raymond Tim Kee neither for the call it made for him to go. I believe his statement was out of order and placed women at risk and characterized men as weak and out of control in our modern society. I also hold the firm view that Clyde Paul should exit his office because he is no different from Tim Kee and people who are divisive in society should never hold the reins of leadership.And mind you Clyde Paul is my friend and we have shared many a beverage together but what is wrong is wrong. To use a term borrowed from young people, I do Point Fortin Mayor CLYDE PAUL Page 7 believe that these feminist groups are fake that they do not seek the interest of natives. They see citizens as irrelevant to their discourse and forgive me if I am wrong because that is the only way I can interpret their silence. Our men and women need authentic voices in the gender movement because no one is listening to these bourgeoisie women or taking them seriously.
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