RENTAL DEAL!

Page 10 ISSUE 147 Friday 11th MARCH, 2016
DIS COUNTRY ‘GORN THRU
with dem new Vat prices. Dey
not bringing down dey prices to
12.5 percent whey ‘shortman’ say
should be d new VAT prices”.
Barman: “D last time allyuh
come here ah tell allyuh we selling
at d same ole price and if allyuh
Rum shop POLITICS
When the police cannot
hold white collar
criminals, cannot
olve the gruesome murders,
annot catch the “big” fishes in
he lucrative drug trade - only
he “sardines”-, you know this
ountry is falling apart.
Past and present governments
re unable to stop the guns and
rugs from entering the country
hrough the porous borders, when
here are prisoners languishing in
ail for “donkey” years and are
nable to get a speedy trial, when
he Judiciary is unable to clear the
acklog of mounting cases, when
here are hundreds of killers roamng
the streets for years and the
olice cannot find them and when
e hear there are “monsters” in
he school, people are saying dis
ountry gone thru.
There was hope that this new
NM government under Dr Keith
owley could fix some of the
roblems but so far everything apears
to be at a standstill after six
onths in office.
The Prime Minister has given
he Minister of National Security
etired Brigadier Edmund Dillon, a
etired senior police officer Glena
Jennings-Smith and “Moses” to
elp in the fight against crime, but
ome have argued he was just usng
“spent shells” since they have
o proven track record to stop the
awlessness in the society.
People are asking when last a
rug kingpin has been jailed in this
ountry, when last any high-rankng
people in this country have
een charged with white-collar
rime?
The police have been probing
llegations of corruption in the
ast PP government for more than
year now but so far no arrests
ave been made to date.
When you hear the Finance
ntelligence Unit (FIU) reportng
about millions of suspicious
oney laundering transactions
nd dollars going from T&T to terorists,
then this country is in real
rouble.
These are some of the issues
unpat, Mukesh, Baboolal, Spaner,
Rasta, and Piper were discussng
last week when they went to
heir usual “watering hole” at
awk and Spit bar.
Gunpat: “Barman whey is
ll dis confusion bout businessen
trying to dig out people eyes
find ah cheaper bar allyuh can go
dey and spend allyuh money. Nobody
telling allyuh to buy here”.
Rasta: “Like yuh eat roast pepper
dis morning. How yuh hot so.
If yuh wife giving trouble stay
home and macco she to see if yuh
getting horn”.
Gunpat: “Barman yuh talking
like some ah dem ignorant PNM
politician. Yuh ent hear how d
mosquito minister does talk arrogant.
Like d mosquito sucking out
all he blood dat is whey he does
get hot under the collar when the
media asking him questions. Don’t
talk bout d short man”.
Barman: “Just tell me whey allyuh
want because ah ent have no
time to argue with allyuh. Ah does
stay away from argument because
ah don’t want to drink no jail soup
with split peas and pig tail”.
Rasta: “How yuh know dey
does serve dat in jail. Like you
spend ah few days inside. Like yuh
get lock up for child maintenance
because ah can’t see yuh as a tief
or big time criminal”.
Barman: “Ask yuh mudder and
she go tell yuh. Ah done with dis
dotish talk. Ah going an bring yuh
order and pay right away because
when alluyh done drunk allyuh go
say ah didn’t order dis and dat and
how d bill so much. Ah ent no tief,
nah”.
Spanner: “Whey allyuh think
going on in dis country. Like we
cant’get ah government to run dis
place. We was fed up with the last
PNM and we put Kamla, we take
out Kamla and it look like we get
back d same old khaki pants”.
Gunpat: “Yuh people feeling
disappointed with dis new government.
Dey are saying better dey
had left Kamla and let dem ministers
tief out d Treasury”
Mukesh: “Ah see d Express
headline say if Rowley ent going
to wedding, he going to funeral.
So dey trying to say if he ent marrindin’
someone he going an bury
dem”.
Baboolal: “So whey allyuh
think bout dem lawlessness in d
country. Dem criminals running
rings around d police. Dey put soldiers
and police in Laventi and dey
still killing people. Dem bad boys
killing people in broad daylight
and by d time police reach dey
disappear. It look like d government
go have to put ah police and
ah solider near every street corner.
Ah feel not even dat go help”.
Rasta: “It look like dem killers
on ‘coke’ because dey ent have no
KAREEM GARDENER’S killers sawed his neck attempting to behead him
feelings. Dey numb. Look how
dey shoot ah man and try to saw
off he neck. Dem killers so smart
dey wearing bandanas to hide dey
face so d police finding it hard to
see dey face on dem security cameras”.
Spanner: “But whey dem police
whey does be looking like
astronauts in white clothes on dem
crime scenes doing. Dem eh helping
solve dem killings.”
Gunpat: “D Prison Officers
Association calling for guns for
prison officers but d officer who
got killed in Laventi had a gun but
he left it inside. D Association say
d government should move dem
out ah dem hot spots and give dem
ah house elsewhere. But all over d
country is ‘hot spots’. Dem criminals
have dey own intelligence
network, dey go know anywhere
dey go an live”.
Piper: “Ah see big bottom Beverly
coming. She see we. Is right
here she coming”
Spanner: “Whey yuh was all d
time guyal. So long you ent come
and give we ah check. We say yuh
must be still tired from d Carnical
so yuh taking ah rest”.
Beverly: “Boy, ah shame to tell
allyuh. Bandits come in we house
and gone with we tv and DVD
and dey nearly clean out d house.
It look like dey was looking for
jewelry. But ah only have costume
jewelry because is only dat yuh
can wear in d Beetham.We suspect
who it is but is no use going an report
it. D police does protect some
bandits who does give dem information
on other criminals”
Gunpat: “Ah see Inspector
Roger Alexander showing every
day on d tv how much guns and
drugs d police seizing. But dem
criminals get smart now since it
ent have no bail for six months
for firearm offences. Dey hiding d
guns in abandoned places”.
Beverly: “Dat is only ole talk
ah know fellas who get charge
with guns an dey outside on bail.
Meh daughter made ah baby and
Local Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) officers
ah have to see bout me grandchild
now because d mudder wuking.
Things so hard now all ah we have
to do some kind ah wuk to get an
extra change”.
Rasta: “So whey d child father
like he make ah ‘monster’ and
leave allyuh to mind it”.
Beverly: “Doh call me grandson
ah ‘monster’ nah. Leh Rowley
play he calling children ‘monster’
dem same ‘monster” go tun on
him. Wait! He he like to call people
children ‘monster’.
Baboolal: “Whey allyuh worrying
bout. By d time he grow up
it eh go have plenty people living
here because dem criminals go kill
out all ah we”.
Beverly: “Someday ah was in
Town an ah hear ah set ah bullets
flying. Yuh see how dey kill
ah young man by d Cathedral.
Yuh know it ent like long time,
people now fraid to go in Town.
Long time ah remember we used
to go window shopping. Now it
end have no widows to look inside
because all ah dem block up” in d
night”.
Gunpat: “Dey say people going
to shop in Malls now but dey fraid
when dey come out dey car gone.
It have car thieves patrolling dem
car parks in d Mall just like security
guards. It ent have no way safe
now, not even d police station”.
Piper: “Ah hear d police allow
a millionaire man to go home
bathe and sleep and come back to
station in d early hours of d morning
to go to court. Dem police officers
must be get ah good change.
And yuh know all dey do is transfer
dem cops. Money have to pass
because dem officers ent go risk
dey job to allow a prisoner to leave
d station”.
Rasta: “So Bev how yuh making
out with all ah dem new food
prices now, guyal. Things go get
real hard after d next budget because
it go have VAT on more
items”.
Bev: “Ah hear d money to make
a pacotee gone up now. Fares going
up from $300 for ah quickie and
$500 for half an hour. Is dem big
men whey driving around in Prado
in Woodbrook whey go pay dat”.
Rasta: “Bev yuh have real
goods to sell. Ah man go pay any
money to ride on dat bumsee”
Bev: “When ah was much
younger and was ketchin hell ah
and didn’t make fares now ah
get ole ah want man to ride me?
Meh asthma go worry meh ah go
can breathe properly and ah might
conk out. When ah under pressure
meh heart does beat fast, fast”.
Spanner: “So Bev when we
go make ah lime again. Yuh must
come and give we ah check and
leh we know how life going”.
Until next week.