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Page 10 ISSUE 156 Friday 13th MAY, 2016
ROWLEY SHOWIN’ WHO IS D BOSS!
Rum shop POLITICS
Ministers should realise
by now that they
should not speak on
any national issue before Prime
Minister Dr Keith Rowley, otherwise
he would embarrass
them publicly.
Over the past two weeks there
have been two “casualties” for
speaking out of turn - Health Minister
Terrence Deyalsingh and Attorney
General Faris Al-Rawi.
Some observers are saying that
it would appear Rowley wants to
have the first say on any matter
where there is great public concern.
The first was Deyalsingh, who
chastised the media during a press
briefing on the mosquito-borne
Zika virus and when the topic of
abortion came up he said; “I am
ending the discussion here and
now”.
He stressed that the conversation
on Zika should be on getting
citizens to clean up their surroundings
and slammed the media for
perceived attempts of using the
topic of abortion under the pretext
of Zika to “sell news”.
But in a quick response PM
Rowley said Deyalsingh was not
the Government nor the country,
to say he is ending the discussions
on abortion, noting that the abortion
discussions are continuing.
Rowley said that Deyalsingh
was probably rushing to an early
lunch.
The embarrassed Deyalsingh
responded by saying the media
had misquoted him despite the
fact that TV 6 played a clip of the
news briefing twice about the exact
words he said.
People are saying some ministers
put their foot in their mouth
and don’t know how to take them
out.
And in another case of “foot in
mouth disease” Attorney General
Faris-Al Rawi said he is looking
at decriminalizing marijuana possession.
He told the Guardian newspaper
that he is reviewing the Dangerous
Drug Act and there would be wide
consultation before any policy decision
is taken.
The story is making headlines in
other Caribbean newspapers.
The Jamaica Observer newspaper
carried an article last Monday
headlined: “T&T Gov’t examining
decriminalizing of marijuana”.
But the prime minister says he
knows nothing about what the AG
is talking because the matter never
came up- before Cabinet and he is
not ready for that conversation as
yet. Observers are saying Rowley
is showing them who is the real
boss.
Al Rawi hit the PM a ‘tap’ saying
he is the AG and he doesn’t
need to tell Rowley what his office
is doing”.
Rowley recently said he had to
“order” a minister out of an office
in the International Waterfront
Centre in Port of Spain to go to his
designated office at the Ministry of
Works and Transport.
Some observers are saying that
Rowley is keeping members of his
government in check and make
sure they do not step out of line.
Besides those matters people
are asking “whey we going?” As
comedian Sprangalang would say.
Over the past week a man was
beaten to death over a bag of yam
and another killed for $50.
As soon as the Superintendent
of Police in the Western Division
say murders down by 53 percent
there were three murders the following
day.
People are saying the Minister
of National Security Edmund Dillon
and the police must stop talking
about crime down.
Then on the other side there
was a “fish” story about how a 80
year-old grandmother was shot in
the head in her bathroom when
a police officer gun fell while he
was running a suspect and the bullet
passing through a wall in the
house ended up in the woman’s
bathroom.
These were some of the issues
Gunpat, Baboolal, Rasta, Spanner
and Piper were discussing when
they met at Hawk and Spit bar last
weekend.
Rasta: “Barman what you have
for d poor?. Ah taking anything,
yes. Ah feeling tusty for ah drink.
Bring some cheap rum because
meh money low”.
Barman: “Ah hear yuh say yuh
taking anything. It have ah man in
d back dey, yuh want to check him
out. Rasta ah hear dey is only Indian
money does run low. It like
d tide it does run low and raise
again”.
Rasta: “Ah does tired tell allyuh,
doh give meh no man, take
him for yuh self. Ah hear two homos,
Barry and Harry, got married
and when dey was walking out d
church dey request dat d church
bell must ring’, bulling, bulling,
bulling, because dey want dat
sound to ring in dey head when
dey go to Barbados for dey honeymoon”.
Piper: “Ah hear Barbados have
more homos than flying fish and d
government want to stop d amount
of bullers coming into d country. It
have sniffer dogs trained to smell
male passengers backside and
frontside to see if dey are homos
when dey line up to check immigration”.
Rasta; “Yuh know it have on d
immigration form ah section mark
Sex, M (male) and F (Female) to
fill out. Under sex Barry mark,
“yes” and under ‘M’ he mark
‘only men’ and ‘F’ he mark ‘whole
night’. D immigration officer greet
dem ‘welcome to Barbados’ an he
tell Barry if he need any help to
call him Yuh know d immigration
officer is ah homo too”.
Gunpat: “Barman, forget dis
ole talk and bring d usual drinks.
Last week we went by Mukesh
family, Raj and Primatee. We had
ah good time. Primatee cook ah
hard fowl and she make dhalpurie.
Dey say Mukesh not feeling well
these days, he drink too much rum
in he life”.
Spanner: “Ah see big bottom
Beverley and she friend coming.
Ah hope she go run something”.
Piper: “Bev, whey yuh was all
dis time guyal. We say like police
lock down d Beetham and allyuh
fraid to come out”.
Bev: “Beetham ent have so
much crime again. Some ah dem
bad boys move out since d police
start harassing dem. D man have
me meh under heavy manners ah
does cyar go out so again”.
Spanner: “So Bev, yuh ent tell
we who is yuh sexy friend. Ah
does always hear dey say when
yuh red yuh dead, yes. Whey dis
sexy red owman come from. Don’t
blush baby. Come let’s take ah
drink. Yuh man never tell you how
yuh does look sexy”.
Rasta: “Bev, like yuh friend living
in d bush. Like ah soucouyant
pass by she. How she neck have so
much ah red marks. Ah never see
ah big hickey so”.
Bev: “Patsy come and meet
some ah meh friends. Dem ole
fellas harmless. Dey only have
mouth”.
Patsy: “Ah love men who like
to use dey mouth”.
Bev: “No guyal ah mean dey
does talk plenty and not what yuh
thinking”.
Piper: “ Patsy ah feel yuh does
horn yuh man. Dem red owman
does have more than one man, dey
nature is to horn”.
Patsy: “Yuh want to see whey
he put ah next hickey. D way
things getting hard yuh have to
have ah outside man now to live in
dis country”.+
Rasta: “Since yuh have two
man yuh could run something”.
Patsy: “Ah stop minding man.
Right now ah could do with ah
next man. Anyone ah allyuh available.
Ah like dat bald head one
with the moustache, whey looking
like ah witch broom . He look like
he have money. Ah never meet ah
Indian whey ent have no money.
But dey cheap, if yuh ask dem for
ah blue note, dey good at promising
and yuh go never see dem
again. Rasta yuh look like yuh
have money too. Any man who
‘pushing” have money”.
Rasta: “Why yuh say ah ‘pushing’,
allyuh feel all Rasta does
only sell drugs. Guyal ah wuking
URP but ah does only check in
and sign d register and go home.
Ah does have to give meh boss ah
kickback from meh pay”.
Gunpat: “So Rasta. Yuh are one
ah dem fellas who in dem ghost
gangs. Ah hear it have plenty racket
in URP”.
Baboolal: “Allyuh ent hear bout
d man whey dey beat for ah bag ah
yam. Things gone bad in dis country,
yes. A tief doh like to see another
tief with ah bag in he hand,
nah”.
Gunpat: “Ah man went to tief
in ah house and he see ah door
open at d back. As he was going
in he see ah man coming out with
two bags. D man pull out ah cutlass
from he waist and tell d tief
put down dem bags or he go chop
him up. D tief thought d man was
d owner and he drop d bags and
started to run. D other tief take up
d bags which had liquor, food and
jewelry and walked away. It was
a case of tief from tief make God
laugh”.
Piper: “Ah see Rowley show
Deyalsingh and d AG who really
is d boss. He say d health minister
was probably hungry and was getting
ready to go an eat when he tell
d media people to stop d conversation
bout abortion. And Rowley
say he ent know nothing bout any
plan to legalise ganja whey Al-
Rawi talking bout”.
Spanner: “Ah feel some ah
dem ministers does drink marijuana
tea before dey go to parliament
because dey does behave like ah
man when he high on ‘weed’ dat
is why ah feel dey should legalise
marijuana. It have ah Rasta man
like me in parliament. But not all
Rasta does smoke ganja, nah”.
Rasta: “Dey say d marijuana go
be only to make medicine. Well ah
drinking marijuana medicine whole
day because ah suffering from asthma”.
Baboolal: “Allyuh ent hear how
d policeman say how he gun fell
down and two bullets come out
and one kill ah owman in she bathroom
when dey was running down
two robbery suspects. Dat remind
me of ah hunter pardna who say he
shoot three manicou with one shot
from he gun.
He say d fust one was on the
ground eating under a mango tree
in a road and when he fired d shot
it hit d fust one and d bullet went
around d corner and hit d two others
who was crossing d road. Yuh
hear lie dat is ah hunter lie”.
Gunpat: “Barman, bring some
cutters and d bill”.