we should just drop sports in T&T period for this generation...so what if we miss the next Lara or Latapy...who want to play sports for the country should pay for themselves...i feel we shouldnt help anymore cause they ent producing good enough results to justify spedning money on them...i had enough with people and their dreams..perfect example is that Gooding fella who is the triathlete..he just ent good enough..it have people who a lot younger than he always beating he arse..it seems people keep sponsoring he and he just on a f**king vacation all over the world...so thats what i mean by wasting peoples money..is best we spend money to get the people up to a socially intelligent level and get this ghetto mentality out their system...the people in this country going to evolve eventually and is either for the good or bad.
I know it have real smart people in this country but maybe they ent want to waste their time in the present conditions...too many decisions and policies are being made cause the government not getting much opposition...how could thing s change when u have the smart people questioning something and saying no and then the illiterate ones saying yes cause they were bribed (10 days & hampers) to say so.Majority is always going to win.
Sport ent going to get we nowhere unless we put things in place for the next generation..if that includes building this stupid stadium, so be it..at least its a start..even though everybody feels the government have ulterior motives (corruption etc)for it,including me.
I know i going to get lash for saying what i feel...but so what..we going to be sleeping in this grave for a long time to come unless the population change their ways and get their priorities straight.
You make some good points, but I'm not with you on the attitude towards Gooding, and other athletes in our generation......
In addition I think sporting programs, if managed correctly could be used as part and parcel, of the societal mend that we all know Trinidad needs. Discipline, sportsmanship, dedication, hard work, a sense of team, ambition, loyalty, patriotism etc........all qualities that can be learnt through sports.......all qualities upon which communities can begin to build, in the interest of cleansing our society.....But you're correct, sport cannot stand alone....and it goes way beyond building a sports complex, or putting money into community projects....
Social reform though, is a total package in which I think sport can play a huge part...and the issue, like I said in a previous post, is not in whether or not the gov't builds the complex......it's whether or not the authorities have the vision to realize that there are many things within in their control, that should complement the complex, that are alot more important than the complex itself..........