I now talk to meh peeps in T&T is rel bacchanal thing.
-I hear Kamla want to get rid of GATE and just do the $1 for $1 in some form. They was debating to see if they could make the people who already benefit from the GATE to pay it back
-I hear she wants to stop the school feeding programme saying the students does only waste the food. They want to charge $6 everytime the students want to eat ah food.
-I hear she want to get rid of OJT saying it only wasting time and don't help anyone.
In the lead up to the election id real cash pass from the UNC.
-It have ah gyul who use to work in the court in Princes Town. The gyul link up with Jack during the elction campaign. Now the UNC win and she quit she job, driving bigger car and moving in to a new office somewhere in the North.
- Meh boy who sing that chutney song, "why yuh leave" get big car and rel flashing.
- One in meh sistren who was campaigning for the PNM and rel support for the candidate get ah $50,000 to switch party and convince the PNM supporters to do the same.
- Another PNM supporter who went to school with me and does work with the PNM youth in that area get ah $10,000 to switch.
Oh really?
I had a long talk with my peeps back home as well. Some of the things i heard were:
- That Kamla cut her swearing in ceremony short and ask excused to run down central to address the flood situation. Straight from the ceremony she zoom down the road and in her high boots on the ground.
- The very next day after the swearing in of Cabinet, Makandal Daaga is setting up a youth foundation in Laventille, because the government understands the need to change the mindset of the youths. He wants Russel Latapy on the board.
- Police officers going to be made to go out into the schools and the community to establish a more visible presence. Especially the schools because youths need to be looking up to them as role models instead of the gangsters and the gold chains etc..
- The flooding in Longdenville. A woman say something real strange going on because its the first time ever she seeing people wukkin in she life.. Normally, when it have flood is your ass to ketch.. But now is tent set up, sandwiches sharing from volunteers and people in they overalls and wukkin to clean up and assist..
- Kamla's first mandate to her cabinet... "You work for the people. You are not above the people. You are accountable to the people. Not for yourself. From now on you will be accessible to hear the needs of the people." Also a push to get rid of the "Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian" mentality deeply instilled in the populace and leave that as a thing of the past.
- Jack Warner vopping. The ODPM is a waste of time, people suffering in flood and the ODPM want to "assess the situation". He saying they should get rid of the ODPM and install something capable or more suited to reacting to a disaster. He talking about making use of the PBR to resolve the traffic situation and revamping licensing.. He going into the communities seeing how people living and making a mandate to change that. Now alot of these ideas need to be properly fleshed out but at the very least, the man trying something.. Which is not what I can say about the previous administration.
It was a long convo and these are just some of the things i heard.
My point is that I real glad that PNM didnt get back in power. The election was a choice between voting for the certain continued regress or voting for the uncertain. This here is the uncertain, but change is refreshing and change should be embraced.
Sometimes I read this site and I does just laugh. Many people here incapable of giving credit where credit is due and everything needs to be met with skepticism. Everything is ah cry down and especially from some foreign base who not on the ground to give a properly supported opinion.
29 constituencies (including some considered as safe) voted for this new administration, and last I checked how a democracy works is that the majority voice is the right decision.
I say give the people a chance, at the very least they willing to try something different. And if it don't work or when the shit surface then by all means lash dem hard.
