Ah like dis ............Kevin Baldeosingh does alway have some interesting pieces, hit plenty nail on d head too.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/commentaries/Lost_and_found-114339609.htmlLost and found
By Kevin Baldeosingh
Story Created: Jan 21, 2011 at 12:43 AM ECT
Story Updated: Jan 21, 2011 at 12:43 AM ECT
When Attorney General Anand Ramlogan announced that a grand piano was missing from the Prime Minister's residence, he took aim at the mansion's last occupant but missed his target. The lost piano, it turned out, was never lost, but was sitting right on the stage outside the residence where it was supposed to be.
So there was only loss of face: and, looking at him, you might think Ramlogan would be glad to lose some face. But no: he went even further when his error was uncovered and lost his cool, refusing to apologise for the gaffe. Instead he said, "Prior to my disclosure in the Parliament, not a single citizen in this country knew that Mr Manning and Mr Julien spent millions to purchase pianos."
This is undoubtedly worth finding out, but only a PR adviser who's lost his marbles could think this strategy was an effective way for Ramlogan to regain lost ground. Besides, what the AG didn't let citizens know is that the Government has also lost several other things.
Let's start with the man who couldn't find the piano in the first place. Captain Gary Griffith lost his rank when he resigned from the military, but has continued to pretend that it can be rightfully found in front of his name. It is clear, though, that Griffith is lost in space. Explaining his failure to find the grand piano, Griffith said, "It seemed to be deliberately tucked and hidden away. It was covered with layers of cloth."
Since this man is security adviser to the Prime Minister, the nation can only hope that bandits don't try to sneak into the official residence disguised as ghosts. 
The other thing several Government ministers have lost is their hearing. For example, Sport Minister Anil Roberts went deaf when he attended the Nicki Minaj concert, which is why he told the Parliament that there was no cussing in front of the invited children. Roberts also didn't hear when Ramlogan implied that former PM Patrick Manning had taken the piano since, defending Ramlogan, he declared: "There is nothing to apologise for. It was a total waste of taxpayers' money to buy those pianos." And you can bet your last black, red, or dougla cent that the former talkshow host will also lose his voice if anyone asks him to apologise for the total waste of $869,000 that the Minaj concert cost taxpayers.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Winston Dookeran can't hear PSA president Watson Duke, Clico investors spokesman Peter Permell, or panmen: but, in those cases, loss of hearing is no loss.
The real problem, though, is that the People's Partnership is convinced that ordinary citizens have also lost their hearing. First, we didn't hear what we thought we heard about the $3,000 pension promise. Second, former judge Herbert Volney implied all sorts of malodorous things about Chief Justice Ivor Archie and former AG John Jeremie and, when faced with widespread public criticism, gave an apology in which he told everyone that they hadn't heard the allegations they had heard.
And two weeks ago, Multiculturalism Minister Winston "Gypsy" Peters announced that the $2 million prize money for Carnival competitions was promised by the People's Partnership for 2011 alone and not, as common sense would suggest, just promised. But maybe we all really have gone deaf, which is why we aren't hearing the People's Partnership regime talk about its other promises, like term limits for the Prime Minister or recall for MPs.
The Partnership coalition has also lost its way in respect to crime, and not just because they've let Police Service Commission chairman Nizam Mohammed get away with losing his temper when two police officers found him breaking the law. Last week, PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that the Government would be taking steps to resume hanging, although she didn't specify whether the bodies would be swinging at 7 a.m. in Woodford Square as Justice Minister Volney wants.
But any time you hear a politician propose hanging as a crime-fighting solution, it means that they have no crime-fighting solutions. If they did, the People's Partnership would be listening to their former candidate and social activist Verna St Rose Greaves, and not to religious leaders who believe that stopping young women from losing their virginity is a good way to stop crime.
Both the PNM and the Partnership feel safe touting hanging, however, since they know that any plan to pop necks guarantees that ordinary citizens, and not just the murderers, would lose their heads. And the more people lose their minds, the better for politicians, since they can then treat such persons like lost sheep. Sheep, as you know, do as they're told, behave the same way, and dislike Serta mattresses.
But the majority of people in this place won't lose any sleep over this, so trying to make politicians implement policies based on evidence, logic, and compassion is a lost cause. That, anyway, is what I have found.
