With all due respect Contro.......to bring talk of alleged racism into the talk is another example of deflection ting from the issues I raised in the opening- why is the media not being accountable for unearthing the major issues we read about in terms of specific ministries?
To bring up the issues of racism and blaming one political party is very much like what I have been reading since this government came into power.
While I am not dismissing that someone or a group may be trying to incite those sentiments, at this time it seems like another deflection from the major issues involving specific ministers. So Mr.Contro...... let's get back to the propagation of immoral unethical and incompetent behaviour by those entrusted with leadership.
Check out the two excerpts from the editorial on Wednesday May 28 Guardian
No room for politics of hate
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
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The latest disturbing trend taking hold in T&T politics is the insular and backward-looking positions being promoted by supporters of opposing parties. Increasingly, toxic messages of anger and hate are being spread at political events and in online political and social groups. This activity is not limited to one party but seems to be taking root in every political organisation, regardless of ideology, or whether they are inside or outside of the corridors of power. What is even more disturbing is that only the most extreme of these displays get the attention of political leaders. Condemnation of extreme behaviours and comments happen only when they generate national controversy. Otherwise, there seems to be no real interest in putting an end to a trend that is such a threat to T&T’s democratic traditions. By nature politics is divisive. In their efforts to win voter support, incumbent and opposition politicians take up positions on social, economic and even cultural issues that generate passionate discussions and prompt citizens to support one side or another.
Casting blame, causing distractions
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Lisa Allen-Agostini
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There’s a queer sense that comes over one after a big event. It’s an emptiness, a haunted, fallow feeling that should have a better name than “anticlimax,” but there you go. I feel this sense of anticlimax now, two weeks after ending one of the most intensely fulfilling periods of my life. Coming back to earth, to T&T and its foibles, feels so unreal. Coming home to Dana, to Anil, to Volney, to Kamla, to racist protest signs in Port-of-Spain…it all feels like a bad dream. Section 34 rears its head again under what seem to me to be frighteningly disingenuous circumstances, while what at least one Internet user called “Section 420” finally comes to light.
Meanwhile columnists with far more political savvy than I have say it’s all a distraction so the voters don’t pay attention to Life Sport and the allegations of corruption within it. If indeed Life Sport is corrupt, it has joined the ranks of every government programme in the history of this nation. I was in a Social Welfare office the other day when I saw a sign banning bribes. I’m probably too naïve to know what kinds of bribes one could offer a social welfare officer, and to what purpose;