"Last week the Minister of Works and Transport, Colm Imbert, announced that the water taxi service has reached its maximum capacity and that the Government will be buying another four. However, the fact is that the largest water taxi purchased was never put into service and is currently moored at Peake’s Marina in Chaguaramas for everyone to see. It is really amazing how this country is governed and how the majority of the people don’t seem to care."
I was browsing the "WEB" and came across this note in the Trinidad Guardian newspaper. The link provides the same information in quotation marks above. This short commentary is not about the Water taxi but about the way we look at things in Trinidad and apathy that endures in the homeland. The key to the commentary, in my opinion, it he section that is in red, "the majority of people don't seem to care". Isn't that so true of our twin island republic? So much is going on and the typical response is "what could I do about it, nothing will change". This is the same type of commentary that also come around during the election campaigns, "who we go put, we know the devil we have but we doh know the devil we will get" - so things don't change, things remain the same and the people continue to complain day after day.
In today's Trinidad Express newspaper in an article entitled, "People have power to change Govt, says Daaga" covered by Miranda La Rose, Mr. Daaga was quoted as saying the following:
"’You have the power to determine (the government of your choice). Give it (your power) to no man... You give the government the authority to act on your behalf. You are the government. Never allow anyone to usurp that authority,’ Chief Servant of the National Joint Action Committee Makandal Daaga advised yesterday."
Maybe it is time that we pay attention to Mr. Daaga and let the politicians understand how we really feel about the manner in which they conduct the people's business. We have the power to make that change and the moment is right to do so when we go to the polls. In the interim people can object by writing letters/sending emails to their Parliamentary representatives expressing their dissatisfaction for the many woes facing "John Public" and the ridiculous and scandalous manner both parties in Parliament are going about the 'People's Business'.