opinion

It's a Tuesday night in San Fernando, Trinidad - quiet and calm, the second night of the State of Emergency.

I somehow got included on an email (initiated by Kid5Rivers) with a lot of politicians on the list (such interesting email addresses!), and which a few have responded to. I honestly didn't want to read them and after about 10 responses to the email - something about the Silver Fox (Basdeo Panday) - I let them all have a piece of my mind, perhaps to my own future detriment.

I've spent the last few days listening to various remixes of 'Dis is Trinidad'. It's ubiquitous for some reason; it's an accepted answer to almost anything.

Yesterday, Selwyn Ryan wrote, 'The UDeCOTT election: round 1' - and within it he wrote something that should be apparent to anyone who isn't in Parliament: