but i have long maintained: trinbagonians will take chain up, bobol and mamguy, and revolution will not come until they ban carnival; we riot when they threaten dance+drum. they say the state of emergency is to take down (violent) crime and i for that but how, exactly, this supposed to wuk? we supposed to believe, with no longterm plan from the powers that be, that criminals not smart enough to take a 2weeks vacation and come back robbing+shooting + burning+looting come mid-september? when smaller criminals who cyah afford vacation get ketch doing their daily hustle, with the lack of opportunity our young men face we supposed to believe it doh have a nex' crew already jostlng to take their place? and a nex' crew rolling up to replace them? we supposed to believe little black boys on the block importing the drugs+weapons? laundering money on a streetcorner in neverdirty, morvant? those behind the smuggling of drugs+weapons that fuel local crime are those behind our politics and industry, close enough and boldface enough to look we in we eye when they wining, groping hands deep in our taxpaying pockets, backed by our administration. dialogue is necessary...
¿Se supone que creemos, sin plan a largo plazo de los poderes que sean, que los delincuentes no son suficientemente inteligentes como para tomar dos semanas de vacaciones y regresen robando y disparando y quemando y saqueando cuando sea mediados de setiembre? Cuando atrapen a los pequeños criminales que no pueden pagarse vacaciones haciendo sus diarias fechorías, con la falta de oportunidad que enfrentan nuestros jóvenes, ¿se supone que vamos a creer que ya tienen un siguiente equipo empujando para tomar su lugar? ¿Un nuevo equipo acudiendo para reemplazarlos?