Health Minister Jerry Narace’s glib denial of the spread of dengue, the deaths resulting from it and the danger to the public is a colossal public failure. The Senator clearly is accountable to no one and the public has no means of making him accountable.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Taxpayers fund the Ganja Farmer
The taxpayers of this country must be absolutely outraged to see in today's Sunday Express Mix Magazine that the Entertainment Company - a special purpose State Enterprise- funded the launch of Marlon Asher's new album. For those who don't know, Asher is the self proclaimed ganja farmer. That may not be a problem, but at the launch, our tax money funded his posters, which show him with a spliff between his lips and a marijuana leaf prominently displayed in the corner of the poster.
Not only is marijuana illegal in this country- the last time I checked- but the State funds and fully supports a number of initiatives aimed at keeping narcotics off the streets and out of people's hands. In fact the Prime Minister is on record as saying that the out of control crime is fuelled by the trade in narcotics. Isn't it therefore outrageous that Alvin Daniell and his Board at the Entertainment Company - a lawyer included- could agree to use taxpayers funds to pay for this rubbish?
Not only is marijuana illegal in this country- the last time I checked- but the State funds and fully supports a number of initiatives aimed at keeping narcotics off the streets and out of people's hands. In fact the Prime Minister is on record as saying that the out of control crime is fuelled by the trade in narcotics. Isn't it therefore outrageous that Alvin Daniell and his Board at the Entertainment Company - a lawyer included- could agree to use taxpayers funds to pay for this rubbish?
I would really like to ask Alvin Daniell, the same man who pens so many nation building songs, to tell me whether he would use his personal funds to support a culture of drug use?
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Silver is not gold.....says Martin Daly....click and read his Sunday Express column.
Martin Daly, Senior Counsel writes in the Sunday Express that:
"The exploitative political embrace is all part of the self-declared greatness of Trinidad and Tobago. Carnival is the "greatest show on earth" but it has no permanent home. Pan is the only musical invention of the 20th century but "where pan reach"? The panyards are left like the buildings of QRC, to fend for themselves. No house and land for accomplished steel orchestras, many of who have no security of tenure of their yards.
"The exploitative political embrace is all part of the self-declared greatness of Trinidad and Tobago. Carnival is the "greatest show on earth" but it has no permanent home. Pan is the only musical invention of the 20th century but "where pan reach"? The panyards are left like the buildings of QRC, to fend for themselves. No house and land for accomplished steel orchestras, many of who have no security of tenure of their yards.
Compare the treatment of Neville Jules, All Stars great, once again ignored, and just reach Professor Copeland. Jules began his work in 1945, in the time of Zigilee, and has produced musical work continuously, up to and including the present day. He pioneered the development of the family of pans playing in orchestral mode....."
Click the link above and read the column...
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