Trinidad & Tobago is a proud nation.Not only are we the region’s leader in cricket, we are also the country with two Miss Universe winners, one Miss World winner, the world’s most popular batsman in Brian Lara and many, many more world class achievements that one is left confused when trying to understand the need for a two million dollar investment in a flag for national pride.
It is possible that the government is not sure about investment options with regards to national pride. Consequently, I offer the following suggestions:
- In Moruga the village where it is alleged that Columbus landed, how about setting up a national park on the beach where he is alleged to have landed and in so doing fix the Moruga road especially in the village of Cachipe where the main road is akin to a dirt track?
- How about investing in livestock to utilize the abandoned grasslands of Caroni and reduce our dependency on imported meat and meat products? This initiative will make us the pride of the Caribbean with self sufficiency in meat?
- Set up a sector in our main library in memory of the late Eric Williams with displays like videos of his most popular speeches e.g. “the address to the school children at the Independence Day of 1962”, and display of his books like Inward Hunger, Capitalism and Slavery and Columbus to Castro?
- Rescue the island of Chacachacare from a garbage heap used by campers and restore the island to an area where one can visit the historical buildings that were part of treatment centre for leprosy and develop the island into a premier tourist location
- How about asking the Sports Minister to invest in restoring Walker Park in Caroni from a pasture for the neighbourhood animals to the cricket centre it once was?
- We can certainly do with employing our youths in Community Policing with training specially geared to ensuring safe communities. The model of the United States local police departments can be used where each Township has its own Police Department. Curbing the escalation in crime can be a tremendous source of national pride
- How about investing in providing basket ball courts, swimming pools, tennis courts, football and cricket facilities in areas where youths are engaged in gang violence so that their rivalry can be transformed from fighting for URP jobs and drug turf to a sporting rivalry?
- Would it not be a source of national pride to see our policemen using modern methods of checking speeding cars instead of hiding behind a post and waving a piece of PVC pipe? How about investing in modern methods of policing?
- How about modernizing our Public Service so that there are now electronic processing of driver’s license renewal and similar transactions in an attempt to minimize the red tape and loads of paperwork associated with governmental transactions?
Steve Alvarez | Political Leader of The Democratic Party of Trinidad & Tobago
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