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| Partners in the fight to reroute the Point Fortin Highway |
In 1980, King Austin (Austin Lewis) was pipped for the calypso crown when he wowed the Dimanche Gras crowd at the Queen's Park savannah. 30 years later, no one readily remembers the composition which topped "Progress"!
Why must they, when, thruout history, the palpable and most durable legacies of humankind have always been built in the face of strident opposition from quarters normaly thought, thus expected, to have the longterm good of all in constant view?
This country must quickly...I repeat, quickly...accelerate its built-infrastracture installation/fixarisation programme, else continue to languish in the non-hydrocarbon-based backwaters...for you don't have to be a Dr. Mary King to grasp that our hydrocarbon stock is a non-renewable asset, hence, the urgency of us finding things to sustain us "when the oil and gas done"!
As I understand it, NO major roadbuilding project was ever done without disruption. As we ALL know it, despite the southland of Trinidad being the fount of hydrocarbon wealth, its road network is the poorest in the entire nation...and not because of its topography or geology, rather because if its demography.
I am a native of Siparia, therefore, regardless of where I reside, have an inherent right to speak of/on matters southern. Consequently, I can declare, aforetime, the areas southern through which the Point Fortin Highway is scheduled to pass weren't humanly occupied as they are. That they presently are, meant, over time, some disruption occurred. There condition is thus always subject to more pressing national need...and national need is never sedate, never sedentary -else, stuck in the mud as a society we'd forever be.
Which introduces the issue of motive.
ALL know politically whom I support.
ALL also know such support is never given at the expense of what is right and fitting within a participatory democracy, such as Trinbago is.
It is in public domain that the "camp" of the "Highway Re-route Movement" receives ongoing, tangible and intangible, support, encouragement and solace from those who vehemently oppose the People's Partnership adminstration and, in particular, both the Most Honourable Prime Minister AND the line minister, the Honourable Jack Warner.
As a result, it doesn't take much to conclude the very foundations of said camp's existence are shaky at best, spurious at worst, especially as history has amply recorded how, frequently, very noble effort gets derailed when bandwagoneers with surreptious intent climb on board.
The same history has repeatedly demonstrated how good order crumbles when decisive action isn't taken to nip things in the bud -see what our crime stats nigglingly reveal.
All told, it is time to bring closure, moreso as the overwhelming majority wish for AND WILL BENEFIT from the Point Fortin Highway project.
For the above reasons and more, I say, let the highway take its designed course! Let us show the world that we can harmonise thus defeat the negativity being fed by many with "New hang-ups and old complexes".
© Richard Wm. Thomas,
kid5rivers.com
This country must quickly...I repeat, quickly...accelerate its built-infrastracture installation/fixarisation programme, else continue to languish in the non-hydrocarbon-based backwaters...for you don't have to be a Dr. Mary King to grasp that our hydrocarbon stock is a non-renewable asset, hence, the urgency of us finding things to sustain us "when the oil and gas done"!
As I understand it, NO major roadbuilding project was ever done without disruption. As we ALL know it, despite the southland of Trinidad being the fount of hydrocarbon wealth, its road network is the poorest in the entire nation...and not because of its topography or geology, rather because if its demography.
I am a native of Siparia, therefore, regardless of where I reside, have an inherent right to speak of/on matters southern. Consequently, I can declare, aforetime, the areas southern through which the Point Fortin Highway is scheduled to pass weren't humanly occupied as they are. That they presently are, meant, over time, some disruption occurred. There condition is thus always subject to more pressing national need...and national need is never sedate, never sedentary -else, stuck in the mud as a society we'd forever be.
Which introduces the issue of motive.
ALL know politically whom I support.
ALL also know such support is never given at the expense of what is right and fitting within a participatory democracy, such as Trinbago is.
It is in public domain that the "camp" of the "Highway Re-route Movement" receives ongoing, tangible and intangible, support, encouragement and solace from those who vehemently oppose the People's Partnership adminstration and, in particular, both the Most Honourable Prime Minister AND the line minister, the Honourable Jack Warner.
As a result, it doesn't take much to conclude the very foundations of said camp's existence are shaky at best, spurious at worst, especially as history has amply recorded how, frequently, very noble effort gets derailed when bandwagoneers with surreptious intent climb on board.
The same history has repeatedly demonstrated how good order crumbles when decisive action isn't taken to nip things in the bud -see what our crime stats nigglingly reveal.
All told, it is time to bring closure, moreso as the overwhelming majority wish for AND WILL BENEFIT from the Point Fortin Highway project.
For the above reasons and more, I say, let the highway take its designed course! Let us show the world that we can harmonise thus defeat the negativity being fed by many with "New hang-ups and old complexes".
© Richard Wm. Thomas,
kid5rivers.com
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