Living in Trinidad and Tobago reminds me of a line in the movie 'PS I Love You' when the husband Gerry exasperated by his wife's whining grabs her and shakes her and ask "What do you want?"
Trinidad and to a lesser extent Tobago have become a country of whiners. Not the Carnival gyrating of the pelvic region, but the seriously stupid whining of children too long spoiled by getting things they want, when they want and how they want from a patronizing daddy of the house.
So our new Prime Minister, informed us through Parliament that an agency of the state had been carrying out unauthorized surveillance on private citizens who have absolutely NO connection to any criminal activity. Now that the information is out there, and laws have been approved by the parliament to make activities by the SIA and other agencies illegal, unless approved by appropriate authorities, we now have the ragging controversy about the disposal of the information which had been collected before the Prime Minister's announcement.
In a country where everybody's business is know by people who have no business to know, this raging controversy seems moot to me.
People have long lost any confidence in employees in the banking sector being discreet. Everyone knows that bank tellers at the indigenous banks trade up their customers information to their friends for relationship perks. That's why I don't bank with any of them, but that's beside the point.
Why can't we leave it to the Government, who brought this information to us, in the first place, to dispose of this information? We voted them into office, so in my humble opinion, we can allow them to do what is best for us. The Prime Minister did not have to tell us anything.
On another matter, people are calling for the Government to articulate their crime plan. My question is WHY?
Why would a government, faced with a spiraling crime situation, articulate to the population, how they propose to tackle the problem? Are we as a collective nation so stupid? We going to do X, so you naughty boys and girls find another way to move your naughty selves. Does articulating a strategy and your tactics to solve a menacing criminal seem like a wise idea to you?
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