does one who can't spell the word "laughter" really qualify to make fun of the AG?

y?

Save your tales for the fishes
Sunday, March 7 2004
Suzanne Mills:

Is it because traffic violations are of no consequence in this country even though Government talks about restoring law and order to TT? Or are the police intimidated by the project’s “big man?” Or perhaps, they are only capable of enforcing the law when it involves a cursing school girl, a man smoking a spliff, or a ‘piper’ stealing some fruit. It is this sort of discretionary and arbitrary enforcement of the law, which makes people in TT so frustrated and which incensed them so much when Housing Minister Dr Keith Rowley ordered bulldozers to tear down squatters’ homes in Cashew Gardens and in Wallerfield. The citizenry well knows squatting is illegal, but they are simply tired of seeing the full weight of the law applied over and over to those lowest down on the food and social chain. The nation didn’t enjoy viewing the police stand watch over the destruction of the shacks either, for their presence at Cashew Gardens and Wallerfield was another glaring sign of the force they seem to reserve only for the ‘small man’. Dr Rowley should also know that he appeared heartless to many, because when he was responding to questions about his decision to evict the squatters, his biggest preoccupation seemed to be how to sink balls on a golf course in Tobago. In Cashew Gardens and in Wallerfield, the evicted squatters were meanwhile, trying to figure out where to rest their heads. The Minister also hurt his cause by saying that alternative accommodation would eventually be sought for those who legitimately needed it because the obvious rejoinder to this defence was why didn’t you do that before you put women and children out in the cold?

Neither did his indignant declaration that his Government does not tolerate lawlessness hold much water. Dr Rowley can tell that story to the Integrity Commission, which is still waiting to receive declarations of his @ssets and liabilities. He can tell his yarn to the residents of Diego Martin who are forced to come to a halt on St Lucien Road every occasion a large truck wants to enter or exit Vale View. He can also tell his bedtime story to the Tobagonian policemen who were instructed by a Cabinet Minister not to offer any evidence in the case against the Bajan fishermen caught in Tobago’s waters. Better yet, he can recount his myth of law and order to the Tobago flying fish entangled in Bajan nets. They’ve already heard so many disparate legal fairytales, they won’t know the difference.

Suzanne Mills is the Editor of Newsday

She said "Serve the people," NOT "Serve the person"

FINALLY SOME GOOD UNBIASED REPORTING BY THE EXPRESS.... BRILLIANT STORY!!!!!

cussing is violence eh... just thought you should know

finally someone with common sense

all he do was delay handing over the documents until the work started

whose foot did she kiss?

I'm not a fella... and basically, London had to be practically threatened to release the documents...