I was listening to the six o’clock news on the radio one morning and I couldn’t help but laugh. Homeless persons are running and hiding from the officials who were sent to get them off the streets. I thought they would have appreciated this. I can’t say what their reasons for hiding were, but if I were in their position I would run and hide too.

Why wait for the Summit of the Americas to do all these ’good deeds?’ You might be able to fool one, but when these delegates are visiting all at once somebody is bound to notice this country’s true colours.

So what do you do? You get the homeless off the streets. You install cameras on almost every light pole. So many people have been attacked by vagabonds, but you wait for the summit to get them off the streets.

So many unsolved hit-and-run deaths, murders, rapes, kidnappings, robberies, etc, but you wait for the summit to install cameras, to put more police on the streets (I hear some of them are catching up on their cricket), purchase bulletproof vests, paint white lines on the roads and so forth.

I’m glad you are looking after the safety of these foreign visitors but what about our own citizens? Someone wins a race you build a stadium in his name.

What about the incomplete structure south of Trinidad near Tarouba? Didn’t anyone survey the land before construction? Couldn’t you have taken that same money and repair roads, schools, health facilities, invest in police equipment and advanced training?

HR

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