Dear Editor:
To take a stand is not hate. To demand respect is not hate. No one is demanding that anyone be let into Trinidad or any other place. We are simply saying that refusals should comply with the recent court ruling, access to consulates, attorneys etc.
The people have placed the government in power; the government should represent the people.
This so called integration is not natural, not real, and obviously in Trinidad it’s unwelcome. This issue is larger than the fact that a few thousand people have studied together at UWI, or worked for some regional institutions on the public purse.
These politicians must know that they are paid to represent our interests and not their personal friendships. We are not saying they should be hostile to each other. However, their photo ops do not represent the feelings of the people. People claim that people making a personal choice will have an adverse effect on employment. Well let market forces handle that issue.
Politicians love to smile and talk diplomatic double speak. We the people speak with our wallets and purses. This is something that cannot be legislated or dictated. Japan and China have diplomatic stalemate over a piece of rock, a useless piece of rock that can't hold 10 people. Yet we have no backbones as Jamaicans.
People blame the rich, and the very poor for Jamaica’s destruction. But I think the blame should be laid clearly at the feet of the so called middle class; there seems to be some type of pride derived from being able to absorb price increases and devaluations.
They see protest as the territory of the "likkle man". Of course the wealthy have "lobby groups". So unoo can grin up and skin up. The people will not relent, we will not be moved.
Brooklyn man
To take a stand is not hate. To demand respect is not hate. No one is demanding that anyone be let into Trinidad or any other place. We are simply saying that refusals should comply with the recent court ruling, access to consulates, attorneys etc.
The people have placed the government in power; the government should represent the people.
This so called integration is not natural, not real, and obviously in Trinidad it’s unwelcome. This issue is larger than the fact that a few thousand people have studied together at UWI, or worked for some regional institutions on the public purse.
These politicians must know that they are paid to represent our interests and not their personal friendships. We are not saying they should be hostile to each other. However, their photo ops do not represent the feelings of the people. People claim that people making a personal choice will have an adverse effect on employment. Well let market forces handle that issue.
Politicians love to smile and talk diplomatic double speak. We the people speak with our wallets and purses. This is something that cannot be legislated or dictated. Japan and China have diplomatic stalemate over a piece of rock, a useless piece of rock that can't hold 10 people. Yet we have no backbones as Jamaicans.
People blame the rich, and the very poor for Jamaica’s destruction. But I think the blame should be laid clearly at the feet of the so called middle class; there seems to be some type of pride derived from being able to absorb price increases and devaluations.
They see protest as the territory of the "likkle man". Of course the wealthy have "lobby groups". So unoo can grin up and skin up. The people will not relent, we will not be moved.
Brooklyn man