Dear Editor,
We are presently contending with an outbreak of chikungunya, the threat of Ebola and, to top it all, a Trinidadian "terror" that could have made the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke look like a Sunday picnic.
We have Minister Peter Bunting to thank for saving us from a possible coup d'etat.
We elect leaders to make decisions on our behalf. If they make incorrect decisions, it will cost us. We cannot purchase infrared thermometers to scan possible Ebola cases, we have to depend on the prime minister's husband to help us. We cannot purchase personal protective equipment for health-care workers, but we can spend $4 million to deport Yasin Abu Bakr, not Osama bin Laden. We don't have the resources to destroy mosquito-breeding sites, and we cannot find the money to fund the National Solid Waste Management Authority.
Now which is the greater threat? Yasin Abu Bakr, Ebola or chikungunya? Since we are powerless to defeat chikungunya, and we are unprepared for Ebola, let us deal with the possible threat that is of easiest resistance. In any case, Trinidadian officials have been insulting us, bruising our pride, deporting our nationals with any whim or fancy, now we catch one of them let us make him pay -- after we pay first. Therefore, we have to justify this expenditure by any means necessary. If we didn't act immediately our country would have faced imminent danger.
Instead of berating Minister Bunting, we all should be thanking him, the cost of another terrorist act would have set us back for decades. It would have derailed the International Monetary Fund agreement. The projected growth would have vaporised, the economic gains would have been set back. Bunting should be given the title of national hero the next time we celebrate National Heroes Day. What he did was nothing short of a heroic act.
Mark Clarke
Siloah, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com
Peter Bunting...our hero
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We are presently contending with an outbreak of chikungunya, the threat of Ebola and, to top it all, a Trinidadian "terror" that could have made the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke look like a Sunday picnic.
We have Minister Peter Bunting to thank for saving us from a possible coup d'etat.
We elect leaders to make decisions on our behalf. If they make incorrect decisions, it will cost us. We cannot purchase infrared thermometers to scan possible Ebola cases, we have to depend on the prime minister's husband to help us. We cannot purchase personal protective equipment for health-care workers, but we can spend $4 million to deport Yasin Abu Bakr, not Osama bin Laden. We don't have the resources to destroy mosquito-breeding sites, and we cannot find the money to fund the National Solid Waste Management Authority.
Now which is the greater threat? Yasin Abu Bakr, Ebola or chikungunya? Since we are powerless to defeat chikungunya, and we are unprepared for Ebola, let us deal with the possible threat that is of easiest resistance. In any case, Trinidadian officials have been insulting us, bruising our pride, deporting our nationals with any whim or fancy, now we catch one of them let us make him pay -- after we pay first. Therefore, we have to justify this expenditure by any means necessary. If we didn't act immediately our country would have faced imminent danger.
Instead of berating Minister Bunting, we all should be thanking him, the cost of another terrorist act would have set us back for decades. It would have derailed the International Monetary Fund agreement. The projected growth would have vaporised, the economic gains would have been set back. Bunting should be given the title of national hero the next time we celebrate National Heroes Day. What he did was nothing short of a heroic act.
Mark Clarke
Siloah, St Elizabeth
mark_clarke9@yahoo.com
Peter Bunting...our hero
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