Dear Sir/Madam,
Before the UNC government’s propaganda machine gets to work and they try to create a celebratory atmosphere around the one year anniversary of them in government, I want to be the one who deems April 28 as Trinidad and Tobago’s Doomsday.
Before going any further and anyone thinks this is a PNM/UNC thing, I would likewise deem the nine years of PNM governance as the nine years (instead of seven) articulated in the Moses era, where the nation under God suffered famine , drought, hardship, mal-administration, misfeasance to the point where convicted murderers got as much as $20 million dollars, amongst other travesties too numerous to mention.
Since April 28, 2025 the nation has not done well. One blight has repalced another. The mother we thought we were getting is an evil stepmother, when we thought the father was bad. Since then, we discovered that those who beseeched us for the vote were speaking with forked tongues and had daggers waiting to pierce our hearts.
The then Opposition promised the stars and the moon: they had a plan for everything. Today, we are just seeing stars as we stare blankly at a cost of living that is a killing when you factor in the high grocery prices (I haven’t heard “we remove VAT from 7,500 food items” nonsense for a while), hefty fines for everything under the sun, while we shudder when we hear “law abiding citizens have nothing to worry about” .
Nowhere in this twin island republic is at peace from the phalanx, avalanche and tsumani of crime, of robberies and home invasions, the most savage and indecent murders of women and children not to mention to drive by killings in two’s and three’s.
This government has not kept a single promise of a better quality of life. No one is safe from the criminals or the Government which picks up where thieves left. Regional Corporations like Chaguanas, San Fernando and San Juan continue to be broken to thief (likely), (hmmm), roads are in a sorry state as the driving culture just keeps getting worse. Port of Spain is a stink pit, while all businesses are fleeing to the East and Central.
There is not a single Ministry that anyone can mention which has done anything to benefit anyone. Instead, hospitals are about shut down and people just can’t access a bottle of bayrum, Police still don’t have basic carbon paper and a pen, the fire brigade still doesn’t have decent ladders. Beaches are overun with chairs mafia and jet ski villans. The nation is in complete anarchy as though that thig called the UNC was really a heinous reincarnation of a PNM.
Let me see them shamelessly celebrate the nation owing millions, dead bodies everywhere, a junk refinery, stale doubles and yucchy coffee, implementing IMF measures of taxing even the most vulnerable and jamming the working people. They couldn’t care less as the population is feeling the heartless consequences of the Finance Act 2026, and .
I really wish this Government would check their wicked ways.
Stay up Trinidad and Tobago.
Linda Capildeo, St James
