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Friday, July 25, 2025

The year of the people

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The year 2013 seems to have raced by; in its dy­ing days many of us are won­der­ing where the time went, where­as what we should re­al­ly be ask­ing our­selves is how was the time spent. I'm al­most cer­tain that I was in­tense­ly busy, but hon­esty forces the ad­mis­sion that I've fall­en short on many of my tar­gets.Viewed as a mi­cro­cosm of the na­tion, my life this past year was a se­ries of clear­ly de­fined goals, hon­est in­tent, earnest strug­gle but al­so un­de­ni­ably self-wrought dis­ap­point­ments.

Yet I can fath­om my flaws, drag my­self over a coal pit of in­ward cen­sure and re­set the clock with a vow to do bet­ter next year. Be­fore any re­set, though, I pre­pare to ac­cept re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the changes which must be made.

This is where the par­al­lel be­tween our na­tion and my­self ends. For a coun­try that wad­ed through the muck of four elec­tions this past year, un­sur­pris­ing­ly, the pol­i­tics achieved no evo­lu­tion; nei­ther in the peo­ple nor the politi­cians was there any flick­er of hope that our un­der­stand­ing of gov­er­nance and per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty had ad­vanced to an en­cour­ag­ing de­gree.

In­deed, it ap­pears as though we em­braced the ret­ro­grade step of falling back on trib­al pol­i­tics. Cit­i­zens re­treat­ed to the false com­fort of what they know: wrest con­trol of pow­er for "our peo­ple." Re­trieve the wound­ed, burn the dead, for­ti­fy the camp and for­get all that's been said.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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