Not surprisingly, the country appears to have moved on from the vicious assassination of attorney Dana Seetahal. Debate on what this murder portends for the future of this country honoured its shelf life and dutifully expired. We're already onto the next, uselessly bumping our gums about the tragedy of an infant's life lost, each armchair attorney publicly ruminating on the culpability of the errant grandfather.
Vast swathes of the population speak as if they are citizens of a sovereign state, encased within another hopelessly dysfunctional state. It conjures images of a magazine cartoon depicting a massive crowd all pointing their fingers into an empty space with the caption below "Dat is how dem Trinis is, yes!"
Yet if honesty is allowed its day, we must admit to ourselves that the pervasive decay that led to the shocking murder of Dana Seetahal is the output of a societal construct built as much by omission as it is by deliberate action.
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