Let's talk ethnic imbalance. The Government has an ethnic imbalance. It is predominantly East Indian in composition. Most of the parliamentarians and Cabinet ministers are of East Indian descent. Our farming community has an ethnic imbalance. The majority of the farmers in this country are of East Indian origin.
Right now the predominantly Indian Government is fixing up the predominantly East Indian farmers with millions of dollars to fix their dwellings, fence their lands and purchase equipment, all with a view to improving food production, in a time when this same Government claimed there is no money so it can't meet public servants, police and prisons officers' wage demands.
Now traditionally and historically, African descendants gravitated to the public, police, prisons and fire services, while the Indians stayed on the land, became entrepreneurs like grocers, car and car parts dealers and helped their children to become lawyers and doctors. Hence the reason now most of our lawyers and doctors are East Indians. So Sat Maharaj, Basdeo Panday and Nizam Mohammed, how do we counteract these ethnic imbalances? Would you pass a law preventing more African people from becoming public servants, police and prison officers, soldiers etc, and by the same token debar any more East Indians from becoming lawyers, doctors, farmers and businessmen? It's time to stop the nonsense.
Sherman Fyee
Port-of-Spain