Recently, being very disillusioned over the quality of life in Trinidad, especially concerning the youths, I thought of writing a letter discussing the very sorry state to which our country has fallen. Somehow, though, I could not form the words to express my disgust. So I put away pen and paper and found me a book to read. Well lo and behold, I found the most apt description of Trinidad as it exists today.
The book is titled The Master Christian by Marie Corelli. The paragraph, describing Paris in the 1800s, states: "Paris has long been playing a losing game. So steadily has she lost, in honour, in prestige, in faith, in morals, in justice, in honesty and in cleanly living that it does not seem possible she can ever retrieve herself. Her men are dissolute, her women shameless, her youth of both sexes depraved, her laws are corrupt, her arts decadent, her religion dead. What next can be expected of her?Or rather to what extent will destiny permit her to go before the bolt of destruction falls? 'Thus far, and no further' has ever been the principle of nature-and Paris has almost touched the 'thus far'."
I fear that most readers will condemn me for making the comparison, but I find it applicable and I welcome the critics. To add to my disgust, at the time of my writing there was yet another murder committed in the heart of the capital city in bright daylight. It's my understanding that the killer has been caught but I doubt that he will be much worried, because, as they say in Trinidad, if you want to live forever, get yourself sentenced to death.
Tyrone Evans
Belmont, PoS