Sure­ly one of the best, if not the best, ben­e­fits that all of us de­rive out of the present sit­u­a­tion is the peace and qui­et that we are be­ing forced to en­dure. The Bible tells us that af­ter six days work the Lord rest­ed and I am pos­i­tive that all oth­er re­li­gions are guid­ed in the same di­rec­tion. And Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er will tell you that he ac­com­plish­es the most be­tween the hours of 5 and 8 am due to the lack of dis­trac­tions. Peace and qui­et, tran­quil­li­ty, har­mo­ny, co­op­er­a­tion all cost noth­ing but a lit­tle dis­ci­pline and yet we el­ders who do know bet­ter al­low the younger gen­er­a­tion to con­vince us that noise, bac­cha­nal and fete are the on­ly in­gre­di­ents for a healthy lifestyle.

"The is­lands," once the epit­o­me of rest, re­lax­ation and re­cu­per­a­tion, are fast be­com­ing noise-in­fest­ed jun­gles. We all need at least two days of pos­i­tive re­vival if we put in five days of hard work and go­ing "down the is­lands" was the per­fect idea of get­ting away and re­lax­ing. If we are se­ri­ous­ly look­ing at what for­eign­ers are go­ing to flock here for, we must pro­vide places were they can tru­ly be at rest and get over all the ac­tiv­i­ties that we pro­vide. Please CDA, please EMA, please cit­i­zens of T&T, let us at least try to pre­serve this haven of peace which will lay the foun­da­tion for a great na­tion.

Chris Knag­gs

Bayshore