On Au­gust 1, be­cause of the neg­li­gence of the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning Di­vi­sion, Min­istry of Plan­ning and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment, un­der suc­ces­sive gov­ern­ments, a moth­er of three in?Diego Mar­tin watched in hor­ror as her en­tire home was swept away in a sea of mud. It was a mir­a­cle that she and her chil­dren sur­vived.

On Au­gust 13, while this moth­er was still in shock try­ing to deal with the enor­mi­ty of her loss, a young man who went to Lon­don and tossed a pole in the air was giv­en a mil­lion dol­lars and a house in Fed­er­a­tion Park, among oth­er largesse. And the coun­try was giv­en an­oth­er hol­i­day.?How do we de­fine this? I say all this so that in the midst of all the eu­pho­ria we do not lose sight of our hu­man­i­ty. Feel free now to go ahead and cuss this writer.

Ty­rone Evans

Bel­mont, PoS