A business goes up in fire in Arima and before the smoke clears a note is taken to Cabinet to distribute one million dollars to the affected employees.
Meanwhile, payment is yet to be made to the family of the police officer slain in the line of duty recently when a couple men shot their way out of the Port-of-Spain prison. Nor has anyone been held responsible for introducing the firearms to that institution which were used in the brazen escape; despite several people being suspended, no one was charged.
One can only surmise that their suspension will continue for a few years after which time they will be reinstated.
Neither has payment been made to the family of the police officer killed in the Rio Claro forest, where a helicopter took two and a half hours to respond.
So it is evident that the Government with their myriad dysfunctional agents and agencies, like the office of the CPO, which literally takes years to resolve issues, can expedite matters when it conveniently serves their purpose.
It is amazing that while the Board of Inland Revenue take years to resolve matters of taxation and issues in gratuities for contract employees, or retirees, we see that the Government can and do have the uncanny ability to cut through their own bureaucratic yellow ribbons when it serves their purpose; like pulling out all stops to win an election.
What I find amazing is that year-in year-out legislation to address noise pollution cannot be drafted. And after having being assaulted with what passes for political campaigning in the past couple weeks in this asylum, it is evident why neither of the traffic light political parties (red, green or yellow) would ever seek to put laws in place to deal with the excessive noise, despite the sorry, toothless bulldog, the EMA.
Putting laws in place to deal with noise would work against the interest of the political parties, since they are the greatest violators of disturbing the peace with their big trucks and loudspeakers all hours of the day and night.
Rudy Paul Sr,
D'abadie