Great excitement from the Minister of Works and the TNT Police: Speed guns are here and everyone from May 2 will have to drive within the speed limit or pay $1,000 for breaking the speed limit of 80 kilometres an hour. There are no more than six in the country and I believe that they have been around for some time, but now is the time for the great fanfare.
Persons accustomed to seeing these guns abroad would know that they are no bigger than a hair dryer and where every cop can at anytime and anywhere use them. But in true Trini style we have to be different as ours require a tripod.....Like it's a movie we making. So expect to see a large contingent of police officers, army personnel and a few cars when they are setting up to catch the speeding motorists....not to mention the 'maco' traffic such 'gatherings' create.
Then we are told that the image of a speeding car can be emailed to another group of officers somewhere lower down where they can pull aside the speeder and issue the ticket. Someone, no doubt, forgot to tell them that Internet service does not work properly throughout the country.
But here is the biggest joke! Someone forgot to publish the notice in the Gazette so they will have to get another start-up date. Oh well the popular expression "wheel, wheel, wheel" used by soca artiste on stage is most appropriate here.
Clarke Peters