Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget can now add calypsonian to his resume.
Roget released his calypso The Truth during the launch of their pre-May Day march and Labour Day campaign at the OWTU headquarters in San Fernando yesterday.
Composed and sung by Roget, the calypso was produced by Junior Ibo Joseph.
Declaring that the song would become the union’s new anthem, Roget said the lyrics were based on a wide range of issues including crime, poor governance, foreign exchange, property tax, unemployment, high food prices, oil and gas production, nepotism and corruption.
In the song, Roget also expressed his dissatisfaction with the Dr Keith Rowley-led administration.
An excerpt of the lyrics to the calypso:
“Rowley shut down Petrotrin, they say not a word,
Fire, fire to Bun them,
No foreign exchange, they yet to be heard,
Fire, fire to Bun them,
Is six times he raise the gas price,
When we were producing it they had it nice,
But is protest like rain they go burn down flat, flat, flat,
If the UNC did do that,
So Stalin, light your fire, we cannot wait any longer,
Stalin time to bun them, them deceitful men and women.”
Roget also challenged the Government to deny the accuracy of the lyrics in his song.
“I challenge them to say which one of those issues, which verse or chorus is not the truth because every single thing that was sung is absolute truth,” he said.
Roget said he will be performing the calypso at the upcoming Labour Day celebrations.