Grampa say Stop come Plain… Invest

GRAMPA NATHAN showed up like de proverbial “Bad Penny” No No! Not Grampa, he’s ah “Breath ah fresh air.” Firstly he couldn’t miss Renwick’s farewell service. He loved Renwick’s passion and selflessness in what was like ah pet project

of his i.e. de struggle against injustice and unrighteousness! So Grampa wants ah front seat in Met-dis Church way he could see fee he-self, and hear fee he-self all way de hippo-cripts dem have to say bout Renwick now he dead’n’gone in peace, to meet his Saviour.

He was B-zee like ah bee not much time to explain, and spoke in parables. He wants to know what happened to de $ 23-million dat de contractors at de Kingstown Port (crews-shipbirth) paid foh de sand dey dredged outside Argyle and deposited as (land-fill) in Kingstown Harbour.

Nobody like official auditors seem to have seen any document-tear-shun on dis $23 million.

Grampa Nathan say, these are de matters NDP Face Book Pull-least should be asking about instead of saying who should or should not be working wid Go-venom- mint. And while he was at it, he begging de same set ah Vin-cent-shun Face Book pull-least, to stop playing Far-reign-sick add-it-as, and ease-up on de negga-teef crity-size-him widout supporting facts, on some ah these projects.

Tek foh example, de mining of sand in North Leeward has met wid planning approval, now tell us what’s corrupt in selling de sand to de contractors working on de Can-One Project?

Secondly Grampa asked what exactly is so wrong wid de proposals foh de 30 years, (New Port) lease agreement between ah far-rain investor and Govenommint. How many of us who are commenting are willing to mortgage our property and be part of ah nah-shun-all company willing to run de new port. Can’t we trust ah new NDP regime to do what is fit and proper widout putting another “ hook in we Gill?”

And Grampa Nathan finally says, we should avoid listening to ah loser who has been deservedly or appropriately treated at de recent polls wid 14-1 beating. Dat one seat defeat on de ULP is ah pull-it-tek-ill sentance, to keep dem all languishing in fear, especially now dey hearing bout de heavy jail sentences handed down on high-profile figures, corrupt Crème’n’all politicians in de British and U.S.Virgin Islands, and Turks and Caicos.

Fair Appointment

Everybody seems quite pleased wid de PSC’s recent appointments of seven new acting PS’s to de Public Service. Lie-Za knows dem all and she approves. Although ah know only ah few, ah like how dey young and ah recommend also e .g. Ms Forbes, she lucky to survive dat corrupt ULP Add-minus- stra-shun. Donnet Hull (Architect/Town Planner) she’s like me lickle daughter.

All ah want dem to do is study again and again, de Public Service Orders, Financial Rules and Reglation and do dey wuk according to de Rules. Doh stooge or suck-up to any polly-toshun.

Well Earned Awe-wards

Ah want to personally congratulate all those Nahshunalls who would have toiled tirelessly to earn ah British or colonial Award, (KCMG. CMG, OBE) Lie-Za knows one man who will refuse de Kings Awe-ward, but if he get an Awe-ward from Russia today, he would book de passage yesterday to go collect it. All de candidates ah know who would have rivalled Jerry Scott oops! Sir Jerimiah, done dead. OBE fee Marcus my Brother in Christ, Ian Sardine’s is 20 years late. Nella De Roche Post Mistress in Can-One toiled donkey years, Dennis Forde ah think is from My-Row, ah love when Keys people get recognition.Yuh think is two hardship, surviving in de Keys. Pam Veira following her parents footstep.

Ah leave my 1954 Grammar School mate Fr Ulric Jones fee last. He gets ah well earned CMG, is only now he going pam-pahset on me. He deserves ah Knighthood foh being de only clergy-man who ever put PM Gone Soft in his place. Fr Jones we are we always! And strong or week, we will have our drink as per usual. And wid dat is gone ah gone again One Love Bassy

_ Bassy Alexander is a land surveyor, folklorist and social commentator.