Ah pound ah salt fish
Nuff and plenty to talk bout dis week. Deyâs Mr Obama black sorry, back in de White House. But Pastah christen his pick-me fuss, ley we deal wid SVG fuss, hey at home way de sins ah Dr Gone-soft and his ULP continue to catch-up wid dem.
De tangled web all began twelve years ago wid ah promised 30 per cent increase in salary. Men, desperate foh power used it to bait public servants, teachers, nurses, union leaders to block de roads, shut down de country and eventually kick-out de NDP.{{more}}
But immediately on taking command, salaries, increments, just about everyting was put on ice to freeze, mainly because ah âde bad handâ de NDP left de ULP. After ah few years, dat âpromised 30 per cent increaseâ was frozen down to 12 per cent, and today de last 3 percent dat got trapped foh two years in de e-con-ah-mek melt-down is still thawing out.
Itâs now finally or is it semi-finally, half de amount, or one-pint-five per cent; dat will be ready when de âSnow- Cone Manâ pass round foh Christmas.
Dis one-pint-five per cent bin pon de Ice foh so long, it is now âSnow-cone Change!â In terms of actual cash in hand, one-pint-five per cent foh ah wuker who gets ah thousand dollars ah month, is fifteen dollars more pon dah salary. Lie-Za say: âDat canât even pay foh ah pound ah Salt-fish sorry, cod-fish.
Public Servants will be (more) worse off wid dis âone-pint-fiveâ per cent fan-Tom increase.â But itâs all bout âWe Vin tangled webâ.
De country cannot afford to pay regular salaries far less increase wid âback-Pay.â
Things could ah bin different, if only de truth had been allowed to vent-too-late and circle-late freely from day one. Instead ah accepting and acknowledging de ailing state ah de E-con-Amy, de nation was fed prop-ah-gang-dah and given glorified stat-is-tick, and public servants and everybody sorry, people wid blind loyalty, believed and now de too-too is about to hit de fan.
What went around reach back round to haunt, NDP is taking its supporters on de street to demon-stray-it, it is like DJ-Voo do in it from de top, all over again.
NDP STRUCK GOLD WID JEWELS
Still at home, de good news in Vin-see Politics is dat Doctor Jewels Ferdinand has decided to âwalk de talk!â He will take over West St George from Say-yes Mc Key.
I have known Jewels since he was ah kid. Ah donât think he knows dat when his father, Bassy, came up from Rose Hall to attend Grammar School, he room ânâ board at my Grand Parents home, I was de baby in de house den, and when he, de older Bassy moved out on his own, in honour ah his fine manners and behave-yah, dey called me Bassy.
But Jewels is ah âRoots Man, born in Frenches, grow up in de slum, ah Paulâs Lot man, dat is probably why Jewels, wid or widout his Degrees functions at ah high (temperature).
His finest quality is dat in spite ah all his ah-Cool-Aid or is it âMiss Ferdie Mauby,â de human touch is always dey, he remains humble to de core. Dis is not ah U-la-G and all dat ah wish to say now is dat, Jewels is first and foremost ah âBeliever in Christ, note ah didnât say Christian, ah fraid dem too bad; secondly, he is ah committed family man, he donât run round, other people wid his statch-her would ah had ah lickle woe-man all over de place.
Thirdly, Patriot-is-him and he has proven dat he has skills and ability wid ah willingness to serve selflessly when called upon.
NDP struck gold when dey got Jewels to come on board! Ah wish Jewels all de best in his pool-it-to-call career.
BLACK SORRY⦠BACK IN DE WHITE HOUSE
Unlike pry minister gone- soft, Obama came clean from day one when he took office. He got ah bad hand from Bushâs legacy, he told de nation âlike it isâ and did what he had to do, ah menial task, ah lot ah dirty wuk. He was like ah farmer given ah contract to restore farm-lands dat had become overgrown wid forest and wild animals.
His contract was in two halves; so farmer Obama spent trillions clearing down dis huge death in de first phase ah his contract. But now dat he ready foh phase two ah de contract to plough de lands and get de crops growing again; de wealthy land owners donât want farmer Obama black sorry, back to finish he contract.
But some ah farmer Obama seeds fell on fertile soil way de minority: âde woe-men, de youths, de hiss-panic, de blacks, de wukers in de bail-out automobile industry in Ohioâ saw and felt de race-is-him, dey come-bind dey forces, dey refused to meet Rum-knee but mek sure dat farmer Obama completes de two phases ah his contract.
Sad to say dat SVG and de USA got something in common way both countries pull-it-to-kill-he divided badly down de middle. In de USA itâs about Race; in SVG de Race is about Looks and Colour, who got de Looks of ah Jesus Face; and if yuh colour happen to be Yellow and not Red, yuh better got ah darn good excuse.
And wid dat is gone ah gone again.
One Love Bassy.
Bassy Alexander is a land surveyor, folklorist and social commentator.
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