Bad news: we’ll have to cut back on the movies, hams, and macaroni pies because Marvin Gonzales says the price of our inconsistent, often murky water supply is going up.
Let’s see what manner of insanity is in the local news today, shall we?
Welcome to the first-ever fwiw News Roundup!
You can always count on the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds to stick his foot in his mouth The man has never met a crime controversy he didn’t want to dive into.
Ask any Trini to name the top issue facing our nation, and they’ll say it’s crime. But we actually mean crime* and there’s so much hiding under that asterisk…
What kind of person looks at a video of terrified children being shushed by their, no doubt, equally terrified teacher as gunshots ring out nearby and calls it “quite misleading”?
I wonder if we’ll ever get around to envisioning an approach to addressing our spiralling crime rate that doesn’t amount to cheering for extrajudicial killers.
Maybe it’s time to see if we can connect the dots between the violence we’re inflicting on our children and the likelihood that those children will grow up to be violent or fall victim to violence.