Dear Nesta,
I hope you alright, ’cause summuch t’ings happenin’ ’bout de worl’ nowadays yuh don’ know ef yuh comin’ or gine! Anyway, I always say, de mos’ important t’ing is good healf an’ as long as dah awright, yuh could deal wid anyt’ing else dat might turn up to confuse yuh!
I been readin’ ’bout all de commotion students causin’ up dey – marchin’ t’rough de streets in London to protes’ plans to raise university tuition fees t’ree times higher dan befo’. I wonder how we students would tek dah? I see even de lecturers and ethuh supporters seem to be ’pon de students side an’ went marchin’ as well.
But to enter de lobby o’ Conservative Headquarters to do wuhevah damage duh could seem to be goin’ a bit far. I see dis jump in fees is all part o’ de “austerity measures” guvment tryin’ to put in place to get de country back ’pon track, an’ aldoh it might be necessary, whenevuh people got to face any sort o’ change in duh lifestyle, tempers start to rise an’ duh get vex an’ don’ be slow to show it.
Now, I en no big brains, but it look to me as ef we Bajans gine ha’ to go t’rough some kine o’ change in we lifestyle soon an’ I lookin’ to see de reactions. Yuh know how it is wif yooman nature – kiss yuh one day an’ kick yuh de nex’. Emotions could change in a flash an’ I only hope when we stop cryin’, we don’ start cussin’ whoevah got de job o’ tryin’ to straighten out we problems!
I don’ t’ink I would like to be dah body, faif, as
I en t’ink my back strong enuff to tek any o’ dem blows dat might explode, ’specially when de Budget come out! Dah ’pon evahbody mine dese days as to when we gine get it, an’ wid Chris’mas ’roun’ de corner, we never know wuh is to happen!
De Prime Minister an’ ’e team better move smart wid it, befo’ de tears dry up an’ frowns start to come back, ’specially when people got to go in de supermarket. From wuh I could see, de new Opposition Leader en gine hesitate to start p’intin’ out all de reasons as to why – in he opinion – we in dis mess, so it look like we in fuh some good fun an’ games!
Ness, politics ’pon dis li’l rock always got muh smiling! I don’ know wuh kine o’ example we settin’ youngsters ’bout hey a-tall! Imagine, a senator could resign, lef’ de scene fuh a while an’ return an’ rise back up like nutten never happen! ’E t’ink people memories dat short? Humpty Dumpty should check wid ’e to fine out how to get put togedduh agen ’cause, po’ fella, all like now he still tryin’ to get he pieces put back in place!
Now, over in Trinidad, de lady PM Kamla recently mek some rather onfortunate remarks an’ evah sence she been gettin’ licks like peas, not only from she Opposition, but all ’cross de Caribbean!
De recent hurricane Tomas, mash up St Lucia an’ St Vincent – crops all gone – an’ de leaders been axin’ fuh aid. Kamla en refusin’ to help, but when talkin’ ’bout any aid dat might be possible, it come ’cross, to all but a few, dat she expeck Trinidad would benefit from it in some way as well.
She say she get misrepresent, but dah fall ’pon deaf ears. Tell de troof, she mek it soun’ as ef anyt’ing Trinidad gi’e ’way comin’ wif some sort o’ strings attach! I en know ef she got regrets but sence de flare-up, she been travellin’ ’bout tryin’ to get aid fuh dem same islan’s dat now vex wid she! One way to cool down tempers, I suppose!
– Tek care o’ yuhs