Crocodile tears from business owners

THE EDITOR: A fiscal guava season will never/ has never, totally ruined certain people.

Supermarkets, undertakers, gas stations and the bankers, all supply essential money making services. For year-round outstanding performance, consider the various fast food outlets, the road side bars, the doubles vendors and the whe whe bankers (legal and illegal) for keeping the economy ticking over.

I will not cry for the Supermarkets Association of Trinidad and Tobago (SATT). Call me hard hearted, but the annual, positively criminal mark ups, cover the 30 per cent pilferage and the slow down in shopping numbers. Absolutely no crying allowed on my shoulder while left-over goods from years before the US dollar problems started are being brought out from warehouses. The alleged “small man” who is open 24/7 by 365 days is no fool. The signs that read “Opening Hours: Any day, Any time” always bring a smile to my face.

We have to eat and we have to die. In between eating and dying in TT we have to drink endless alcohol and gamble just to ease the oppression of “our sufferation.” Our banks always make profits in the millions, 24/7. Just like breathing, this is what banks do.

With almost a million cars on the road, the gas station owners are lying when they cry poverty. We have no cars that run on only water. And to besides, big people in TT don’t ride bicycles. That is for toddlers and people from other third world nations. You cannot pose on a bicycle where image is everything in TT.

The unfortunate sustained spike in crime and homicides has left the funeral parlour fraternity gasping for breath and dying on their feet from over work. Call my humour macabre if you will but there are very few cheap coffins available.

So, despite the fake political news about same said fake political news, Christmas 2017 profit margins will be on track for those who squeeze our pockets, day in and day out, year round.

Merry Christmas everybody. The new year will continue to be prosperous for all entrepreneurs with enough belly.

Lynette Joseph, Diego Martin.