Standing in my shoes and wondering

THE EDITOR: So, a review of headlines tells the story of a sad country.

The Fair Trading Commission says it will “look at” high prices, that will surely continue to rise. Is this the same commission that said a company importing pharmaceuticals which bought out its competitors wasn’t creating a monopoly?

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Trade says there’s nothing it can do about rising prices.

Remember having watchdogs that watched burglars come and watched burglars go?

Our Minister of Education meanwhile says low scores in the SEA exam was because of online classes. Surely she means the “lack” of access to online classes? Remember when there was a joke about BS, more BS and piled higher and deeper?

Anyone living in TT during the pandemic knew that there was a report of about 2,000 students “dropping off” the online portal...and thousands more not even being online. Surely they told the minister?

Is anyone else wondering how ministers get appointed? Is there a hiring process? Do they have to prove that they know something about the ministry for which they are being considered? Or are they all selected like a particular minister – especially because they “know nothing,” as the PM said?

And I stood in my shoes and wondered…(adapted from The Naughty Boy poem by John Keats).

ANNE DE SILVA

St Joseph