T his week, according to an official press statement from his office, President Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona cancelled four Xmas parties because of falling oil prices...This was bad news for some journalists and all comedians, who depend on official events to get free ham and grog and universal phone chargers. It should be noted, however, that reporters’ integrity is not compromised by getting huge hampers, since they still ask officials hard questions, like “What is the capital of Kyrgyzstan?” One TV news editor pointed out that, although he received a large bag of corn curls, he nonetheless interviewed several Government ministers about Oropouche West MP Stacy Roopnarine, and that most of them agreed she looked good in both jeans and skirts. And it’s not just reporters who have benefited from Government largesse. Even better financial news came from the Office of the Prime Minister, which this week announced that she was giving $55 million of taxpayers’ money to churches. Save for one pastor, this news has been welcomed by all devout Christians, as well as those Christians who fornicate but know God will forgive them. That lone pastor accused Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of attempting to buy out the church, to which she responded, “I would hate to think that anyone in the Christian community could be bought out.” The Prime Minister is perfectly correct, of course, since only people who hate to think would give Pastor Winston Cuffie millions of dollars for telling them Jesus healed lepers, the Earth is 6,000 years old, and yes that’s my real hair... Money has also been saved through the recent deportation of 15 Ghanaians. Emancipation Support Committee (ESC) leader Khafra Kambon had accused the Government of practising racism, although he didn’t explain how Africans from Africa are genetically different from their descendants in the Caribbean, or why they are security guards, or why none of them wears dashikis. As it turned out, Africans account for a mere four per cent of deportees from T&T, as compared to 49 per cent Guyanese and ten per cent Indians and Chinese: yet Trinis still continue to eat char siu kai fan instead of fufu. This, as several leading economists have pointed out, means less money spent on senna tea. And, if the ESC gets a few million dollars less from the Treasury next year, that will save even more in garbage removal. by Kevin Baldeosingh trinidadexpress/commentaries/Xmas-spending-explained-285555321.html
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