The recolonization of the Caribbean

The good news is that my generation will soon be dead.
Di sellouts can deal with what’s coming.

I cannot understand how after all that has gone on since the Gulf War and especially in the last 10 years, that folks that still adopt the attitude of ‘nah that won’t happen here’…

In reply to Chrissy

But you enjoyed and benefited from the Colonial Masters in BG while we were left with nation building post Independence

In reply to StumpCam
Huh?
Go read The West on Trial.
Pure sellouts run tings these days.
Dat drunken woman is pathetic

In reply to Chrissy

Very powerful, Doc.
it is a pity not many discussions on such sensitive issue, here.

In reply to Halliwell

I would like to know if that boat was really a drugboat

And even so, why not apprehend them and so prove

And if not so, can’t they designate any boat as a drugboat and blow it up?

In reply to sudden

It was definitely a drug boat..4 engines on a large pirogue is a dead giveaway..seemed to be on a mixed run with contrabando and gang affiliated personnel looking to enter Trinidad illegally as is the norm.

They've been killing us for years with that, it is indeed a testament to Trinidad's restraint and pushback by authorities even though seemingly inadequate at times that our crime rates are not even higher..they're killing us bro.

Personally I am no fan of US foreign policy of bullying and the deadly illegal attack but it's intersting as a Trini to see such decisive action taken against a scourge that has been wreaking havoc here for years ..

So my take on it is as long as their actions are focused and limited to adressing all that well how can I complain ??? We have already been at war here for years upon years fueled by a steady and ridicolous flow of Vene contraband and criminals . Sure I'm weary of that very fine line and all the possible negatives down the road, but for now I hope for the best .

In reply to bravos

A very fine line you seem to be treading since Trump

I hope it doesn’t pop

Yet

Quiñonez shared details of the operation during the programme Por La Mañana on TVV Noticias on September 4, as reported by another media outlet, El Pitazo, on September 5.The report quoted Quiñonez as saying, "Yes, they were both given the chance, the helicopter flew over them, put the light in front of them."Apart from drugs, he claimed the crew was also carrying weapons.According to sources, the boat left Sucre State on August 31 and was bound for Trinidad.The boat allegedly carried 11 men, eight of whom were residents of San Juan de Unare.It cited journalist and researcher Ronna Risquez as saying that the San Juan de Unare area is associated with drug trafficking.

El Pitazo states that its sources indicated that the vessel was a speed boat, 12 meters long by 2.5 meters wide, with four 200-horsepower engines. It states that sources claimed two other boats, loaded with drugs left the island and passed along the same route without being intercepted.

In a similar report by Luis Francisco Orozco from the US-based media outlet Voz on September 4, Quiñonez revealed intercepted communication in which crew members allegedly said the US "would not have the guts to use force against them.

Typical fishin Boat San Fernando

what i find interesting people have more sympathy for drug dealers and dictators than their victims

In reply to Chrissy

it was inevitable. In 1939/40, Dr Eric Williams organized a conference at Howard University involving economists from the US, Cuba and Puerto Rico and the consensus was that if the islands of the Caribbean went into independence by themselves, and not in a federal form, they would always be at the receiving end of ideological/economic shifts of larger, more developed states. The conference was actually compiled into a publication called The Economic Future of the Caribbean. Meanwhile, international media houses and a few idiot journalists in the Caribbean dangle the Singapore and Japan models in front of the desperate, gullible and woefully ignorant trying to sell us these are reasonable examples to follow, without impressing on those feeble minds the night and day differences in context

In reply to sudden



Quite a phenomenon looking a fellas twist themselves into pretzels as they enjoy the apparent impunity/ lack of accountability as they try to live their own desires out vicariously through the orange blob. Forget law and order, forget justice, forget human decency...only white might is right.

A lot of armchair bullshit talk and judgement there from people who aren't being affected and have no clue what T&T has been going through at the hands of these renegade pirates. ..

In reply to bravos

Aren't you the no war guy ..in love wid de no war pruhzedent?? If there ever was an armchair Bullshitter. ����

In reply to Cheeks
You nailed it.
And the best part of the entire mess can be studied with the US links to the RW militias in Latin America, South America and the Caribbean their guaranteed visas, and the guns for drugs promoted in the 1980s and 1990s.
Peeps here need to read up on Iran-contra and the US’ best friend in Panama.
Interests not friends - wake up people,
.

We have woken up to the fact that the current action can help solve a decades old problem that's only getting worse . So far this is a war on Vene Cartels and it suits some of us just fine. Apart from the possible llegal neutralization of the smuggler boat everything else is just speculation..

You have no clue how much random cocaine and bodies wash up on our beaches, sometimes hundreds of kilos, and then you have villagers and all kinds of usually normal people going crazy looking for and collecting bricks, and that's only when things go wrong, we are dealing with tons of drugs and tons of guns arriving from Venezuela everyday .

Everyone not affected sees all kinds of negatives and hope for the best, some of us see the positives and hope for the best. No one knows what the final outcome would be not even the US . It's all speculatuon, just different flavors.

In reply to Chrissy

When it's convenient they forget. History means nothing to some these days!

In reply to sudden

All good questions and simply answer is.... and I answered this months ago that DJT is running the US government as a big distraction to what is truly going on behind the scenes. This is 3D distraction in a hyper environment where a real problem is hijacked to suit some strategic agenda. The point is the cruelty, a show, build a narrative, a pretext, then execute against that pretext. You can't put dead men on trial and they are only drug dealers, so no one should care that the US used a tomahawk missile to blow up a speed boat with 11 drug dealers. Laws and human rights be damned. US wants Venezuelan oil, they tried regime change-it failed. So they are going go take it the plain old fashioned way or perhaps remove any agitation that might threaten the oil they have the rights to own. And if blowing up a speed boat that can distract from everything else, Epstein files, failing tariffs policy, weakening job numbers and failing US economy, who cares.

In reply to bravos

Bravs you identified the problem. Focused "there" today and "here" tomorrow but by then "there'll be no one to speak for me"

In reply to Chrissy

Two days after Jamaica's 1980 elections I personally walked through an aircraft that was getting ready for take-off. The passengers were all political goons who had terrorized the nation and were rewarded with entry to the US. They later became Shower Posse Soldiers. Is TNT's drug/crime problem in part a resort US destabilization of Vene? Are they trying to solve a problem they created and breaking the law to do so? No one here is showing sympathy for drug dealers. We're simply saying
Don't stop law-breaking by breaking the law
Beware US action because today for me tomorrow for you.
When US action backfires it affects you more than them such as the impact of Shower Posse's Intel crime rings effect on Yard.