Gentle Peoples -

So for who still caught up with Germany, and not watchin' all de construction that going on around... remember, Cricket World Cup (CWC) will be in de West Indies this in 2007!!! Forget Euro trip and study Island hopping. 51 Matches, 47 days in 8 Countries. Opening game: West Indies VS Pakistan, Sabina Park, Kingston Jamaica. So like all International sporting events, one setta man done organizing dey business. Meh partner from Oz done tell meh he have he super 6 tickets (hoping dey qualify dat far) and meh Indian bredren askin if I know somebody he could crash by in Guyana. Ah do de Trini ting, and ah tell him just keep a bottle ah rum and a soft sponge in he backpack! So ah see one setta stories bout de prostitutes in Europe. Apparently there was a major move by cities to supply dat demand to de World Cup Fans in Germany. But ah get real shock when ah hear that de working ladies was trying to follow de spectators to de 'Caribee' (as we does call de Caribbean) for some between game action. Barbados was approached these hard wokking ladies and braced dem with ah big "No" ... explaining that this business not legal in de 'Caribee' ... as least not yet!! Dr. Denzil, PM of St. Kitts and Nevis come out vex and warning that any commercial sex workers will not be welcomed to the shores and anyone caught engaging in such activities will be proscuted to de full extend of de law. I just appreciate the fact dat de ladies actually had the courtesy to ask first!!

An for who just like to be on de band wagon for de good times, start tuh get yuh West Indies brans together, just last weekend gone in Malaysia, de West Indies throw down India in de 2nd match of de DLF Cup.

Talking bout welcome to de shores, ah hear a man say, "Ohh gosh, dat was de first aeroplane dat I ever fly on!" We stop and tink bout it and realize dat it was de same for we too. Living in de Caribbean flying and BWIA come like paint and Penta. But finally, Like Pan Am who gone long time, de mark finally bus fuh Bwee. Sometime in the next few months they ga be permanently shuttin dey door because for some reason de forever sellout airline cyah turn a dollar. Now as puzzling as that might sound, here is the odd part. A brand new airline is going to take over right after... it will be based in Piarco, honor all existing Bwee ticketed customers, including transferring ya coveted frequent flyer miles. This new airline will be called "Caribbean Airlines." Now de T&T government own 97% of Bwee... and they plan to spend all kinda money (dat dey describe as "a substantial capital injection") to get de new airline up and running. All I hearing is same 'too too' ... different name + de injection.

And well, talk bout bitter sweet, but ah guess enough is enough. Former head of the UNC finally, after all de months of political headlines, leave de UNC and guess wha? De man start he own party... so now Winston Dookeran is de head of the Congress of the People (COP). When asked to have an accommodation with the COP, Ole Bas after cheups'in at de idea say, "The only place they're (COP) going is the political cemetery." Despite de fact that plenty UNC MPs done ride out to join Dookeran, de honorable Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj describes Winston Dookeran and he new party as "politically impotent." We will wait fuh election time to see if de government we get is de one that we want.

Sooooooo, on de brink of their one year anniversary as a cable channel in T&T, Cable News Channel 3 (CNC3) seem to have pulled off either a great publicity stunt OR a major blunder. Now apparently this is one of those ole talk dat spreading like a serious bush fire on a windy day in de middle ah dry season. So yuh either know or will find out soon. While ah lookin fuh meh neighbor to rant bout de stress dat Central Bank causing de nation over de inflation that we facing since they lockin down de TT Dollar from freely floating with de USD... I end up talking bout who is 'saga boy', and who is 'ole ting'. And so is de life in de Caribee! So it have ah man... that we ga call "Mr. X" for confidentiality reasons. Mr. X is one of the recent transfers from CCN TV6 to CNC3. Mr. X happen tuh be one ah dem male night news anchors. But it seem like Mr. X doh stop wit TV and de news, Mr. X into all kinds of media. We would describe the actions of Mr. X as either Pam and Tommy Lee or Paris Hilton or we personal favorite good ole Pat O'Brien (host of The Insider on CBS), dat is classic (click here for more on Pat)!! Needless to say, some fine digital photography find itself out of the personal possession of Mr. X and his "many" lady friends and into the inboxes of a fast growing internet savvy populace of T&T local and abroad. Now there are a few things that ah find so amazing. When this package arrive, it does come from a nice chain of people... some more careful than others. eg. forwarding the package from your work mail isn't good. While some people have de courtesy to send de package to one recipient, others bold face, bold face and like a scandal sending de ting to scores of folks... so a good part of we kicks is watching de string of people who handing off de package, and it nothing short of hilarious!! All kinda company logo and manager signature with full contact info get caught up in de forwards, as recipients and senders... just lovely!

All we could say for now is gentle people of the Caribbean and de World... be careful. As Ben Parker tell he nephew, "With great power comes great responsibility" ... maybe he wasn't referring to de internet, BUT it sure does apply!!

In fine Late Show tradition, here is de TJJ Top Five ways tuh deal with an undesired photo release:
5. Act normal like nuttin ent happen, go to work, smile wit people, tell jokes at de water cooler
4. If you get a email with "YOUR FAVORITE REPORTER!" in de subject... doh open it at work, and if yuh is too big a macco tuh not open de ting... try yuh best tuh not forward it on from yuh wok e-mail a/c
3. Some ole time saying about ah woman scorned... look it up, it might help yuh find where "de levee break"
2. R Kelly had listen to Shaggy... no matter what just say, "It wasn't me!"
1. Don't take advice from CrazyTrini85 (See our June 2nd, 2006 Newsletter)

Til de next time my Caribbean people.

Dr. Ram Dass,
Trini Jungle Juice Team

TJJ tells it as it is, no opinions, no justifications, always jus reporting free from 'fear' or 'favoritism'.

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