What the ‘Yuk’

YUK. 3 letters, all uppercase, that Dr Rowley utilized to sign off a Friday, October 16, social networks post. He implicated the Government of attempting to “tief credit” for the unveiling of the ANR Robinson International Airport when it was under his management that the job began. The country needs to be advised of who is worthy of credit for lastly modernising the airport on a tourism-dependent island, thank you extremely much. Nobody is worthy of credit for doing the most apparent things. A minimum of, even in his post-PM days, he continues to offer us a remarkable minute. Submit “Yuk” under “hasikara”, “jhanjat”, and a crowd-favourite–“since midnight tonight'”.

Yuk appears to summarize our whole mysterious minute of a nation that may be missing out on a couple of screws. Yuk is not simply a word, Yuk is life. Who understands, it may even be amongst the mottos for the PNM in the next basic election. It currently made its method on to a placard throughout the trade union progress October 30 which the National Trade Union Centre’s basic secretary attempted to assert was not about politics or race. The Opposition Leader was leading the procession when simply 2 days previously, on October 28, the Laventille West MP called the Prime Minister an “old, senile, wicked and wicked female” and implicated her of running a “racist, apartheid” routine. Yuk.

The march itself appeared underwhelming, with one aerial picture in specific going viral since it appeared there weren’t even sufficient individuals to fill a “long maxi”. Either the coordination wasn’t sufficient or not sufficient individuals troubled to appear. It states something about our nationwide condition when the present state of the country is not able to influence a public and cumulative screen of discontentment. Once again, Friday was pay day and the Avenue does be pumping on a weekend– so, concerns.

Not even a lady being assailed and battered by a group of males in the parking area of an extremely hectic primary roadway and in front of a bakeshop or the murders of 2 females at a medical spa (a declared hit put on the victims– one a 55-year-old company owner, the other a 67-year-old consumer) sufficed to trigger a nationwide discussion about simply just how much more abhorrent the criminal activities have actually ended up being. Days before that double murder, a heist of another company took place in the very same structure. 2 birds, one stone– obviously.

Our Yuk minute is now marked by pins and needles to today and desperation for something we still have no concept how it will be operationalised. I would have believed the Special Operations Bill (SOB) was up and prepared to go, however we appear to have actually reached the point of pass costs initially, determine how they will work later on.

It’s not like you required to have an operating brain efficient in viewing good sense to identify that criminal activity has actually been intensifying with no end in sight for a long time now. I would have believed that the celebration looking for to return into power would have a totally considered criminal offense strategy prepared to release on the occasion that they entered into power. It may be a case of enter federal government initially, determine how it will work later on.

Of the mobile joint patrols that were to be the beacon of the magnificent crime-fighting technique, the one in Goodwood, Tobago, was stated non-operational 2 weeks ago due to “facilities issues” and “soil disintegration”. A mobile post currently sinking down and SOB just formally entered into result on October 6, 2026. Even the environment is responding to our Yuk.

Alas, there has actually been an intense stimulate just recently amidst all the Yuk: our females’s nationwide group went unbeaten at the Americas Netball World Cup Qualifiers. They likewise received the Netball World Cup. I confess I wasn’t mindful that a World Cup for netball existed, however we remain in no position to be particular with the wins when we get them. It looks like a long period of time given that we had a “win” at a sporting occasion. The Trinbago Knight Riders ended up dead last in the 2026 CPL, and last October the nationwide football group was relegated from League A to League B of the Concacaf Nations League. They’re called the Carnival Kings now, by the method. The group has actually been losing a lot that it even lost its name after they stopped working to reach a monetary contract with the hallmark owner of “Soca Warriors”. Yuk.

The netball group captain advocated nationwide financing and across the country assistance. On the balance of things with an underwhelming CPL season and an under-performing FIFA World Cup Qualifying and Nations League project, the netballers are deserving of their demand. And who understands– if the Ministry of Sport were to reroute some much required financing for what has actually shown to be a powerful group, and if they were to have another favorable proving at the Netball World Cup, the Government can not be implicated of attempting to “tief credit”. It would have been their choice.

While we await comparable excellent news, nevertheless little or scarce, it does not appear that out existing minute of Yuk can be left anytime quickly. A minimum of the initial step towards resolving an issue is to confess that an issue exists. Up until more concrete action can be taken, the most significant thing to do may be to keep calling out the Yuk.

– Dr De Matas is an assistant teacher at the University of Texas Medical Branch.