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Sugar Aloes, Cro Cro, what about these?

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

As I reflect on the innumerable social/political commentaries made via the calypso artform, I wonder how come I have never heard songs composed by calypso stalwarts Sugar Aloes and Cro Cro on the following issues:
• Calder Hart sitting on five state boards and earning millions of dollars and running off unscathed.
• The Udecott fiasco that Dr Keith Rowley had said stinks to the highest heavens.
• Hazel Manning, spouse of a sitting prime minister, being appointed a senator and minister. Nepotism at its finest.
• 9,000 former Caroni workers still waiting for promised land.
• $1.5 billion contractor debt from the Manning administration.
• $20 billion Clico crisis and role of a former finance minister.
• The unsettled wage negotiations with some unions that were inherited?

I ask this because Cro Cro was very colourful in his depictions of people like former veteran journalist/former adviser to AG Ramlogan, Clevon Raphael and social activist Hazel Brown in his composition for 2011. I am hoping that he and Sugar Aloes will tactfully as always compose something on the PNM misdeeds for the last eight years (2002-2010). After all, what is good for the goose should be good for the gander. I wait with bated breath.

Anne-Marie Redman
Tacarigua

 

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