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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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00:00 [Music]
00:18 Start your day with a morning brew of coffee in one hand.
00:24 Sweat glands dance across your forehead but you forge ahead to start your day on the veranda.
00:30 The Guardian newspaper in the other hand.
00:33 Now you have a handle on the situations you start to settle down.
00:38 The spittle of coffee downed on your finger as you linger through your gallery Guardian Gazette daily edition.
00:46 The headlines read
00:49 TNT is not a real place.
00:54 Reels icy uphead lining the ground face down bleeding a coat of red to the road like paint.
01:01 Pain on either side of the cement as if the national flag was an actual representation of how blood is shed on both sides of the road of the nation.
01:10 Rolled and brushed onto the monochrome paper with monotone behavior.
01:16 But nothing about this is a black and white situation.
01:22 Return the page to see a sore sight for eyes.
01:27 The sea and shore fight their plight each article articulated as a ransom note.
01:34 The ocean a prisoner pleading for their life.
01:37 A rhythmic drumming of the waters beating trying to send a white noise warning.
01:42 Strumming of the ocean as it meets the crystalline shore and sings how much it adores eroding.
01:48 The sound of waves gagged by white plastic bags bound at the bottom by white bottles and cartons.
01:57 Turtles drowning in eutrophicated waters but you deserve a trophy for nutrient accumulation.
02:04 The ocean's children choke on the smoke of our forefathers inventions.
02:10 Profitating on the white caps and straws.
02:13 We pass the baton blame like it's a relay race.
02:17 Trying to make it past the finish line before our actions capture up to us so we can leave it for the next generation.
02:25 We generate shown as a classified ad.
02:28 Waiting for someone to respond to come to our aid and accept our offer.
02:33 Turn the page to advertise with us today.
02:37 All the black and white blocks of job offers for the unemployment line doesn't get lower.
02:43 The page views of obituaries got longer.
02:46 Covid used to be our daily subscriber.
02:49 Changing its wording ever so delicately daily.
02:53 The longest bitch with the story.
02:56 Turn the page more negativity.
02:59 Turn the page more gory.
03:01 Next page no glory.
03:06 Covers one, write a letter to the editor to get back some more positivity.
03:12 To get back to our daily dose of cultural diversity and family.
03:18 When you would read the news with your kids playing in the park and not be worried.
03:23 Hurrying to get our papers to not just read the sports section.
03:28 But for each win to be plastered on the cover to relish the moment and movement for better.
03:36 So every call from overseas family doesn't sound like our analysis or country crime channel.
03:42 Close the page.
03:46 TNT is not a real place.
03:50 But the fire when we step out for carnival and the energy of the people feels very real to me.
03:57 The friendliness from the people on the street and the sexiness in the way in which we speak feels real indeed.
04:04 A plea to really.
04:06 Because if TNT is not a real place then it's a call for action for us to open a new edition of the Guardian newspaper.
04:15 If not now, then when?
04:18 If not me, then who will be Trinidad and Tobago's new story for the headline cover?
04:28 The Guardian newspaper.
04:33 The Guardian newspaper.
04:38 The Guardian newspaper.
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