Caribzone Commentary SUPER SUNDAY HYPE. PATRICK, SHAKIRA AND J-LO

By Aubrey Campbell

NEW YORK, NY. Tuesday, February 4, 2020 --To say that January went out with a bang might be an understatement. It was quite an interesting weekend, to say the least.

The American Football season ended with a super big party at the Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens and what a fiesta is was. As brilliant as MVP Patrick Mahomes was, in getting his team into the end zone more times than the opposition, the game on the field paled in comparison to the onstage mechanics of Jenny from the Bronx and sister Shakira.

And after all that side to side shaking and gyrating, we can say with certainty that the hips don’t lie.

It was a good Sunday afternoon to be watching broadcast television. Indeed, there is some sense in the event being billed as ‘Super Sunday’.

Contrast that with the constitutional circus in Washington, DC. and the sense of let down that must have overcome the American landscape on learning that in fact, POTUS Donald J. Trump will be given a free pass by the cajones-less US Senate to continue lying and cheating his way, through to Super Tuesday!

Then, it will be up to the American people to put him out of his misery, like the one, exhibited on Sunday, in not knowing that Kansas City is, in fact, part and parcel of another state and not a state by itself.

Shame on you, Donald and hail to the Kansas City Chiefs!

Switching gears.

Dr. Peter Phillips was in town to connect with the Diaspora, a sign to many that election is in the air. And while that may be news to some, Fitz Jackson, the party’s spokesman on national security, confirmed that to me during our Saturday morning radio interview.

For whatever the reason, I was disappointed in that after confirming that I would, in fact, be interviewing the party leader, his handlers/schedulers baited and then switched on me at the last minute, and so the questions I had for the good doctor, after weeks of prepping, had to be ditched.

But a visit by such a high-ranking delegation from the Opposition PNP should be taken for what it is. The Diaspora is super important in the national development index.

This bold approach of, ‘no representation, no taxation’, is beginning to resonate, as it should. I am being made to understand that persons who were elected to the new global Diaspora council are still in the dark as to what they really sign on to.

But even more interesting is the fact that after the ministry expended so much resource and manpower to promote the new set up, nothing has been done by the overseas mission – Consulate, Embassy – to now officially introduce the representatives to the community!

The more things change, the more they remain the same. I kid you not!

Case in point. Three words. Caribbean Maritime University (CMU). Does it ring a bell, any bell?

Well, the Auditor General’s Report (AGR) is pointing the finger of corruption at the Diaspora, the same Diaspora that is always complaining of being left out of meaning dialogue regarding investment opportunities on the island.

Where there is smoke, there is fire!

Here it is now that the AGR is that all protocols were thrown out the window when a company out of Florida, was given a lucrative contract to supply material for the construction of buildings on the University campus, even after the deadline for contract submission had passed, and all because the head of the company is head of the Diaspora Task Force on Education and an aspiring politician!

A bid is accepted long after closing. The contract is signed and large sums of money are paid out in advance of work and all we can hear from the head of the BSS company is that it was all a matter of coincidence!

To that, I will say, bull shit!

Yet another difficult Diaspora pill to swallow!

You have the floor…!

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