Saturday, November 25 2006

A group of Trinis studying abroad has created its own Trinivote website in which it pokes fun at Prime Minister Patrick Manning and has even created two games, one which places the PM in a bathroom, standing next to a toilet set and players are urged to hit him with toilet paper.

The caricature, a short, potbellied, version of the PM tries in vain to dodge the blows while the other game entitled “Manning Stickin” on important issues like crime and inflation, urges players to grab his nipples and twirl them.

This, according to the group of foreign Trini students who claim they are willing to come home and make a positive contribution to TT but are unable to justify returning home to the high crime, is to wake him up and to get him to stop wasting the country’s oil money “frivolously.”

The group point to the “racial tension and inflationary environment that the current Government has created,” as more reasons why they cannot return home. They urge that it is time that Manning actually “come up with an effective action plan to get our great nation back on track to the good ole days.”

Urging people to participate in their website and to share their thoughts on the current situation in the country, the group feels that “the more constructive debate we provide, the more informed decision voters will make at the next general elections.” Players are first introduced to the two Manning games by clicking on two boxes which bear the colours of the red, white and black national colours.

Some of the entries listed as the top three issues facing the country are crime, the economy and the environment, while others say the problem is education, drugs, corruption, distribution of wealth, high food prices, racial tension and lack of enforcement of laws.