Mr Chin say Trini Angry !

[MaxPower]

Raise the prices, the 1% have to eat too...and allyuh WILL pay it

[hydroep]

A large segment of his market is the "Status" crowd.

So he could raise prices and people will still go. Just as how another business raise coffee and doughnut prices yet people seem to buying more than ever.

Recession? What recession?...

[Numb3r4]

^^^ Hydro on point there I am always left wondering when I'm out....we don't seem to be concerned about money the way people are spending.

Does anyone know the amount of debt that the average household/person carries? That might be an interesting figure to find out.

Haagen Daaz has raised prices a 1 Scoop is now $20.00+ and the brownies are now about the same up from about $18.00.

Don't know if Starbucks has raised their prices, but the cheapest thing there is the brownie @ $20.00 las time I checked (I admit that was a while now). The cheapest beverage was the hot tea. It isn't a bad deal to buy the largest size as they give you two tea bags that can be reused if you bring it home or in the office or such. They are pretty good tea bags.

[racedriverpro]

Last few posts says it all

[88sins]

^^^ Hydro on point there I am always left wondering when I'm out....we don't seem to be concerned about maney the way people are spending.

Does anyone know the amount of debt that the average household/person carries? That might be an interesting figure to find out.

Haagen Daaz has raised prices a 1 Scoop is now $20.00+ and the rownies are now about the same up from about $18.00.

Don't know if Starbucks has raised their prices, but the cheapest thing there is the brownie @ $20.00 las time I checked (I admit that was a while now). The cheapest beverage was the hot tea. It isn't a bad deal to buy the largest size as they give you two tea bags that can be reused if you bring it home or in the office or such. They are pretty good tea bags.

ched went from trini angry to trini sufferer in one fell swoop wit dis

[pugboy]

Lolllll

[Numb3r4]

^^^ Hydro on point there I am always left wondering when I'm out....we don't seem to be concerned about maney the way people are spending.

Does anyone know the amount of debt that the average household/person carries? That might be an interesting figure to find out.

Haagen Daaz has raised prices a 1 Scoop is now $20.00+ and the rownies are now about the same up from about $18.00.

Don't know if Starbucks has raised their prices, but the cheapest thing there is the brownie @ $20.00 las time I checked (I admit that was a while now). The cheapest beverage was the hot tea. It isn't a bad deal to buy the largest size as they give you two tea bags that can be reused if you bring it home or in the office or such. They are pretty good tea bags.

ched went from trini angry to trini sufferer in one fell swoop wit dis

Things hard.....

[Miktay]

Mr. Chin only have ole talk.

Wht iz he doing about it?

[Numb3r4]

I think he might raise either box office or concessions......

[randolphinshan]

Not affected 4 in 1 dvd dude here.

[No_Name]

The solution is to relocate Beetham Gardens .

It is a failed community by any standard .

Adolf is that you?

Yet when Patos wanted to wall it off like the Warsaw ghetto, you weren't offended?

But it is time to relocate . The project did not work.

Build factories and warehouses for jobs .

Relocation would just shift The Problem to another Community...
Eradicate is what yuh really mean...

[RedVEVO]

The solution is to relocate Beetham Gardens .

It is a failed community by any standard .

Adolf is that you?

Yet when Patos wanted to wall it off like the Warsaw ghetto, you weren't offended?

But it is time to relocate . The project did not work.

Build factories and warehouses for jobs .

Relocation would just shift The Problem to another Community...
Eradicate is what yuh really mean...

No, no, no,

Gov't need to remove Beetham & Sea Lots from their strategic location which connects EVERYBODY into & out of the Capital - POS

It is a serious National Security issue - and threat as we have seen . This is NOT the first time this has happened.

Gov't need to relocate Beetham & Sea Lots law abiding citizens to better accommodations.

Then build warehouses and factories and employ people .

[MaxPower]

^ Employ people?

I dont understand. Why cant they find jobs now? Or is it they cant find a nice job? If they are not showing the initiative to work, what is the output when given jobs? It would be a total waste. These people must be interviewed like everyone else and they must be placed on strict probation. If they cannot make the grade yuh dont get paid....the failed individuals must be eradicated.

[zoom rader]

^ Employ people?

I dont understand. Why cant they find jobs now? Or is it they cant find a nice job? If they are not showing the initiative to work, what is the output when given jobs? It would be a total waste. These people must be interviewed like everyone else and they must be placed on strict probation. If they cannot make the grade yuh dont get paid....the failed individuals must be eradicated.

You don't even hire ppl that support and vote PNM.

Once you vote PNM it shows you have some sort of mental illness

[88sins]

^ Employ people?

I dont understand. Why cant they find jobs now? Or is it they cant find a nice job?

Here's a little experiment you could try.
Put on a nice shirt, tie, slacks & shoes, walk into any store in POS, & say you looking for work & are qualified & capable of filling a position, & then tell them you living in Beetham gardens/Picton/Sea Lots/Nelson street/Mango rose and see how many peoples facial expressions change when they hear your address. You will literally see & feel your chances of getting the position ebbing away.
Now, imagine a ghetto youth dressing as he usually does, speaking as he usually does, doing the exact same thing as you.

Still wondering why they can't find a job?

& theres more to it than just the stigma attached to where they live, but it's the first hurdle they have to overcome. It have plenty ppl living in beetham, laventille, etc, that have found that they literally HAVE lie about their address if they want a job.

it is what it is.

[MaxPower]

^ ok well that is very true, most business places wont really want people residing in certain areas...u give them wrong? People cause that among themselves and they vex when they dont get attention...annoying cries of racism...they can make it better, they just choose not to. The want the food brought to them without raising a finger.

Anyways 88, i see where u getting at, but answer this...if u were from beetham and u cant get a company to employ you....what will you do for income? How will u go out there and get that dollar?

[88sins]

I would say that BOTH sides are wrong & could use some change, the ghetto youth for looking and acting & thinking the way they do, as well as the potential employer needs to learn that not everybody from man area is the same & to hire/deny persons based on their own merit & qualifications or lack thereof, not on an address.

[RedVEVO]

^ ok well that is very true, most business places wont really want people residing in certain areas...u give them wrong? People cause that among themselves and they vex when they dont get attention...annoying cries of racism...they can make it better, they just choose not to. The want the food brought to them without raising a finger.

Anyways 88, i see where u getting at, but answer this...if u were from beetham and u cant get a company to employ you....what will you do for income? How will u go out there and get that dollar?

These people vex because they have no education .

It is a FEW but they cause mayhem and we have tolerated them for way too long.

Vagrants are few but Gov't turn a blind eye - and they stink up de place .

Same with people who lack education .

Same with corruption

[zoom rader]

^ Employ people?

I dont understand. Why cant they find jobs now? Or is it they cant find a nice job?

Here's a little experiment you could try.
Put on a nice shirt, tie, slacks & shoes, walk into any store in POS, & say you looking for work & are qualified & capable of filling a position, & then tell them you living in Beetham gardens/Picton/Sea Lots/Nelson street/Mango rose and see how many peoples facial expressions change when they hear your address. You will literally see & feel your chances of getting the position ebbing away.
Now, imagine a ghetto youth dressing as he usually does, speaking as he usually does, doing the exact same thing as you.

Still wondering why they can't find a job?

& theres more to it than just the stigma attached to where they live, but it's the first hurdle they have to overcome. It have plenty ppl living in beetham, laventille, etc, that have found that they literally HAVE lie about their address if they want a job.

it is what it is.

Again total bullchit.

Getting a job or doing any business in trini all depends on who knows you It have very little to do with merit or where you live. Square pegs in round holes is the norm in trini.
Trini stick to their groupings and social circles.

Caste system is alive and well in trini. Beetham are our untouchables

[RedVEVO]

^ Employ people?

I dont understand. Why cant they find jobs now? Or is it they cant find a nice job?

Here's a little experiment you could try.
Put on a nice shirt, tie, slacks & shoes, walk into any store in POS, & say you looking for work & are qualified & capable of filling a position, & then tell them you living in Beetham gardens/Picton/Sea Lots/Nelson street/Mango rose and see how many peoples facial expressions change when they hear your address. You will literally see & feel your chances of getting the position ebbing away.
Now, imagine a ghetto youth dressing as he usually does, speaking as he usually does, doing the exact same thing as you.

Still wondering why they can't find a job?

& theres more to it than just the stigma attached to where they live, but it's the first hurdle they have to overcome. It have plenty ppl living in beetham, laventille, etc, that have found that they literally HAVE lie about their address if they want a job.

it is what it is.

Again total bullchit.

Getting a job or doing any business in trini all depends on who knows you It have very little to do with merit or where you live. Square pegs in round holes is the norm in trini.
Trini stick to their groupings and social circles.

Caste system is alive and well in trini. Beetham are our untouchables

Agreed ! And KFC customers with a gun ..

The experiment above works with Police , Immigration and Regiment .

Or and ANY Gov't position since September 2015

[No_Name]

^ ok well that is very true, most business places wont really want people residing in certain areas...u give them wrong? People cause that among themselves and they vex when they dont get attention...annoying cries of racism...they can make it better, they just choose not to. The want the food brought to them without raising a finger.

Anyways 88, i see where u getting at, but answer this...if u were from beetham and u cant get a company to employ you....what will you do for income? How will u go out there and get that dollar?

In all instances, it always boils down to a matter of choice, which the Beetham Inhabitants also have, like any1 else...

Being the descendants of their late great Father of the Nation, they still eat, sheit n breathe a Hand-Outs way of thinking/living...

Our Maker didn't put us here to be chupid, if yuh eh ha Book Sense, yuh got two hands, so get up n get...poverty is an excuse...!!!

I remember the endless days working in POS, sitting in evening traffick and watching these warahoons sitting on their blocks, jinkin Hennessey like that, no ambition, no wuk, no pay, but playin shottas...

[Numb3r4]

^^^ Hydro on point there I am always left wondering when I'm out....we don't seem to be concerned about maney the way people are spending.

Does anyone know the amount of debt that the average household/person carries? That might be an interesting figure to find out.

Haagen Daaz has raised prices a 1 Scoop is now $20.00+ and the rownies are now about the same up from about $18.00.

Don't know if Starbucks has raised their prices, but the cheapest thing there is the brownie @ $20.00 las time I checked (I admit that was a while now). The cheapest beverage was the hot tea. It isn't a bad deal to buy the largest size as they give you two tea bags that can be reused if you bring it home or in the office or such. They are pretty good tea bags.

ched went from trini angry to trini sufferer in one fell swoop wit dis

I checked the prices in Starbucks today and they haven't changed the prices on the tea (still $10, $12 & $20) or the brownie (still $20), so no problems.

I will say this though Linda's has a brownie offering for $17.00 in which you get 2 blocks of said brownie and its good.

[randolphinshan]

Just buy a Kiss goodie for 1 buck and chill

[Numb3r4]

Just buy a Kiss goodie for 1 buck and chill

Yes good thing you said that I was in The Bel Air store and I went to the little snack station they had there, got a coke in the can for $3.50 and the Kiss Goodie for $1.00.

Was surprised at the price of the coke and I forgot that the Goodie was still around let alone at that price.

[silent_riot]

Dred, man up and bake yuh own brownies...wtf.

Regarding Mr. Chin's comments, he has a point, and Trinidadians are angry and angry people need to relax in MovieTowne so I hope you made sure to buy your tickets to MovieTowne's National Movie day for $10 which was held the day after his speech in the opening post.

Also remember that in order to feel that you have achieved middle class, you need to consume the 1%'s products and services. Buy a car, go to the Mall, buy some clothes in Francis Fashion's, carry the family to a movie, drink a Starbucks and buy a Pizza and carry some Haagen Dazs on the way home...because eating your home cooked pelau and mauby in your porch with the boys is not what the successful middle class does.

[Arcmanov]

Is there a tier just below middle-class, but above sufferer?

[Miktay]

Dred, man up and bake yuh own brownies...wtf.

Regarding Mr. Chin's comments, he has a point, and Trinidadians are angry and angry people need to relax in MovieTowne so I hope you made sure to buy your tickets to MovieTowne's National Movie day for $10 which was held the day after his speech in the opening post.

Also remember that in order to feel that you have achieved middle class, you need to consume the 1%'s products and services. Buy a car, go to the Mall, buy some clothes in Francis Fashion's, carry the family to a movie, drink a Starbucks and buy a Pizza and carry some Haagen Dazs on the way home...because eating your home cooked pelau and mauby in your porch with the boys is not what the successful middle class does.

lol@home cooked pelau and mauby iz not middle class

2nd runner up for quote of the year.

[RedVEVO]

Dred, man up and bake yuh own brownies...wtf.

Regarding Mr. Chin's comments, he has a point, and Trinidadians are angry and angry people need to relax in MovieTowne so I hope you made sure to buy your tickets to MovieTowne's National Movie day for $10 which was held the day after his speech in the opening post.

Also remember that in order to feel that you have achieved middle class, you need to consume the 1%'s products and services. Buy a car, go to the Mall, buy some clothes in Francis Fashion's, carry the family to a movie, drink a Starbucks and buy a Pizza and carry some Haagen Dazs on the way home...because eating your home cooked pelau and mauby in your porch with the boys is not what the successful middle class does.

So this is how some working people roll dude

They enjoy life .

There are spenders and savers .

And cheap mook.

Do what you can and stop being angry with other people's choice nah ..

[RedVEVO]

Dred, man up and bake yuh own brownies...wtf.

Regarding Mr. Chin's comments, he has a point, and Trinidadians are angry and angry people need to relax in MovieTowne so I hope you made sure to buy your tickets to MovieTowne's National Movie day for $10 which was held the day after his speech in the opening post.

Also remember that in order to feel that you have achieved middle class, you need to consume the 1%'s products and services. Buy a car, go to the Mall, buy some clothes in Francis Fashion's, carry the family to a movie, drink a Starbucks and buy a Pizza and carry some Haagen Dazs on the way home...because eating your home cooked pelau and mauby in your porch with the boys is not what the successful middle class does.

So this is how some working people roll dude

They enjoy life .

There are spenders and savers .

And cheap mook.

Do what you can and stop being angry with other people's choice nah ..

The whole idea of this thread is to find out WHY PEOPLE ANGRY

So maybe we can have a better understanding of life in Sweet T & T ?

[Numb3r4]

I think they're angry because they see the institutions not working for them.....they feel themselves victims and being taken advantage off. That they have no recourse.

Having seen the vast sums of oil wealth that have passed through the country and landed in the hands of the precious few and what was left squandered on social schemes that just didn't work, has left the average man bitter and jaded with the general sense that if "dem" (the government) ain't spending on me, I eh go spen' on dem (hence no one wants to pay taxes)". This compounds with the fear of how badly we've managed money furthering the problem.

Now that they don't pay taxes and no money is spent on "dem" they have developed the attitude and culture of spending on themselves.....

Hence they embrace the luxury brands so well...if only to compensate and make up for the fact that they have little else to make their lives "better". This also has implications with regards to class and upward mobility, since we have no insitutions to clearly support and define our society and more importantly to give the populace any form of comfort and security we latch onto goods and services (appropriately priced) to give us this support and prove our place in the society.

Now with the downturn and the lack of the personal ability to purchase this comfort and security.....well need I say more.

We are seeing the "people" trying to survive on what is left now when this becomes difficult we become stressed and anger is the response, among other emotions.