Small islands= small people?
Well had i not been related to many of my caribbean folk, i would not have know about the devastating earthquake that shook the region thursday. Apparently it isn’t newsworthy. the bbc has it on the web site and itv hasn’t mentioned it at all. i listen to the bbc radio 4 / world service 10.30pm to2.30 am and not once across this whole weekend had i heard it mentioned. Yes apart from one person, we have been lucky that there was not a higher casualty rate. but a 7 on the richter scale is massive. buildings have come down. that is a loss of capital ( surely something that we in the the materialistic west understand) and it will take time to get over.
Do NOT get me wrong, i know this world is severely troubled, war , destruction disease, corruption, death and crime, i do not want these things to go unreported. but it seem that these small islands and small people are not worth mentioning …. oh unless you are trying to stigmatise them as illegal immigrants or Aids carriers or drug dealing gun totting criminals.
Here is the news world, it did not escape my attention that one american based online rag did mention something that is pecieved of great importance, Trinidad (many hundred miles away) was not harmed and it’s oil refinery (which exports to america amongst others) was unscathed. whoop de bloody do! well if the oil’s alright then we are ok!
This is not about being divisive, everyone in the caribbean was touched by this tremendous tremble… spainish speaking caribbean island, french speaking caribbean island, english speaking caribbean islands, to the outside world it may not seem that much of a bother if these places slid in to the sea, but many people live there.
What we are all worried about is if this is a warning from the earth if something more is to come!
