The New Basseterre High School and The Aquifer Continued From Last Week

0
240

There was this young lady who was having a bath and, in soaping her blessings, discovered a lump in one of them. In demitting the bath, she discussed her discovery with her family who beseeched her to visit the hospital to check it out and, if anything, deal with it while it was still early. She told them that she did not want her blessing to be cut off because she is young and she does not want her body to be disfigured. The lump grew bigger and bigger and the pains began appearing. Many months later, unable to withstand the pain, she visited a doctor who sent her for an X-ray. The cancer had enveloped the whole blessing and the only answer to the problem was to cut it off. No disfigurement was taken into   consideration, for this was now a matter of life and death and she was not prepared to die.

But a stitch in time could have saved that amputation! There was this man who sold his goods on a horse drawn cart. When he left his village of Cayon, the shoe on one of the front foot of the horse was slack. There was a blacksmith in the village, but he decided to chance it by travelling to Keys Village where there was a blacksmith. When he reached Keys village, it was pointed out to him that the horse was hobbling and he should allow the blacksmith there to check it out. He decided to bypass the Blacksmith until he reached Basseterre.

But he never made it to Basseterre, for, when he was about to enter Conaree village, the shoe became so loose that the horse stumbled and pitched him forward from the cart and he broke his neck. That stitch in time, could have saved his life! Are we in the East Basseterre area going to dilly dally with the   situation of the water and await the day when we are brushing our teeth that the water coming from the pipe tastes sheety, and when we turn on the tap in the bath, the water now smells sheety too? How many glasses of this contaminate water would we have drunk before it reached this superlative degree stage? How many times would we have cooked with this contaminated water and gulped down the food in our hunger, before it reached this stage? Granny used to say, “Where things begin, it isn’t there they will end!” A word to the wise is enough! You see, dear reader, it is not only those who did not vote for the Representative who will be affected by this debacle; those who voted for him as well, will be affected. All of us are at the crossroads with our health holding in the palm of our hands! There is the story of this cat which lived in a mansion as the pet of the owner.

It was a devoted cat which was performing it duties faithfully, ridding the place of rats and, at the same time, starving them from partaking of the scraps of leftover food. To circumvent the situation, the rats held an emergency meeting where they arrived at a solution. It was decided that a bell should be placed around the cat’s neck while it is sleeping, so that they could be alerted of its every movement. The question now confronting the rats was, “Who was brave enough to bell the cat?” I have been brave enough to place the bell around the neck of the problem facing the residents of East Basseterre and those visitors who would normally stay at the Marriott, Jack Tar and all the other tourist resorts on the South East Peninsular! The question posed now is, “Who will render MORAL SUPPORT TO MY BRAVE EFFORT?

The cat has already been belled, but, in looking around would I be seeing supporters of my effort standing firmly, determinedly, steadfastly and resolutely behind me, or would I be witnessing eyes peering out from behind curtains fearful of righting the wrong perpetrated against us? I have blown my whistle with this ARTICLE, because there is a serious infringement, but, will the Officials and supporters of the various teams lend me their undivided support? In my conviction that I am correct in my stance against this evil deed, I stand tall, proud and fearless and rigidly at attention and, in the words of Commander Fidel Castro of Cuba at his trial in October 1953 for the 26th July attack on the Moncado Barracks proclaim for all and sundry to hear, “HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME!!”