Today's Guardian has a letter to the editor from Robin Montano. Since there is no direct link, I will quote same here:
"Riding a dead horse, T&T style
"Riding a dead horse, T&T style
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount and get a different horse.”
However, in government, education and corporate Trinidad, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
Buying a stronger whip; changing riders; appointing a committee to study the horse; arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses; lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included; reclassifying the dead horse as living impaired; hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horses; harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed; providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse’s performance; doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance; declaring that as the dead horse does not have to bed; it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses; rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course, promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Robin Montano
Port-of-Spain"
