Pe­ter Ray Blood

It's al­so iron­ic that the his­to­ry of the na­tion­al in­stru­ment and the steel­band move­ment is cur­rent­ly be­ing rewrit­ten by a mem­ber of the me­dia, Dr Kim John­son. It was too ear­ly on a Sun­day for Di­az to have been ine­bri­at­ed, but, from his ut­ter­ances he sound­ed to be drunk on some­thing. It seems to be open sea­son for the me­dia these days, with at­tacks from politi­cians, and now from Pan Trin­ba­go. Di­az would do well to re­mem­ber the old, time-worn adage-"the pen is might­i­er than the sword." Re­mem­ber as well, "doh stand up on riv­er stone and talk de riv­er bad." Many be­fore you have ill-ad­vis­ed­ly done so and have paid a dear price, be­ing swept away in the tor­rent of an an­gry riv­er.