Trinidad & Tobago Police Retirees Association

10/09/2024

Facts of life!! Food for thought!! Ase!! 🥰🥰✌🏾✌🏾👊🏾👊🏾✊🏾✊🏾👍🏾👍🏾👌🏾👌🏾🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫳🏾🎤

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*Dear Retirees*🥰,
(and others too),

We are at a wonderful age, we even look elegant. We have almost everything we wanted as children:
We don't go to school or work and we have a monthly pension
We don't have to come back at a certain time when we leave.
Some of us still have a driver's license and even our own car.
*So life is beautiful!*
Also, we are incredibly smart, our brain is a little slower because it is overloaded with knowledge.
There are many things accumulated in our heads that, by the way, put pressure on the inner ear, which is why we sometimes have hearing problems.
It is as if a computer's hard drive slows down because it is full of files.
Our brain is not weak, but it has accumulated a lot of information. People our age, sometimes we walk into a room and don't remember what we wanted to do, or we don't remember where we put something.
*It's not a memory problem!*
Nature does this to force us to keep moving, at least a little longer.

*FOR EVERYONE OVER 60:*

*Foods required:*
1. Vegetables and fruits.
2. Seafood, especially fish.
3. Nuts
4. Eggs
5. Salmon
6. Extra virgin olive oil.
7. Chicken
8. And above all, healthy food

*Three things to try to forget:*
1. Age
2. Past
3. Resentments

*Four important things:*
1. Family
2. Friends
3. Positive thoughts
4. Live in the present.

*Your most important actions:*
1. Laugh a lot.
2. Do sports, but only at your own pace.
3. Spend more time with friends (not just children or grandchildren, but friends).
4. Don't miss any events.

*Six essential things:*
1. Don't wait until you're thirsty to drink water. Drink more frequently.
2. Don't get up early, get enough sleep.
3. Don't wait until you're tired to rest.
4. Don't wait until you are sick to have a medical exam.
5. Never stop believing in God. Miracles exist.
6. Stay positive and always hope for the best.

😉🍾🥂

*"Forward this message to your friends and family. It won't hurt, but let them know they are wonderful."*
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06/09/2024

A clear message from the African
Diaspora...

"WE WISH TO PLEAD OUR OWN CAUSE!! TOO LONG HAS OTHERS SPOKEN FOR US!!"
ASE!!!

06/09/2024

*KNOCKING FEE*

One of the houses I deliver newspaper had its mailbox blocked, so I knocked on the door.

Mr. David, an elderly man with unsteady steps, slowly opened the door.

I asked, "Sir, why is your mailbox blocked?"

He replied, "I blocked on purpose."

He smiled and continued, "I want you to deliver the newspaper to me every day. Please knock the door or ring the bell and hand it to me in person."

I was puzzled and replied, "Sure, but that seems inconvenience for both of us and a waste of time."

He said, "It's all right. I'll pay you extra each month as _Knocking Fee_.

With a pleading expression, he added,
"If there ever comes a day when you knock on the door and find no response, please call the police."

I was shocked and asked, "Why, Sir?"

He replied, "My wife passed away, my son is abroad, and I live here all alone, who knows when my time will come."

At that moment, I saw the old man's misty, moist eyes.

He further said, "I never read the newspaper. I subscribe it to hear the sound of knocking or doorbell ringing. To see a familiar face and exchange few pleasantries."

He clasped his hands and said, "Young man, please do me a favour. Here's my son's overseas phone number. If one day you knock on the door and I don't answer, please call my son to inform him."

After reading this, I realised there are so many solitary, lonely, elderly people among our circle of friends.

Sometimes, you might wonder why they, in their old age, still send messages on WhatsApp, just like days they were still working.

Actually, the significance of these morning and evening greetings is similar to the meaning of knocking or ringing the doorbell; it's a way of wishing each other safety and conveying care.

Now-a-days, *WhatsApp* is very convenient, and we don't need to subscribe to newspapers anymore.

*If you have the time, teach your elderly family members how to use WhatsApp.*

One day, if you don't receive their morning greetings or shared articles, they might be unwell or something may have happened to them.

Please care for your friends and family. After reading this, my heart swelled up with tears of joy.

I deeply understood the significance of our WhatsApp messages or phone call to each other.🙏

*A must read article/story*

Just had to share..

02/09/2024

To Ishmael Impchan and all the Haters.. through all the adversities thrown our way as Africans, and yet we rise!! SAY IT LOUD!! WE ARE BLACK AND WE ARE PROUD!! To my young Black progressive brother.. keep on following your path by continually trying to empower other young black youths as yourself through your assistance program.. the benefits of which would resonate far into the future.. Ase!! ✌🏾✌🏾👊🏾👊🏾✊🏾✊🏾👌🏾👌🏾👍🏾👍🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾🫳🏾🎤

01/08/2024

01/08/2024

Just like George Floyd.. We will never forget.. say her name.. SONNYA MASSEY!! 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🫳🏾🎤

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14/07/2024

bring back the old time days!!! 👌🏾👍🏾🙏🏾🫳🏾🎤

28/05/2024

It is a pity that we have lost the community spirit.

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“I grew up in Trinidad and Tobago during a time when everyone treated each other like Family. When you always had to speak properly when you were with your parents or adults but could "leh go" with your friends. If someone got you angry, you would tell them "how yuh mudda make yuh" with a variety of cuss words. If your mom found out, she made you wash your mouth with soap. Blue soap, sunlight or carbolic.

If you can't take "fatigue", don't start. Everyone had a nickname. The Chinese boy was "chin"; the African boy was "blacks"; the Indian boy was "lal", the fat kid was "fat boy", the skinny boy was "bones". We went outside to play; we got dirty.

We used to bathe in the rain, sometimes by the standpipe. I am yet to find anything as satisfying as a cup of creole chocolate or hot porridge on a rainy day.

We went to the river or springs on a hot day. Our fast food was corned beef and rice; sometimes, even hot rice and butter. We ate breadfruit, dasheen, yam, eddoes, cassava, boil corn, roast corn. From the bakery we ate belly full, currants roll, coconut drops, milk cake, pan bread, bun, butter bread and hops bread.

We loved bread and condensed milk or hot bread and butter; sometimes red butter. We sucked paradise plum, brittle, kazer ball, dinner mint. We ate bene balls, tollum, chataigne, sugar cake, tamarind ball, tamarind stew, red mango, mango chow, plum chow.

We got dirty and we didn't eat fast food....we ate cooked food. We got ice cream from the ice cream man or if mum was in a good mood and had the money, we had homemade ice cream on Sunday. The best was when barberdeen was in season. When mum made cake, we licked the bowl clean. Cassava pone or bread pudding was a treat. Redifusion had two channels.

To this day I remember "Portia faces life." We listened to auntie Kay on a Sunday. In later years, if you had a tv, you saw auntie Hazel on twelve and under, you watched Mastana Bahar and an Indian movie on a Sunday afternoon and watched Scouting for Talent on Tuesdays. Panorama was time to be quiet.

We loved snow cone on a hot day, preferably with guava syrup and condensed milk. We climbed trees, picked mangoes, Chennette, pommerac, plum, pommecythere; whatever was in season. We suck and ate cane with our bare teeth.

We played Simon Says, Red Rover, Mother May I, 1,2,3 Red Light, Hide & Seek, Jacks, Marbles, Tag, Hopscotch, Cars, Checkers, cricket, moral, rounders, pan cup, football; we raced against each other in the street and even played jockey in the canal with a piece of stick.

A tennis ball and a good piece of wood was enough to start a cricket game, and if somebody window break, game done. The only time we stayed indoors was when we were sick or as a punishment. If you were sick,b it was not uncommon to get a "bush bath" with some "buccano leaf" and whatever bush mum thought would make you better. Castor oil or sena pods during vacation was the worse.

The boys flew kites that we had made ourselves; sometimes we made a mad bull and hope it wasn't so big that it took you flying. We made zwill with flour and grounded glass; put razor blades in your kite tail and when you battle, who lost, saw their kites "hi-yo". The first one to reach the kite is the new owner.

We drove carts we had made from wood with old bearings for wheels. An old bike wheel with the spokes removed was a toy. Who never tried to get "laglee" from the breadfruit tree to try to catch a semp?

There was no bottled water, we drank from the pipe. We walked to the corner store and rode our bikes (if we had one) for hours without a cellphone. We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING.

If someone had a fight, that's what it was...a fist fight. Kids didn't have guns when I grew up. The street lights were your curfew. School was mandatory. Police used to take you to your school when they find you on the road during school hours.

We watched our mouths around our elders because we knew if you DISRESPECTED any grown up you were gonna get it with whatever was close and get a second one when your parents found out...!!!

Re-post if you're proud that you came from a close knit community and will never forget where you came from!

life in TnT as I knew it..

06/10/2023

Here is yet another little snippet of what our ancestors had to endure during the period of Slavery at the hands of European and the West.. and they insist that we forget and move on.. NEVER EVER FORGET!!! AFRICA WILL RISE AGAIN!!!! ASE to all my African BrothersandSistersacrossthediaspora!!! 👊🏾👊🏾✊🏾✊🏾👍🏾👍🏾✌🏾✌🏾👌🏾👌🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾

The owner of the plantation was a woman who was right behind the owner of the plantation in terms of importance. She supervised the work of all the slaves on...

02/10/2023

Speaking truth to power... facts are stubborn things.. they just cannot be denied... never forget what America backed by Europe has done to our great African leaders... Ase to my African Brothers and Sisters.. Africa will rise again!!!! ✊🏾✊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👌🏾👌🏾✌🏾✌🏾👍🏾👍🏾✌🏾✌🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🫳🏾🎤🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾

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