Use money wisely

THE EDITOR: If you were lucky enough to win a large amount in a lottery, there are several things you could do with all that money.

The sensible thing to do is to invest it so that you and your family would never have to worry about where the next dollar is coming from. Nothing wrong with treating yourself to some goodies but to make sure your future will be secure you would invest.

The above is the sensible way. The worst way is to spend it all and not invest in a way that would be sustainable for the future.

In sweet TT we won a lottery, not once, but twice and guess what we spent it all to the extent that some of the goodies we bought we forgot that they had to be maintained. I refer to the Dwight Yorke stadium which will now cost $25 million to fix, this is the tip of the iceberg because, as we all know, these assets are not maintained and will now become instabilities.

Unfortunately, we did not invest in developing a sustainable economy so we will now suffer. Big Time.

Gordon Dalla Costa via e-mail