“Kill everyone!” was the instruction Dole Chadee gave Joey Ramiah, who then murdered four members of a single family. How could people be so heartless and cold-blooded? It was a long time in coming. Nothing was ever done to dismantle the networks that brought cocaine to our shores since life …
Read More »Media Monitor—Pt 5: The Chacon St collapse; why I don’t read the Newsday
Thackoor Boodram. Remember the name? I do. Not because he is—was—important to me but because journalism is—was—important to me. New Year’s Day, 1 January, 1998. Guess what gift one of the daily papers in Trinidad and Tobago offered on its front page? Why, a man’s head. It had been found …
Read More »Hanging in disbelief: The truth behind shambolic political posturing over the death penalty
The Privy Council decided in 1993—in the case of Pratt and Morgan—that execution could not lawfully take place more than five years after sentence. It was recommended that a capital appeal should be heard within twelve months of conviction and the entire domestic appeal process completed within two years. I …
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