“Time and again, prayer is said to be the best crime plan, as the entire nation is converted into one big “hot spot” and “the Devil” and ‘evil’ get full blame. “While the clueless, talking heads in khaki uniforms boast of how many days Laventille has been “murder-free,” they have …
Read More »STREET VIBE: Ag CoP, TTPS put hands in the air for Carnival; Lord, put a hand!
“… In the fight against a few semi-literate street criminals, the police have thrown their hands in the air as acknowledged by the Ag CoP… One wonders if the season has anything to do with his hands going up in the air. “But as we celebrate next week’s festivities, I guarantee …
Read More »STREET VIBE: Mr CoP, if this murder rate does not scream ‘crisis’ then what does?!
“If 63-plus murders, combined with a number of persons missing, in a population of 1.4M does not constitute a crisis—as understood by your goodly self as head of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS)—what does? “What will it take to recognise that this nation is in crisis? Would 100 …
Read More »STREET VIBE: New year, same nonsense; Why T&T Police can’t win public confidence
“For the TTPS to waddle into 2017 expecting that the murder rate will suddenly change simply on the grounds that the calendar did, is as naive and reckless as those who relied on ‘prayer’ as the best crime plan; even setting aside a day exclusively for this purpose.” The following …
Read More »STREET VIBE: Arrive Alive dead wrong to blame me for fatal accidents
“I am not in the employ of the TTPS, I am not in a position to instruct and or assign police officers on how or where to detail. Nor am I in a position to purchase speed guns and/or breathalysers to detect drunk and/or speeding drivers.” The following Letter the …
Read More »STREET VIBE: Why does T&T Crime Stoppers only offer cash rewards for certain missing persons?
“In this small twin island state, where almost every Monday morning someone else goes missing—usually a young lady between the ages of 14 and 16 years old—it is indeed quite discomforting to see rewards being posted for assistance in only locating some people, while other families are ignored, neglected and …
Read More »STREET VIBE: Stop selling fear over US deportations; local crime is the real issue
“Armchair criminologists and political pundits, who are evidently clueless as is demonstrated with crime plan after crime plan, seem hell-bent on creating panic where none is warranted over the deportation of criminals, which is another example of selling fear to the masses to benefit a few.” The following Letter to …
Read More »STREET VIBE: That’s insulting! Condescending politicians are T&T’s biggest freeloaders
“It is sad and indeed ironic that those who have been accusing taxpayers of living off the fat of the land, are the biggest parasites of the offices which they occupy; doing all this while paying no taxes.” The following Letter to the Editor on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s …
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