“[…] Attitudinal and behavioural changes won’t happen by vaps. We have serious work to do. For example, we must address the need for values/conscience formation and citizenship programmes—at home, in our educational institutions, in our faith communities, in our workplaces etc…” The following is a press statement from the Catholic …
Read More »Does $22 million cash minus Con-vunt accent equate 1% status? Live Wire considers La Horquetta ‘sou sou’ surprise
Whose hand it is boi? The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) allegedly joined a La Horquetta pyramid scheme—coined the ‘Drugs Sou Sou’—in the wee hours of this morning, in a stunning but not altogether unexpected role reversal. On Tuesday, a TTPS exercise led by Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith …
Read More »TTPS start home surveillance as Covid-19 positive persons breach quarantine, 108 new cases today
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith revealed today that the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) will utilise its fleet of 85 Emergency Response Patrol (ERP) vehicles as well as patrols in all nine divisions to ensure Covid-19 patients do not violate home quarantine orders. The measure was announced today by …
Read More »Noble: The sound of a dying democracy; the problem with Bayside party exchange
One can be forgiven for mistaking last week’s public quarrel as the harmless flaring of tempers. It is not. The sound we heard is the whimpering sound of our dying democracy. Like 1990’s guns and fiery fury, this unseemly quarrel is one more corrosive chipping away of our long-standing political …
Read More »Major Gen Brown: Griffith showed ‘total disrespect’ to prime minister and should ‘rethink’ or resign
“[…] My concern here is not for the legalities of the issue at hand—I leave that for the lawyers—but for the total disrespect shown for the Office of the Prime Minister. “I am certain that Commissioner [Gary] Griffith was not taught to be disrespectful of authority at the prestigious Sandhurst …
Read More »Police start ‘preliminary investigation’ into DJW; Quan Chan, Daniel respond to allegations
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith says the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has ‘taken notice’ of allegations of financial misconduct supposedly committed by former Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams but remained tightlipped about an official probe. John-Williams was the subject of an hour long feature …
Read More »‘PM threw police under the bus!’ Griffith fires back at ‘disappointing’ Rowley over Bayside party
“[…] If the GORTT wishes to have enforcement of the regulations on private property and inside persons homes, they need to amend the legislation or provide new legislation that would allow the police clear and unambiguous authority to do what the prime minister has insinuated should be done. “The prime …
Read More »Dr Rowley maintains restrictions but hints at improvements, encouraged by TKR success
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley confirmed today that current public health restrictions will stay in place until 11 October, as a means of thwarting the spread of the novel coronavirus. Those measures include: the limiting of public gatherings to five persons, as well as no in-house dining, drinking, contact sport, …
Read More »“Stop looking at race and look at logic’! Griffith defends TTPS response to Bayside party
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith tried to turn the table on persons critical of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s handling of a pool party in Bayside Towers, by suggesting that they were the ones with a ‘hang-up’ on race and class—and not his lawmen. On Sunday, a Bayside resident …
Read More »Deyalsingh suggests Bayside party fell outside health regulations; T&T has 102 new Covid-19 cases
Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh suggested that a pool party at the Bayside Towers in Cocorite, where a group of more than five people were seen frolicking without masks, might fall outside the public health ordinance. Residents said the party-goers within the gated community, refused to disperse when advised to …
Read More »TTPS issue 61 tickets for no masks, two more Covid-19 deaths
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) issued 61 tickets for failure to properly wear face masks, within 24 hours of receiving ticket books on the weekend. Fifty six of the tickets were handed out by Eastern Division officers with 52 in Mayaro alone. Mandatory use of face masks in …
Read More »34 police recruits test positive for Covid-19, TTPS confirms 32 new cases today
“[…] Tests were conducted on the [police] 42 recruits, with 32 returning positive and the other ten, negative. As a result, the 32 who tested positive have been removed to another part of the UWI campus, while the other ten remain in quarantine…” The following is a press statement from …
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