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Tobago is a racially tense place at the moment. The brutal murder of German couple Hubertus Keil, 74, and Birgid Keil, 71, was followed by a travel advisory in Germany about the threat of violence on the “Sister Isle” while other foreigners in Tobago complained about feeling intimidated, discriminated against and marginalised.
So, to calm things down, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) sent over an officer who, allegedly, cannot complete a 12 minute plane trip without causing a racial confrontation. In fact, the damn plane barely had time to warm its engines.
ACP Peter Reyes, according the Sunday Express, allegedly told flight attendants that they were picking on him for using his cell phone because he is “black”; thereby, ironically, racially abusing himself.
Mr Live Wire has a few questions:
A) Was Reyes on Icelandic Airlines and the only bar of chocolate in a sea of vanilla?
B) Were there a handful of white passengers talking into their phones in the next aisle?
C) Or is Reyes exactly the type of small-minded, chip-carrying, confrontational idiot that you do not put into situations which require diplomacy?
Answers:
A) Reyes was on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Piarco International to Crown Point, so there seems little valid reason for him to feel culturally or ethnically disoriented and displaced.
B) There was no mention by the flight attendants or Reyes of anyone else violating the rules. And, if there were unruly white passengers, he might have shot or arrested them.
C) Well, let’s just say that there is no “none of the above” on this particular test.
To promote Reyes to the top law enforcement post in Tobago—an island that has not totally shaken off the “Calcutta Ship” slur during the last THA Election campaign—is like sending your wife to DJ Lurbz for marital counselling. Neither man apparently knows when to shut up, switch off devices or respect other person(s) in the cabin.
So the officer entrusted with shutting down serious crime in Tobago does not know how to switch off a cell phone? The fellah expected to provide confidence and security to tourists thinks white people can get away with anything?
If God is a Trini, then he is definitely a satirist.
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Back against the wall so i think I will just play the race card.
By Thursday it will all be forgotten.
nobody is held accountable for anything in T&T…pretty soon we will all forget and it will be business as usual….sigh
It was obviously his maiden voyage in a plane. Lol what an idiot.!
Yep… this is the man entrusted to lead in Tobago… who vowed to ‘stamp out corruption and make visitors feel safe’ cant switch off a phone… I wonder if it came with a manual?? Steups
And imagine he said he did not know how to turn off his cell phone. Yes, that’s the chap sent to investigate a complex crime in Tobago where German Police also have a presence in investigating! No wonder our crime rate keeps climbing.
will he be disciplined for it?
Crazy what some people do with power.
…or what they feel they’re entitled to do when they gained a little bit of power.
At least he didn’t grab nobody breast.
Smgdh
I work with him I’m suprise
Shame on you ACP Reyes!
Clearly this is not his 1st year as a cop, If he refuses to follow this “small rule” imagine when it’s time for him to comply with some of the big rules!!
We gave a fella power but we forgot to give him an adapter .
Remember a lot of people are asking for the promotion of a man to the top based on the fact that he has killed a lot of suspects. Ever wonder about the boasting and picture taking with all these guns and the boasting of the number of firearms seized but to this day the police have been unable to up the next levels…..who is wholesaling,retailing and importing. Can’t shoot your way to that ,takes some work ent.
if this fellow is allowed to remain as ACP then Mp glen ramadharsingh should be made minister again.. one rule for all…
No disrespect but creole calling creole racist. Only in TnT
When you want to see a man’s true character give him power
Maybe it’s his first time on a plane, lol!
Ain’t this the truth?!
No wonder the PSC is having such a hard time choosing a new Commissioner. If this guy is an example of the officers coming through the ranks, we are in a really bad way.
so why didn’t he say it’s because he is a police ….Epic idiocy
Lol
PNM tonic racism
Racism has no place in our society.
I fine he should be fired. #boutracetalk…
What about that call was so important, was it the solution to all crime? Paula Paulene, as for Lurbz, is like sending your wife to Lurbz and she end up by his twin cousin Herbz 🙂
when the door of that aircraft is shut – the rule of law is guided by the instructions from all the crew members of that aircraft
High ranking public officials seem to be having problems with the Tobago flights
can you see a citizen and this man in a confrontation lord know what will happen
Things would have gone over much better had he been contrite after the unfortunate incident!
and thats the man in charge of tobago police, then again that how thing are going in this country
Title, position and perceived privileges gone to his head big time, similar to some of those ‘honorable this and honorable that’ officials in T&T. In hindsight, every TTPS candidate from the ‘old school of thought’ and under consideration for promotion should be psychologically evaluated.
People drop their guards when they think they are around “inferiors.” Their inner imp shines for the world to see on such occasions.
Simple arrogance.
One can get no truer sense of a man’s character as when that man attains position.
I would also recommend communications skills training for high stress situations but even kids know to take off their games before take off; basic flying protocol. While this may not qualify as high stress I must wonder what kind of personal or professional stress made the ACP react in the manner reported. There could be some extenuating circumstances that culminated at that point but even that is no excuse for being discourteous or disrespectful.
Sounds like a sensible step to me.
Many senior officers entered the TTPS pre mandatory testing of recruits. But senior officers are armed and would definitely qualify as prime candidates for psych evaluations.
Every six months once you are carrying a firearm! Lasana Liburd
Do you think it should be done for every performance evaluation Renee Cummings? Or be part of the criteria when officers are up for promotion?
Lasana Liburd not on a regular in Trinidad and Tobago…new recruits entering the academy but not senior officers…
People get chewed out by dogs, choked, beaten, shot… And this fellah says he is racially abused because they ask him to turn off his phone for the flight. Smh.
lol, smdh, i really hate it when people cry race over everything
That’s like someone who is currently being investigated by the fraud squad and you hire him/her to watch over your company finances.
This is similar to the Judge who refused to do a breathalyzer test and was sent to court. This man is a judge, he work as NORMAL in the morning judging people then in the afternoon he was in Tunapuna answering charges. I might be slow but something wrong with that sequence of event. He should not have been allowed to work as a judge in the morning… but that’s just me. Bobol will never done
Coincidentally I just brought today’s newspaper for my mother and she just mentioned that article to me…#UAreOnPointAsAlwaysLasana!!!
Do police men have psychological evaluations? I would want to believe so…
This is why crime, corruption and bobol will never end in this country. Case in point, Mr. “Because I’m Black” behaved like an ass on the plane then still got the top position in Tobago to stamp out crime. He gone Tobago to take up a position telling people to obey the law while he can’t follow simple instructions on a plane to save not only his life but others? These people really take us for fools.
As a so called senior police office, one is inclined to think that the holder of that the holder of that office is intelligent and disciplined. I would strongly recommend he acquaint himself with the FFA regulation, CAA regulations, Act 49 of the year 1979, and the ICAO. There are serious safety concerns for others if not yourself. When you are onboard a ship or aircraft you are not in charge. This is a reflection of the type of individuals in our public services. Just imagine he is a senior police officer. What example is he setting for his juniors? Do not further put the TTPS into disrepute, they already have enough crap to deal with. Is just a job. In your mind, your position is a big deal but you are just another one who will be leaving it sometime in the future. But in reflection that is how black people behave with a little authority, they do not realise it’s temporary.
This kind of material writes itself! The sad thing in this is that when you wish these things were works of fiction, they are entirely and unflatteringly true stories.