Contributors

  • Afra Raymond

    Afra Raymond is a Chartered Surveyor and Managing Director of Raymond & Pierre Ltd. He is the ex-president of Institute of Surveyors and immediate past president of the Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry (JCC), having served between December 2010 and November 2015.
  • Afryea Charles

    Afryea Charles is an inspired missionary who has renounced the pleasures of everyday living because she wants to save the world. As time passes, she is less and less certain that yes, she can. But she is not yet ready to concede that she may have bitten off more than she can chew.
  • Akins Vidale

    Akins Vidale lectures at the Cipriani College of Labour and Cooperative Studies and is a UWI graduate with a B.A. in History. He has served as the president of the Trinidad Youth Council and is the General Secretary of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions and NGOs (FITUN). Read his blog: http://akinsvidale.wordpress.com/
  • Alana Thorne

    Alana Thorne is pursuing an Associate Degree in Journalism and Public Relations, having achieved a Diploma in Public Communications and a Certificate in Industrial Relations and Social Studies. Thorne is a Wired868 intern and has previous experience as a news anchor and field researcher. She is a home service coordinator for the past 11 years.
  • Amanda McIntyre

    Amanda T McIntyre is a Trinidadian author, artist and advocate. She is employed as an Advocacy and Policy Specialist. Her research and writing focus on cultural studies and literary scholarship.
  • Amelia Tilkaran

    Amelia Tilkaran is a Wired868 intern who is pursuing a BA in Journalism and Media at COSTAATT. Apart from academics, she loves experimenting with ingredients in the kitchen to create her own recipes. Outside of the classroom, she loves photography, the beach and exploring hidden gems in and around our beautiful twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Amiel Mohammed

    Amiel Mohammed is a sports enthusiast and has worked in communications for Central FC and the Women's Premier League TT. He has also pioneered numerous projects geared towards creating opportunities for the differently abled such as the Differently-Abled Football Camp 2015 and Focus Football Coaching Academy.
  • Andrew Gioannetti

    Andrew Gioannetti is a freelance writer with over ten years of experience in local media, contributing to sports, news, and feature articles at the T&T Guardian, T&T Newsday, and several magazines and publications.
  • Andrew Jennings

    Andrew Jennings has been chasing 'bad men' around the world for more than three decades. His book, The Lords of the Rings, on Olympic corruption and the fascist background of the IOC president was named by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top One Hundred Sports Books of all Time. His last book on FIFA corruption, Foul!, is now in 15 languages despite an attempt by Herr Blatter using FIFA funds in Switzerland to persuade a Zurich court to impose a global ban.
  • Anna Levi

    Anna Levi is a novelist who served as a migrant specialist for UWI-PADF project on the legal and social situation of Venezuelan migrants in Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Anu Lakhan

    Anu Lakhan is a writer and editor generally preoccupied with food, and books. And short sentences.
  • Ashford Jackman

    Ashford Jackman spent 29 of his 38 years in journalism at Trinidad and Tobago Television where he was sports editor, anchor and producer. He owns and draws from a considerable collection of books on the World Cup and, in his teens, studied every film in TTT’s library on the subject. His 12 W/C Recalls series seeks to bring to life the golden years of football, its drama and the players who made the World Cup the greatest sporting event the world has known.
  • Avah Atherton

    Avah Atherton is an aspiring cultural archivist with a focus on oral histories, folklore, and festival traditions. Her work has been published locally in the Trinidad Express, UWI Today, and Wired868, as well as internationally in the Shizuoka Chronicle, AJET blog, Connect magazine, and Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. She has an AAS in Journalism and Public Relations from COSTAATT as well as a BA in Linguistics and a PgDp in Arts & Cultural Enterprise Management from the University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus.
  • Avanelle Boyce

    Avanelle Boyce is an intern at Wired868 who is currently pursuing her BA in Mass Communications at COSTAATT. She enjoys photography, writing, blogging and any activity that involves tapping into her creative side.
  • BC Pires

    BC Pires is a veteran columnist and satirist of extensive experience in Trinidad and Tobago and abroad. You can read more of his columns at: http://bcpires.com
  • Brian Harry

    Brian Harry is a former CEO of TIDCO, who now lives and works in Texas. He is a consultant whose areas of specialisation include corporate development and strategy and organizational development, in the Energy, Hospitality and Financial Services Sectors.
  • Bryan St Louis

    Bryan St Louis is a former education officer for the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU).
  • Burdie and Barney Show

    Burdie and Barney tackle high-profile guests, burning issues and, eh, each other, in an irreverent, informative and infectious sport show. Rated PP for ‘Plenty Picong’! Subscribe at Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, or TuneIn Radio, or follow at Wired868’s YouTube Channel!
  • CAISO Trinidad and Tobago

    CAISO is the Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation, which includes both GLBT people and allies. Our aims are: to foster a forward-thinking, visionary and humane approach to sexual orientation and gender identity; to secure full inclusion in all aspects of national life, social policy and citizenship regardless to sexuality and gender; to develop capacity, leadership and self-pride in our own communities, and to mobilise an advocacy movement for social justice in partnership with others.
  • Carla Questelles

    Carla Questelles is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication at COSTAATT and is currently a Wired868 intern. Questelles is passionate about her family, loves travelling, cooking and baking, listening to music, dancing, going to the movies and meeting new people.
  • Chennelle Gaines

    Chennelle recently graduated with her Associates Degree in Journalism and Public Relations and is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication at COSTAATT. Chennelle enjoys travelling and has a passion for baking.
  • Cherisse Moe

    Cherisse Moe is an award winning Trinidadian freelance journalist with 15 years media experience in television, radio and print. Moe is a former senior features reporter at the Trinidad Guardian while she also worked at TTT and WMJX 100.5FM. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (with Honours) in Marketing Management from Anglia Ruskin University.
  • Christophe Brathwaite

    Christophe Brathwaite is an Attorney at Law who specializes in Corporate, Commercial, Sport and Entertainment Law
  • Cindy Roopnarine

    “Anything is possible through God,” is my favourite quote. I am Cindy Roopnarine, student at COSTAATT, currently pursuing a BA in Mass Communication, and soon to be a graduate. I hail from the South Eastern district, where the sun rises and the sea touches the sky.
  • Claudius Fergus

    Claudius Fergus is a retired Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at UWI’s St Augustine Campus who specialises in the abolition of British colonial slavery and its transatlantic slave trade. His major work on the subject is Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies (2013). He has other extensive publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited books.
  • Colin Benjamin

    Colin Benjamin is a former media officer with Cricket West Indies and the T&T professional football league club W Connection FC.
  • Corey Gilkes

    Corey Gilkes is a self-taught history reader whose big mouth forever gets his little tail in trouble. He lives in La Romaine and is working on four book projects. He has a blog on https://coreygilkes.wordpress.com/blog/ and http://www.trinicenter.com/Gilkes/. Vitriol can be emailed to him at coreygks@gmail.com.
  • David Nakhid

    David Nakhid is the founder and director of the David Nakhid International Football Academy in Beirut, Lebanon and was the first Trinidad and Tobago international to play professionally in Europe. The two-time Caribbean and T&T Player of the Year and cerebral midfielder once represented FC Grasshopper (Switzerland), Waregem (Belgium), POAK (Greece), New England Revolution (US), Al Emirates (UAE) and Al Ansar (Lebanon).
  • Dennise Demming

    Dennise Demming grew up in East Dry River, Port of Spain and has more than 30 years experience as a communication strategist, political commentator and event planner. She has 15 years experience lecturing business communications at UWI and is the co-licensee for TEDxPortofSpain. Dennise is a member of the HOPE political party.
  • Dr Emir Crowne

    Dr Emir Crowne is a barrister and attorney-at-law attached to 
New City Chambers in Port-of-Spain.
  • Sheila Rampersad

    Dr Sheila Rampersad is a member of the current MATT executive and the Women Working for Social Progress. She is a veteran columnist.
  • Elizabeth Solomon

    Elizabeth Solomon is an award winning journalist, who has recently returned home after more than 15 years working on Human Rights and Conflict Prevention with the United Nations.
  • Embau Moheni

    Embau Moheni is the Deputy Political Leader of the National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) and Chairman of the National Action Cultural Committee (NACC). He is a former Minister in the Ministry of National Security under the People's Partnership Government. He was twice arrested as a teenager during the uprising of the early 1970s.
  • Eric St Bernard

    Eric A St Bernard is a host and producer of Global Soca on TeamSoca.com, the #1 Total Soca station in the world. He holds a MSc in TV/Radio from Brooklyn College and has worked extensively in Caribbean music formats in Trinidad and New York, as well as events promotions and media advertising.
  • Rhoda Bharath

    Rhoda Bharath works as a lecturer by day and remains obsessed with politics by night. Follow her blog here: https://rhoda-bharath-jxtv.squarespace.com/
  • Everald Gally Cummings

    Everald "Gally" Cummings was coach of Trinidad and Tobago's famous 1989 team, which was known as the "Strike Squad", and was a key midfielder in the country's infamous 1973 World Cup qualifying campaign. He played professional in the United States and Mexico for over a decade and was inducted in the Trinidad and Tobago Sports Hall of Fame in 1989. He was also listed among the country's top 100 sportsmen and women of the last millennium by the Ministry of Sport.
  • Expression House Media

    Expression House Media Limited is a video production company that combines expertise and passion to produce innovative cinematography, editing and motion graphics.
  • Filbert Street

    Filbert Street is a real columnist who works in a fantasy world that sometimes resembles our own.
  • Fixin TT

    Fixin T&T's mission is the realization of good governance to achieve healthy, holistic, and fulfilling lifestyles for all citizens through the study, promotion, and furtherance of strong democratic institutions; sound infrastructure; integrity in public and corporate affairs; and a culture of respect by all for the laws and regulations of the country to create a safe, secure, efficient and productive Trinidad & Tobago.
  • Gabrielle Gellineau

    Gabrielle Gellineau is a Lawyer, Consultant and Writer who has spent the last decade working in labour and other development fields throughout the Caribbean and internationally. She has most recently practiced her craft in the Industrial Court, at CARICOM and at State Enterprises in the entertainment, energy and health sectors. She currently manages her own practice with offices in San Juan and Port of Spain.
  • Ghansham Mohammed

    Ghansham Mohammed is a certified event specialist and cultural advocate. He is a photographer and vice-president of The Photographers Guild of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Giselle Cumberbatch

    Giselle Cumberbatch is a COSTATT student pursuing an Associates degree in Applied Science in Journalism and Public Relations. She is an adventurer and enthusiast, who is always on the hunt for new experiences and ways to improve her life.
  • Hannibal Najjar

    Hannibal Najjar is a former Trinidad and Tobago national senior team and youth team coach. He considers himself a lifetime learner and advocate for the under-served and has been recognised for his contribution to sport and academia in T&T, Canada and the US. He is a guest speaker on race-relations and curriculum planning and is working on his first book.
  • Hayden Martin

    Hayden Martin is programme director for the Fatima College football team. He is a Fifa-certified youth development coach and has a KNVB level one coach instructor license. Martin has 38 years’ coaching experience with St Mary’s College and also coached at national league division one level.
  • Jabal Hassanali

    Jabal Hassanali is a semi-retired, Trini urban planner-cum-English teacher, who is currently stuck somewhere in Asia. He has made a career of being in-between countries and in-between jobs and sometimes, mainly in his in-between moments, fancies himself a writer.
  • Jabari Fraser

    Jabari Fraser is a journalist and broadcaster. Over the last 14 years, he has worked in media, as a foreign language interpreter and teacher, and as a development communications specialist around the Caribbean.
  • Jamaal Shabazz

    Jamaal Shabazz is the Guyana National Senior Team head coach, founder and technical director of Morvant Caledonia United and ex-head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago men's and women's senior teams. He helped steer T&T to second place at the 2012 Caribbean Cup, Guyana to an unprecedented 2014 World Cup qualifying semifinal berth and Caledonia to its first CFU Club Championship title in 2012. He is a member of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen group that staged an unsuccessful coup in Trinidad in 1990.
  • Jenna Aleong

    Jenna Aleong is a Wired868 intern currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications at COSTAATT. Aleong also works in the shipping industry in the commercial/sales department. She has always been an avid reader of novels and short stories, and enjoyed writing short stories when she was younger and had the time to indulge in this pastime.
  • Jessica Joseph

    Jessica Joseph is currently the Creative Director of Accela Marketing St Lucia/Canada. She is a multiple ADDY Award Winning Trinidadian national, Pop Cultural Anthropologist and Humans Rights Activist. She blogs on Huffington Post and alieninthecaribbean.blogspot.com.
  • Jewel Thorpe

    Jewel Thorpe is a Wired868 intern who is in her final semester at COSTATT pursing a BA in Journalism. She also works as an Infant two teacher at her family’s home schooling centre. She finds being an educator rewarding and hopes to one day marry the two professions. She is a true patriot who loves Carnival and all other local culture. In her free time she enjoys reading, writing and outdoor activities.
  • Joel Bailey

    Joel Bailey is an experienced sport writer with over two decades' experience at the Trinidad Newsday.
  • Julie Guyadeen

    Julie Guyadeen has a BSc. in Government with a Minor in International Relations and Postgraduate training in International Relations both at the UWI St. Augustine Campus. She is a firm believer in civil society having an active voice.
  • Juliet Solomon

    Juliet Solomon is a globtrotting Trinidadian who now lives and writes in Peru. She is the official scorer and Cricket Women`s Officer for Cricket Peru (http://perucricket.com/) and an active member of the Good Companions Theatre Group. Her book about her experiences in Lima, “Yes…But It´s Different Here” is available on Amazon.com.
  • Kaius Fordi

    Kaius son of Cleopatra
  • Keita Demming

    Keita Demming holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. His podcast Disruptive Conversations is an effort to unpack how people who are working to disrupt a sector or system think. Dr Demming has worked internationally and in a variety of sectors within the field of social innovation. He also holds the license for TEDxPortofSpain.
  • Kelvin Jack

    Kelvin Jack is a former Trinidad and Tobago international football team goalkeeper and was first choice at the 2006 Germany World Cup although injury restricted him to one outing against Paraguay. Jack is an ex-San Juan Jabloteh captain and played professionally in the UK with Dundee (Scotland) and Gillingham (England).
  • Kendall Tull

    Kendall Tull is a Certified Management Accountant with the Ontario arm of the Society of Management Accountants and has an Honours degree from UWI in Industrial Management. He has over 20 years of experience in both the private and public sectors in a variety of industries at both CFO and CEO level. He is a former Trinidad and Tobago Hockey Board (TTHB) official and captain of the Queen's Park CC and Notre Dame field hockey club.
  • Dr Keron King

    Dr Keron King is a senior lecturer in Criminal Justice at the College of Science, Technology, and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago. His research interests include community-oriented policing, democratic policing, police legitimacy, procedural justice, crime prevention, police reform, restorative justice, and rehabilitation and reintegration of incarcerated people.
  • Keston K Perry

    Keston K Perry is a political economist and scholar specialised in development policy, with extensive experience in academia and the public sector. He was recently a postdoctoral scholar at the Fletcher School, Tufts University and holds a PhD in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
  • Kevin Harrison

    Kevin Harrison is an England-born marketing official who is employed as the Operations Director at Central FC. He was the North East Stars' Marketing Manager for the 2011/12 season while he previously worked as a field agent for the English Professional Footballers Association.
  • Kirk A Inniss

    Kirk .A. Inniss is a Trinidad-born, New York-based author of The Black Butterflies and Lessons for My Children. Sometimes he works with the Writers and Poets Union, to write for his supper. He absolutely refuses to sing though.
  • Kirwin Weston

    Kirwin Jules Weston is a freelance writer and sport enthusiast and holds a BEd Physical Education student from UTT. Weston attributes his love for sport to his father who exposed him to a variety of sports from a tender age. His favourite saying is: “Success breeds success.”
  • La Vaughn Phillips

    La Vaughn Phillips is a Wired868 intern and final year student at Costaatt, reading for her BA in Mass Communication. Her hobbies are photography, reading, singing, visiting and meeting unique places and people. Phillips believes everyone has potential and it's never too late to discover yours.
  • Lamar Pollard

    Lamar Pollard is a cultural and festival management professional, and has been production manager at the UTT Academy for the Performing Arts since 2017. He has over 15 years' experience as a music producer, sound engineer and musician in the performing arts and entertainment industries.
  • Lana Drysdale

    Lana Drysdale is an intern at Wired868 who is currently completing her final semester at COSTAATT for her BA Degree in Mass Communication. Lana is a confident and responsible person who enjoys traveling, movies, reading, baking, and exploring new opportunities while keeping an open mind to continuous learning.
  • Lauren Modeste

    Lauren Modeste is a Wired868 intern who is currently in her final semester at COSTAATT, where she is pursuing a Journalism degree. She is a very reserved, responsible and self-confident person with a passion for fashion. Modeste also enjoys dancing, reading and planning and managing events.
  • Le Shawn Nelson

    Le Shawn Nelson is a Wired868 intern and currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communications at COSTAATT South Campus. She enjoys listening to music, cooking, photography and also our local culture.
  • Lester Henry

    Lester Henry is a Government Senator and Senior Lecturer in Economics at UWI St Augustine. He is an ardent follower of the West Indies cricket and “Soca Warriors” football teams.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Want to share your thoughts with Wired868? Email us at editor@wired868.com. Please keep your letter between 300 to 600 words and be sure to read it over first for typos and punctuation. We don't publish anonymously unless there is a good reason, such as an obvious threat of harassment or job loss.
  • Lincoln Myers

    Lincoln Myers is chairman of civic group, One Accord. He is an ex-government minister and senator and holds a Master's Degree in Economic Development and Latin American and Caribbean History.
  • Lisa Allen-Agostini

    Lisa Allen-Agostini is an editor, stand-up comedian and author from Trinidad and Tobago. Her latest novel The Bread the Devil Knead (Myriad Editions UK, 2021) is long listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022.
  • Lisa Hernandez

    Lisa Hernandez works with a local diplomatic mission and has been involved in field hockey for over 30 years.  She is a former national player and international hockey umpire who is devoted to contribute to sport in whatever capacity.
  • Mark Lyndersay

    Mark Lyndersay is the editor of technewstt.com, a contributor to TT Newsday and OpEd editor of trinigoodmedia.com. His photography can be found at lyndersaydigital.com.
  • Martin Daly

    Martin G Daly SC is a prominent attorney-at-law. He is a former Independent Senator and past president of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago. He is chairman of the Pat Bishop Foundation and a steelpan music enthusiast.
  • MATT Executive

    The Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago is the authorised representative body for local journalists in all formats.
  • Maylee Attin-Johnson

    Maylee Attin-Johnson is the Trinidad and Tobago Women's Senior National Team captain and has represented her country at senior international level since the age of 15. She has a bachelor's degree in Sports Management from the Kennesaw State University in Georgia, USA.
  • Michelle Salandy

    Michelle Salandy is a Bachelor of Arts student in Mass Communications at COSTAATT and a single parent of two. At present, she works in the field of administration. She believes that in order to grow one must be open to new experiences and challenges.
  • Mohan Ramcharan

    Mohan Ramcharan is a Trinidadian living in England, an LLB (Hons) law graduate, systems thinking practitioner, and critical thinker. He is a product of two cultures and strives to be ethical and impartial in his thoughts and actions.
  • Mr. Live Wire

    Mr. Live Wire is an avid news reader who translates media reports for persons who can handle the truth. And satire. Unlike Jack Nicholson, he rarely yells.
  • Natania Alexander

    Natania Alexander is pursuing an Associate Degree in Journalism at COSTAATT and interning at Wired868. She hopes this opportunity will give her a glimpse into the world of journalism. Alexander is a creative thinker who loves reading, writing, the arts, and is eager to make a positive impact.
  • Nicole Cowie

    Nicole Cowie is a mental health/disability activist, public speaker and writer. She is the creator of the viral Twitter hashtag, #DisabledSnark and has written both in the Catholic News and Outlish.com. She is a former recipient of the Wayne Narajit Prize for Social Disability Studies and the National Scholarship for Persons with Disabilities.
  • Nicole Philip Greene

    Nicole is an IT Strategic Consultant and a mother of three. Or that should be the other way around. Follow her blog as she trys to master this "parenting thing" at http://whendidibecomemymom.com/
  • Nigel Grosvenor

    Nigel Grosvenor is the head coach of St Anthony's College and a former Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 head coach.
  • Noble Philip

    Noble Philip, a retired business executive, is trying to interpret Jesus’ relationships with the poor and rich among us. A Seeker, not a Saint.
  • Otancia Noel

    Otancia Noel has a Literatures in English bachelor's degree at COSTAATT and is finishing a Masters in Fine Arts, Creative writing and Prose Fiction at UWI. She grew up on the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen compound in Mucurapo.
  • Owen Thompson

    Owen Thompson, cricket and calypso lover and Atlético de Madrid fan, was born in Tobago, went to school in Trinidad, worked in Portugal, lived for decades in France and Spain and travelled widely in Europe, making him a writer with a world view.
  • Peter O'Connor

    Peter O’Connor served as TTFA president between 1985 and 1990 when he stepped down. He rejoined the TTFF in 2003 as “Marketing Manager/General Co-ordinator” and remained on board until after T&T’s qualification for Germany 2006.
  • Raffique Shah

    Raffique Shah is a columnist for over three decades, founder of the T&T International Marathon, co-founder of the ULF with Basdeo Panday and George Weekes, a former sugar cane farmers union leader and an ex-Siparia MP. He trained at the UK’s Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was arrested, court-martialled, sentenced and eventually freed on appeal after leading 300 troops in a mutiny at Teteron Barracks during the Black Power revolution of 1970.
  • Raheema Sayyid-Andrews

    Raheema Sayyid-Andrews is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Journalism/Mass Communication at COSTAATT. A wife, a mother and a lover of the English language with over 20 years experience of reading novels, she has a limitless supply of stories to share, her way of demonstrating the sheer power of the written word.
  • Rheann Bernard

    Rheann Bernard is an intern at Wired868 completing her final year at Costaatt as a BA Mass Communication major. She enjoys reading, music and visiting new restaurants and has a passion for cocktail beverages.
  • Richard Braithwaite

    Richard Braithwaite is a leading consultant in Strategic Communication and a former FIFA Technical Development Committee member. He received a Prime Ministerial award in 1998 for his contribution to sport while he wrote two chapters in the recently published book “From Oil to Gas and Beyond”.
  • Rishi Maharaj

    Rishi Maharaj is the CEO of Disclosure Today. He holds a BSc. and MSc. in Government from UWI and has over 10 years work experience in Trinidad and Tobago's public sector. He is also a certified member of the Canadian Institute of Access and Privacy Professionals.
  • Roger Bonair-Agard

    Roger Bonair-Agard lives in the USA where he is a close observer of human behaviour and makes his living as a poet and a creative writing instructor. He is a former USA National Poetry Slam individual champion and the co-founder of the LouderARTS Project, of which he is currently the Artistic Director. He has already had four books of his poetry, including Bury my Clothes (2013) and Gully (2010) published.
  • Romain Pitt

    Roman Pitt is a retired judge of the Ontario Superior Court Justice, a founding director of Caribana and played a leading role in creation of the Black Business Professional Association and the Sickle Cell Association of Canada. He holds the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for contributions to law and the community. He was born in Grenada.
  • Roneil Walcott

    Roneil Walcott is an avid sports fan and freelance reporter with a BA in Mass Communication from COSTAATT. Roneil is a former Harvard and St Mary's College cricketer who once had lofty aspirations of bringing joy to sport fans with the West Indies team. Now, his mission is to keep them on the edge of their seats with sharp commentary from off the playing field.
  • Rose-Marie Belle Antoine

    Rose-Marie Belle Antoine is a Dean at the Faculty of Law, UWI, chaired Professor of Labour Law and Offshore Financial Law, and is an award winning author, attorney, activist and international legal consultant, holding a doctorate in law from Oxford University and an LLM from Cambridge. She is a former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, OAS, Washington, and has also served on numerous distinguished international bodies.
  • Rudy Chato Paul Sr

    Rudy Chato Paul, Sr, is passionate about gardening, music and writing and boasts post-graduate certification in Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology. He also studied Theology, which is why he is actively seeking to make Trinidad a better place rather than waiting for divine intervention. 
  • Salaah Inniss

    Salaah Inniss is an ardent writer with an enthusiasm for bringing insightful views on national issues. He graduated from Cipriani College in Environmental Management, and is presently working in the Integrated Facilities Building Service Industry. He is an empathetic supporter of conservation and the protection of the environment.
  • Scotty Ranking

    Damian R. Scott is an ICT professional and a lifelong student (and part-time teacher) of language and communication. As Scotty Ranking, he frequently comments on topical issues of the day, dispensing knowledge to all and sundry.
  • Sean Taylor

    Sean Taylor is a freelance writer with seven years' experience in the field, who has written for local publications including the Campus Chronicle, UWI Today, USPORTT, Metro and the Trinidad Express. He also studied Communication Studies and Portuguese at the University of the West Indies.
  • Serina A Hearn

    Serina A Hearn is a Bishop Anstey alum who attended St Martin’s School of Art, London, UK. Two collections of her poems were published by Mid America Press Inc and Woodley Memorial Press. She is currently working on a third book.
  • Shaka Hislop

    Shaka Hislop is a football analyst with ESPN and a 2006 World Cup player with Trinidad and Tobago. He played professionally in England with Reading, Newcastle, West Ham and Portsmouth and has an Executive MBA in Business Administration and a Mechanical Engineering degree from Howard University. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame athlete in Trinidad and Tobago and Howard while he was the inaugural winner of the England PFA's Special Merit Award for his services to football.
  • Sheldon Waithe

    Sheldon Waithe is an avid freelance writer who divides his articles between sport, politics and tourism. Using the other side of his brain, he is also the owner and Director of Communique Debt Recovery Ltd aiming to redefine corporate debt collection in T&T.
  • Sherlan Cabralis

    Sherlan Cabralis is a UWI lecturer on Sports Management. She led the T&T hockey team to gold at 2002 CAC Games and was captain at the inaugural 2003 Indoor Hockey World Cup in Germany. She was NCAA First Team All-American and Atlantic 10 MVP for UMass and holds a Bachelor's and MBA in Sport Management and Business Administration respectively.
  • Stacy Ann Murray

    Stacy Ann Murray is a Wired868 intern. She lives by the words "live, love and laugh". She loves having new adventures and traveling. Communication is Murray's passion and she hopes to have a career in corporate communications.
  • Sunity Maharaj

    Sunity Maharaj is a journalist with 38 years of experience and the managing director of the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies. She is a former Trinidad Express editor in chief and TV6 head of news.
  • Terry Fenwick

    Terry Fenwick is the Trinidad and Tobago Men's National Senior Team head coach and technical director of the Football Factory in POS. He is a former England World Cup player who played professionally for Tottenham, Queen's Park FC, Crystal Palace, Leicester City and Swindon Town. He is also one of the most successful coaches in T&T's professional era having won regional and domestic titles with Central FC and San Juan Jabloteh.
  • Thane J Pierre

    Thane J Pierre is an attorney at law with extensive experience in forensics and law enforcement.
  • Sean Powder

    Sean Powder works in the real estate and gaming sectors in the United States and hails from Ten Chains, Roxborough in Tobago. He is a former director of the TTFA’s North American Talent Identification Programme (TIPP) and has spent the last 15 years on riding through the bocas of football with his sons, Noah, Samory and Seth.
  • Tony McWatt

    Tony McWatt is Canadian Cricket’s media relations manager. He is the son of late former West Indies and Guyana wicketkeeper Clifford ‘Baby Boy’ McWatt.
  • Transparency International

    Our Mission is to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society. Our Core Values are: transparency, accountability, integrity, solidarity, courage, justice and democracy.
  • Trinity Beharry

    Trinity Beharry, 20, is a final year student at COSTAATT where she is pursuing an Associate Degree in Journalism and Public Relations. She’s currently an intern at Wired868. Her passions include reading and writing and she enjoys anime, video games, the beach and cultural events like Carnival.
  • Tye Salandy

    Tye Salandy is a sociologist and alternative media journalist. You can email him at tyesalandy@gmail.com.
  • Warren Thompson

    Warren Thompson is a Tobagonian by birth, a life-long student of cricket by preference and an economist by profession. His formal training came at QRC, The UWI and the University of Wales but the assets/skills of which this father of three girls is proudest come from the School of Hard Knocks.
  • Wayne 'Barney' Sheppard

    Wayne Sheppard is the Arima North Secondary technical director and ex-Men's National U-15 assistant coach. He holds a TTFA 'B' coaching license and diplomas from USC, CANOC and TTOC. He is the co-host of the Burdie and Barney Show and a former T&T National U-23 and U-17 player.
  • Michelle Cox

    Michelle Cox is a Wired868 freelancer who was born and bred in South Trinidad and lives in the village of La Brea. Cox holds an Associate degree in PR and Journalism and is currently pursuing her BA in Mass Communication at COSTAATT. She has been employed in the energy sector for over 15 years and is the proud mother of daughters Denielle, 10, and Amelia, 6. Her mantra is: ‘the learning never stops until you do and then… you still never know.’

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  2. Date: March 14, 2017
    Crime Plan: Trinidad and Tobago
    Crime is a symptom of major planks in the structure of society gone wrong.
    Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?
    Who are the people responsible for committing crime? Whose interest is being served?
    What kind of crime is most prevalent? What is the method of choice?
    What are the time lines? Is the force strength optimized to prevent and is trained to disrupt this particular type of criminal?
    When are most murders committed? Is there a causation pattern where targeted intervention can take place?
    Why is criminal activity geared towards particular communities, individuals and groups (gangs)
    How has criminal activity been analyzed and categorized?
    What needs are being served by criminals (drugs, poverty, permanent

    Premise:
    There are a high number of individuals involved in the commission of crime in Trinidad and Tobago! What are the facts?
    There is long held and reinforced stigmatism by street address. Redlining from birth.
    Criminal activity is pervasive and applies to multiple sectors. Have crime leaders been identified?
    Crime prevention initiatives:
    What does it cost the society? Is the goal disruption or destruction of the criminal apparatus? What are the alternatives to these specific criminal activities? Are these criminal redeemable or are they condemned to permanent incarceration.
    Can those costs be turned into investments?
    • The majority of criminal activity is rooted in the absence of hope and the availability of high resources to be diverted to crime.
    Who are the benefactors of this activity?
    • Who are the crime brokers and what is the structure, design, methods and execution?
    • How much of these activities are sanctioned by the activities of the government or lack of enforcement by the government?
    • Is criminal activity part of gross national product? In other words is it so endemic that it is relied upon as part of the economic fabric of the country.
    Is law enforcement services really the last group to find out about new crime waves and is action or inaction based on crime statistics after the fact?
    • The numbers of gunshot casualties and victims in T&T havs been at record levels for each succeeding year for several years if the rate of increase is based on five years averages.
    • Vulnerability and large supply of victims: The haves versus the never will have.
    • Purposeful blindness of law enforcement: No alternatives offered other than imprisonment and meaningless government sponsored employment
    High dependency on government sector:
    • No escalator in place for persons with high aptitude
    • The violent crime level has chased out of the communities people of a certain income level, leading the absence of economic escalators.
    • Whatever trappings of success from hard work becomes the inventory for theft and/or harassment
    • The most vulnerable are treated as cannon fodder. Women are not protected and rape, murder and kidnapping are the normal lead of the evening news.
    Society based on nepotism:
    • In a society based on nepotism and privilege, how does a young person fight back and what are the options for success. How can that young person learn about available opportunities in legitimate spaces in the economy?
    o The government, which includes ministers, should be required to have monthly meetings within the community that deliver real transparency and provide the registration materials for the most vulnerable in crime infested areas to apply.
    o Is opportunity and exploitation morphed into the same thing? How do you get young adults to trust it?

    Recommendation:
    • Rebuild belief in the normalcy of community or put them in places where they never existed.
    o The emphasis on sport and recreation are good but not true options to economic success.
    • Have every person who attains the age of eighteen or has completed high school to enlist in one of the protective or health services.
    o Make this national service mandatory.
    o Rebuild national trust through service.
    o Provide a stipend similar to what it would cost to maintain a prisoner in one of the institutions of incarceration.
    • Reduce the no-work/make-work agencies and convert to training programs (Jude, CEPEP, Etc.)
    o Conversion and training program to the private sector jobs.
    How could you not know where the guns are coming from and where they are going?
    • If that question cannot be answered satisfactorily, then the law enforcement leaders ought to be replaced or the government will be at the next election.
    • Since Trinidad and Tobago are islands and most gun traders don’t live in water, are there really alternative hiding places.
    • Why is there not dedicated and trained law enforcement teams prepared for the influx of guns?
    o Are the people to remain in fear of this menace forever or is this a tactic of subjugation?
    o The national government seems to be silent on laying down the law on guns and their brokers. This does not seem like an enterprise that is being conducted on a piece-meal basis.
    o Why don’t our Prime Minister and attorney general dispense with the formalities and charge Venezuela and other governments for transporting illegal guns over their borders into Trinidad. Make it a condition for trade.
    o Gun trader should be given life sentences without exception
    o Raise this issue at the U.N. as a condition for any votes that support the U.S. and all countries in South and Central America. Let CARICOM vote as a block on this issue.
    And what about the people’s money?
    • Move retirement plan dollars into national stock/mutual fund programs
    o Implement FATCA and AML programs immediately. The game in which the opposition is engaged is fundamentally dangerous and if there are seizure laws already on the books, the businesses of their friends, families and others that are flaunting the law should be sanctioned. No government purchase ought to be transacted with these companies, starting with immediate effect.
     All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. Essentially, this is Kamla’s position.
    o Forensic Auditing should be a requirement for accounting and economic grads at all universities and institutions of higher learning. Teams of auditors must now be part of the taxing infrastructure until FATCA laws are passed. It would probably take four classes to specialize in forensics.
    http://www.forensisgroup.com/expert-witness/auditing/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Business&utm_term=forensic%20auditing&utm_content=Auditing

    • Encourage regular middle income residents of Trinidad and Tobago to invest in the corporations that are domiciled in the country, especially banking institutions.
    o Revitalize the Caribbean investment marketplace in downtown Port-of-Spain (Manning initiative). Eliminate the real estate vacancies.
    o Government built real estate must now provide a stated return-on-investment and not be left to corrupting influences. Full transparency is required here. This is true for all government owned assets. If they do not provide a five-year average return, then they must be sold and become part of the tax structure.
     For government agencies that are thirty years of more, conversion to privately run companies should be part of the budget reduction plan. These companies must be 60% owned by citizens of T&T and no person or company should own more than 20% of any national asset.
    Lack of follow through:
    Can we state once and for all what the economic challenges are?
    • Chronic lack of diversification
    • After the energy sector, what are the top ten industries and what percentage of production is exportable?
    • Is brain power a financial resource?
    • Given the doors to the U.S. and Europe are being closed, what skill sets will open them and do we have the infrastructure in place so that brain power is a marketable commodity. Let the businesses come to us. How to commoditize online and administrative resources.
    • How can we make our markets, services and products retentive to our population? (If 20% of Mexican migrant workers are blocked from working in the gardens of the U.S., possible 50% of the population will starve)
    Woeful tax collection effort and strategy
    o No real development of a taxable market place
    o Prioritize net favorable foreign exchange as a national objective.
    No targeted efforts to reduce employable capacity.
    There are a number of people who have given up looking for jobs or are displaced in the current economy. If these unemployment figures are true then the 64% labor participation rate is suspect.
    Where are they and what industries can be altered to accommodate them?
    Unemployment Rate in Trinidad and Tobago averaged 10.67 percent from 1991 until 2015, reaching an all-time high of 21.10 percent in the first quarter of 1993 and a record low of 3.10 percent in the first quarter of 2014.

    No coordination between private sector and government sector to lower unemployment that is region specific (nepotism the controlling factor).
    The ratio of government employees is far too high. The 64% labor participation rate is deceptive. The male to female disparities are stark, according to a study published in 2011 using 2009 data. (Karen Roopnaring and Dindial Ramrattan)
    http://www.central-bank.org.tt/sites/default/files/Female%20Labour%20Force%20Participation%20-%20The%20Case%20of%20Trinidad%20and%20Tobago%20-%20K.%20Roopnarine%20and%20D.%20Ramrattan.pdf
    Major resources (employment in energy sector controlled by unions)
    o Unions do not promote ownership in the resources that pay for their livelihood and therefore, cannot benefit from the profitability inherent in fruits of their labor.
    o Concentration of labor creates the possibility for corruption.
    The religious sectors are not being progressive
    o Priest, pundits and imams are not change makers;
    o They are similar to the government usually a day and a dollar short.
    o Suffer in silence and make better choices while your throat is being cut.

    Alternatives to growing illicit drugs:
    Agroponics/Aquaponics
    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=agroponics&qpvt=agroponics&qpvt=agroponics&qpvt=agroponics&FORM=IGRE
    http://www.agroponic.com/
    Micro gardens: Get the Universities involved!
    o For university agriculture students, participation is mandatory.
    o For food consuming industries, purchasing is strongly encouraged
    o For existing agri-businesses, partnerships as a condition tax discounting
    o Community centered organic gardens, growing vegetables and spices for domestic consumption and/or export. It would entail the distribution of 1,000 wooden boxes to each distressed community to grow specific and scientifically validated products.
    o Instructions to be given for soil testing, water requirements, harvesting and making market.
    o Saleable food and fresh herbs will takes weeks and not years to produce. Restaurant owners can commission the products needed and food will have a ready market already established.
    Will one thousand ten foot by four feet boxes growing food on Laventille hill make a difference in the crime rate?

    Alternatives to manufacturing illicit drugs:
    Will two hundred young smart individuals working in a new pharmaceutical industry make a difference in Success Village or Chaguanas?
    • This is a challenge for the ministers and the government of Trinidad and Tobago. If we break it down by number, can we then make it happen with headcount and accountability?
    • A specific challenge for the education system of Trinidad and Tobago (instead of waiting for arbitrary circumstances to evolve, proactive targeting of industry for crime specific regions by providing opportunities as alternatives. How do you eliminate the marginalization of individuals from certain street addresses? You can start by building the new economic frontier at those addresses.
    Pharmaceutical production.
    o With the very high education level and the high unemployment among young adults, Trinidad and Tobago is the perfect region to start a pharmaceutical production industry.
    o Involvement by the local university system with the appropriate international standards can very easily become instrumental in setting up these relatively small companies right in the middle of the “at risk” neighborhoods.
    o It is the lesson of the national lottery, whatever the criminal enterprise, build and alternative industry in order to take away its power. The only caveat is to make the new enterprise substantially better than the criminal one.
    Next Generation:
    Civic duty and the benefits to society are currently frowned upon. (see recommendation)
    • Lessons about preparing the population for civic duty is not being learned and this potential game changer is not being emulated.
    • There is no money in it

  3. Date: February 21, 2017
    Crime Plan: Trinidad and Tobago
    Crime is a symptom of major planks in the structure of society gone wrong.
    Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?
    Who are the people responsible for committing crime? Whose interest is being served?
    What kind of crime is most prevalent? What is the method of choice?
    What are the time lines? Is the force strength optimized to prevent and is trained to disrupt this particular type of criminal?
    When are most murders committed? Is there a causation pattern where targeted intervention can take place?
    Why is criminal activity geared towards particular communities, individuals and groups (gangs)
    How has criminal activity been analyzed and categorized?
    What needs are being served by criminals (drugs, poverty, permanent

    Premise:
    There are a high number of individuals involved in the commission of crime in Trinidad and Tobago! What are the facts?
    There is long held and reinforced stigmatism by street address. Redlining from birth.
    Criminal activity is pervasive and applies to multiple sectors. Have crime leaders been identified?
    Crime prevention initiatives:
    What does it cost the society? Is the goal disruption or destruction of the criminal apparatus? What are the alternatives to these specific criminal activities? Are these criminal redeemable or are they condemned to permanent incarceration.
    Can those costs be turned into investments?
    • The majority of criminal activity is rooted in the absence of hope and the availability of high resources to be diverted to crime.
    Who are the benefactors of this activity?
    • Who are the crime brokers and what is the structure, design, methods and execution?
    • How much of these activities are sanctioned by the activities of the government or lack of enforcement by the government?
    • Is criminal activity part of gross national product? In other words is it so endemic that it is relied upon as part of the economic fabric of the country.
    Is law enforcement services really the last group to find out about new crime waves and is action or inaction based on crime statistics after the fact?
    • The numbers of gunshot casualties and victims in T&T havs been at record levels for each succeeding year for several years if the rate of increase is based on five years averages.
    • Vulnerability and large supply of victims: The haves versus the never will have.
    • Purposeful blindness of law enforcement: No alternatives offered other than imprisonment and meaningless government sponsored employment
    High dependency on government sector:
    • No escalator in place for persons with high aptitude
    • The violent crime level has chased out of the communities people of a certain income level, leading the absence of economic escalators.
    • Whatever trappings of success from hard work becomes the inventory for theft and/or harassment
    • The most vulnerable are treated as cannon fodder. Women are not protected and rape, murder and kidnapping are the normal lead of the evening news.
    Society based on nepotism:
    • In a society based on nepotism and privilege, how does a young person fight back and what are the options for success. How can that young person learn about available opportunities in legitimate spaces in the economy?
    o The government, which includes ministers, should be required to have monthly meetings within the community that deliver real transparency and provide the registration materials for the most vulnerable in crime infested areas to apply.
    o Is opportunity and exploitation morphed into the same thing? How do you get young adults to trust it?

    Recommendation:
    • Rebuild belief in the normalcy of community or put them in places where they never existed.
    o The emphasis on sport and recreation are good but not true options to economic success.
    • Have every person who attains the age of eighteen or has completed high school to enlist in one of the protective or health services.
    o Make this national service mandatory.
    o Rebuild national trust through service.
    o Provide a stipend similar to what it would cost to maintain a prisoner in one of the institutions of incarceration.
    • Reduce the no-work/make-work agencies and convert to training programs (Jude, CEPEP, Etc.)
    o Conversion and training program to the private sector jobs.
    How could you not know where the guns are coming from and where they are going?
    • If that question cannot be answered satisfactorily, then the law enforcement leaders ought to be replaced or the government will be at the next election.
    • Since Trinidad and Tobago are islands and most gun traders don’t live in water, are there really alternative hiding places.
    • Why is there not dedicated and trained law enforcement teams prepared for the influx of guns?
    o Are the people to remain in fear of this menace forever or is this a tactic of subjugation?
    o The national government seems to be silent on laying down the law on guns and their brokers. This does not seem like an enterprise that is being conducted on a piece-meal basis.
    o Why don’t our Prime Minister and attorney general dispense with the formalities and charge Venezuela and other governments for transporting illegal guns over their borders into Trinidad. Make it a condition for trade.
    o Gun trader should be given life sentences without exception
    o Raise this issue at the U.N. as a condition for any votes that support the U.S. and all countries in South and Central America. Let CARICOM vote as a block on this issue.
    And what about the people’s money?
    • Move retirement plan dollars into national stock/mutual fund programs
    o Implement FATCA and AML programs immediately. The game in which the opposition is engaged is fundamentally dangerous and if there are seizure laws already on the books, the businesses of their friends, families and others that are flaunting the law should be sanctioned. No government purchase ought to be transacted with these companies, starting with immediate effect.
     All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. Essentially, this is Kamla’s position.
    o Forensic Auditing should be a requirement for accounting and economic grads at all universities and institutions of higher learning. Teams of auditors must now be part of the taxing infrastructure until FATCA laws are passed. It would probably take four classes to specialize in forensics.
    http://www.forensisgroup.com/expert-witness/auditing/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Business&utm_term=forensic%20auditing&utm_content=Auditing

    • Encourage regular middle income residents of Trinidad and Tobago to invest in the corporations that are domiciled in the country, especially banking institutions.
    o Revitalize the Caribbean investment marketplace in downtown Port-of-Spain (Manning initiative). Eliminate the real estate vacancies.
    o Government built real estate must now provide a stated return-on-investment and not be left to corrupting influences. Full transparency is required here. This is true for all government owned assets. If they do not provide a five-year average return, then they must be sold and become part of the tax structure.
     For government agencies that are thirty years of more, conversion to privately run companies should be part of the budget reduction plan. These companies must be 60% owned by citizens of T&T and no person or company should own more than 20% of any national asset.
    Lack of follow through:
    Can we state once and for all what the economic challenges are?
    • Chronic lack of diversification
    • After the energy sector, what are the top ten industries and what percentage of production is exportable?
    • Is brain power a financial resource?
    • Given the doors to the U.S. and Europe are being closed, what skill sets will open them and do we have the infrastructure in place so that brain power is a marketable commodity. Let the businesses come to us. How to commoditize online and administrative resources.
    • How can we make our markets, services and products retentive to our population? (If 20% of Mexican migrant workers are blocked from working in the gardens of the U.S., possible 50% of the population will starve)
    Woeful tax collection effort and strategy
    o No real development of a taxable market place
    o Prioritize net favorable foreign exchange as a national objective.
    No targeted efforts to reduce employable capacity.
    There are a number of people who have given up looking for jobs or are displaced in the current economy. If these unemployment figures are true then the 64% labor participation rate is suspect.
    Where are they and what industries can be altered to accommodate them?
    Unemployment Rate in Trinidad and Tobago averaged 10.67 percent from 1991 until 2015, reaching an all-time high of 21.10 percent in the first quarter of 1993 and a record low of 3.10 percent in the first quarter of 2014.

    No coordination between private sector and government sector to lower unemployment that is region specific (nepotism the controlling factor).
    The ratio of government employees is far too high. The 64% labor participation rate is deceptive. The male to female disparities are stark, according to a study published in 2011 using 2009 data. (Karen Roopnaring and Dindial Ramrattan)
    http://www.central-bank.org.tt/sites/default/files/Female%20Labour%20Force%20Participation%20-%20The%20Case%20of%20Trinidad%20and%20Tobago%20-%20K.%20Roopnarine%20and%20D.%20Ramrattan.pdf
    Major resources (employment in energy sector controlled by unions)
    o Unions do not promote ownership in the resources that pay for their livelihood and therefore, cannot benefit from the profitability inherent in fruits of their labor.
    o Concentration of labor creates the possibility for corruption.
    The religious sectors are not being progressive
    o Priest, pundits and imams are not change makers;
    o They are similar to the government usually a day and a dollar short.
    o Suffer in silence and make better choices while your throat is being cut.

    Alternatives to growing illicit drugs:
    Agroponics/Aquaponics
    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=agroponics&qpvt=agroponics&qpvt=agroponics&qpvt=agroponics&FORM=IGRE
    http://www.agroponic.com/
    Micro gardens: Get the Universities involved!
    o For university agriculture students, participation is mandatory.
    o For food consuming industries, purchasing is strongly encouraged
    o For existing agri-businesses, partnerships as a condition tax discounting
    o Community centered organic gardens, growing vegetables and spices for domestic consumption and/or export. It would entail the distribution of 1,000 wooden boxes to each distressed community to grow specific and scientifically validated products.
    o Instructions to be given for soil testing, water requirements, harvesting and making market.
    o Saleable food and fresh herbs will takes weeks and not years to produce. Restaurant owners can commission the products needed and food will have a ready market already established.
    Will one thousand ten foot by four feet boxes growing food on Laventille hill make a difference in the crime rate?

    Alternatives to manufacturing illicit drugs:
    Will two hundred young smart individuals working in a new pharmaceutical industry make a difference in Success Village or Chaguanas?
    • This is a challenge for the ministers and the government of Trinidad and Tobago. If we break it down by number, can we then make it happen with headcount and accountability?
    • A specific challenge for the education system of Trinidad and Tobago (instead of waiting for arbitrary circumstances to evolve, proactive targeting of industry for crime specific regions by providing opportunities as alternatives. How do you eliminate the marginalization of individuals from certain street addresses? You can start by building the new economic frontier at those addresses.
    Pharmaceutical production.
    o With the very high education level and the high unemployment among young adults, Trinidad and Tobago is the perfect region to start a pharmaceutical production industry.
    o Involvement by the local university system with the appropriate international standards can very easily become instrumental in setting up these relatively small companies right in the middle of the “at risk” neighborhoods.
    o It is the lesson of the national lottery, whatever the criminal enterprise, build and alternative industry in order to take away its power. The only caveat is to make the new enterprise substantially better than the criminal one.
    Next Generation:
    Civic duty and the benefits to society are currently frowned upon. (see recommendation)
    • Lessons about preparing the population for civic duty is not being learned and this potential game changer is not being emulated.
    • There is no money in it

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