“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Milan Kundera, a Czech and French novelist, in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979). The book discusses how people tolerate the torture and suffering over which they have no control. These lessons apply to us as …
Read More »Noble: Will the TTPS save us? Or is T&T leaning on a false messiah?
Distressingly amid the national uproar over our women’s ill-treatment and murders, we gravitate to accepting a ‘macho’ solution that wreaks violence upon those who threaten us. We should reflect on how likely this path would take us to our desired goal of safety for all, particularly our women. Will we …
Read More »Dear Editor: Where are the body cameras? Time to bell the CoP and his trigger happy cowboys
“[…] It has already been proven around the world that body cams work two ways: to protect the citizenry from false arrests, charges or death; and to protect the officers from false accusations. “Time and time again, when questioned about the absence of body cameras, the CoP—in his usual rambling, …
Read More »MSJ: Was ‘cockroach’ jibe a ‘license’ to kill? Arrest and suspend ALL lawmen involved in M’vt slaying
“[…] It seems as though members of the police force have taken the commissioner’s use of force policy and his incendiary remarks about ‘cockroaches’ as a license to kill. This is not the first time that this has happened under the watch of Gary Griffith, as we had a similar …
Read More »MSJ: Where are the long-promised police body cameras, Gary?
“[…] There continues to be the anguish of citizens who claim that the police are executing persons in their community, whilst the police claim otherwise. “The people of Trinidad and Tobago need to know the truth and we just cannot take the police’s statement as fact when we have had …
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