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- 13 January, 2025
Crime
Crime Articles by CounterPunchTT
BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS
A 15-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl in Britain was stabbed to death on Thursday, and the media and public commentators reacted with horror and urgency.
“The carnage and the cruelty must end,” the Daily Express said in its Friday editorial.
‘BEWARE OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO!’
TWO damning travel advisories by the Americans and Canadians are another dagger to Trinidad and Tobago’s struggling economy.
NOW EVEN BIG BUSINESS LASH OUT ON CRIME
IN a clear sign of the desperate times in which we live, now even Port of Spain business operators are outraged at the PNM Government.
City business mouthpiece Gregory Aboud, who previously spoke in subtle, delicate terms about the Rowley Administration, is now expressing outright frustration and indignation.
ON THE SHORT ROAD TO HAITI…
CHILDREN are routinely killed on the streets, kidnappings for ransom are commonplace, and sexual assaults are a daily reality.
That is the chilling life today in Haiti.
ANOTHER MURDER WHILE HINDS TAKES NO ACTION ON CRIME
The slain officer is yet another law-abiding citizen who has lost his life and left his family without a husband and father while the Government is making no effort to curb the crime catastrophe.
WHAT ABOUT $50 M PRISON JAMMERS?
TRINIDAD and Tobago has spent more than $50 million on telephone jammers and grabbers and yet Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says that criminals are calling the shots from behind bars.
DELIVER US FROM ERLA
Under Ms. Harewood-Christopher’s tortured tenure, the crime scourge has only worsened while detection rates are generally in single digits.
SEEPERSAD FACES OFFICIAL ACTION
OUTSPOKEN jurist Frank Seepersad is a source of much anxiety to certain senior officials of the PNM Government, who want him disciplined.
Another travel warning about T&T…
HOMICIDE, sexual assault, robbery and even terrorist attacks are “commonplace” in Trinidad and Tobago, according to a new international travel report on the Caribbean.
COPS WHO DON’T KNOW THE AREAS THEY SERVE
RESIDENTS across the country are complaining that many police officers are not acquainted with the communities they serve.