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- 11 April, 2025
GOVT MOVES TO BAN LEGAL GUNS
THE lucrative illegal firearm market is worth about $144 million, a parliamentary committee headed by Government man Keith Scotland revealed two months ago.
SILENCE ON $3.5 BILLION SCANDAL
ANOTHER messy chapter in the biggest scandal since the Calder Hart fiasco has closed without national outrage.
In its latest saga, the plant was handed to Niquan Energy for an initial US $10 million, and a subsequent US $25 million in preference shares, which it did not pay.
EXPECT NOTHING FROM PROBE INTO BABIES’ DEATHS
MEDICAL experts fear the probe into the recent deaths of seven babies at Port of Spain General Hospital will amount to nothing.
They question whether autopsies of the deceased babies were conducted and steps were taken to determine the source of the fatal bacterial infection.
CORRUPT CHIEF MAGISTRATE AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL
“HOPELESSLY compromised” the Privy Council once described then-Trinidad and Tobago Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicholls.
The British law lords said McNicholls was guilty of “reprehensible conduct” and that “his mind must have been in turmoil” for a 2008 fraud case against senior operatives of a previous Basdeo Panday-led Government.
SUFFER THE CHILDREN
THERE are hundreds of street children in Trinidad and Tobago, victims of grinding poverty, home violence, and other social and economic crises.
The Government’s social welfare system is skewed and makes no impact toward reducing the number of people living under the poverty line.
ERLA – POSTER CHILD OF NATIONAL FAILURE
Erla Harewood-Christopher, the woefully ill-equipped Police Commissioner, whose pathetic track record is coupled with her overt satisfaction over her non-performance.
Having failed to meet all 11 crime reduction targets, Harewood-Christopher recently expressed fulfillment, even amid the spree of lawlessness and nine per cent criminal detection rate.
MORE AND MORE LIKE HAITI…
DELMAS is an inner city community off Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just like Harpe Place, Port of Spain, but much larger.
There is much creativity, although nothing like Renegades, our 13-time Panorama winner.
US TALKS TOUGH WITH ROWLEY ON SECURITY
Linda Specht, a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Biden Administration, last week held three days of discussions, during which she took a hardline on drug, gun, and human trafficking, and relations with Venezuela.
EDUCATION BOSSES REJECT ADVICE ON VIOLENT LYRICS
LONG before Trinibad’s violent lyrics, a team of experts made recommendations to deal with the damaging impact of local culture.
There may not have been a need for Education Minister Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly to be concerned about aggressive musical lines if the authorities had implemented proposals from the 10-year-old study.
CUDJOE’S SOLO CRIES ON CRIME
PROFESSOR Selwyn Cudjoe’s major contribution to the discussion on crime is not the package of proposals he delivered.
Frankly, we have heard the suggestions before, although they remain critical and urgent in the face of the unceasing crime epidemic.
