- 1 April, 2025
NOW EXTORTIONISTS TARGET DOUBLES VENDORS
BRUTAL criminal extortionists are now targeting doubles and other hard-working wayside vendors.
The thugs are pouncing upon the street hawkers and demanding a monthly sum as “protection money” to ensure the safety of the vendors and their loved ones.
WELL-SPOKEN FAILURES
Rowley and Hinds once more failed to proffer any solutions to the violent chaos in the land, and, instead, passed responsibility to the public and called for support of the police.
WORSE THAN HAITI!
TRINIDAD and Tobago’s homicide rate, “one of the world’s highest, is now 45 per 100,000” (Source: Trinidad Express editorial).
Haiti’s homicide rate in 2023 was 41 people per 100,000 (Source: United Nations).
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.
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.
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.
BEWARE YOUR FRIENDLY POSTAL GANGSTER
A BIZZARE memorandum to delivery workers of the Trinidad and Tobago Postal Service reveals how dreadful crime has become – and further evidence that the authorities remain hapless.
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY
I WAS in complete shock and dismay after watching video footage in which a childhood friend got killed while sitting watching basketball at a local bar in Cantaro, the once sleepy village in which I grew up.
ROWLEY’S WEIRD CRIME CONFESSION
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley launched the regional crime talks with a bizarre assertion.
The Prime Minister suggested that national security leadership is not critical in the fight against the crime epidemic.
