- 1 April, 2025
HOW T&T FAILED HANNAH
SEVERAL days after the discovery of Hannah Mathura’s skeletal remains, the authorities had still not assisted her brutalised siblings.
That is just one disturbing example of the gross failure of the authorities to intervene in this ghastly and long-running crime.
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).
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.
ROWLEY’S GARY GRIFFITH COMPLEX
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s last week branded Griffith’s tenure as a “spectacular” failure and pointed to the sore matter of the issuance of firearms users’ licence.
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.
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.
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.
US PRESSES T&T ON DRUGS, GUNS
THE United States is still unhappy about the Keith Rowley Government’s response to billion-dollar drug and gun trafficking.
US VP TO PROBE ROWLEY ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
UNITED States Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to raise questions about human trafficking when she meets this week with Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley and other Caricom leaders.
COPS ONLY BAD WITH TRAFFIC TICKETS
A FEW months ago, a bulky police officer stepped into my path as I drove off Churchill-Roosevelt Highway between St. Augustine Girls’ High School and