- 1 April, 2025
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.
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.
COPS PLAN CARNIVAL SICK-OUT
FRUSTRATED police officers are planning a sick-out on Carnival days to protest the non-payment of their long-overdue backpay.
Around 7,000 officers are owed some $300 million.
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.
ROWLEY STANDS HIS GROUND ON ANTI-CRIME LAW
THE Government is not interested in discussing the Opposition-proposed Stand Your Ground laws.
That is clear from the latest letter from Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley to Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar on impending crime talks.
Ms. Persad-Bissessar has been advancing such laws because, as she stated during the Budget debate: “If the Government cannot protect the people, it should give the people the laws and means to protect themselves.”
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.
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.
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.
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