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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: RIHANNA SPEAKS

« on: November 12, 2009, 04:21:57 PM »

Cana I ent think you roll your eyes enough at that one.

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General Discussion / Re: Fort Hood Shooting - TEXAS

« on: November 12, 2009, 04:11:29 PM »

What conclusions Mr. Bakes??

Well IMHO here's the most obvious one some people will dwell on. For the past several days the country has sung the praises of the white female officer who took down the big bad Major, only now to discover that it may have been a fellow black officer who at first glance seems to be very humble about the whole thing. Will we see Sgt. Todd fist-bumping the president and hi-fiving the first lady at thanksgiving dinner? Or will we just pray that it all blows over soon? After all who wants to admit that they might have erronously celebrated the wrong hero?

Or what about the glaring fact that once again the army cant get the facts right. Or are they just feeding the public info on a need to know basis.... changing the stories when it suits them. Are we really sure Hassan is alive? I haven't seen any leaked pictures of him in a hospital bed have you? Nope he seems to be more heavily guarded than Fort Hood. Which I just realized was a really bad comparison.

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General Discussion / Re: Public Service Announcement

« on: November 11, 2009, 03:13:26 PM »

I wear jackets year round, what changes is the inner pieces. Summer, short sleeve or sleeveless blouses, spring and fall, 3/4 length sleeves. Moment that thermostat goes down to the 40's is turtlenecks. Outerwear is mostly 2 trench coats, one mid leg length for cooler months and one ankle length for the snow. Unless it really cold, then I telecommute or break out the big fluffy parka that makes one look like a snow man.

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General Discussion / Re: Fort Hood Shooting - TEXAS

« on: November 11, 2009, 03:09:57 PM »

We dont know if he frustrated, we dont know if he have some kind of  PTSD.

imagine de military have hassan consoling soldiers coming back from tours, listening to their horror stories and then they promote him to major and send him to the same hell-on-earth he hearing about.

Here's something else to think about. Guns, legal guns (and sometime illegal ones) are used to save lives, to ward off would be attackers, to scare off burglers, sometimes without taking any lives at all. And guns probably save more lives per year than they take. Why don't we hear about that in the media?

funny how an absence of guns does save lives too. here's another thing a gun does. a gun indirectly puts a price on life; especially those guns designed specifically for humans.

Ribbit, as the wife of an ex-army who saw a lot of things, I am not discounting PTSD you understand? I am saying that we DON"T know. We have friends who went through hell, some of them served alongside my husband and there are things that they do not talk about.  My husband got out of the army several years ago.  But they came to our door four years ago and wanted him to come back and he almost did it. After all that he had seen, he almost went back in. I asked him why and the best that he could come up with was that it was his job.

I have seen first hand what PTSD is. But I saw it in people who were there. On the frontlines, taking heat. A friend of ours fell out of a helicopter in the field and to this day cringes when a medivac flies over the hospital. Another friend, pilot, got out and nurses his nightmares with pot. These people  lived the hell that some of us can barely imagine. But they didnt go out and shoot up a base. And one thing that came through from talking to some of these people is that most of them, not all, most of them would have gone back to the hell hole again, if they were asked. SO jumping to conclusions saying the man might have some type of stress disorder that was triggered because he heard about war and nightmares and conditions day in and day out and then get told he going there, in my opinion, I don't buy that argument. I could be wrong though. 

It takes a certain type of mentality to enlist and stay in. Stay in and work your way up the ranks. Major Hassan had something to him, that kept him in and got him promoted each time. Somewhere along the lines, someone felt he earned his promotions. And all this crap about him and his reprimands and all the negative stuff we hear, the army isnt a union, you dont get promoted cause you've been in long enough. What we are seeing now is just people covering their asses because no one wants to admit that they missed warning flags that were right in front their faces.

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General Discussion / Re: Public Service Announcement

« on: November 11, 2009, 02:46:38 PM »

Besides this time a year, what you still doing wearing bodice??? I pull out the turtlenecks so long now 

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General Discussion / Re: Fort Hood Shooting - TEXAS

« on: November 09, 2009, 10:14:38 PM »

OK Weary I think I see your point but... I respectfully disagree. Just because you have it or are allowed to, doesnt mean you will use it. For every idiot that uses their registered gun to commit mass murder or murder in general, there are hundreds more that don't. And you ignoring the multiple shootings that are committed by illegal weapons where something like the right to bear, just doesnt count.

Wasnt there a shooting recently in trinidad where an officer was gunned down? It seems like almost once a week if not more, someone dies from a shooting in Trinidad and arent all these guns illegal? What about that man, the murder suspect who was shot in the court yard? Were those hitmen carrying licensed guns? What will you blame those murders on?

You Saying that "we yanks" go postal because we have the right to bear arms, what are you going to say about the ever increasing gun related murders in Trinidad? Or doesnt it count because in the US, most of the time when some idiot takes out a firearm, they take down more than one person? Are we willing to overlook gun related crime in Trinidad because we only taking people out one at a time?


Guns, whether legal or illegal, kill people. That is a fact.
Guns kill people in several countries all over the world. That is a fact.
Guns kill people in Trinidad. That is a fact.
There are more gun related deaths in the US than anywhere else. That is a fact. However you need to take out the suicides and accidental shootings and look at just the pure murder, then break that down into legal guns and illegal guns before you make any type of judgement about Right to Bear and going postal.
Gun related crimes are on the rise. That is another fact.
High instances of firearm related death in the US can be attributed to the right to bear arms is a hypothesis. But you've already said you were just formulating a hypothesis. However in the same  way people say do not equate this incident with terrorism until we have solid proof, show me your data that says specifically that R2b is the reason "we" go postal. Because you know and I know that if I formulated a hypothesis like "Trinidadians has become a cesspool of crime where the innocent are held captive and robbed of their hard earned valuables,where people are afraid to go about their normal lives for fear of being the target of a vicious crime"  Or if I formulated a hypothesis like "There has to be an underground slave trade flourishing in Trinidad due to the number of missing people in trinidad every year" If I formulated any hypothesis such as these based strictly on what I read in the express or what I heard from some people living at home, you know damn well plenty people on this board would be hanging me out to dry. Let us not deal in hypothesis and supposition, let us deal with facts. And the only thing we know for sure is that some idiot shot a bunch of people on an army base. We dont know if he frustrated, we dont know if he have some kind of  PTSD.

Personally I believe that the media has created the environment where it is almost acceptable to go postal. Back in 98 or 99, I think, where there were several shooting instances in schools one after the other, and multiple killings,  kids saw other kids, rejects acting out against their perceived abuse. The media did everything but write a handbook for these troubled teens. If you were already borderline before and you have this article telling you that so and so took out almost his entire class with a gun he bought over the internet... well there's your copycat. Psychos watch this stuff and refine their plans based on what they observed in other situations. Nothing to do with R2B. Just some follow fashions.


Here's something else to think about. Guns, legal guns (and sometime illegal ones) are used to save lives, to ward off would be attackers, to scare off burglers, sometimes without taking any lives at all. And guns probably save more lives per year than they take. Why don't we hear about that in the media?

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Miss T&T in a Bacchanal

« on: November 09, 2009, 07:12:35 PM »

You tube pulled it and err..... check your inbox 

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Miss T&T Anya Ayoung-Chee sex tape scandal

« on: November 09, 2009, 04:59:20 PM »

because they killing it in another thread in entertainment

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General Discussion / Re: Trinis everywhere :)

« on: November 09, 2009, 04:45:57 PM »

Verycute1,
                 You from Maturita? Yuh know Sati and Flavia Boodhoo?

Deeks ... lol I send you a pm and yes I know them real well............


Bakes, I laugh so hard at that one... miss lady slip up and call the woman "tanty". Luckily for her, the lady didnt get it

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General Discussion / Re: Fort Hood Shooting - TEXAS

« on: November 09, 2009, 04:45:10 PM »

another impact of the 2nd amendment is that it guaranteed a market for guns (for civilians). check the subsequent growth of the civilian firearms industry and rise of the gun lobby. that's a fundamental change to the big picture. de usa woulda coulda been a very different society.

lots of innovation in that industry as well. the gun hassan had is called "the cop killer" - designed to go through kevlar. deer doh wear kevlar so draw your own conclusions.

Nah none ah dem significant d fella was frustrated

Weary girl, you know I wouldnt step on you toes for anything, but you have to explain this one to me. Your statement as written, makes it seem like you are excusing his actions because he was frustrated. I see big red flags everywhere as far as this man was concerned, and none of his actions strike me as that of a man who was frustrated. Crazy, perhaps, insane, most likely, but not frustrated.

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General Discussion / Re: Fort Hood Shooting - TEXAS

« on: November 08, 2009, 11:24:04 PM »

Thanks much, I knew you would come through with the info 


SO essentially, while the US had ( in 94 anyway) the highest total gun related deaths, there weren't as many murders as there were suicides. And If I'm not mistaken, suicide by firearms is the no 1. method in the us even to this day isnt it?

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General Discussion / Trinis everywhere :)

« on: November 08, 2009, 11:14:27 PM »

SO last week something rather funny happened. I had to go out in the field to check some things for one of our clients and I had to drive to a Walmart that is about an hour's drive away from my house. Kinda country area, mixture of white and black. I bought some things and went to the first cashier. Nice black lady, big earrings, big smile.

Conversation went something like this

Cashier    " Good afternoon ma'am, welcome to your local walmart, did you find everything you were looking for today"
Me   "Not quite, you guys were out of the one thing I wanted, but I found alot of other stuff anyway"
Cashier    " Well if you tell me what you were looking for, I'll try to....."

she noticed the trini flag lapel pin I wear on all my jackets...   

 "Aye gyal wha part o trini you from?"

Me " I from south.  parents from Arima"
Cashier  " wha part of Arima? My moms live Barataria by where the ol shoe factory was, but she from Arima."
Me " Matarita Village and Pinto Road"
Cashier  " WHo is your family in Maturia? Gyal I know you grandfather, I have to call my moms and tell her I meet his granddaughter...."

Lady behind us.... "What are you guys saying? I can't understand it?"
Cashier " Sorry tanty we from Trinidad"

She left her register ( a big no-no by the way) to go get her manager so that he could meet another Trini. The manager knows me already from meetings and couldnt stop laughing when he heard us talk to each other, how the accents came out.

Must find a trini everywhere

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General Discussion / Re: Fort Hood Shooting - TEXAS

« on: November 08, 2009, 10:39:30 PM »

on npr they were mentioning too that in the army there are not many people who counsel the counselors..this man has heard all sorts of traumatic experiences recounted god knows how he feels inside.    i also heard that supposedly he gave a lecture a few years ago about islam in which he spouted some real hardcore beliefs and one of the guys afterwards told his colleagues "is this guy gonna go postal some day".   again we dont know what set this man off but somehow i feel this kinda ting could happen any time any place, is not like the army is extremely selective about who it accepts.

Nah, yuh wrong about dat one there... he went de Officer route he was never just some enlisted man, where they take any and everybody... no disrespect to the enlisted servicemen.  Officer Candidate School is a very rigorous process used to weed out those who not up to par.  Plus you have to consider his medical training (in Psychiatry no less... one of the harder professions).  No amount of pre-screening woulda ketch he if he made it this far.  Likely this was something that wasn't latent, but which manifested itself later on in his career as the disgust with the war and trepidation about deployment became more real.

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I curious as to how civilian police responded so fast (how about the fact that they were involved at all?) instead of the Military Police.

Bakes, from what I understand they were in the area already for something else. There's several different versions of just why they were in the area, The partner of  PO Kimberly Munley said in an interview that they were pulling up near that building just around the time that the shootings began, some other news reports claim that she was outside directing traffic when the shootings began, and I've just read a report that they were in the car on the way to the repair shop which was nearby, when they got the call about the shootings. It was just a matter of luck, being in the right place at the right time I guess. Also want to re-emphasize something that you said, which is that this man was a Major and that is not a title that is handed out overnight to just any and anybody. Also as some have mentioned, just because you are on a military base, doesnt mean you automatically are allowed to have guns, or even access to them. This man bought these outside, brought them back onto the base for this specific purpose.

Now a question. Yes the gun problem in the US is severe. But when you break it down and crunch the numbers, is it really as severe as some make it out to be? Or is it because there is a larger population? Do you have a statistic somewhere along the lines of per 100 gun-related deaths or something like that that can be compared to a 3rd world country? I would be interested in seeing the breakdown, and I know you might have that kind of info.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Honduras Game (05-Sept-2009).

« on: September 05, 2009, 09:22:36 PM »

well mexico score again

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Football / Re: USA VS El Salvador

« on: September 05, 2009, 06:52:15 PM »

goal de USA

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Football / Re: USA VS El Salvador

« on: September 05, 2009, 06:45:08 PM »

nearly score again and then usa hit goal post with keeper down

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Football / Re: Game Viewing Thread for T&T vs. Hondurus

« on: September 05, 2009, 04:45:09 PM »

what time does the game start what time is kick off...

9pm ET

No pay per view this time around on time warner?

Nope they have the argentina v Brazil at 8 and the CR v Mexico at 10 on PPV

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General Discussion / Re: What ever happened to trinicana?

« on: September 01, 2009, 07:00:15 PM »

and I go live long me name call, just peeking in.... Just a lot of stuff happening all at once to deal with. But I still love all you peeps, just hadda deal with some things.

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General Discussion / Re: WTF

« on: July 28, 2009, 12:58:11 PM »

Decapitated baby's mother had psychosis diagnosis

By PAUL J. WEBER
Associated Press Writer

Texas Mom Decapitated, Cannibalized Her Baby

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The father of a newborn baby who authorities say was mutilated, killed and cannibalized by his mother said Tuesday he wants to see her executed. Scott W. Buchholz told The Associated Press that Otty Sanchez, the mother of 3 1/2-week-old Scotty Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez, seemed fine in the days before the killing, even though they argued.

However, he said she told him she had been diagnosed with postpartum depression and was going to be admitted to a hospital for treatment.

Sanchez's relatives told The San Antonio Express News that she had been diagnosed with postpartum psychosis, which can cause delusional thoughts and hallucinations.

Sanchez, 33, is charged with capital murder in the baby's death and could face the death penalty. When authorities found the infant's body Sunday, Sanchez told officers the devil made her do it, police said.

"She killed my son. She should burn in hell," Buchholz said.

Otty Sanchez's aunt, Gloria Sanchez, told The Associated Press that her niece had been "in and out" of a psychiatric ward, and that the hospital called several months ago to check up on her.

Sanchez was hospitalized Tuesday with self-inflicted stab wounds and was being held on $1 million bail. Police have said she does not have an attorney. Authorities found the baby with three of his toes chewed off, his face torn away and his head was severed.

Otty Sanchez's sister and her sister's two children, ages 5 and 7, were in the house at the time, but none were harmed.

Sanchez and Buchholz lived together during the pregnancy and the first two weeks after their son was born, he said. An infection complicated Sanchez's recovery from giving birth, and she was required to use a catheter for about a week. That setback darkened her mood, and she was soon diagnosed with postpartum depression.

She moved out of the couple's shared home July 20. On Saturday, she showed up to see Buchholz at his parents' house. She became agitated when he told her he needed a copy of the baby's birth certificate and Social Security card, Buchholz said.

Sanchez ran out of the home with her son in a car seat, threw the car seat into the front passenger seat of her car and sped away without buckling him in, the San Antonio Express-News reported. She left behind a diaper bag, her purse and her medication.

Buchholz's mother called 911, and a sheriff's deputy investigated the incident as a disturbance, according to court records. The next day, authorities said, she killed her son.

Officers called to Sanchez's house at about 5 a.m. Sunday found her sitting on the couch screaming "I killed my baby! I killed my baby!" San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said.

McManus described the crime scene as so grisly that police officers barely spoke to each other while looking through the house.

(This version CORRECTS the spelling of father's last name to Buchholz, instead of Buchholtz.)

© 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.




they should have arrested her for endangering the welfare of a minor when she drove off with the car seat unbuckled, or at least taken the child away

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General Discussion / Re: Carnage on T&T Roads

« on: July 10, 2009, 04:04:59 PM »

i wish u a safe  trip to that god forsaken place. hope yuh leave with yuh life from that hell hole...yuh rbave to leave uncle sam and dem gyul.

You must thank God every day that Trinidad and Tobago is your definition of a hell hole... I will pray to God that people like you never find out what a real hole is like.

sigh 
Sarcasm
A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
eg. Your one of the sharpest posters here.

  i dont have to define sharpest!!

I'd forgotten you were one of the sharpless....................... *sigh*

well just for you and your sincere thoughts I'll go to the mall and flash my iphone and see if i get stabbed since you have nothing but the best wishes for me.  Wouldnt want to let you down.

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General Discussion / Re: Carnage on T&T Roads

« on: July 08, 2009, 07:26:19 PM »

I hadda admit once I reach trini, and get in the car, I close my eyes till we get home. That ride from the airport  up the highway to sando, lordy the kinda driving I see there at times. I will be in town this weekend so hopefully is a peaceful weekend driving wise.

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General Discussion / Re: Carnage on T&T Roads

« on: July 07, 2009, 04:48:15 PM »

I don't know where she got it from, but my mom was fairly insistent that once I sat in the front seat of the car I had to wear a seat belt. Once you were under 11 you did not ride in the front seat and once in the back you couldn't lean forward between the 2 seats to talk or look out front or whatever.

Between that and living in the US for a while I've developed quite a few habits for road safety here. I've occassionally dropped my roommate's 5-year old or son or just taken him for a drive. He has to sit in the back seat and wear the seatbelt. He can't use the shoulder harness because it cuts across his neck and that is a concern for me. I've asked a relative of mine to locate the "thing" that allows the shoulder harness to fit smaller people. When I travel in the front seat of any vehicle, including taxis and maxis, I wear the seatbelt and in vehicles that are equipped with them I also strap up in the backseat.

There is no concept of road safety. Between my job and extra curricular activities I'm on the road a lot and I say my prayers regularly. Men changing lanes over solid white lines, tail gating at high speeds, swerving in and out of traffic, travelling at high speeds in dense traffic and just showing no respect for life - their own or others. That typical, "I is a borse driver, dat cyah happen to me" attitude will add plenty more fatalities to that 222 before the year done. Imagine in this day and age men still spending hours by the bar to just jump in their car to drive home after.

It's called a seat belt adjuster, can find at stores like toys r us in the baby section, and babies r us. it's on Amazon too, about $10.

http://www.amazon.com/Safe-Fit-Seat-Belt-Adjuster/dp/B000OR5JBE/ref=pd_cp_ba_2



Think, I've seen it at Walmart in the auto section too. I use one because the belt always cuts across my neck no matter how I adjust it.

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General Discussion / Re: 10 yr old Vanished

« on: July 06, 2009, 12:04:06 PM »

wonder if street justice will be dealt?


Suspects released
Tecia Henry investigation
Denyse Renne

Monday, June 22nd 2009

   

The five suspects held in connection with the murder of ten-year-old Tecia Henry have been released from custody pending further investigations.

The suspects were released by Homicide detectives on Saturday night, following an intensive three-day interrogation. Sources said although the men have been released, investigations are still ongoing.

The men, who hail from the Laventille area, were held by law enforcement officers shortly after the bloated body of Henry was found on Wednesday morning. Police said the men were uncooperative during their time in custody, and since they have not received any eyewitness statements from residents in the John John area the men had to be released. DNA samples were also taken from the men and sent for testing abroad, sources added, and the results will be known within the next few weeks.

Henry, of Cook Street, Laventille, was a Standard Four pupil of St Rose's Girls' Primary School in Port of Spain. She disappeared after being sent on an errand to purchase items at a nearby shop in John John, by her mother on June 13. On June 17, the child's body was found stuffed in a hole below an abandoned house.

"Ricardo Mc Carty aka Docks have been shot dead in Belle View long circular... he was one of the suspects that was held for the murder of Tecia Henry"

If he eh do dat he do sumting so adios.

One down 4 to go

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General Discussion / Re: Will you return home to live ?

« on: July 05, 2009, 07:41:09 PM »

Loosen your cap I ent offended. I asking a true question trying to figure out where you coming from. Because the amount of crime stats you post for the US whenever anyone talks bout crime in TRINIDAD, just makes it seem like you arguing against living in the states  is all.

As for the vested interest in trinidad, well I still have a  son at private school, a mother, a father, siblings, and much more family living there. So when crime hits home, like my moms being at the Caribbean airlines office moments before the bandits showed up, or my aunt getting mugged in front of a daycare, or my grandfather being pistol whipped by bandits, or a lady being killed in her own house by bandits not even a block away from my son's private school,  well it brings everything a little closer in perspective.

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General Discussion / Re: Will you return home to live ?

« on: July 05, 2009, 06:13:59 PM »

Well if the good ol' US of A so bad for you with all these stories you hunt down from all these different states, some of them larger than Trinidad, then why you dont go home? Just the reverse of the debate that we are having here.  I find it hypocritical to be posting all these crime stories with the intent or "mission" of proving that the crime here just as bad if not worse that in T&T, all while you living here taking the yankee dollar living the yankee dream. Best you go home, live in trinidad unmolested, and where you sure it wont have no school shootings because those kids haven't got guns into the schools yet, and where your family wont lose their handbags in beauty parlors and you can leave your door open all the time. I am sure that it have nuff people willing to take your place on this side of the world.

By the way, according to the NYPD, as of 6/28/2009 the NYC murder rate was 200 even. That's using info from all 5 boroughs, and the population is about 8.36 million. You can find that info on the nyc.gov website under the nypd crime stats, they update it weekly. I believe that after Tecia's death, the murder rate in T&T was somewhere over 250? And what does the population stand at again? Anyone have those stats?

 For 2008 the NYC murder rate was 523. For trinidad, the official tally stands at 545 for 2008, though some think it was higher than that, if you take into account the missing and not accounted for.

8.36 million population in NYC also means a larger police force, which means a higher ability to handle crime. since u puttin up stats, maybe u can put up the ratio of police to citizens in NYC and compare it to the ratio for trinidad.

again, i am not makin any excuses for d crime rate down here, but we have to real, it jus doh have enough police to handle d crime situation in d country.

Sure


 ratio is 1 officer per 223 citizens nypd


 1 officer per 162 citizens trinidad and tobago

Source: Encyclopaedia of Police Science by Jack Greene 3rd edition published 0ct 2006

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General Discussion / Re: Will you return home to live ?

« on: July 05, 2009, 03:36:01 PM »

Well if the good ol' US of A so bad for you with all these stories you hunt down from all these different states, some of them larger than Trinidad, then why you dont go home? Just the reverse of the debate that we are having here.  I find it hypocritical to be posting all these crime stories with the intent or "mission" of proving that the crime here just as bad if not worse that in T&T, all while you living here taking the yankee dollar living the yankee dream. Best you go home, live in trinidad unmolested, and where you sure it wont have no school shootings because those kids haven't got guns into the schools yet, and where your family wont lose their handbags in beauty parlors and you can leave your door open all the time. I am sure that it have nuff people willing to take your place on this side of the world.

By the way, according to the NYPD, as of 6/28/2009 the NYC murder rate was 200 even. That's using info from all 5 boroughs, and the population is about 8.36 million. You can find that info on the nyc.gov website under the nypd crime stats, they update it weekly. I believe that after Tecia's death, the murder rate in T&T was somewhere over 250? And what does the population stand at again? Anyone have those stats?

 For 2008 the NYC murder rate was 523. For trinidad, the official tally stands at 545 for 2008, though some think it was higher than that, if you take into account the missing and not accounted for.

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General Discussion / Re: Escaped being robbed yesterday... but I am still victim

« on: July 05, 2009, 02:55:00 PM »

Jeez! I really didn't think that my "little" facebook note would have gotten me to this point!
However, guys, gals... thanks for the support and feedback - even if negative.

Some things I'd like to clear up:
* I was born in a bit of a ghetto; spent a few critical years learning on the streets (didn't attend any school after Form 5), so the "middle class fella" and "upper class dude" really have no locus standi at this point
* Some of you may find my name familiar, so I'll remind you that after years of sheer determination, sweat, blood and tears, I managed to create and pursue a career as a journalist (print, radio and TV). This would further consolidate the fact that I did not foolishly and/or deliberately put myself in harm's way.
* Some of you folks may want to re-read my description of BOTH the scene, and the "yute". I did not make any ethnic identification... so if you have a prejudicial premise, please ponder that it was not promulgated by me.
* Please also re-read the details of the "conversation" which I had transcribed quite soon after the incident, so it's practically verbatim. The little ruffian didn't want to call Jerry Narace because his mother was dying. It was clearly an act of intimidation that backfired on his part; you might even want to call it "reverse profiling".

I could go on and on, but I'd just be regurgitating the chatter and mauvais langue that have been spewed people from all sides of their respective divides.

But thanks again, people.

Bless!

 

well written, a good read. 

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General Discussion / Re: Will you return home to live ?

« on: July 04, 2009, 09:24:57 AM »

Hey elan ,Yuhs ah real annoying fly oui!!! dum dum! the USA have over 300 million ppl, just look @ the last 2 articles tuh post, it's from 2 differant states!!!!

you acting like if america is the size of haiti? this place real big wid ah whole lot ah waste land, states, and ppl from all over the world, so how could you compare it too an area the size of delaware!!!!!
 
let me tell yuh this pardener, no matter how yuh twist it and tun it, T&T still have more crime than the U.S. population wise! and if we were as big as them and had the same slack goverment,.....boy..... what a scary thought.

So what you saying crime is different because it have less of a chance of affecting a great number of people or a majority of the total population?

All I saying is crime happens everywhere and people can be made to feel as prisonersin theur home as a result of crime.

Then why dont you post the crime articles from trinidad, given that this thread is discussing crime in trinidad.  No one say it aint have crime in america, we just said that per person, the crime rate in trinidad can be interpreted as being higher that the us. And that thing about the serial killer in SC, didnt we just have two in trinidad? The PH driver and his female accomplice who it is believed were responsible for at least 5 deaths and who knows how many more missing in that central region?

Anyway since we discussing Trinidad I will start it for you... here's hoping you not in a situation like this poor family

No electric saw to perform autopsy
Saturday, July 4th 2009

   

FUNERAL arrangements for two-year-old Kiara Jackie have been put on hold until next week because pathologists at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mount Hope had no electric saw to perform her autopsy yesterday.

According to Jackie's grandmother, Wendy Maynard, the idea of a morgue not having a saw sounded "ridiculous", but she had no choice but to wait because it was a police matter and they had no authority to remove her granddaughter's body.

"The autopsy was supposed to be held today (yesterday), and now I'm here and they told me that they have no saw, so they cannot do any autopsy until Monday ... but I just don't understand why they have to make us go through this," she said.

Speaking to the Express via telephone from the hospital yesterday, a distraught Maynard said she hoped that when she goes on Monday "they are done".

When the Express called the morgue yesterday to enquire about the situation, a reliable source at the facility said they were on a strike because they were "fed up of using hacksaw blades to cut people open".

According to the source, for more than a year they have been forced to complete autopsies using hacksaw blades, because management had failed to get them the tools they need to perform efficiently. The source said the problem has been a chronic one for a long time but they were doing the best they could with what they had.

"You could ask the Government for a budget of $10 million, you will get, and you know you get, but you don't see it ... and it is more than ridiculous," the source said.

Contacted on the matter yesterday, chief executive officer at the North Central Regional Health Authority, Caroline Washington-Agile, said they borrowed an electric saw yesterday from an undisclosed source to carry out autopsies at the facility.

"We are in the process of getting a new saw and replacing the motor in the one that was damaged...because the intention is to have two," she said.

However, the source at the hospital told the Express that the saw and the parts, which would not cost the hospital more than US$3,000, are yet to be tendered.

-Aabida Allaham


Or here's for all the people complaining it have no jobs in trinidad

Foreign invasion
12,212 non-Caricom nationals get work permits
Published: 4 Jul 2009

The National Security Ministry granted 12,212 work permits to non-Caricom nationals between 2007 and 2008. Of this number, 2,827 work permits were granted to Chinese nationals, the ministry has confirmed.

Minister in the Ministry of National Security Donna Cox gave these figures in reply to an Opposition question in the Lower House yesterday. One question called for answers on the number of non-Caricom workers entering T&T and granted work permits for 2007 and 2008, and the number of Chinese immigrant labourers-workers employed in T&T for 2007 and 2008. Another question called for the nature of the contracts and terms of employment of Chinese workers entering T&T in 2007 and 2008.

Cox said 1,071 work permits were granted to Chinese nationals in 2007 and 1,756 to such nationals in 2008. She also said 5,103 work permits were granted to other non-Caricom workers in 2007 and 7,109 work permits in 2008. The ministry, in a written reply to the other query, stated that its database showed that most of the Chinese workers were employed with construction companies and restaurants. For 2007, approximately 74 per cent of the workers were employed in construction related occupations—carpenters, masons, welders, etc.

In addition, about 11 per cent of Chinese workers were employed in food services occupations—chefs, cooks, etc. For 2008, approximately 82 per cent of the workers were employed in construction-related occupations, while five per cent were employed in food services occupations. The ministry stated that such workers were usually granted a 12-month work permit. The terms and conditions of employment for these workers were between respective employers and workers and do not form ministry records, the ministry stated.

and some more crime articles you missed elan

Security guard gunned down
Camille Clarke
Published: 29 Jun 2009

Machel Huggins...shot dead.
Camille Clarke

A 22-year-old security guard was shot dead on Saturday night in Maloney. Machel Huggins, a former airport employee, of Building Four in Maloney, was liming with friends in front of the apartment building when he was shot, a report said.

Police said Huggins and his friends were approached by two gunmen around 8.30 pm. The gunmen opened fire on the group. While his friends scampered for safety, Huggins was shot about the body. He was taken to the Arima Health Facility where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The victim’s father, Wayne Huggins, said he believed his son was killed because “he had been in the wrong place at the wrong time.” He said, “I spoke with several youths in Maloney. I think my son was in the wrong place. He travelled before and wanted to go abroad and study.” During an interview at his Bellbird home in Malabar, the grieving father said he was also mourning the loss of his daughter, Stacey Huggins.

Stacey was killed in a vehicular accident on January 2007, that also claimed the lives of three other people. “I am already mourning the death of my daughter. We (Huggins) were close and spoke with each other on a regular basis,” the senior Huggins said. “He was murdered...There are too many innocent youths losing their lives.

They should try and be peaceful and loving. They should read about leaders and think positive instead of taking innocent lives,” he said. He described his son as “loving, disciplined and helpful.” Detectives said they had no motive for his Huggins’ killing. However, they suspect his death was due to gang warfare in the area.


Man gunned down in St James bar
Akile Simon
Published: 28 Jun 2009
Akile Simon

An argument between two men turned fatal after a 25-year-old Morvant man was shot and killed while liming in a bar at St James on Saturday morning. The incident occurred around 3 am at Club Rush, located next to Smokey and Bunty.

Sean Thomas, of Dorata Street, Morvant, has been identified as the victim. Police said Thomas was a member of the “Gambino gang” and was among 13 men before the court charged with the rape of a schoolgirl in the Morvant district last year. Sources at the North-Eastern Division said Thomas was the second accused in the matter to be shot and killed.

According to investigators, Thomas was in the company of a male relative at the establishment when he got into an argument with another man. The suspect left the club and returned a short while later. He approached Thomas from behind and shot him once in the head, before quickly making his escape. Upon hearing the sound of gunfire, patrons scampered out of the liming spot. Thomas’ body was later discovered on the floor. He died at the scene.

Officers of the Port-of-Spain Homicide and the St James Police Station visited the scene and are continuing investigations. Only last Saturday, Sterlin Nero, 22, of Rich Plain Road, Diego Martin, was shot dead moments after he walked away from two separate confrontations with a group of men and a woman while liming at Crobar, Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook.

Hospital has become the country’s latest murder victim. Clyde Patrick Horsford was found shot to death, a few metres from his Mt D’Or Road, Champ Fleurs, home yesterday afternoon. Horsford’s mother, Albertina, said she suspected something like this would have happened, after her son’s home was burnt last Sunday.

Speaking with the T&T Guardian at the scene, the 75-year-old mother of ten said she, too, remained baffled over the incident. “I was prepared for this already since they burn down his house on Father’s Day,” she said. With tears streaming from her face, Albertina said Clyde’s death caught her by surprise, since he never interfered with anyone.

“I was down the road and when I came home, I saw plenty people in the gallery, then one of the boys told me that Clyde dead,” she said. “Look, I bring food for him to eat, but he can’t eat it again. “I don’t know what to do...When I went ah take a look, I saw him lying there dead, and from the time I saw that, it hurt me real bad, I really can’t take this one,” the woman said, as she looked at crime scene investigators, who searched the bushy area for clues.

Police said that around 1.15 pm, they received a report that a bullet-riddled body of a man was found in some bushes at Mt D’Or Extension Terrace. When the officers got to the scene, they found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds to the back. Officers suspect the incident may have stemmed from an argument between Clyde and another man last Sunday.

A team of officers led by Senior Supt Rajendranath Maharaj, Sgts Hosein and Katwaroo, PCs Mohammed, Grant and Thomas of the St Joseph CID and Region I Homicide Bureau, along with officers of the Special Anti-Crime Unit, visited the scene. Grant is continuing investigations.


Suspect shot in robbery attempt
Akile Simon
Published: 4 Jul 2009

A suspected robber has been shot and wounded during a botched robbery at a Barataria businessplace yesterday. The 24-year-old suspect remains warded in serious condition under police guard at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope, up to late yesterday.

He sustained a gunshot wound to the neck. Officers of the North Eastern Division have also launched a search for a second suspect who escaped. According to police, around 11.15 am, two men, one armed with a pocket knife and the other a firearm, entered Mollineau’s Optical at Eastern Main Road, Barataria, and announced a hold-up.

Police said the robbers ordered the proprietor to the back of the store where they demanded cash and jewelry. The men began pushing the victim around, following which the man drew his licenced firearm and fired shots at the suspects. One of the men was hit in the neck while the other quickly made his escape. Officers recovered a blood-stained knife and clothing from the scene. Insp Moses and WPC Weekes, of the Morvant CID, visited the scene and are continuing investigations.

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50

« on: July 03, 2009, 08:44:56 PM »

he wasnt serile ,but until they had figure out how to make 12 yr old boy pregnant ,he was not gonna have children 

For F&^&*&*^& sake, done de shit nah. The man dead let him rest in peace. Most people they interview after these alleged crimes always said the accusers liked living it up large off the man money and only made accusations when the friendship stopped. I am so frigging tired of reading all the catty comments, some of allyuh men would make real good women with your bitchiness. He dead, done all the crap. it bad enough every friggin day another allegation or 10 floating around in the media. Some claim the kids not his own, some say they are. Can you imagine how these poor kids must be feeling if they even hear a tiny bit of the crap being said? Doctors now confirming that days before he died he had a cancer lesion removed from his face. I dont belive that plastic surgery caused the cancer so who is to say that he didnt have he cancer before and then started doing the nose to hide the surgery scars? Enough is enough. He dead. Let the shit go. If not for him, do it for the fact that there are three young children that as far as everyone says, had a really great father in him. I have yet to hear anyone say he was a bad father. Eccentric -  yes, perhaps a little over protective -yes. Momentary lapse of judgement in trying to show fans his young son from a balcony - yes.  But everyone, even his worst critics, say he was a good father.  Talk done.

And VB ...... really really really great post.

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General Discussion / Re: Immigrants in US are asking for money from home

« on: July 03, 2009, 08:27:48 PM »

alot of people goin back home too.more money fuh me to make.

amen to dat bredda