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General Discussion / Re: Racist??

« on: July 03, 2009, 05:17:14 PM »

well I'm off to help my daughter bury her black and white barbies in the sandbox because they need to be rescued a la princess jasmine in the hourglass. Hope none of my black or white neighbours see me doing this and feel threatened. 

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General Discussion / Re: What SHOULD a Governor know

« on: July 03, 2009, 05:15:10 PM »

Palin has called it a day and resigned as Govenor of Alaska
is there more to this that will eventually come to the surface

stay tuned people

Of course it have more to the story.

Let's have a betting pool shall we?

I vote for any of these options
1. Briston pregnant again
2. Some rabid letterman fans threaten to do her or her family bodily harm.
3. Donald trump made her an expensive offer to appear on celebrity apprentice or some tv show made her a nice cushy offer.


Anyway say what you want, I believe if she had had better media handlers and prepped better, she and mc Cain could have given Bam a run for his money  - and I was a democrat too-  I would have crossed party lines if I thought that she was ready.

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General Discussion / Re: Racist??

« on: July 03, 2009, 05:05:41 PM »

I think she's a idiot.

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

« on: June 29, 2009, 12:59:06 PM »

yea there has to be some illegal gun trade going on. venezuela is right there 7-8 miles away. anybody could take a speed boat in de middle of de night and make transactions....

boss it have days u could go cedros and u would ah interpreter to communicate wit people

You know is long time that going on. My father have a house in Palo. Close to the water. When it was building he used to go down and check on it. One night he gone and as he reach the driveway he see a few shadows stooping on the porch. The man grab his cutlass and gone running towards them and 5 big well armed soldiers stand up and looking at him with all their guns pointing. Asking him who he is getting rough with him, he tell them is his house , show id etc and tell them he there to chek the property because people used to thief the building materials. They tell him drive to the station and ask for officer so and so and he will explain. Dad gone and the officer confirm that they was staking out a certain house where a certain would be coup leader built a compound, because it was supposed to have a huge shipment coming in from Venezuela. Now I ent know if they ever get their guns because we never see anything bout it in the news, but it was a long time before my dad ever went back there at night again. Not too long after that, he fence round the entire property. Now this is when I was about 15 and I ent see that number in quite a few years so you know this was way back when.


Peong I agree with you.

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

« on: June 28, 2009, 02:01:58 PM »

What I wondering is, with all these guns on the street that these criminals have, there must be some kinda illegal gun trade going on right?

 And if so, how come the scared citizens not getting some themselves? If you study some of the crime waves in the US in the past, how many criminals were themselves shot in the act by otherwise law abiding citizens who either had a legally registered gun or obtained one on thr street because of their fear that they would be the victim of crime.

 I know there are legal ways to obtain guns in T'dad because long ago when I used to work in Manhins on high street for summers, they sold guns. I remember being locked in one night because they got a big shipment and the popo said none of the employees could leave the store untill all the guns and ammo were brought in and secured. I know Manhin sold the business years ago and I think it closed now but there were other places to buy guns too.

 With all of this why have there not been shootings of criminals in the act?

Or is it that the guns are being brought in by a main entity and controlled and  circulated among a select few, which means that there is a "master criminal" to borrow a phrase from Sherlock Holmes, and this master criminal is building an army, or rather has an army already in place, in which case, what is this all building up to? Because if one person or group is controlling all the guns but the shootings and attacks seem to be nationwide, then that's scary.



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

« on: June 27, 2009, 05:38:43 PM »

Any way my fav MJ videos in no particular order

Black or White
Thriller
Smooth Criminal
Bad
Jam
heal the world

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

« on: June 26, 2009, 06:40:24 PM »

SO MTV been running his videos all day and yesterday. I have now watched the long version of thriller 10 times now, and each time it just gets better. They also showed the video for Gone too soon, cried like a baby.

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

« on: June 26, 2009, 06:38:48 PM »

Verycute 1,

Your aunt and your sis' co-worker is still operating like dey eh recognise the time we living in (and is almost everybody operating so still eh).  Yuh Aunt shoulda lock she car and take she handbag with she.  And yes, she friggin brave to run down ah bandit....leave him be......most of the things in de handbag she goh get back somehow......

In the other instance, if yuh car get bump just drive till yuh reach a police station.....well that was the conventional wisdom, as we've seen this week that might not save she, but it is still the wisest thing to do.....DOH COME OUT YUH CAR FUH NUTTEN!!....

Brown

I shoulda be more clear, she was already out of the car and walking to the daycare. Handbag on arm. She had just parked right in front so it wasnt any set a walk she had to make. She had some stuff with her in the bag, my uncle passed on recently and she does keep some of his old jewelry with her, sentimental you know? I kinda see where she coming from though.

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

« on: June 26, 2009, 06:26:22 PM »

His music will live on but I have one question.....
Ah wonder if he died as a black man or a white man?

It does not matter if you're black or white!
We still love you MJ!   

 

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

« on: June 25, 2009, 10:17:05 PM »

MTV running his videos....
 

Billie Jean on now....

That man was a true performer.

Preacher you forget Ed McMahon... these things happen in 3's

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General Discussion / Re: Tourist chases after bandit through streets

« on: June 25, 2009, 10:14:52 PM »

They forget to tell us what de man had on his family size pizza.

Interestingly, no mention of where the tourist was from ... buh dey know he's a tourist.

well it have to be a tourist, given what going on in the country these days, you feel a local going an chase down a bandit?

Tell dem nah family!! if allyuh want tuh risk yuh life for ppl ting then go right ahead, but if it was me, i woulda count it as ah loss and move on. BC me not getting hurt for no material ting, especially wid dem mad blood thirsty yutes it have on dat island, " take it sar! ah was just holding on to it until yuh come to retrive it, here."

 

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

« on: June 25, 2009, 07:35:01 PM »

SO last week my aunt was in vistabella picking up her grandchild. She park the car and come out and as she do so, someone run out and grab her handbag. My aunt is this lil woman barely 4 feet and she start to scream and carry on and run after the would be bandit. A man passing by jump out his car and start running with her. They stop and pick up some stones and pelting behind the bandit. He drop the bag and run away.  My moms say she scolding aunty for that, what if the man had a gun and aunty say she ent fraid no more, if is her time to go is so she go, but not without a fight.

My sis works at scotia, a co worker of hers driving from KFC opposite Gulf City in broad daylight this week. The back road like if you going towards palmiste. A car drive up behind her and bump her. She continue on to the main road by the video club  - the four way junction I forget what it called but where flint had his Grocery and all those bars and then pull over. Two men jump out broad daylight, stick a gun in her head and tell her give up the keys. She jump out and hand them over. Car ent seen since.

two different instances, different responses, different results. What would you do?

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

« on: June 25, 2009, 07:22:25 PM »

listening to oldies, Heal the world, we are the world, you are not alone.... and this one


Gone Too Soon lyrics


Like A Comet
Blazing 'Cross The Evening Sky
Gone Too Soon

Like A Rainbow
Fading In The Twinkling Of An Eye
Gone Too Soon

Shiny And Sparkly
And Splendidly Bright
Here One Day
Gone One Night

Like The Loss Of Sunlight
On A Cloudy Afternoon
Gone Too Soon

Like A Castle
Built Upon A Sandy Beach
Gone Too Soon

Like A Perfect Flower
That Is Just Beyond Your Reach
Gone Too Soon

Born To Amuse, To Inspire, To Delight
Here One Day
Gone One Night

Like A Sunset
Dying With The Rising Of The Moon
Gone Too Soon

Gone Too Soon

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

« on: June 25, 2009, 05:53:13 PM »

I REL sad and I cosign on all ah what allyuh saying, (palos, legal alien and big dawg)....I never really cared about all the sideline nonsense, I never believed any of the shit that was going on in he life.  I always just saw (the ORIGINAL) MJ as just being a grown little child, trying his best to (re?)capture his childhood.  Even the way he "wasted" his money away and the actual things he spent it on it remind you of a little child.   The man was arguably the greatest entertainer that ever lived and the kinda music that came from the partnership that was He, Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton and all the top-notch musicians that featured on his tours and albums is irreplaceable in the annals of all art.  

 I agree 

He'll always be MJ to me.  Now hear we are the world, written by MJ.... goosebumps

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

« on: June 25, 2009, 05:26:32 PM »

CNN  just confirm he is dead.

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General Discussion / Re: Tourist chases after bandit through streets

« on: June 25, 2009, 05:16:09 PM »

They forget to tell us what de man had on his family size pizza.

Interestingly, no mention of where the tourist was from ... buh dey know he's a tourist.

well it have to be a tourist, given what going on in the country these days, you feel a local going an chase down a bandit?

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

« on: June 25, 2009, 05:12:24 PM »

The greatest entertainer ever IMO.

RIP MJ.  Yuh make dis fan real sad today...I eh go lie.  Is pure MJ in meh car and on meh stereo from today till......well.....till whenever.

Thanx fuh de memories and de music Michael.  

Family spokesman on CNN says no-one in family has confirmed that he is dead, they are all "stunned"

Well a great entertainer, I listening to "you are not alone right now"

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General Discussion / Re: Nah B&S! We now reach whey we going.

« on: June 25, 2009, 09:22:25 AM »

lord them poor fellas pick the wrong n&*&^ to f**k wid

And dais wha I have a problem with....why is only when "certain" people dead we could see action??...I keep thinking that what happened yesterday could have been me...female driving, ah get jack up, ah drive een the police station for help, dey shoot me....

Would a convoy of police and soldiers fly outta Chagaramas to find my killers??....I think not....and ah have a problem with that....

Doh worry guyl....if anything happen to you, I go hook up a possie from the forum and send dem out fur dey a**

Ent??? Browns,  you know it have nuff peeps here to avenge yuh


On your other point, well you see the same thing everywhere. Not just in crime, in everything, it is the way of the world. is it fair, no, but thats how it works.  Alot of the way the world operates is based on who you know. How many people ever went to a government office to get some work done, and end up seeing someone they know who pull them outta line and take care of them fast. Or went to the doctor and get to skip the waiting room line? Or even at customs in piarco lol. Or had popo respond to a call faster because they know someone? And if there are 10 popo cars on the scene because a man get robbed in bel Air and only one car reach if he get robbed on high street, well is the way of the world and it happens everywhere. Fair or not it happens. When they figure out how to change that let me know.

 But if by one case getting more attention because is a soldier's wife, and thereby making more people sit up and be aware of what is going on, well is a start ent?  If the soldiers coming to "help" an understaffed, bedevilled police force because they have a vested interest in avenging one of their own well why blame them? When there is a personal link to the victim, people are motivated harder. Say bandits take one of panday daughters, Sure you go see army reach, plenty popo and who knows he might import some secret service too.  But I bet in the hunt for the daughters, serious other bad men will take a beating as well because of al the manpower focused on the one case.  I think in cases like this well, if the ends justify the means, thats all that need to be said. End of the day, is one less badjohn to deal with.


PS: You could just marry a soldier


Anyway here is the article

T&T REACH!
Carjackers shoot soldier's wife dead in police station
Peter Christopher pchristopher@trinidadexpress.com

Thursday, June 25th 2009

   
killed: Camille Daniel, shot dead by bandits.

The wife of a soldier who drove into the West End Police Station in an attempt to escape carjackers, who were holding her at gunpoint in her car, was shot dead in front of the station yesterday.

The police station, which was no doubt considered a safe haven by Camille Daniel, itself became a crime scene and was cordoned off with crime scene tape after the killing.

Police said at around 1.45 p.m., Daniel, 39, had gone to Factory Road, Diego Martin, to meet a female friend who worked in the area. As the two women sat chatting in the car, three men entered the car and settled in the back seat.

One of them, armed with a gun, ordered Daniel, of Finch Drive, River Estate, Diego Martin, to drive as they dictated directions. As she drove along the Diego Martin Main Road, Daniel decided to steer the car onto the Wendy Fitzwilliam Boulevard and into the West End station to seek help.

The brave decision proved fatal for the mother of one, as the gunman shot her once from the back as she drove through the front gate of the station. She died moments after being shot, but not before her Nissan Almera crashed into a culvert at the end of the station's front yard.

One of her attackers jumped out the car near the station's gate and ran away on foot, while the two remaining assailants got out of the car after it crashed.

The image of the man who fled first was captured on a station camera and he was caught and later brought in for questioning, officers said. The other two men left the car after it crashed, jumped the outer wall of the station and fled along the Diego Martin Main Road with officers from the station in pursuit.

Several officers from the Western Division later conducted searches in the area. A reported shootout in Richplain moments later was said to be linked to the incident. Several men were brought in following those searches, officers said.

Daniel's husband, Stanley Nottingham, a Lance Corporal in the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment, could hardly restrain his emotions after viewing his wife's body in the front seat of the car, which sat mere metres from the front steps of the station.

Officers told the Express that he was counselled by a social worker from the Victim Support Unit after viewing the body, as was the other woman who was in the car at the time of the incident.

When the Express visited the family's Finch Drive home, Nottingham's colleagues from the Defence Force stated it was not "a good time" to seek any comment from the distraught husband. One officer stated that the shooting had reflected the level of lawlessness the country had now eclipsed to.

"Is mere lawlessness that is the country today, now the people don't care about where they doing their thing," said the officer.

Up to last night, four men had been taken in for questioning in connection with the murder, and searches continuing in the Factory Road and Richplain communities ongoing.

Police also asked medical facilities to report anyone who came in seeking treatment for gunshots wounds.

Inspector Henry Dann of the Western Division is spearheading investigations into the incident.

Daniel's killing pushed the murder toll to 270 for the year.
   


And the minister's statement

    
Criminals not letting up
National Security Minister:
Thursday, June 25th 2009

   

Following is a statement released by National Security Minister Martin Joseph in the wake of the killing of Camille Daniel on the compound of the West End Police Station.

"It is clear that the criminal elements are not letting up.

I condemn this act in the strongest possible terms.

It is unacceptable for any citizen in this country to be murdered in such a way.

This is a battle that all law-abiding citizens in Trinidad and Tobago must join to stop this small minority of individuals who are bent on causing chaos in this society and bring harm to innocent citizens.

It is even worse that such a heinous act could occur on the premises of a police station where people ought to feel safe.

I wish to express my sympathies and that of the Government to the family of this victim.

I am informed by the police that two persons have been apprehended and are assisting them in their investigations.

I am sure the Commissioner of Police, Mr James Philbert will keep the media informed as to the status of the investigations at a later time."

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General Discussion / Re: back from Trini

« on: June 24, 2009, 09:17:23 PM »

It have a restaurant in queens, $2 US for a doubles but it taste so good i ent care. They have other stuff like Aloo Pie roti, callaloo, macaroni pie, ox tail etc. I try to get over there ever so often when i visiting family in Brooklyn.  It somewhere on Liberty avenue I think

Singhs you talking bout

dont know the name, a small restauraunt with a big aquarium in it and the line always reach  outside the door.   I going trini in 2 weeks an my sis always like to take me debe for doubles.

You better pass and pick me up when you going....I always wanted to go down Debe for doubles, just never made the time...

Make the time lol Jul 10-13

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General Discussion / Re: back from Trini

« on: June 24, 2009, 04:59:08 PM »

It have a restaurant in queens, $2 US for a doubles but it taste so good i ent care. They have other stuff like Aloo Pie roti, callaloo, macaroni pie, ox tail etc. I try to get over there ever so often when i visiting family in Brooklyn.  It somewhere on Liberty avenue I think

Singhs you talking bout

dont know the name, a small restauraunt with a big aquarium in it and the line always reach  outside the door.   I going trini in 2 weeks an my sis always like to take me debe for doubles.

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General Discussion / Re: back from Trini

« on: June 24, 2009, 03:27:11 PM »

It have a restaurant in queens, $2 US for a doubles but it taste so good i ent care. They have other stuff like Aloo Pie roti, callaloo, macaroni pie, ox tail etc. I try to get over there ever so often when i visiting family in Brooklyn.  It somewhere on Liberty avenue I think

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General Discussion / Re: Jon & Kate Plus 8 on Hiatus Until August

« on: June 24, 2009, 03:13:40 PM »

I never watch the show before last night. But since the media was hyping it so much and i had nuttin else to do, I decide to watch.

Me too and me eh vex with Jon.

It eh easy for ah man to come out to all dem chirren running and carrying on in yuh head.

Not to mention after all dem chirren pass out dat nanny, it must be big like ah bus terminus. Ah man cyah go through dat. He must want ah new brand PCM nanny to feel good.

 


Maybe it was the editing, but i like Jon. He just came across as nicer, more down to earth.

I believe thst she had a C-section with both pregnancies which should mean that the err..... um.... baby delivery chute  should still have some if not all of it's err.... elasticity or tightness   

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General Discussion / Re: Shutdown for 5 minutes on Thursday, June 25th 2009

« on: June 24, 2009, 03:02:02 PM »

Yuh know what I go do that here too. 

I agree...

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General Discussion / Re: Jon & Kate Plus 8 on Hiatus Until August

« on: June 23, 2009, 06:29:46 PM »

I never watch the show before last night. But since the media was hyping it so much and i had nuttin else to do, I decide to watch.

I gained alot from watching that show, and lost a lot. I gained some good info and lost some good money. That Crooked house company must be get real calls after the show. And man dem thing expensive. But as they say.... is all for the children and the lil lady have a birthday coming up 

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General Discussion / Re: They even robbing government offices now...

« on: June 23, 2009, 06:25:32 PM »

excellent work by de cop.should have shot more.

yep

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General Discussion / Re: 10 yr old Vanished

« on: June 22, 2009, 05:45:53 AM »

Now studying it...if dem men go back..dey dotish. Dis is de best time fuh dem and dey family to buss out and lay low.

They just might be stupid enough to think they could go back an survive.

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General Discussion / Re: 10 yr old Vanished

« on: June 21, 2009, 08:23:25 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.

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General Discussion / Re: Spare a thought for Kanditt...

« on: June 20, 2009, 07:09:23 AM »

condolences to you and your family

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

« on: June 17, 2009, 04:46:19 PM »

well its a good thing this Trinidad place is as lawless as it is, or else your uncle woulda never been able to profit like that off the illegal wildlife trade. 

is ur uncle who does sell all them south american paraquites?  i see how easy them fisherman does link up all early morning hours and get them thing my self

err...... I plead the fifth  as I have been advised that them things illegal to sell. 

and there I was hoping for a pet ocelot

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General Discussion / Re: Investigators find missing Tecia Henry dead

« on: June 17, 2009, 04:39:34 PM »

all my prayers to the Henry family

Meanwhile tensions remain high in the area, as residents of Beverly Hills and  Block 8 accused each other of being responsible for the child’s death.

This would be a GREAT opportunity for both sets of community leaders to come together in a unified stance against violence.

call me a cynic but... this would be the perfect time for the police to step back and let the two factions have at it. Last man standing scenario.