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Re: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first 100-days.
« Reply #510 on: January 24, 2011, 08:02:52 PM »
Ole silver fox gettin een on d act oui....lawd ;D,

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« Reply #511 on: January 24, 2011, 08:52:14 PM »
Ah watch the drinker say she shooting for $12.00 TT per hr min.wage and the special adviser want to build a Hwy from S'ndo to Pt.fortin
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Re: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first 100-days.
« Reply #512 on: January 24, 2011, 09:14:57 PM »
Ah watch the drinker say she shooting for $12.00 TT per hr min.wage and the special adviser want to build a Hwy from S'ndo to Pt.fortin

He turning d sod 2mor. Imbert say he check d PSIP and it have no funding 4 it so is another PR gig so only time will tell.
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Re: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first 100-days.
« Reply #513 on: January 25, 2011, 04:47:03 AM »
Ah watch the drinker say she shooting for $12.00 TT per hr min.wage and the special adviser want to build a Hwy from S'ndo to Pt.fortin

That was on cards since PNM days.....like I asked over in another thread what the great efficient Jack has done so far that HE HAS INITIATED AND FINISHED??!!......as of last night I get no response......
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« Reply #514 on: January 25, 2011, 03:41:01 PM »
So what outfit Kamala could wear to make people not hold her accountable for this SIA lie?  Maybe she can order ah bolt of the Emperors' Cloth and make ah outfit. That will surely give em a stiff tongue.
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Re: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first 100-days.
« Reply #515 on: January 27, 2011, 01:09:59 PM »
On CNN news. A grand piano just showed up i think the Keys in Florida and nobody knows where in came from. Several questions in the making here.
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Re: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first 100-days.
« Reply #516 on: January 27, 2011, 01:14:09 PM »
On CNN news. A grand piano just showed up i think the Keys in Florida and nobody knows where in came from. Several questions in the making here.

you come like ah Tobago Evening News...LATE!

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« Reply #517 on: January 27, 2011, 02:19:57 PM »
On CNN news. A grand piano just showed up i think the Keys in Florida and nobody knows where in came from. Several questions in the making here.

you come like ah Tobago Evening News...LATE!


That  was aired last night on CNN bro.

Tobago Evening News  ???  look fetus ! T minus and counting fuh yuh ! pluto! here you come
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Re: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first 100-days.
« Reply #518 on: January 27, 2011, 02:40:42 PM »
On CNN news. A grand piano just showed up i think the Keys in Florida and nobody knows where in came from. Several questions in the making here.

you come like ah Tobago Evening News...LATE!


That  was aired last night on CNN bro.

Tobago Evening News  ???  look fetus ! T minus and counting fuh yuh ! pluto! here you come

It was posted HERE long beofre you saw it on CNN bro.

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Re: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first 100-days.
« Reply #519 on: January 27, 2011, 04:34:41 PM »
On CNN news. A grand piano just showed up i think the Keys in Florida and nobody knows where in came from. Several questions in the making here.

you come like ah Tobago Evening News...LATE!


That  was aired last night on CNN bro.

Tobago Evening News  ???  look fetus ! T minus and counting fuh yuh ! pluto! here you come

It was posted HERE long beofre you saw it on CNN bro.

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-  YUh ship blast off and yuh still here..see dat is yuh problem

Okay.. I will have to give Turner Broadcasting  a call about SW.net. He (Turner) dropping in the ratings, maybe Flex can Negotiate a deal with all them big time maccos he have on here since I late with the Piano news
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Re: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first 100-days.
« Reply #520 on: February 13, 2011, 03:36:08 AM »
Kamla’s rating falls
PP comes under fire
Published: Sun, 2011-02-13 23:53
Anika Gumbs-Sandiford and Malissa Lara-Patterson



Eight months and 20 days after the People’s Partnership has been voted into office, the coalition Government has come under fire from the population. Blunders and a failure to deliver on some aspects of its 120 days immediate action plan are responsible for the Prime Minister and the party’s popularity slipping. There is also growing dissatisfaction with the way Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has been handling serious blunders affecting her Government. This, according to findings of a random digital dialling nationwide survey conducted by Ansa Mcal Psychological Research Centre, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, that has revealed disappointment and disenchantment among the electorate. The opinion poll conducted between February 3 to 6 was supervised by the manager and senior lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Sciences Dr Derek Chadee.

A total of 509 respondents rated the performance of Persad-Bissessar and the PP in five categories—excellent, good, fair, poor and extremely poor. The biggest faux pas to date, according to the respondents, is the controversial hiring of former Strategic Services Agency (SSA) director Reshmi Usha Ramnarine. This has hurt the PM’s image the most. Ranking the performance of Persad-Bissessar as fair, 38 per cent of respondents felt the Prime Minister has failed to be proactive and suggested that she adopts the more-action-less-talk approach. However, respondents said the PM’s decision to apologise on certain matters gained her some points, but she needed to get a grip and control some of her ministers.

Warner her closest rival
Her closest rival on performance is Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner, who received a good rating of 35 per cent for handling traffic congestion. The PM was rated as follows: Excellent-12 per cent, Good-31 per cent, Fair-38 per cent, Poor-14 per cent, Extremely Poor-5 per cent. Those who rated the PM’s performance as “fair” said she was trying but some of the problems still existed. They also felt she was yet to seriously address the problem of crime. It was in the PM’s Old Year’s night address to the nation, that she spoke of a three-prong approach to crime—prevention, detection and conviction.  However,  the country has recorded 56 murders in 42 days to date. The 31 per cent of respondents who gave her a “good” rating said she had been doing her best but she inherited the problems of the former administration. However, 14 per cent of the respondents agreed that the Reshmi Ramnarine fiasco negatively affected the PM’s image. Some felt the Prime Minister needed to do less talking and act more. Regarding ethnicity, Indo-Trinidadians were more likely than Afro-Trinidadians to rate the PMs performance to date as “good.” Precisely 58 per cent Indo-Trinidadians, 37 per cent Mixed and 30 per cent Afro-Trinidadians stated “good.”

Further, Mixed Trinidadians (45 per cent) and Afro-Trinidadians (43 per cent) were more likely than Indo-Trinidadians (31 per cent) to give a rating of “fair.” Acknowledging that the PP was new in Government, respondents also rated their performance as fair. This found favour with only 43 per cent. Respondents said apart from not delivering on election promises the PP lacked unity. The PP was rated as follows: Excellent-eight per cent, Good-29 per cent, Fair-43 per cent, Poor-15 per cent, Extremely Poor-five per cent. The respondents who gave the PP a “fair” rating cited leadership issues as one of the main challenge of the party. In addition, respondents suggested that they need to be united. While some respondents felt the PP needed time to perform, they said election promises were broken. Those who rated the Partnership’s performance as “good” said more could be done for the country even though some of the manifesto promises were fulfilled.

Blunders and apologies
• The controversial SSA fiasco has taken centre stage since the PP came into Government.
Even as a new SSA director is set to be appointed, there is no letting up with respect to the handling of the appointment of former director, Reshmi Usha Ramnarine, who has been severely criticised.
Calls from several quarters for Persad-Bissessar to apologise met with stern resistance.  Her eventual apology, which was long in coming, has been condemned in several quarters.

• The revelation of the Security Intelligence Agency created a tit-for-tat between the Prime Minister and Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs over who had control of the agency. The Prime Minister eventually apologised for the mix-up.

• In November, Persad-Bissessar received a tongue-lashing from Caricom neighbours regarding her Hurricane Tomas statements.  It was while surveying the trail of destruction left behind in St Lucia, Persad-Bissessar vowed to assist but said in return T&T must benefit.

• It fuelled earlier criticisms levelled against the PM in July when she attended her first Regional Heads of Government Conference and stated regional countries should no longer regard T&T as an ATM card. The PM later apologised, ensuring her commitment to regional integration.

• Attorney General Anand Ramlogan continues to grab headlines with alarming statements which has caused the Government some embarrassment.
Most recently is the allegations of a missing piano from the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s.
After much brouhaha and public outcry, the piano was discovered in the same spot where Ramlogan claimed it could not be found. Ramlogan refused to apologise. The PM was also heavily criticised by the public for Ramlogan’s failure to say he was sorry, as the population felt she did not have a handle on her ministers and senators.

• Ramlogan was again in the spotlight when he claimed investigations into the controversial CL Financial fiasco were concluded and in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard. The DPP announced that investigations had not started.

• Ramlogan last week took on Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard, claiming there is sufficient evidence to charge former Udecott executive chairman, Calder Hart. The DPP later refuted this in a press, saying he did not file on the Hart matter at his office.

• Eyebrows raised when Ramlogan, not the National Security Minister, took a jab at the new CoP, Dwayne Gibbs for failing to stop Pena from leaving the country during a high-profile criminal investigation.  He then publicly informed Gibbs his honeymoon was over.

• Congress of the People Leader Winston Dookeran on July said: “I now feel that I have a party that can run on its own. And I have for the first time real politicians in the COP, for they can win elections too,” as he addressed a meeting in Chaguanas. This comment sparked controversy in the PP, with some MPs calling on Dookeran to explain what he meant. Dookeran later claimed his comment was taken out of context.

• Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Anil Roberts apologised to Parliament for denying that expletives were used at the Nicki Minaj concert.

• Minister of Justice Herbert Volney claimed Chief Justice Ivor Archie benefited from a ‘sweetheart deal’ granted by former AG, John Jeremie. Questions arose as to why the CJ did not have an official residence instead of taxpayers being burdened with such a $64,000 monthly rental.
It was later discovered that a decision was taken by the then United National Congress administration to sell all government properties.

Promises delivered
• Laptops to every Secondary Entrance Assessment student
• Property tax rescinded
• The expansion of Gate is being addressed
• A Ministry of the People has been established
• The Water and Sewerage Authority has embarked on a repair programme of all disrupted water mains.
• The minimum wage has been reviewed and stands at $12.50 per hour
• A Life Fund for children undergoing surgery has been set up
• The reviewing of laws and institutions to address white-collar crime
 
Broken promises
The PP, in its manifesto, promised 120 days of immediate action but the party has come under heavy criticisms from the public for its failure to deliver on some of its 32 plans.

• Failure to deal with crime and roll out an effective crime plan.
• Beginning the introduction of camera technology at traffic lights and set into motion an efficient system of ticket offenders.
• Establishing a Ways and Means Committee to formulate a project plan on a phased basis to make all government public services more accessible to residents of Tobago.

The people: The PP must deliver
Regarding the delivery of election promises, analysts said the PP gave the electorate certain expectations and they need to fulfil them at a faster pace. Political analyst, Bishnu Ragoonath, said: “The Prime Minister needs to take responsibility for the inability to deliver as fast as the people are expecting. I accept that things take time, but there are issues people expect to move a little faster. She needs to make sure there is more than talk and some degree of action.”

‘Busy putting out bush fires’
Also echoing similar sentiments was analyst Indira Rampersad, who said disappointment was expected given that the PP made many promises. “The people were expecting more at a faster pace.  This was not necessarily unreasonable because the PP came into power with a lot of promises. Ministers have been busy putting out bush fires; they have been more reactive than proactive, quite frankly people were expecting to see action.”

Distribution of laptops the biggest achievement
Noting that the Prime Minister was seen as a hope of change for many, Ghany said there were certain expectations that needed to be kept. “The Prime Minister came into office on a wave of hope and change that propelled her to heights in the public imagination that were unreal. As a consequence, the expectation factor was very high.” Meanwhile, Ghany said the PM’s biggest achievement to date is the distribution of laptops to all Secondary Entrance Assessment students. On another issue, the analysts said the PP was elected into office on an anti-corruption slate and should desist from doing otherwise.

Electorate not easing up
Political analysts viewed the change as a dawn of a new era—out with the authoritarian style of leadership and welcoming a humanitarian type of governance. The PP made promises on the election campaign trail and the electorate is not easing up. They are insisting that the Persad-Bissessar led Government must deliver. Assessing the performance of the Prime Minister, political analysts agreed that the controversial SSA fiasco has negatively impacted her leadership.

Ghany: Govt reeling from SSA
In fact, Dr Hamid Ghany said the Prime Minister’s first response to the media on the controversial issue demonstrated an element of authoritarianism. “The Government is still reeling from the effects of that move. She has now taken full responsibility for the matter which is the better way for her to go as a new Prime Minister,” he said. However, Ghany said, though the apology was late in coming, the Prime Minister showed a level of humility when she still opted to apologise.

Ragoonath: Proceed with caution
Urging the Prime Minister to proceed with caution, Dr Bishnu Ragoonath said Persad-Bissessar needed to desist from making blunders. “There are several. The most recent one would be the SSA issue; That would be the biggest blunder.  She should double check her sources before making appointments, bearing in mind that this is not only scrutinised by the Opposition but rather by the world.”

Keep AG, ministers in line
Referring to the alleged “missing piano” raised by Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, Ragoonath said: “He should have said sorry. What she needs to do is have her ministers in line and know when they need to apologise to the citizenry at large. One has seen instances where the Attorney General would have made statements which I think, clearly, were not correct and insisted he would not apologise.”

Rampersad: Damage control overdue
Meanwhile, Dr Indira Rampersad said damage control was overdue. “The criticisms had already escalated out of proportion. If she had come forward earlier it probably would not have negatively impacted her leadership as it did.  She handled the other issues very well up until the SSA issue.” However, Rampersad said leaders must be careful with how they interact with the media, noting that a badly handled interview can make or break any government.

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« Reply #521 on: February 13, 2011, 10:21:01 AM »
All I read is the man line that JW getting props for handling traffic congestion   :devil:   and I done. Just now they will get rate for attending parliment 30 days in a row.
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« Reply #522 on: February 13, 2011, 01:06:41 PM »
All I read is the man line that JW getting props for handling traffic congestion   :devil:   and I done. Just now they will get rate for attending parliment 30 days in a row.

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« Reply #523 on: February 14, 2011, 06:37:05 AM »
Boy I eh know nah.....its only 9 months.....and counting..... ::) ::)


Kingston rejection
By Keith Subero


Just when we search for possible avenues to "move on" as the Prime Minister suggested, there comes the news of a diplomatic snub, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is trying desperately to contain.

As part of changes in diplomatic postings, the Government late last year sent off to the Jamaican government the name of a person to head our High Commission in that country.

Diplomatic sources said traditionally such an appointment is communicated through the Ministry's Protocol Division; this time the person's name was kept hush-hush, and went directly from the office of the Minister.

One report said the person was "a well-known, retired Petrotin pipe-fitter from Penal"; another source reported it was "a young, low-level employee in the Plant Quarantine Department"; a third source pointed to a former UNC energy minister.

Reports in diplomatic circles said that after the Jamaican government did the customary background checks on the individual, it "gave a polite rejection" to the T&T Government.

Such was the embarrassment in Port of Spain that the Government went in immediate search, quickly arriving with the name of Dr Iva Gloudon, UWI Director of Sport and Physical Education, and a practising pastor, whose name was sent immediately to the Jamaican government.

It is reported that the choice, when presented by Transport Minister, Jack Warner, was approved promptly by Foreign Minister Suruj Rambachan. Warner, on his recent trip to Jamaica on Caribbean Airlines matters, is said to have spoken further with the Jamaican Foreign Ministry about her appointment.

Attempts last week to get the name of the rejected individual drew "blanks" in every quarter. One staff member said: "No one knows what is going on; it is very difficult around here. Matters are conducted secretively, kind of creepily. Close-circuit cameras are installed, and staff members have been instructed that files are not to remain on desks overnight; they should be locked away every evening."

In diplomatic circles, how is such a snub interpreted?

"First, this is not the first time the Jamaican government has said no to us. Knowlson Gift, you would recall, who served there, was suggested for a return, but was refused by the Jamaican government," a source said.

"It is obvious that the Jamaican government's background checks turned up more information than we have on that individual, or which we chose to ignore. Our choice was not seen as suitable for Kingston, and, possibly, that government felt insulted.

"In international circles, it's a blot on relations, a serious embarrassment to T&T. In fact, Jamaica is saying that our Government's choice is not to be good enough to represent T&T in their country."


High commissioners and ambassadors are considered the official face of a country. They monitor, represent, and negotiate their country's commercial, legal, economic, cultural and scientific interests in a host country.

"Such a person, in fact, is the representative of our President; in his credentials, he promotes friendly relations between the two countries; he attends functions on our behalf; at all times, he must display proper diplomatic etiquette, e.g. in those circles, there must be proper pronunciation and recall of names, and familiarity with places and events," the source said.

"So to seek the Jamaican government's approval for such person as a pipe-fitter or a young, plant quarantine employee would be seen as an insult in Kingston."

Recently, Venezuela refused to accept a US envoy, which has meant a further deterioration in their relations. In diplomatic circles, a rejection could heighten tensions, which may be expressed by diplomats politely ignoring each other, refusing to shake hands, cancelling appointments, postponing meetings indefinitely, or walking out at formal meetings.


However diplomatic sources said the Jamaican government's rejection of the candidate was considered as "informal". In turn, the T&T Government could have expressed its displeasure by not submitting another choice for some time.

But this country, on one hand, wants to be seen as re-branding its image after the Prime Minister's two diplomatic "mis-steps" with our Caribbean neighbours—stating that TT was not the Caribbean's "ATM"; and that humanitarian aid to the region would be given with strings attached.

In addition, there are niggling, unresolved areas in the Caribbean Airlines takeover of Air Jamaica— with potential for further tension.

But, at the same time, the Rambachan strategy, called "value-based diplomacy" is described by senior staff as "confusing".

The CSME Unit was disbanded last week, and a number of International Relations Officers, employed on contract, were sent home recently.

These officers were told that to be re-employed they would have to sit an entrance examination, and face interviews.

Besides the rejection from Jamaica, the administration also struggles to contain reports, circling among its staff, about the "inappropriateness" of appointments of the two young, inexperienced persons to head Missions in the United States.

"We wondered, but recently we identified their uncle," the source said.


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« Reply #524 on: February 14, 2011, 07:07:00 AM »
I don't want to comment on the obvious nepotism taking place here. We beat horse already and already establish that is the M.O. of this government. Watch how crazy these people are. What the hell the Works and Transport Minister doing engaging in Foreign Affairs ? Where is the ceremonial Prime Minister in all of this ?

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« Reply #525 on: February 14, 2011, 07:13:51 AM »
I don't want to comment on the obvious nepotism taking place here. We beat horse already and already establish that is the M.O. of this government. Watch how crazy these people are. What the hell the Works and Transport Minister doing engaging in Foreign Affairs ? Where is the ceremonial Prime Minister in all of this ?

Rumer Hazzit says she couldn't find de right rasta wig and matching merino tuh make de Kingston trip.

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« Reply #526 on: February 14, 2011, 07:18:11 AM »
I don't want to comment on the obvious nepotism taking place here. We beat horse already and already establish that is the M.O. of this government. Watch how crazy these people are. What the hell the Works and Transport Minister doing engaging in Foreign Affairs ? Where is the ceremonial Prime Minister in all of this ?

Rumer Hazzit says she couldn't find de right rasta wig and matching merino tuh make de Kingston trip.
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« Reply #527 on: February 14, 2011, 08:30:28 AM »
I don't want to comment on the obvious nepotism taking place here. We beat horse already and already establish that is the M.O. of this government. Watch how crazy these people are. What the hell the Works and Transport Minister doing engaging in Foreign Affairs ? Where is the ceremonial Prime Minister in all of this ?

Rumer Hazzit says she couldn't find de right rasta wig and matching merino tuh make de Kingston trip.

oh gorm..... :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hear nah, I honestly keep hoping that I goh wake up one morning and not have to comment on some dotishness some one of these jackasses misfits do.....but geez and ages, it just ridiculous man....steups!!!!
"...If yuh clothes tear up
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« Reply #528 on: February 14, 2011, 08:50:29 AM »
I don't want to comment on the obvious nepotism taking place here. We beat horse already and already establish that is the M.O. of this government. Watch how crazy these people are. What the hell the Works and Transport Minister doing engaging in Foreign Affairs ? Where is the ceremonial Prime Minister in all of this ?

Rumer Hazzit says she couldn't find de right rasta wig and matching merino tuh make de Kingston trip.

oh gorm..... :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hear nah, I honestly keep hoping that I goh wake up one morning and not have to comment on some dotishness some one of these jackasses misfits do.....but geez and ages, it just ridiculous man....steups!!!!

If yuh complaining so after barely 9 months....
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Re: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first 100-days.
« Reply #529 on: February 14, 2011, 09:52:02 AM »
I don't want to comment on the obvious nepotism taking place here. We beat horse already and already establish that is the M.O. of this government. Watch how crazy these people are. What the hell the Works and Transport Minister doing engaging in Foreign Affairs ? Where is the ceremonial Prime Minister in all of this ?

Rumer Hazzit says she couldn't find de right rasta wig and matching merino tuh make de Kingston trip.

oh gorm..... :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hear nah, I honestly keep hoping that I goh wake up one morning and not have to comment on some dotishness some one of these jackasses misfits do.....but geez and ages, it just ridiculous man....steups!!!!

If yuh complaining so after barely 9 months....


*sigh* I know......ah took up Yoga classes once a week late last year.  Ah feel ah have to increase mih sessions to at least 3 times a week.  Ah looking for coping mechanisms nah......
"...If yuh clothes tear up
Or yuh shoes burst off,
You could still jump up when music play.
Old lady, young baby, everybody could dingolay...
Dingolay, ay, ay, ay ay,
Dingolay ay, ay, ay..."

RIP Shadow....The legend will live on in music...

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« Reply #530 on: February 15, 2011, 02:15:39 AM »
Well Kamla and she cabinet come up large in the Economist Magazine..  :devil:


http://www.economist.com/node/18114940?story_id=18114940&CFID=156330297&CFTOKEN=10762034

In the shadow of the gallows
Trinidad debates the death penalty
Crime in the Caribbean Feb 10th 2011 | PORT OF SPAIN | from PRINT EDITION

“WE NEED the death penalty…that is the word of God,” said Benjamin Agard, a Pentecostal pastor, in his funeral sermon last month for Cecil Carrington, a retired police officer shot dead by bandits at the small hotel he owned on Trinidad’s windswept east coast. The funeral came a fortnight after Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, promised to remove legal obstacles to hanging, offering a parliamentary debate on February 18th.

Her stance is popular across the English-speaking Caribbean, where murder rates have soared since the 1990s. Her country suffered 472 killings last year—close to 5% of all deaths. In 1999 there were just 93. Almost everyone can name a friend or relative who has met a violent end. Last year’s murder rate, of 36 per 100,000 people, was seven times that in the United States and 30 times that of Britain. But it trailed Jamaica (53), Belize (42) and tiny St Kitts-Nevis (40).

Rulings from the London-based Privy Council, still the final court of appeal for most of the region, have made it much harder to use the noose. The most important was a judgment, in 1993, which held that execution cannot take place more than five years after sentencing. In practice, exhausting all routes for appeal usually takes much longer than that.

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Overturning Privy Council rulings requires a constitutional amendment. In Trinidad that needs a three-quarters majority in parliament, and hence opposition support. Barbados, a much more tranquil island, completed a similar process in 2002, but has made no moves to hang anyone since. With anger running high over violent crime, Trinidad and Tobago is unlikely to take this relatively laid-back stance. If the opposition were to be brave enough to resist hanging, it would be blamed for every subsequent murder.

Many politicians privately admit that hanging will not halt crime. The death penalty hardly acts as a deterrent, since only a tiny proportion of murderers are arrested, tried and convicted. Ten men were hanged in Trinidad in 1999, nine of them members of the Dole Chadee gang, a notorious drug mob. But killings resumed in a fortnight.

The most recent Caribbean hanging was in St Kitts-Nevis, a few days before Christmas in 2008. With only 50,000 people, the country had been shaken by 23 murders that year. The next year there were 27. In practice, even in Caribbean islands where hanging is not carried out, murders are often followed by the death of the perpetrator, gunned down either in gangland reprisals or by the police.

If they really wanted to stem the violence, politicians would do better to try to stem the trade in illegal guns, which are plentiful and cheap. Trinidad and Tobago’s foreign minister noted last month that many arrive on drug boats from South America. But his government in September cancelled an order for three 90-metre patrol boats, which with planned helicopter support and an existing fleet of smaller boats and coastal radar might have staunched the flow. Other guns are rented to criminals by police or soldiers, said the national security minister.

The police and the judiciary also need reform. For its part, Trinidad and Tobago’s overstaffed intelligence agency was caught last year tapping the phones of the country’s president and several journalists, but it has had little impact on the drug gangs.

Mrs Persad-Bissessar’s People’s Partnership coalition swept to power last May, with a manifesto that did not mention hanging. She promised a “multi-pronged approach” to the “political, economic, social, technological and managerial dimensions” of security. “Punitive sanctions alone” would not solve the problem, the manifesto declared. But voters seem to want quick fixes. They should study Suriname, which suspended the death penalty decades ago, and suffers just four murders a year for every 100,000 people.
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« Reply #531 on: February 15, 2011, 06:57:49 AM »
Well Kamla and she cabinet come up large in the Economist Magazine..  :devil:


http://www.economist.com/node/18114940?story_id=18114940&CFID=156330297&CFTOKEN=10762034

In the shadow of the gallows
Trinidad debates the death penalty
Crime in the Caribbean Feb 10th 2011 | PORT OF SPAIN | from PRINT EDITION

“WE NEED the death penalty…that is the word of God,” said Benjamin Agard, a Pentecostal pastor, in his funeral sermon last month for Cecil Carrington, a retired police officer shot dead by bandits at the small hotel he owned on Trinidad’s windswept east coast. The funeral came a fortnight after Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, promised to remove legal obstacles to hanging, offering a parliamentary debate on February 18th.

Her stance is popular across the English-speaking Caribbean, where murder rates have soared since the 1990s. Her country suffered 472 killings last year—close to 5% of all deaths. In 1999 there were just 93. Almost everyone can name a friend or relative who has met a violent end. Last year’s murder rate, of 36 per 100,000 people, was seven times that in the United States and 30 times that of Britain. But it trailed Jamaica (53), Belize (42) and tiny St Kitts-Nevis (40).

Rulings from the London-based Privy Council, still the final court of appeal for most of the region, have made it much harder to use the noose. The most important was a judgment, in 1993, which held that execution cannot take place more than five years after sentencing. In practice, exhausting all routes for appeal usually takes much longer than that.

Related topics
Capital punishment
Criminal sentencing
Crime
Crime and law
Murder and homicide
Overturning Privy Council rulings requires a constitutional amendment. In Trinidad that needs a three-quarters majority in parliament, and hence opposition support. Barbados, a much more tranquil island, completed a similar process in 2002, but has made no moves to hang anyone since. With anger running high over violent crime, Trinidad and Tobago is unlikely to take this relatively laid-back stance. If the opposition were to be brave enough to resist hanging, it would be blamed for every subsequent murder.

Many politicians privately admit that hanging will not halt crime. The death penalty hardly acts as a deterrent, since only a tiny proportion of murderers are arrested, tried and convicted. Ten men were hanged in Trinidad in 1999, nine of them members of the Dole Chadee gang, a notorious drug mob. But killings resumed in a fortnight.

The most recent Caribbean hanging was in St Kitts-Nevis, a few days before Christmas in 2008. With only 50,000 people, the country had been shaken by 23 murders that year. The next year there were 27. In practice, even in Caribbean islands where hanging is not carried out, murders are often followed by the death of the perpetrator, gunned down either in gangland reprisals or by the police.

If they really wanted to stem the violence, politicians would do better to try to stem the trade in illegal guns, which are plentiful and cheap. Trinidad and Tobago’s foreign minister noted last month that many arrive on drug boats from South America. But his government in September cancelled an order for three 90-metre patrol boats, which with planned helicopter support and an existing fleet of smaller boats and coastal radar might have staunched the flow. Other guns are rented to criminals by police or soldiers, said the national security minister.

The police and the judiciary also need reform. For its part, Trinidad and Tobago’s overstaffed intelligence agency was caught last year tapping the phones of the country’s president and several journalists, but it has had little impact on the drug gangs.

Mrs Persad-Bissessar’s People’s Partnership coalition swept to power last May, with a manifesto that did not mention hanging. She promised a “multi-pronged approach” to the “political, economic, social, technological and managerial dimensions” of security. “Punitive sanctions alone” would not solve the problem, the manifesto declared. But voters seem to want quick fixes. They should study Suriname, which suspended the death penalty decades ago, and suffers just four murders a year for every 100,000 people.

4get Kamla meh Pastor make the news ind economist magazine.
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« Reply #532 on: February 15, 2011, 08:23:49 AM »
Quote from: The Economist Magazine
If they really wanted to stem the violence, politicians would do better to try to stem the trade in illegal guns, which are plentiful and cheap. Trinidad and Tobago’s foreign minister noted last month that many arrive on drug boats from South America. But his government in September cancelled an order for three 90-metre patrol boats, which with planned helicopter support and an existing fleet of smaller boats and coastal radar might have staunched the flow. Other guns are rented to criminals by police or soldiers, said the national security minister.

The police and the judiciary also need reform. For its part, Trinidad and Tobago’s overstaffed intelligence agency was caught last year tapping the phones of the country’s president and several journalists, but it has had little impact on the drug gangs.

It was?  Where is the proof of this?


On balance, it's a fair article but it really not saying much...

Privy Council make it near impossible to hang
Police need reform
Judiciary need reform
Capital Punishment is not a deterrent
Murders are out of control
Water is wet
Dog bites man...

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« Reply #533 on: February 15, 2011, 01:21:47 PM »
I wonder how suriname does it?

One would think the infrastructure and geo. location would make it ripe for drug running too.
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« Reply #534 on: February 15, 2011, 05:31:48 PM »
I wonder how suriname does it?

One would think the infrastructure and geo. location would make it ripe for drug running too.
2 decades ago Suriname had they issues also. The man in power right now was an army man who executed some members of the cabinet, including ex-Caribbean football great Andre Kamperveen. Honestly I don't know how they do it. Maybe because they have the Dutch temperament instead of the Brits.

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« Reply #535 on: March 12, 2011, 01:11:43 PM »
All she good for is partying...nutten else.

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« Reply #536 on: March 12, 2011, 01:24:30 PM »
if she really warned about a pacific tsunami ,that is a quote of George Bushian proportions .

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« Reply #537 on: March 12, 2011, 01:25:24 PM »
Gone on another party junket...when we have serious issues at home to deal with..steups.

What a waste ah f**king time...she is NOT PM material at all..who vex f**king lorse!


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« Reply #538 on: March 19, 2011, 11:31:31 AM »
Jack Warner is the PM of Trinidad and Tobago.  Kamla is window dressing...

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« Reply #539 on: March 21, 2011, 06:16:19 PM »
ah cyar remember if it had a separate thread for this topic so ah goh stick it here.....

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Taxi drivers to sue Govt on 'PH' plan
By Gyasi Gonzales


THE Trinidad and Tobago Taxi Drivers Network intends to take legal action against the Government due to its decision to legalise PH taxi drivers and has hired attorney Ramesh Lawrence-Maharaj to represent it.

Adrian Acosta – president of the network along with some other members carried out an education and fund-raising drive on Friday at the Croisee in San Juan.

"The money we get is to pay our lawyers and we also wanted to sensitise our drivers about what is going on with our industry," he said.

He said, "Since Works Minister Jack Warner proposed an amendment for legalising PH drivers it has presented legitimate taxi drivers with severe challenges to providing a service as they (PH drivers) are now claiming rights to our taxi stands around the country and have even also formed their own taxi stands."

Acosta added, "We have also written a letter to Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs and told him of this but since then we have gotten no response either from the police or the Govern-ment so they left us no choice but to do this."

Acosta also said that a mass meeting for all "legitimate" taxi and maxi-taxi drivers is carded for next Saturday where Maharaj is expected to address them on their up-coming legal battle.

Time and place have not yet been announced.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Taxi_drivers_to_sue_Govt_on__PH__plan-118342894.html
"...If yuh clothes tear up
Or yuh shoes burst off,
You could still jump up when music play.
Old lady, young baby, everybody could dingolay...
Dingolay, ay, ay, ay ay,
Dingolay ay, ay, ay..."

RIP Shadow....The legend will live on in music...

 

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