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A safe space for common sense.

Crime

Connecting the Dots Issue 6: What Bodycams?

by fwiwinbox March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 1 Min Reading

TTPS killings are up by 133% in 2025 but it’s NBD according to the union and acting CoP. Source: Trust me, bro.

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Governance

Connecting the Dots Issue 5: Welcome to Silly Season 2025

by fwiwinbox March 19, 2025March 18, 2025 1 Min Reading

All jokes aside, as much as I respect the Uno reverse move from our new PM, it’d be great to see him address the matter

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Crime Governance

T&T’s Real SoE

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 4 Min Reading

If a State of Emergency (SoE) is the government’s only means of addressing spiralling crime, the real emergency might be unfolding in the Red House.

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Crime Governance

Politicians Say the Darndest Things: Tobago Edition

October 22, 2024October 23, 2024 5 Min Reading

What message does it send to have leadership that sees 500 murders (and counting)—the vast majority of which were committed by men—and sees fit to blame women?

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Governance

De Emperor is NAKED, Allyuh

September 6, 2024September 7, 2024 5 Min Reading

“The Emperor’s New Clothes” was a funny little fable until I realised I was living it in real time.

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Education Governance

Politicians Say the Darndest Things—Education Edition (Maintenance Mess)

September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 7 Min Reading

How is it that our Education Minister is already out here publicly embarrassing us less than a week after Independence Day?

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Society

Happy Independence Day, T&T 🎁 🇹🇹

August 31, 2024August 31, 2024 2 Min Reading

What does T&T want for its 62nd birthday?

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Governance Healthcare

Politicians Say the Darndest Things—Health Edition (Breastfeeding Bacchanal)

August 15, 2024August 15, 2024 7 Min Reading

How did Deyalsingh manage to give this speech without googling “midwifery” to grasp how women have been learning about breastfeeding since the palaeolithic era?

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Governance Infrastructure

Bridges Collapse as the Blame Game Continues

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 5 Min Reading

Our leaders can’t hide behind procurement legislation when the issue is why they can’t seem to work together to maintain our ageing infrastructure.

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fwiw Roundup

fwiw News Roundup #5: 26th June, 2024

June 26, 2024June 26, 2024 30 Min Reading

Took a little break, but we’re back with news you can use. (Did you hear about the MP who did his job?!? I turn my back for one minute…)

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Governance

Beetham Continues to Suffer, Nobody Cares

June 26, 2024June 26, 2024 4 Min Reading

When the people of the Beetham and Laventille get fed up of the ongoing sewage leaks and block the roads again, I doh want to hear none ah allyuh whining.

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fwiw Roundup

fwiw News Roundup #4: 14th June, 2024

June 14, 2024June 25, 2024 12 Min Reading

Bad news: we’ll have to cut back on the movies, hams, and macaroni pies because Marvin Gonzales says the price of our inconsistent, often murky water supply is going up.

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Whew, life's been lifing on overdrive for the past few months and a blogger's starting to feel the burn. So, as much as I hate stepping away from the news cycle (especially given everything that's going on right now) I'm going to pause for a bit to recharge so I can come back strong. TTPS bodycam footage? What TTPS bodycam footage? Listen, if the TTPS—an org with a longstanding history of corruption—wants us to believe a 133% increase in cop killings is NBD, the least they could do is share the bodycam footage they have... and collect the 3,000 cameras collecting dust in storage. All jokes aside, as much as I respect the Uno reverse move from our new PM, it'd be great to see him address the matter directly in a manner that puts the concerns raised to bed. Do so really doh like so, inno. To be a Trinbagonian woman who loves her country is to live with the knowledge that your nation doesn't really love you back. To live and love in this space is to understand that, should the wrong person cross your path and take your life, your countrymen and women will first find ways to blame you for your own murder. To listen to our leadership is to know that nothing will change unless we make them change it. If we could avoid repeating the mistakes of 2010 (or another nation's mistakes of 2024), that'd be 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. If so many TTPS applicants are failing to meet the basic criteria for entry (and given what some of their officers are getting up to), the organisation should probably take a closer look at its recruitment pool. Shout-out to that one officer at the Carenage Police Station who held nothing back when asked his thoughts on the Prime Minister's recent Parliamentary statement about the police's fear of criminals.
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