Our leaders are well aware of our blind spots. They know what we care about and what we don’t. That’s why they don’t really care about domestic violence.
I wonder what Dr. Eric Williams would think if he knew T&T’s political arena would ultimately devolve into us perpetually picking between team ketchup and team mustard.
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.
Let’s connect the dots, shall we? To hand extra powers to the TTPS—an organisation known for misconduct—is to play a very dangerous game.
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?
You can always count on the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds to stick his foot in his mouth The man has never met a crime controversy he didn’t want to dive into.
Trinidad and Tobago is having a tough time right now. The world is slipping into a recession, COVID refuses to acknowledge our collective efforts to pretend it doesn’t exist, and our government is besieged by a combination of microphone malfunctions and an “irritated” population.
Instead of blinged-out TD Jakes and Creflo Dolla telling us that we can get like them if we give them all we’ve got, we have a growing cast of well-fed characters working overtime to convince us that to sacrifice is noble and to starve is divine.