Caricom plans to hold crime summit in Trinidad early April
March 11, 2008
The Initiative is “to fully explore the crime and security issues facing the Region and to agree to a Strategy and Action Plan to stem the rising tide of violent criminality”. This statement comes from the two-day heads of government summit in The Bahamas on Friday and Saturday March 7thand 8th 2008 where it was reported that leaders in the Caricom agreed to a special summit to be held in Trinidad early April.
Yesterday’s Trinidad Express reported Prime Minister Patrick Manning as saying that while new initiatives were being sought, Caricom was not losing the war on crime. Is that so P.M Manning? You must have been living under a very opaque rock these last 20 years or so or you must not have been keeping up with current events. How do you explain the crime situation in Guyana? You cannot so henceforth, do not make a blanket statement. Moreover, when you address such an issue and utter such ignorant words, your leadership skills will be under quite a number of intellectual microscopes.
Trinidad attributes one of the highest crime rates in the Caribbean Basin and you the venerate leader of Trinidad and I say that with utmost disdain have the audacity to make such a statement. Mr. Manning, you should work on cleaning up Trinidad first then focus on the region. I must remind you that is perfectly well to think globally but it is of utmost importance to act locally and your locality is Trinidad. So, focus on getting Trinidad up to standard where crime becomes an over statement and you can proudly display your national crime statistics so the rest of the Caribbean can take best practices. For now however, that’s not the case, and most Trinidadians will more than likely agree with what I have elucidated.
Seven weeks after the massacres in Guyana, only one person is charged so far. Guyana has no aerial police support, only the temporary loan, a helicopter from Trinidad. Criminals are walking around in army issued outfits and army issued weapons in Guyana. Is something clearly not wrong with the system? Is anything being done by President Jagdeo to secure UN troops in Guyana to make sure events like this do not repeat themselves. If Mr. Manning can approach capital crime is such a manner, he is explaining to me why serious crime is escalating in Trinidad.
This is what Mr. Manning had to say at the leaders Summit in Bahamas “What we are doing is pausing and taking a second look at it to see perhaps where there might have initiatives to be taken that we didn’t take or other ideas we may now have as we seek to take the war on crime to a new level and that is why we have invited the Heads to come to Port of Spain in early April.” There should be no pause; action needs to be taken now. A second look! How about a first look? In the mean while, the Citizens of Guyana live in fear, while President Jagdeo attends heads of State summit. My God man, have some balls and take initiative and make demands. The lives of your people Mr. Jagdeo are in jeopardy.
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Andrew
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Every system has its checks and balances, and I’m not talking about the goverment, but the country. When you eliminate those checks the result is the current state of Guyana and Trinidad with regards to crime.