T&T murder toll 622,...5 shot dead in Laventille

5 shot dead in Laventille

FIVE men were shot dead in Prizgar Lands, Laventille on December 29. Area residents say the killings took place in a shop.

Details of the murders remain vague, but Newsday understands the men were killed at around 8 pm.

Police believe the shootings are linked to a murder outside the Besson Street Police Station on December 28.

Sturge: $66b on national security, yet no respite from crime

ATTORNEY Wayne Sturge is blaming the Government for rampant violent crime despite over $66 billion being spent on national security in the past ten years, in a statement on December 29.
“The level of fear, horror, terror and anxiety that has been visited upon the citizens of our country during the terms of this present administration is unprecedented,” said the UNC prospective candidate for Toco/Sangre Grande.“The return on this investment has been the highest murder rate in the history of our country. The most demotivated police service. A broken criminal justice system. The highest levels of serious crime ever recorded. The return of kidnapping for ransom.”

“Under Prime Minister Dr Keith Christopher Rowley, and Fitzgerald Hinds as Minister of National Security, 2024 has recorded the highest number of murders in a single calendar year. Every 14 hours, a family has to endure the loss of a loved one to an act of violence.”He said 2023 and 2024 each saw 600-plus murders in Trinidad and Tobago. Further, 2015-2025 had the most people murdered in any decade in TT, he added.

“Nowhere in our country is safe.”“Today, after ten years in government and after spending $66.9371 billion, our naval assets are in an unprecedented state of disrepair, which has resulted in the borders being open to be transgressed on a daily basis by pirates, migrants, drug traffickers and those involved in the transport and sale of contraband.”

State of emergency live X feed


An idiot as acting AG...
Amazing answer above...sigh



After 10 years in power, approx. 5,000 murders—80% Africans murdered—they got information last night. What a government?



This minister is a moron



When the opposition did the SOE , Rowley was bawling bloody murder ....he said he had the answer to crime and murders. What happened PM of Grief Rowley?

In reply to sgtdjones

All police officers to be called back from Leave

Imagine being called back to work when you planned your Ole Years celebrations

Imagine being CORRUPT police and getting called back to work when you plan your business

Blows

In reply to Halliwell

Doh not forget the military...more criminals in that bunch; they now have the power of police officers where bigger criminals reside.

Who will protect the criminals...in 15 days we shall see.

What a country...

PM absent from press conference: WHY THE SOE WAS DECLARED




Now the head of national security, the PM of T&T, it was not appropriate to be present.
He was busy counting the 90,000 dollars per month in pension money plus free health care for life

Paradise ah tell you ...

In reply to sgtdjones

That’s inexcusable

A serious think like this and there are no shows

Jokers

Citizens in a state of panic




Rowley left it to Young (his Gary Sobers jr) and failure for life Hinds to answer questions.

'SoE will solve nothing' former COP Gary Griffith

Former National Security Minister and Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith, says a state of emergency was not going to solve the rising crime rate in Trinidad and Tobago. It was a stop-gap measure and should not be used as a crime fighting tool, he said.He said, “If it is true that a state of emergency has been called because of an escalation in crime, it again shows the double standard and hypocrisy of this government because I recall when the Peoples Partnership administration called a state of emergency because of a similar concern they attacked the then government and stated a state of emergency should not be used as a crime fighting tool.”

Griffith said it was not a state of emergency that was needed to tackle crime, but the implementation of proper people, policies, technologies and units.

“And me being a previous Minister of National Security, National Security Advisor and Commissioner of Police I can again state similar that a state of emergency is and should not be used as a crime fighting tool. It is a stop gap measure, it is like putting a plaster on a sore. It has not going to deal with the situation,” he said.
He said it was time the government accept that its Minister of National Security and Commissioner of Police were not competent to handle the situation.

SoE reflects Government incompetence


Former UNC Government Minister Vasant Bharath has said that the decision to call a state of emergency mere months before a general election, is an indictment of the Government.
Bharath, in a media statement, said that after nine years of rampant crime and almost 5,000 citizens tragically lost, this reflects incompetence by the government and is also a "glaring example of reactive governance at its worst".

"This move appears less like a genuine attempt to address the root causes of crime and more like a desperate ploy to salvage shattered public confidence," Bharath said.
He added: "The absurdly ridiculous excuse of gang reprisal wears thin on a tired and besieged population, fed up of excuses and excesses. Minister Hind's loquacious explanation would have brought no comfort that any relief is likely. The government has known for the last nine years where the gangs reside and operate and who their members are, and have been comatose to their actions. The use of high-powered illegal weapons in murderous sprees is nothing new."

He argued that a state of emergency might temporarily suppress criminal activities, but it does not resolve systemic issues like corruption, inadequate policing, lack of economic opportunities, or the breakdown of trust in law enforcement and the judiciary."It is a short-term plaster on a festering wound caused by years of institutional degradation. True leadership would have prioritized proactive measures, community policing, judicial reforms, and investments in education and employment to provide sustainable solutions," Bharath said.

Growley will resign before 2025

Gay Sobers not getting de wuk...he will be kicked out too