‘Trinis abroad fearful of coming home’..PNM Beckles

Beckles relates unexpected experience at US conference
‘Trinis abroad fearful of coming home’

Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles is again calling for a serious national reckoning on crime, warning that fear, poor detection and delayed justice are eroding public confidence and worsening the country’s security crisis and its reputation internationally.She made the comment yesterday, as she drew attention to growing international concern, travel advisories, and the country’s damaged reputation abroad.
“I just returned from the United States, attending a conference speaking about climate change, setting up a disaster fund. And every single person who has any association with Trinidad and Tobago, people are expressing fear of coming home because they are reading what’s happening in the newspapers and the fear is there,” Beckles said during an interview after signing the condolence book for Independent Senator Deoroop Teemal at Parliament yesterday.

She argued that the recently declared State of Emergency (SoE) and proposed stand-your-ground legislation may not be sufficient to address these deep-rooted problems.Addressed the Government’s latest push for self-defence laws and controversial rhetoric around the use of firearms, she called for a more measured and systemic approach, cautioning against the importation of policy models from the United States without properly considering local realities.“It has not resulted in what they (the US) expected. In other words, you have developed a situation where people just feel that for any situation you’re going to shoot,” she said of the stand-your-ground laws being utilised in the US.

She pointed out that T&T population of 1.4 million cannot be compared to the scale or dynamics of larger nations, and warned that loose interpretations of self-defence laws, as detailed by Defence Minister Wayne Sturge at a public consultation last week, could lead to dangerous outcomes.Commenting on the SoE as a countermeasure, Beckles reiterated: “The State of Emergency simply is not sufficient. It’s every single day that you are seeing murders taking place all over Trinidad and Tobago.”

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She is the leader after serving 10 years in power, overseeing over 5,000 murders, and she now realizes that Trinis are scared of returning home.

She is the leader of the opposition and brilliant, don't you think?

Where do you find these folks, T&T?

In reply to sgtdjones

I read what she said in the Guardian and thought exactly what you wrote,it's no joke but I still want to laugh.

You guys are Rip van Distract and Rip van LookOverThere

After all the old talk, tings still very very bad…and “PNM” is all you guys can say

One thing I can say is that the PNM leaders all had a vision. The exception could be Chambers and Young because they were in there for a short time.

When it came to UNC, it seems as if their vision was to go back into opposition because they didn't know how to lead.

In fact, Bas once said, re: Kamla, "If you want to lead, lead"

In reply to Prako

Under Eric Williams, the thieving began. O'halloran, Prevat, etc...real vision.

Bas had a corrupt government and even went to jail. So I would ignore his comments.

Rowley had been in government for many decades...can you list his accomplishments?

Emailgate, 2 billion unaccounted for Auditor general, most government entities have failed to produce audit statements for a decade.

Million-dollar pension, citizens hold your belt on 3500 dollars.

The Heritage Fund is now worth less than $5 billion, down from $12.5 billion in the past.

Debt has increased to 145 billion.

Overdraft at the Central Bank of 45 billion.

10 years of CEPEG...the end result is workers are now road painters and grass cutters, and women hold up a curtain as weed whackers cut weeds on the roads. 500 million per year.

5,000 murders...

Etc., etc.... That's real vision.

For ten years Rowley never admitted to a mistake ...blamed UNC for everything.

....“They (the people) voted for a government that would confront corruption, not conceal it."Public dissatisfaction with the former administration is not political rhetoric; it is rooted in reality.

In Trinidad and Tobago, the reality is that meaningful reform takes time: the first two years of any term are typically consumed by recalibrating policies and laying foundations, while the remaining three years are spent embedding these decisions and, ideally, producing tangible results. Only then can the viability of a government be fairly assessed.

In reply to Halliwell



Please read above what I posted and my comment about her being a member of the ruling government over the past 10 years and failing to somehow get an inkling of what was occurring in T&T.
She just recognized the damaged reputation T&T had overseas. This is the PNM leader; what world was she living in?
I highlighted a few lines for you above; it may sink in to what I commented on.

In reply to sgtdjones If ah laff, ah poop!



Almost a decade in powder & ran TT down in de drainah.