Trinidad and Tobago Police Service

There is a lot of misinformation in the discussions about the Charlotte Street riot involving street vendors on Monday 13th Dec 2010.  In this article, I attempt to debunk some of them.

1) Street vending is illegal

On Friday 12th Nov 2010, the Hon.

While most of you might have seen it on the news yesterday, the bandit shot dead happened not too far from where I'm staying and where I grew up. The gunshots around 3 a.m. off of Moody Stewart Street and later in the area of South Street were noticed by every household in the area, two men were seen getting out of an SUV on Moody Stewart Street during the incident - these ended up being the police (witnesses wisely stayed away from the windows afterward).

My colleague, Christian, has opened our discussion about the brewing discontent with the possibility of T&T having its first Commissioner of Police of non-T&T nationality.  I'm largely in agreement with him, and, driven by some comments observed in other online forums, would like to add my views.

A lot of people are desensitized to police carrying around automatic weapons. Weapons that, on full auto, will empty a clip of ammunition in less than a minute. These are weapons that the Navy Seals use. Really. Look at this picture.

I offer you two headlines:

• Police Force Short by 1,400 officers.
• More Chinese Coming to TT.

Thus, people might want to be more careful of the stereotypical T&T Chinese jokes when dealing with the police in the future.