I am sure that there are many positive things that happened in Trinidad during
this period.
I am not sure what the agenda is here!
Jennifer Lavia
Dr Jennifer M. Lavia,
Lecturer in Education
Director, Caribbean Programme,
University of Sheffield,
School of Education
388 Glossop Road,
Sheffield, S10 2JA
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0) 114 222 8097
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Quoting Jca <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> THE WEEK 27 JAN - 3 FEB 2007 IN TRINIDAD
>
> The Anti-Crime Assembly organised by Inshan Ishmael was held on 27 Jan at
> the Hindu Credit Union Convention Centre in Freeport. The assembly was
> originally scheduled to be held at Aranguez Savannah but the Commissioner
> of Police, Trevor Paul, did not give permission for the use of a public
> address system there. At the Assembly, a lady who had been kidnapped in
> December 2006, and released after a ransom had been paid, described in
> detail her ordeal in the hands of the kidnappers. The assembly was very well
> attended and many were not able to get seats. Others speakers included
> Anand Ramlogan and Stephen Cadiz.
>
> Four persons murdered over the weekend in three unrelated incidents
> Murder toll for the year so far is 21.
>
> Two motions calling for the House to debate the State's tactics in arresting
> Inshan Ishmael under the Anti-Terrorism Act and then charging him with with
> circulating handbills without the names and addresses of the printer and
> publisher, were denied by the Speaker of the House, Barendra Sinanan.
>
> Chinese workers of the Shanghai Construction Group of China are building a
> new office and residence for the PM at an estimated cost of 148 million
> dollars. The Shanghai Construction Group is also involved in the new
> National Carnival and Entertainment Centre at Queen's Park Savannah, the
> National Academies for the Performing Arts at the Princes Building Grounds
> and a Social Development Tower on St. Vincent Street.
> The Shanghai Construction Group were allowed to bid for the projects as a
> condition of a loan from the Chinese Government.
> The Chinese are also involved in the Cultural Centre in San Fernando and
> China Jiangsu International Corp. Ltd. are building a primary school in
> Icacos.
>
> Addressing the eight summit of the Afican Union in Addis Adaba, nearly 7000
> miles from Trinidad and Tobago, the PM said that the construction of an
> aliminium smelting plant is to begin before the end of the year and that two
> aluminium smelters will be in operation by 2012. He also announced plans for
> for the construction of an ethylene and polyethylene complex and one for
> propylene and polypropylene. He also stated that by 2012 we should be among
> the top three per capita users of electricity. (There were widespread
> blackouts in Trinidad early in January, 2007 with at least three in the Port
> of Spain area on 1 January 2007)
> In an address on 24 December, 2006, the PM had announced a Cabinet decision
> to cancel the proposed construction of a smelter by Alcoa at Chatham and
> accelerate the construction of a new Industrial Estate on an island to be
> built offshore Otaheite from which aluminium production can be pursued ,
> together with other industrial plants.
>
> Former PNM party chairman and Minister of Works. Franklin Khan is still
> awaiting the completion of his ten bribery charges in the South Trinidad
> courts before his eleventh charge in the Port of Spaim district is dealth
> with.
>
> The appointed Minister of Education, is the wife of the PM.
>
> Who owns the building (formerly occupied by Laughlin & De Gannes) in Sutton
> Street, San Fernando, now being rented as an office by the Ministry of
> Education ?
>
> 30 Jan 2007 An elderly couple, Clive and Denise Commissiong were bludgeoned
> to death in their Cascade home. Their two grand children were found creeping
> over their grand-parents bodies.
> Other headlines were "Fish vendor gunned down" and "Cop robbed, thrown over
> precipice"
> The numbers of murders per year for the years 2000 to 2005 are as follows :
> 2000 118
> 2001 151
> 2002 171
> 2003 229
> 2004 260
> 2005 386
>
> Editorial in Newsday of 1 February 2007 titled "TT's killing fields"
>
> Two infant girls, one three years old and her one-and-a-half year old sister
> were shot during a police operation in Carenage. One report states that
> relatives claim the children were shot by the police. In another incident in
> Laventille, residents claim police shot dead two sleeping men.
>
> "Mother of two stabbed to death" in Moriah, Tobago - the second murder for
> the year in Tobago on the second day of the second month
>
> "Four men were gunned down by police in Chaguanas on on Friday night, after
> a high-speed chase and a shootout on Caroni Savannah Road.
>
> Commissioner of Police, Trevor Paul, denied that a police death squad is
> operating in the country. He said no police officers were involved in the
> executions of gang members.
>
> A 19-year old construction worker was shot 15 times while standing outside
> his Laventille home on Friday night.
>
>
> J. Chin Aleong
> www.westindiana.com
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