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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Over the top

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As the New Year be­gins, with all its op­por­tu­ni­ty to make res­o­lu­tions and set tar­gets, I en­cour­age all law-abid­ing cit­i­zens who gen­uine­ly want to live in a safe and healthy en­vi­ron­ment con­ducive to pos­i­tive de­vel­op­ment to col­lec­tive­ly de­ter­mine the way for­ward for 2014.We would all ac­cept that the ma­jor na­tion­al bug­bear is crime and that the need to put pol­i­tics aside in the fight against crime is a no-brain­er.The time for gun talk is over.

And urg­ing cit­i­zens to be "care­ful not fear­ful," when the de­tec­tion rates for all se­ri­ous and vi­o­lent crimes are low, does noth­ing to boost the con­fi­dence of the pop­u­la­tion that is lit­er­al­ly liv­ing in fear.The past few years, un­der the last regime and the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion, have done lit­tle to se­ri­ous­ly ad­dress the mat­ters of ur­gent, na­tion­al im­por­tance and to date there are still too many glar­ing ex­am­ples of cor­rup­tion, nepo­tism and favouritism in pol­i­tics.

Whether we are in a bet­ter place now or four years ago will be a ques­tion on the minds of the elec­torate as it gears up for a gen­er­al elec­tion con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due in May 2015.This regime which en­tered of­fice with mag­nan­i­mous sup­port has ob­scene­ly squan­dered most of the good­will of the pop­u­la­tion and af­ter near­ly four years in gov­ern­ment has shown that we have still not got­ten the pol­i­tics right or as I pre­fer to ex­press it–we are still in need of the right pol­i­tics.

There is no ex­cuse for the fail­ure of this regime to de­liv­er on its promis­es of a crime-free so­ci­ety and trans­par­ent and ac­count­able gov­er­nance. Sup­port­ers of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship (PP) who ini­tial­ly turned a blind eye to the ear­ly wrong­do­ings and ques­tion­able de­ci­sions of the PP are present­ly dis­gust­ed with the un­apolo­getic flam­boy­ance of this ad­min­is­tra­tion which is best de­scribed as "over the top."

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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