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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Citizens speak out on crime

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2737 days ago
20180121

1. Ang­ie Mark, house­wife and grand­moth­er

"Peo­ple need to stop cov­er­ing up their kids' mis­takes so they will turn out to be be up­stand­ing and prin­ci­pled adults. On­ly then will we have less an­gry peo­ple fight­ing and killing."

2. Va­nar­rise Jagdeo, of­fice ad­min­is­tra­tor/man­ag­er

"My broth­er was mur­dered in No­vem­ber 2017 and my chil­dren have been ask­ing to leave sweet T&T. The au­thor­i­ty needs to have life skills in our schools as a pri­or­i­ty, bring back the death penal­ty, en­force laws and fix the ju­di­cial sys­tem. We need prayers."

3. See­ta Paras­ram, re­tired teacher

"I have heard sto­ries from rel­a­tives of home in­va­sions and rob­beries and it is up­set­ting. Cit­i­zens are tak­ing mea­sures with cam­eras, bur­glar proof, arm­ing them­selves with de­fend­ing de­vices, not lim­ing late and be­ing at­ten­tive. Crime is dis­tress­ing and we have Neigh­bour­hood Watch and pa­trols but it is still not enough. We need more re­spon­si­ble par­ent­ing to raise hon­est cit­i­zens."

4. Bal Sir­joo, re­tired in­for­ma­tion sys­tems an­a­lyst

"I re­it­er­ate the state­ment, fix crime first to the amend­ed one, fix me first. This means I should take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for re­port­ing crime even among my fam­i­ly, friends, neigh­bours or those on my street. It was tol­er­at­ed be­fore as not af­fect­ing us but it is now em­bar­rass­ing and in­tol­er­a­ble and we need to take ac­tion and in­form the au­thor­i­ties."

5. Rea­gan H Rowans, lec­tur­er/at­tor­ney

"Crime is a so­cial prob­lem with deep roots in out­dat­ed so­cial in­sti­tu­tions (of all kinds). Re­spon­si­ble cit­i­zen­ship ver­sus the threat of hell is a good start­ing point."

6. Mooni­lal Har­richa­ran, pas­tor

"We need to do more in rais­ing our young chil­dren bet­ter. We must have more pro­grammes for the youths to keep them on the right path. A vil­lage was in­volved in rais­ing a child to keep them straight. We need to be­come a more spir­i­tu­al na­tion. Set good ex­am­ples and cor­rect and guide them. Lead­ers of the land must set the right ex­am­ples, too."

7. Ner­es­sia Fri­day, UWI eco­nom­ics stu­dent

"In or­der to re­duce crime we must first un­der­stand what mo­ti­vates crim­i­nal be­hav­iour in in­di­vid­u­als. Un­der­stand­ing these mo­ti­va­tors ( of­ten ac­cu­mu­la­tion of wealth) can help es­tab­lish prop­er pro­grammes to de­ter crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties and build well-round­ed cit­i­zens."

8. Wes­leyann Mitchell-Coop­er, house­wife/law stu­dent.

"The lead­ers of the po­lit­i­cal par­ties should strive to do things in the na­tion­al in­ter­est and not in sec­tar­i­an in­ter­est. Those in au­thor­i­ty should cre­ate a data­base of all of­fend­ers to iden­ti­fy and mon­i­tor them."

Oth­ers who did not want to be named or pho­tographed sug­gest­ed changes in the law, de­crim­i­nal­iz­ing pet­ty mat­ters and im­ple­ment­ing fines or mi­nor pun­ish­ment, pro­grammes to help in na­tion build­ing, set­ting up reg­is­ter to mon­i­tor crim­i­nals and crack­ing down on il­le­gal im­mi­grants in­volved in white col­lar crimes.

Com­piled by Oma­rine Nanan


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