The Prime Min­is­ter and his ad­min­is­tra­tion are sup­posed to be com­mit­ted to en­forc­ing our laws so that we can se­cure our bor­der and keep the peo­ple safe.

They need to stop car­tels and smug­glers, how­ev­er, the gov­ern­ment seems un­will­ing to stop them and there­fore the high rate of crime in this coun­try will con­tin­ue.

It ap­pears no changes are forth­com­ing and there­fore at­ten­tion lags un­til the next mur­der.

How many more in­no­cent lives will be tak­en be­fore the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion takes the nec­es­sary steps to se­cure our bor­ders to stem the flow of il­le­gal guns and drugs in­to the coun­try?

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a dri­ve-by shoot­ing which took place in Pe­tit Val­ley on Sun­day night.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 8.30 pm, 29-year-old Mar­cus To­bit was stand­ing along Sime­on Road, Pe­tit Val­ley with sev­er­al oth­er peo­ple when a White Nis­san Wag­on passed the group.

The ve­hi­cle then turned around and stopped where the group was gath­ered. Sev­er­al shots were fired in the di­rec­tion of the group, hit­ting To­bit in his right up­per neck area. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the ve­hi­cle then drove low­er down the street and fired sev­er­al more shots at an­oth­er group of peo­ple who were gath­ered out­side a shop lo­cat­ed on the cor­ner. How­ev­er, there were no re­ports of in­juries from the sec­ond in­ci­dent.

Il­le­gal guns are con­tin­u­ing to pour in­to Trinidad and To­ba­go with no sys­tem in place or de­sire from the gov­ern­ment and even op­po­si­tion to stop the flow.

Our lives and the lives of our chil­dren are at stake. It ap­pears that the gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go pos­sess­es no will or de­sire to do what it takes to se­cure the bor­ders from smug­glers.

The same politi­cians are singing the same old songs: we will soon be putting poli­cies in place to se­cure the bor­ders. It ap­pears that noth­ing will ever be done due to var­i­ous rea­sons. It’s all non­sense. We could eas­i­ly se­cure the bor­der if we had the po­lit­i­cal will to do so, but the cur­rent crop of politi­cians have shown no de­sire to do what it takes to stop the flow of il­le­gal weapons in­to the coun­try.

We need a new po­lit­i­cal par­ty with lead­ers that are will­ing to do what it takes to se­cure this coun­try now. As long as we keep vot­ing in­to pow­er the same old politi­cians, in­no­cent peo­ple will con­tin­ue to be shot, robbed and killed. Sit­u­a­tions like these will con­tin­ue to in­crease if we don’t take ac­tion now to se­cure our bor­ders.

Si­mon Wright

Ch­agua­nas

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