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Crippling murder rate continues in Trinidad in 2017

Crippling murder rate continues in Trinidad in 2017
Published on January 18, 2017

trinidad_and_tobago_mapBy Marcia Braveboy- Freelance journalist – marciabraveboy@gmail.com – Twitter: @mbraveboyPORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Trinis like to say God is a Trini but, with Trinidad and Tobago recording 478 murders in 2016, and the toll continuing into 2017, it seems like the devil is vacationing on the twin isle Republic.

The figure represents startling evidence of murders happening everywhere in Trinidad and Tobago, a nation crippled by fear, with three national security ministers at once, a defeated country muzzled by uncontrolled crime and Prime Minister Keith Rowley and his People’s National Movement (PNM) government blamed for the unbridled bloodshed by opposition leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar.    [Read more]

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