Cops in a bind

Fingerprint loophole in new Police Service Act
Hayden Mills haymills@trinidadexpress.com
Wednesday, June 20th 2007

THE NEW Police Service Act omits the court's power to force people in police custody to give their fingerprints if they refuse to do so.

The "la cuna" (loophole), as Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Carla Brown-Antoine described it, has now left the State helpless with respect to two murder accused who are refusing to give their fingerprints.

And she said the situation has left her baffled since omission of such an "obvious" subsection raises the question if it was deliberate.

She described the omission as nonsensical and referred to the DNA Act which called for the taking of more "intrusive" substances such as saliva, tissue, semen and other body samples.
She asked if there would be problems for the police to obtain such samples if they were having trouble to get fingerprints under this new Act.

When the issue was brought to the attention of Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls on Monday at the Port of Spain Eighth Magistrates' Court, he too appeared surprised and said it was something magistrates "will have to look at".

Im just begininng to wonder if these are the same fuckin assholes that is drafting the new constitution. Ah mean how the fuck you could leave out something like that, unless off course as the article says it may have been done on purpose.

Once again the PNM niggas prove incompetent.

ACP: Violent crime unacceptable

ACP: Violent crime unacceptable
Tuesday, June 19 2007

Assistant Police Commissioner Gilbert Reyes yesterday admitted that the rate of violent crimes remained unacceptable, especially homicides.

Seven persons were killed over the weekend and the deaths of two others are yet to classified. Although ACP Reyes said the Port-of-Spain Division has experienced a 65 percent decrease in homicides for the year thus far, too many persons were still being killed.

Up until yesterday 22 persons were murdered in the Port-of-Spain Division, compared to 62 for the same period in 2006. ACP Reyes, who released the latest crime statistics at yesterday’s weekly media briefing at the Police Administration Building, Port-of-Spain, said between January and June last year,102 persons were kidnapped compared with 80, so far this year. Kidnappings for ransom stood at five last year and five to date this year.

Last year, the police had 6,581 reports of serious crime, while 5,958 serious crimes have been reported so far this year. Assistant Police Commissioner Maurice Piggott,who also addressed the media conference, said that up until yesterday 131 persons were murdered.

Compared with the same period last year in which 186 persons were killed in violent circumstances. Up until yesterday, 14 persons were killed for the month.

During the same period last year 20 persons were murdered. Piggott expressed concern over the increase in murders in the North Eastern Division in which 37 persons have been killed for the year.

It take five (5) fockin years, 5 fockin years for these duncee head mudder cunt to realise this. Ah wonder how long it would take for dem to ketch these culprits.

Under the UNC the annual figures were not even as high as this. And all these mudder cont including the Minister of National Insecurity and he fuckin boss and dem big Police sawatees could say is that crime is on the decrease.

What ah bunchof illiterate fuckin niggas...

Just demonstrates that Indians CAN do a better job than Niggas.

SPORTT split on PM’s son

SPORTT split on PM’s son
By Irene Medina Tuesday, June 19 2007

Brian Manning’s $9M proposal for funding to run a professional basketball league has been handed to the Sports Ministry for final approval before it goes to Cabinet, which is headed by his father Prime Minister Patrick Manning.

But while the Sports Ministry’s Deputy Permanent Secretary Ashwyn Creed and chairman of the Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SPORTT) Gerard Ferreira confirmed that Brian Manning’s plan is one step closer to going before Cabinet, the situation has caused some dissension within SPORTT. Several SPORTT members want to know when did the SPORTT Board approve the Brian Manning plan.

Some officials told Newsday that the proposal was to have come before the Board last week, but the meeting was postponed to tomorrow.

But yesterday Creed confirmed that the proposal is already in the hands of the Sports Ministry for Cabinet to approve. “It has already been handed in to the Ministry”, but, he said, “there are certain areas that need to be revisited before any approach can be made to the Cabinet.”

Creed said once these areas are attended too the proposal will be sent to Cabinet. Newsday has learnt that a business plan which is supposed to accompany the proposal was not attached.

The issue of funding for the PM’s son’s basketball league was first raised about two weeks ago in the Senate, by UNC Senator Wade Mark. Ferreira at the time slammed Mark’s “irresponsible” statements, saying that no approval for funding had been given by the Board.

But yesterday Ferreira said there was no need for the Board to meet tomorrow, since the “SPORTT company had already approved the proposal in principle and sent it on to the Ministry.”

This is fuckin rampant nepotism. I honestly hope that if someone else wins the next election, dey charge and lock up all these teefin mudder cunt.

Niggas could only teef.

Suspend the Chief Magistrate

By NEWSDAY REPORTERS Tuesday, June 19 2007

KENNETH LALLA SC, former member of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) yesterday described the present Commission members as “confused” and said they were wrong not to have suspended Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls.

He criticised their reported decision to defer disciplinary action against Mc Nicolls on the grounds that suspension would do more harm than good and was not in the public interest.

Lalla, who is also a former chairman of both the Public Service and Police Service Commissions, said the reason given by the JLSC that the Chief Magistrate was involved in a number of important matters had no merit.

“Suppose the Chief Magistrate dies or decides to go on vacation, what happens to these matters? If he dies they will have to be restarted,” he said.

“If he goes on leave they will have to be postponed. But to suspend the Chief Justice and allow to preside in court, the Chief Magistrate who made serious allegations against the Chief Justice and then refused to be cross-examined, is not even-handed justice and adds to the view that the Judiciary is under siege,” he added.

Why these mudder cont doh follow the oleblagger. We said it before and dont need any experts to say....Suspend he mudder fuckin corrupt bias cont!

Help save my wife’s life

Lucy Valentine wanted to give her common-law husband Marlon Vincent a child.
While Valentine already has two children from a previous relationship, this baby would be Vincent’s first.

However, instead of bringing home a bouncing baby girl, Vincent’s baby daughter died after living less than 24 hours. She was born at seven months.

Valentine had an ectopic pregnancy and Vincent is blaming hospital officials for notaddressing the issue sooner.

“Lucy knew that she had an ectopic pregnancy, but the doctors never explained the gravity of the situation…the dangers involved.

“And even though she knew the baby was in her abdomen, she still chose to have our baby,” Vincent said tearfully.

He is now seeking the public’s help in sourcing 15 pints of blood to save his wife’s life as she lies in the Intensive Care Unit at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.

Yes niggas, this is what happens when you support the PNM.

You see PNM supports crime and criminals mainly by givin dem URP bog wok, CEPEP Gangs and contracts to community leaders. The dumb assholes take the money and buy drugs and guns. Simple so far. Then they proceed to rob fuckin Indian people and sometimes in the process some of the cunts get shoot.

When they go in the hospital, de natty head fuckers does get all the Blood from the blood bank. When innocent people want blood there is NONE.

Apart from that you would notice in a previous article that the unmannerly fuckin nigga nurses give civic minded citizens ah hard time just to donate blood.

So its incompetent, nincompoop niggas at best.

Fuck dat, we go go in ah private nursing home. All niggas dead in the pubic hospitals.

Privy Council will decide for MPs

Privy Council will decide for MPs
Ramlogan: No out-of-court settlement ever made
Monday, June 18th 2007

There was never any question of an out-of-court settlement for those 18 Members of Parliament who were not paid their salaries when there was no functioning Parliament in 2002, an attorney representing the MPs has said.

Attorney Anand Ramlogan told the Express at the weekend that the MPs were still interested in pursuing their lawsuit claiming the unpaid salaries and allowances, and when the matter was argued before the Privy Council last month, there was never any question of the case being settled.

Ramlogan said it was therefore wrong for anyone to say that the lawsuit could be dropped, as judgment had already been reserved.

His statements followed a denial from Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar - herself one of the 18 MPs - that there was never any deal between the UNC and the PNM to agree to the Police Service Reform Bills in exchange for the year's worth of salaries and allowances.

She made the declaration in the House of Representatives last Friday, even as Ken Valley, Leader of Government Business, tabled a Bill which provided for the payment of the salaries to the 18 MPs.

Ketch the fuckin niggas lying again. Geezan ages! Lie lie lie.. Like Idi Amin brother (Idiot) teach valley and dem well.

Lying niggas!

MP hurt in Nigeria crash

MP hurt in Nigeria crash
Eye injury, cracked rib
Juhel Browne jbrowne@trinidadexpress.com
Monday, June 18th 2007

Port of Spain South MP Eric Williams is now at home recovering from an injury to his right eye and a cracked rib he suffered in motor vehicle accident in Nigeria about three weeks ago.
Although, Williams said in an interview yesterday that he was suffering more from discomfort than pain, he will be undergoing surgery for the injury to his right eye.

"I have a cracked rib and also the bone at the base of the eye socket, they call it the orbit, of the right eye, they call it a blow out fracture. It's pretty much gone. They have to pretty much reconstruct it or put in a (metal) plate," he said.

"I could have lost the eye, I could have lost my life."

Williams said he is now suffers from double vision with his near vision but his sight is fine with far distances.

He said he realised that many people were questioning his absence from the Parliament and other functions, and decided to let the public know why.

Williams was absent from the two sittings of the House of Representatives last week including that which debated the Bail (Amendment) Bill on Friday.

Despite his present circumstances, Williams, whose voice conveyed his discomfort, was praising God that the entire incident was not worse.

He could fuckin see real good to collect brown bag by Smokey & Bunty full of cash from Dhansook though. The mudder cunt eye doh give no trouble for receiving corrupt cash.

And by the way, wa d fuck u gone Nigeria for. Every fuckin body looking to go to the States, Canada, England or some first world country u gone Africa.

Maybe he hiding some aa d bribe money over dey?