Here at the 2010 Crimestoppers International training Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, there is a wealth of information being disseminated about the latest advances in crime fighting and crime fighting techniques

I am not sure I quite agree with the flippant and coy manner in which my fellow columnist Clevon Raphael dismissed the issues and questions raised by Professor Selwyn Cudjoe on the topic of the crisis of black youth in Trinidad and Tobago.

There seems to be very little purpose being served by the “Don’t blame the PNM for floods” mantra of Dr Rowley when people’s homes, pets, possessions and life’s savings are being washed away before their very eyes.

The successive back to back defeats for the People’s National Movement, while it may be seen by some as being a bad thing, in some other ways can be seen as a good thing and a good time for many of its followers to try to seek to be emancipated from the PNM Dependency Syndrome.

Implementation and action on crime are two things that the general public had been longing for and over the years we have been battered, bruised and beaten down by the criminals who took charge and who viewed the law with impunity and scant regard.

“Oh gorm, I ain’t go lie to tell yuh, ah loving dis World Cup!,” so said my neighbour to me this week obviously relishing every moment.

It is high time that we, as a nation, put a stop to this tomfoolery in the selection process for a police commissioner

Okay! Would somebody tell retired Court of Appeal judge Anthony Lucky that it just does not seem proper for his name, face and title to be plastered all over an advertisement for a private, family-run school teaching law.

As I spend the Memorial Day holiday weekend in The Bahamas, I reflect upon what in Trinidad is our Indian Arrival Day holiday weekend

For this election season, we have seen many right steps and a whole lot more mis-steps.