Shas­tri Boodan

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sub­has Pan­day is call­ing for a crack­down on broth­els in Cen­tral Trinidad. Pan­day said so on Thurs­day night while ad­dress­ing a Cit­i­zen's Crime Fo­rum at Gas­ton Court, Lange Park Ch­agua­nas.

He al­so knocked the me­dia for sup­port­ing il­lic­it sex­u­al be­hav­ior by pro­mot­ing pros­ti­tu­tion ser­vices through the per­son­als sec­tions of the clas­si­fied ads.Pan­day ap­pealed to the po­lice to raid broth­els fre­quent­ly and en­sure il­le­gal im­mi­grants were nabbed and de­port­ed.

He said the po­lice should al­so ob­ject in court when these "hous­es of ill-re­pute" ap­plied for their an­nu­al liquor li­cence.

"Po­lice must ob­ject on the grounds that il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties go on there," he said. Pan­day said come 2011 the Gov­ern­ment planned to in­tro­duce laws to com­bat hu­man traf­fick­ing. He said the leg­is­la­tion should call for the seizure of prop­er­ty to in­di­vid­u­als har­bour­ing per­sons with­out visas.He said there were com­plaints that there were peo­ple in the prison who were call­ing "shots" on the out­side. He said pris­on­ers were giv­en items such as cell phones and drugs by po­lice when they came to the mag­is­trates court.