Trinidad Express Newspapers: Letters

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I have seen it with my own eyes.</p> </div> </article> <div class="visible-md-block visible-lg-block"> <div id="Home728x90P2" class="width:728px; visible-md-block visible-lg-block"> <script type="text/javascript"> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Home728x90P2'); }); </script> </div> </div> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-12 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170125/letters-to-the-editor/when-will-it-all-end">When will it all end?</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 25, 2017, 8:30 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170125/letters-to-the-editor/when-will-it-all-end#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170125/letters-to-the-editor/when-will-it-all-end"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>THE acting Police Commissioner says his officers “will pursue the assailants and bring them to justice” in the matter of the murder of two persons in front of the St Joseph Police Station. Where have we heard this before?</p> </div> </article> <hr/> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-12 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170125/letters-to-the-editor/time-for-8216emergency8217">Time for ‘emergency’</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 25, 2017, 8:29 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170125/letters-to-the-editor/time-for-8216emergency8217#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170125/letters-to-the-editor/time-for-8216emergency8217"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>Dear Prime Minister. Dear Minister of National Security. You keep lamenting about the escalating crime situation, with the hope that some miracle will take place overnight, and that the police will stop the bandits.</p> </div> </article> <hr/> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-8 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/cut-size-of-school-meals-too">Cut size of school meals too</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 24, 2017, 9:15 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/cut-size-of-school-meals-too#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/cut-size-of-school-meals-too"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>I am happy to read that this month, January 2017, the Health Ministry intends to reduce the sugar put into school children’s meals. Please reduce the size of the meal also, to stop our children from eating too much and becoming fat.</p> </div> </article> <div id="Mobile320x50P1"> <script type="text/javascript"> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Mobile320x50P1'); }); </script> </div> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-12 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/track-down-the-source-of-those-guns">Track down the source of those guns</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 24, 2017, 9:14 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/track-down-the-source-of-those-guns#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/track-down-the-source-of-those-guns"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>So there are too many guns in Trinidad and Tobago. Tell me something I don’t know. The issue is how do we get rid of them. We don’t manufacture guns in Trinidad, so it should be easy. The people in Laventille, Enterprise, Sea Lots or Covigne Road are not bringing in the guns. Maybe we sh</p> </div> </article> <hr/> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-12 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/masqueraders-should-pay-a-40-stage-fee">Masqueraders should pay a $40 stage fee</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 24, 2017, 9:3 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/masqueraders-should-pay-a-40-stage-fee#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/masqueraders-should-pay-a-40-stage-fee"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>In an effort to boost the coffers of the agency charged with the responsibility of promoting and developing Carnival on a yearly basis and thereby lessening the dependence solely on the Treasury for financing expenditure related to Carnival, I would like to suggest the following.</p> </div> </article> <hr/> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-12 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/magic-in-an-odd-number">Magic in an odd number!</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 24, 2017, 9:0 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/magic-in-an-odd-number#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170124/letters-to-the-editor/magic-in-an-odd-number"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>Congrats to the PNM on its ten to two win in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections. This is of course a regression from the results of the 2013 THA elections when the party won all 12 seats. The party has clearly lost some ground but is still in control of the THA.</p> </div> </article> <hr/> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-8 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/letters/please-do-the-right-thing-mr-carmona">Please, do the right thing Mr Carmona</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 23, 2017, 6:46 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/letters/please-do-the-right-thing-mr-carmona#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/letters/please-do-the-right-thing-mr-carmona"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>I view with alarm and dismay the recent allegations concerning the Office of the President of Trinidad and Tobago.</p> </div> </article> <div id="Mobile320x50P2"> <script type="text/javascript"> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Mobile320x50P2'); }); </script> </div> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-12 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/letters/irrational-element-to-anti-trump-marches">Irrational element to anti-Trump marches</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 23, 2017, 6:46 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/letters/irrational-element-to-anti-trump-marches#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/letters/irrational-element-to-anti-trump-marches"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>In an earlier letter, I had gone against the grain of the Hillary Clinton hype and forecast a possible Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election.</p> </div> </article> <hr/> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-12 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/editorial/no-we-are-not-a-violent-society">No, we are not a violent society</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 23, 2017, 6:41 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/editorial/no-we-are-not-a-violent-society#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/editorial/no-we-are-not-a-violent-society"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>In describing Trinidad and Tobago as “a violent society” last Sunday in Tobago, Prime Minister Keith Rowley projected himself as a leader who might have temporarily lost touch with reality on this very important issue.</p> </div> </article> <hr/> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-12 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/editorial/pan-trinbago-out-of-tune">Pan Trinbago out of tune</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 23, 2017, 6:40 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/editorial/pan-trinbago-out-of-tune#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170123/editorial/pan-trinbago-out-of-tune"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>Pan Trinbago has dealt a mortal blow to its image and charter as the world governing body for pan.</p> </div> </article> <hr/> <article class="row news"> <div class="col-md-12 row"> <h3><a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170122/letters-to-the-editor/trickle-is-now-a-river-of-blood">Trickle is now a river of blood</a></h3> <p class="details">Jan. 22, 2017, 8:55 PM AST <a href="/web/20170126174231/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170122/letters-to-the-editor/trickle-is-now-a-river-of-blood#comments"><span class="comment"><span class="fb-comments-count" data-href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170122/letters-to-the-editor/trickle-is-now-a-river-of-blood"></span> Comments</span></a></p> <p>The late civil rights crusader Martin Luther King Jr is quoted as saying, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. 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