Chaguaramas, entry port for drugs?

THE EDITOR: Thank you for noticing that the Acting Commissioner of Police is getting some things done. This is a positive move on your part. I have missed a rearrest of the Schneider kidnapping people, in light of his murder. Did I miss something here?

Newspapers have published the name of only one of those arrested for prostitution, why her, why not everybody? Is there going to be a further investigation of how the Venezuelans and Colombians got here, or are they protected by politicians like the “Butter Skinned” prostitutes of Antigua were protected when I lived there? Some politicians want a crackdown on crime, but a track for drag racing in south, when the people need land for housing and growing food. Should part of Caroni land be dedicated to drag-racing? Would the same claim be made for marijuana growers for recreational use, for example? We have to free ourselves from the mental slavery of “they have it in ...” whatever metropolitan country you choose to name, so we need it here as the latest. That has given us a proliferation of guns, cocaine, child prostitution, pornography, and every vice except wife-beating and murder, I think we have the market cornered here. And we treat each area of degradation as the latest wonder.

While there is the need to provide more recreational facilities, drag racing on public streets, and even in Wallerfield is the epitome of idiocy. The fact that idle young people want to burn money and rubber tyres is no reason for the state to fund it. We need constructive suggestions for development. A second drag racing track is folly. Meanwhile, I wish all three papers — the Guardian, Express and Newsday would look into allegations that Chaguaramas is now a major entry port for drugs and guns from the Main. Now, who owns private facilities there with waterfront access? Has the police, in its crackdown on crime, ever done a roadblock on that part of the western highway at Pt Cumana where a large overhang makes turn around difficult. If not, why not? Afraid of annoying the real kingpins of crime? When the citizens demand with one voice, that no one is above being jailed for crimes against the people, then will we put a dent in crime, both rich people’s crimes, and poor people’s.

LINDA EDWARDS
Port-of-Spain