Did Govt and police listen to Giuliani?

THE EDITOR: Sometimes I really have to wonder why Trinbagonians are not more realistic and pragmatic about what is happening around us. We are still burying our heads in the sand when it comes to crime and the like. Some people even make jokes of it and politicians use it as a football to “kick around” in Parliament. Just ask the victims and families of kidnappings if they are laughing. People still insist on carrying and having large amounts of money on their person and their premises and they cry like babies after the bandits pounce on them. You mean to say that when you come out of a bank with large sums of money, you don’t have things in place whereby you can feel secure?

If you live alone and have valuables on your property, you mean to say that you don’t think about the idea of investing in a vicious dog to protect you? We blame the banks for leaking information of accounts — but what about the employees in a company, housekeepers, security guards, men on the block, garbage collection men who rummage through those un-torn bank statements? Come on people, it is very easy for anyone and everyone to be privy to your private affairs, it is just up to you to put things in place to protect yourself and your family. As regards the visit of Mr Giuliani to Trinidad, I had no problem with that. However, I wish to ask what was the percentage of Government Ministers, especially the new National Security Minister and top police officers of the police service present? It makes no sense to have the majority of the audience from the business community who are supposedly law abiding citizens (although I have a problem with their heavily-tinted vehicles) when the advice and comments are not getting through to the crucial source which is the police service. Having the Opposition members there was no help because they will still continue to stymie any real solution to the problem. I think it was an indiscretion on the part of Mr William Lutchman of DOMA to comment on TV 6 Morning Edition “that it took a white man to come here ...” I ask the question: If it were a black man with the same impressive credentials as Mr Giuliani, would he have said: “that it took a black man to come here?” We all need to be very careful of what we say especially when it comes to race.

B SANDY
Maraval

PS To the beauty contestant who ranted and raved about her secondary position in a beauty contest my advice is this:
Just let it go and concentrate more on becoming first in your academic studies. To the mother who tried to excuse the behaviour of her daughter with the lame excuse that young people usually behave in that manner I say to her, tell your daughter that if she has to represent herself as a beauty queen she needs first of all to conduct herself in a proper manner. Until she fits that role and requirements then maybe she is not ready to be queen.