Mapoui
When responding to my posting ..tell the truth or shut the hell up . I grew up in Trinidad during such times in the early 1950's , I fought your ilk.
I have two bullet wounds and a cutlass chop on my leg that came from your ilk . Thats when our Indian village went wild on Africans. We were a quiet cane farming village , you ilk came in and began the aggressive behaviour , give me some money . buy me a bottle in the rum shops.
Your Ilk didnt want a ROTI Prime Minister.
Badhase RIP , stood up for Indians . Eric Williams used our tax payers money to fund only Roman Catholic schools would not fund any other religion.
Badhase started the Mahaba Saba schools with his own money . ASJA schools started by prominent muslims with their money .
Badhase got his money by getting contracts from the Americans who were building two bases in Trinidad . Where was he a gangster ?
Chadee and The attorney General are NOT related ..a blatant lie.
So from "Tooks" and "Bull" in the North to Dole, Zimmern Beharry and Mantoor Ramdhanie in Central/South, the new breed criminal was not necessarily a "bad john". His weapon defined his space. And his victims.Besides living by the law of the jungle, in which might was right, in communities throughout the country, they also engendered a widespread breakdown in family life (what bad john-worth-his-‘wedger’ would have less than 10 ‘sets’ of children?) and children-sans-values.
Indians didnt have 10 sets of kids with no fathers .
Such sub-human behaviour was not confined to North Trinidad. Do we really believe the Joey Ramiahs and Dole Chadees emerged from religious sanctums where only good prevailed, but they somehow turned evil? Crap!
Harlem, Caroni, La Brea , Lavantille has had a long history of very violent men.
Mano Benjamin, was a diabolical man who was criminal in the extreme. People like them existed in the very districts where, generations later, they have spawned "Rambo" versions of their earlier incarnations.
The Poolools became the most notorious because they were the "baddest". Brothers Raffick and Joe never backed off from a challenge, and never hesitated to liquidate anyone who stood in their way.
The POLICE were their intended target . What race ran the POLICE service ?.
The Poolools Bros would have shoot out with Police Stations . The old Caroni Police Station, a wooden structure (it still stands, but it's now repaired) bore bullet holes aplenty-all put there by the Poolools. I know because I saw them.
Everyone wanted everything they saw on television, and if it could not be had because they did not have the means to purchase them, then they’d turn a blind eye if "de boy jus’ bring a TV home’. The deprived felt it their right to claim by whatever means what they could not acquire by hard work.
Check out Debe , hardworking Indian town of farmers . Your Ilk from Laventille went through Debe to the beach in Los Iros . They didn't pay for anything they took from the locals .
On the way back the locals put the barrier down at the train line stopped the two buses and beat them all . Your Ilk ran the 3 miles to San Fernando for the police.
Eric Williams ran T&T since Independence 1962 , till he killed himself . Kamal Mohamed was next in line to lead the PNM . Oh no they put Duncy Chambers as leader , he died then Manning. For twelve years we have had alternative governments , ANR , Panday and Kamla .Name the Indians leaders in todays PNM or Eric and Mannings.
They say we are only as good as our leaders . How many years did your ilk lead the country .
O'Halloran stole from the Government of Eric Williams and built shoppping centers in Toronto .
Hart stole from Manning an lives in Miami with millions .
Do you see Indians being killed daily , NO its the members of your ilk over the last year have lost the next generations of young men .Easy money and they want bling .
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Violence in schools is nothing new. The difference today is a much bigger student population, many more schools in more communities, and values in the society as a whole that has led us to this sorry pass.
In fact, in the "bad old days" of the "leather-strap-soaked-in-pee", those very teachers and headmasters were exemplars in schools and in communities where they lived.
So this end-time violence we are witnessing is not something confined to Trinidad and Tobago. And we are not the "kidnapping capital" of the world.
Whatever we may choose to think, and much of our thinking on the subject is coloured by politics, our crime wave is not isolated, or, in fact, alien, to this country.
"Badjohnism" in places like Laventille, La Brea is nothing new.Some of those who today call themselves "elders" know well that in their ranks, and among those around them, there are many of the "godfathers" of today's violent breed.
One who was for many years considered the most "advantageous" person in the district, coming out to condemn the youths. Here was a man who would beat innocent people to a pulp only because he was strong and people, at least then, were afraid of him.
Now, because some 18-year-old will think nothing of pumping some bullets in his diseased body, he has turned "angel".
He is but one of a long list of bullies and criminals who ruled Port of Spain in a most vicious manner for decades. Think Rudolph Charles and you think Desperadoes and great pan music. But think of Rudy with the hammer. Indeed, on many a not-so-stupid-man. Think "Gold Teeth", think "Bolong", think "Utah Blaine -I can go on and on and on.
But to what end? To say that East Port of Spain was always a "cursed" district when it came to violence? What about the West, where the notorious Boysie Singh ruled on both land and sea?
Boysie was so "bad", the body count of those he made "walk the plank" in the Gulf remains a mystery to this day.
There were sundry others, some of whom are still alive, who were as murderous if not as notorious as Boysie, who often combine their "badjohnism" with bullying lesser mortals.
I should note here that most "bad johns" of yesteryear could hand-fight.
The seeds of inequity and barbarism were sowed many moons ago. Today we reap their bitter fruits with a frightening backlash.
In future do some research instead of babble . Dont look foolish .