Happy Birthday UML

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I agree to an extent. I have no problem with facts. If a factual statement offends me, then its MY problem, not the person who made the statement.

But I think its wrong to assume that people would feel uncomfortable or unsafe because of the racial composition of the Police Force.

I only replied based on

so u are saying Pres Max and all of us are mad rite?
So why the PM office dissassociated themselves?
Why Anil & Jack call for him to resign?

[RBphoto]

Wagon, I see friends. It is a fact that there are racial differences in Trinidad, and there are people who are racially biased.

Nizam got a letter of a complaint to the COP, and not from just anyone, but from president of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Social and Welfare Association. In adressing the concerns of Rammesar, it is unclear how much he was reading from the letter and how much was him stating what he felt.

He ventured that they should get to the root cause and fix the percieved imballance. I would assume that he did a head count (don't ask me how he categorized race, is either you African or Indian, white or chineese, and if you have 1% african, you are African as far as most people concerned). He stated that there are senior officers writing exams and since that is based on merit, instead of selection based on seniority, you may get a better mix of races, rather than just skewed towards those with seniority or there might be less chance for those with a racial agenda to interfere with the process.

He also stated that the confidence of the Indian population in the police service may be eroded with the percieved inballance.

If you put aside emotion when reading something and get to the root of the matter dispassionately (as Nizam himself suggested) you will be hard pressed to blow something like his statements into a racial fiasco. What if they got to the root cause and they found out that people of African decent just send in more applications for senior positions, and the acceptance rate for Indians and Africans is the same, so the stats are skewed by just the sheer number of applications, won't the "PERCEPTON" of racial inballance be dispelled even though there is a disproportionate representation of the ethnic distribution of the population?

I don't agree totally with Nizam, however, as I find proportional representation stupid. I never saw anyone do a study to see if Beetham scavengers represent a fair mix of the population, or if they need to send more Indians to live in the Beetham. Unfortunatey, an inballance in ethnic composition will raise questions of racial bias in the selection process, so if they have to investigate I say go ahead, and solve the chicken / egg situation.

I see no reason to remove Nizam based on his satements.

Probably because I have no problems with racial labels I can step back from the situation and comment from afar. I am mixed, married to a mixed woman, so I really don't care one way or another, though I would be lumped with the Indo Trinidadian category if you ever saw me.

Cheers CD.

[zoom rader]

Wagon, I see friends. It is a fact that there are racial differences in Trinidad, and there are people who are racially biased.

Nizam got a letter of a complaint to the COP, and not from just anyone, but from president of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Social and Welfare Association. In adressing the concerns of Rammesar, it is unclear how much he was reading from the letter and how much was him stating what he felt.

He ventured that they should get to the root cause and fix the percieved imballance. I would assume that he did a head count (don't ask me how he categorized race, is either you African or Indian, white or chineese, and if you have 1% african, you are African as far as most people concerned). He stated that there are senior officers writing exams and since that is based on merit, instead of selection based on seniority, you may get a better mix of races, rather than just skewed towards those with seniority or there might be less chance for those with a racial agenda to interfere with the process.

He also stated that the confidence of the Indian population in the police service may be eroded with the percieved inballance.

If you put aside emotion when reading something and get to the root of the matter dispassionately (as Nizam himself suggested) you will be hard pressed to blow something like his statements into a racial fiasco. What if they got to the root cause and they found out that people of African decent just send in more applications for senior positions, and the acceptance rate for Indians and Africans is the same, so the stats are skewed by just the sheer number of applications, won't the "PERCEPTON" of racial inballance be dispelled even though there is a disproportionate representation of the ethnic distribution of the population?

I don't agree totally with Nizam, however, as I find proportional representation stupid. I never saw anyone do a study to see if Beetham scavengers represent a fair mix of the population, or if they need to send more Indians to live in the Beetham. Unfortunatey, an inballance in ethnic composition will raise questions of racial bias in the selection process, so if they have to investigate I say go ahead, and solve the chicken / egg situation.

I see no reason to remove Nizam based on his satements.

Probably because I have no problems with racial labels I can step back from the situation and comment from afar. I am mixed, married to a mixed woman, so I really don't care one way or another, though I would be lumped with the Indo Trinidadian category if you ever saw me.

Cheers CD.

Dude people here dont want to face the truth, they evade the truth to name calling and silly jokes.People dont agree with Nizam becuase you not suppose speak agianst the methods used to employ persons in the forces.They perfer the old way of doing things and this has lead to a failed police force.
As for the Beetham scavengers , one only has to take a look at the Indo scavengers at the Forrest Park dump

[Humes]

16 pages.

[Bizzare]

Just posting to say that I was here. Don't have enough political jargons in my vocabulary to contribute. Sorry.

[shogun]

^lol.

[UML]

April Fool's

[shady23]

Yawn..

[ronsin1]

UML is rally Trinidad yuh think people have time with your antics

[Rooki3]

UML needs a reminder of his high school days

[ismithx]

woi, the last ferrari looking sweet!

[Rainman]

Happy birthday uml

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Yup Happy Birthday UML!!!

[janfar]

Happy drop day UML

[AllTrac]

UML needs a reminder of his high school days

[UML]

UML is rally Trinidad yuh think people have time with your antics

apparently u do



allyuh like too much bachannal

Happy birthday uml

[~Vēġó~]

to be honest you got me......read the topic and was wdmc wrong with fkn prakash!!!!

I so naive.....back to sweeping house.

[Hirotoshi]

uml, yuh want a comforter in yuh mouth & ah rub belly,so yuh could fall asleep or wah. stop that assjack sheit & grow up .

[pablo_tt]

[rfari]

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[Stephon.]

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LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[neoise]

Riiiiiiight ...... +1

[S_2NR]

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[Mark!]

tmrw please come

[BrotherHood]

I'm laughing at myself. I got caught.

[UML]

April Fools Fool!!






....it was either dis or Manning dead

* don't forget to it up to fool others

[sharkman121]

yr life must suck...

[nervewrecker]

Bellarz?

[UML]

yr life must suck...

awww feelings hurt?

you here as well aren't u?

STFUUDFR!!!

[nervewrecker]

Btw, Hbd uml