Narco Trafficking in Trinidad

[rollingstock]

so why didnt he address it when he had a chance while in govt?

manning has always had it out for the Casino industry , remember he had a 3 year plan to phase it out...

Exactly, come nah UML better than that. Of course at the time he took the religious stance as his reasonings.

[khandman]

casino have a link to patos son, dais d scene

[5onDfloor]

Discuss.

TriniTuner...the place to get your homework done for you.

Okay, I'll help you out with your homework Stephon.

Casinos = Lose money = Lose job = Lose house = Lose family = Lose everything = Become a crack addict = Fuel the illegal drug trade

There...fill in the parts between the equal sign with some eloquent text and you will get an A+.

I would love to hear TRAE and Dizzy thoughts on this discussion.

[K74T]

Why not tackle illegal casinos?
Manning questions Govt's SoE moves:

By Camille Bethel camille.bethel@trinidadexpress.com

Story Created: Nov 2, 2011 at 11:55 PM ECT
Story Updated: Nov 2, 2011 at 11:55 PM ECT

Former prime minister Patrick Manning yesterday questioned why the Government had not used the State of Emergency to close illegal casinos which, he said, were involved in the drug trade and crime.

He said, "We want to know (and) we demand to know, on behalf of a people of a nation under siege, why casinos in this country have not been the source of the attention of law-enforcement agencies in the context of the drug trade."

Manning made the claim yesterday during a news conference at his San Fernando East constituency office.

The news conference, attended by former PNM ministers Gary Hart and Ralph Maraj, was the second in a week.

The briefings, Manning said, were being held because Parliament was "stifling" his ability to speak out.

Manning said a joint report of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime and the Latin American and Caribbean Region of the World Bank of March 2007 identified casinos and currency houses as channels for money laundering in the Caribbean.

He said that if the State of Emergency was called to deal with crime, "why is it that the principal source of money laundering, as the report suggests, has not been the subject of any attention by the law-enforcement agencies. Why is this so?"

Manning said in 2007 the PNM administration had attempted to deal with the casino issue and had announced the intention to shut down casinos, but casino workers protested this.

"At that time there were about 1,500 persons employed in casinos and if we took the course of action we intended to take a lot of people would have been seriously dislocated and they suggested instead that we enter into an arrangement to phase casinos out."

He said, "We agreed to a five-year phase-out period. But since May 24, 2010, general elections there has been a proliferation of casinos throughout the country."

Manning quoted newspaper figures that suggested most of the people charged with gang-related offences were freed.

He said he would be sending a formal request to the Police Complaints Authority on the two multi-million-dollar drug busts involving freight containers belonging to south and central business owners.

Manning said he wanted an update on the status of the police investigation.


http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Why_not_tackle_illegal_casinos_-133128618.html

[~Vēġó~]

why he doh name mr. big one time while he's at it....steups.

but liking that he is concerned about the drugs etc!!!

[dan80]

Discuss.

TriniTuner...the place to get your homework done for you.

Okay, I'll help you out with your homework Stephon.

Casinos = Lose money = Lose job = Lose house = Lose family = Lose everything = Become a crack addict = Fuel the illegal drug trade

There...fill in the parts between the equal sign with some eloquent text and you will get an A+.

This looks like homework? Do you attend Laventille Life Center?

Oh sheeeiiiiit , na man

[dougla_boy]

stephpn. wtf ?!?! LOL.......harsh inside here meng

[cinco]

patos son lorse real money in casinos
hence why he beating up

[RIPEBREDFRUIT]

so why didnt he address it when he had a chance while in govt?

Damn car shut down, looking for a KICK start to get BACK up and running.

let me check UNDER the car to see whats wrong, please give that left HANDED wrench please, i think this will meet with the manufacturers APPROVALS for torwue specs.

[RIPEBREDFRUIT]

What the people want to know is what is the REAL link between the P.M and either the Project manager , Prime Minister or PAtrick Mann ...................................

So then we can conclude what is the link between a mysterious CHurch and NO approvals on government land, using Udecott with No apparent Client................

[DrunkenMaster16]

manning has always had it out for the Casino industry , remember he had a 3 year plan to phase it out...

Also he wanted to kill off lotto and cash pot, and pick two and lottery...

Fcuk manning and his new found voice, he had his chance to do everything but we all know how that went down.

[shotta 20]

patos son lorse real money in casinos
hence why he beating up

Easy come...easy go !

[5onDfloor]

fellars stick to the point. The man raised a valid question for those of you who supporting the SOE and the powers it brings to the protect services.

[SiR8081]

My questions for Manning:

1. Why when he was in power did he not do anything?
2. What was his reason back in 2007 for wanting to shut them down? This same thing?
3. Would shutting down the casinos have been the best option?
4. When Las Vegas casinos in the early days were run by the mafia, did the US Gov't shut them down or clean up the industry, monitor it and regulate it?
5. Isn't this problem of money laundering supposed to be solved by the FIU? Which is now coming on stream by the way. Not sure when the deadline is for all institutions to be regularised but according to the director it should be shortly. She has said they are seeing how many businesses are involved in money laundering and the number was vast but she didn't single out any one industry.
6. Why didn't Manning pass the legislation for the FIU if money laundering is such a big problem for him? He signed the treaty/MOU since what 2004 to implement the FIU?
7. Didn't he have the big bad SAUTT to do investigations into things like these b/c it was said the TTPS has no intelligence gathering? Oh wait, SAUTT was no more than security guards as the organisation was never legitimised through legislation despite being state of the art.
8. What intelligence does the TTPS have to raid these casinos and charge the owners/managers with? Despite there being a SOE, the TTPS still needs to have reasonable suspicion to break down doors and arrest people or the state can be sued. I know some people like to propagate, "we eh ha no rights, gee we we rights."
9. why manning doesn't STFU. He had 12.5 years and couldnt do it and now he want this gov't to solve all the problems. 12.5 years and he couldn't do anything about this problem but this gov't should solve it and all other ills in 15months despite their attempt being the FIU and a very good one as that as it follows international guidelines so that this unit is not just a rubber stamp stating everything is copacetic.
10. What information does he have to cast such aspersions? Did he file a police report? Did he call 555, 999, 800-TIPS?

[De Dragon]

wtf is a casion?

past tense of casio.

btw, is just me or pathos lost some weight?

Well de freeconess done, wha' yuh expeck?

[Rahtid]

Discuss.

TriniTuner...the place to get your homework done for you.

Okay, I'll help you out with your homework Stephon.

Casinos = Lose money = Lose job = Lose house = Lose family = Lose everything = Become a crack addict = Fuel the illegal drug trade

There...fill in the parts between the equal sign with some eloquent text and you will get an A+.

This looks like homework? Do you attend Laventille Life Center?

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

good one bro

Yeh stephon,,,yuh learning well!!!!!!! hahahaaaaa,,,,fack dem up soljah!

[Rahtid]

btw,,they should really shut down all casinos in trinidad eh,,,

[JoeBama]

Hmmmm.....Manning padna..hoss.....as a bredren...wash yuh shoes....when yuh done talk...cause yuh steppin in shite mix with PP.... and who doh like dat Touch ah button Nah...Gee dem Fires!!

[zoelikescheese]

steups i say manning dead

[aspsounds]

Ent it had a rumor he was wid someone in he cabinet?

[Rahtid]

Ent he just bought a range rover too?

[TriP]

The PNM FAILURE List:

1. A Failed Health Sector
2. Runaway Crime Spree
3. Pothole riddle Roads
4. Water Shortage
5. Massive Flooding
6. A Recession Economy
7. Out of Control Inflation Rate
8. A withered Agriculture Sector
9. $20 billion CLICO Crisis
10. $1.5 billion Contractors debt
11. The Scandalous Tobago Hospital rip-off
12. Traffic Jams galore
13. Unsettled wage negotiation with PSA, Police,
14. Maco Manning SIA
15. A Rundown outdated Police Service
16. 9,000 former Caroni Workers waiting on land
17. 6,000 Cane Farmers waiting on compensation
18. HCU Crisis
19. $7 billion budget deficit
20. $4 billion WASA debt
21. $1 billion incomplete Tarouba Tsunami shelter
22. $650 million incomplete Legal Affairs Tower
23. $700 million incomplete Chancery Lane Complex
24. $500 million incomplete South Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA)
25. $30 million mystery church
26. UdeCOTT / Calder Hart Scandal
27. President House collapse
28. Emperor’s Palace for Mannings
29. Dustbin Terrorist still at large
30. Bombardier jet joke
31. $576Million Rapid Rail feasibility study scandal
32. A condo for the Profitess/Prophetess at UTT
33. Deadly Cancerous Smelter
34. Su the $50 million boat that can’t float
35. PNM Property Tax
36. $100 million to fix shoddy work done EMBD with Water pipes and Electricity together

MANNING'S RESPONSE - "Ah Sorry"

[turbochinee]

Where allyuh hear that Casinos are involved in drugs?

As Cinco said Manning just angry because his son lost a crazy amount of money in a Casino.

[d spike]

The briefings, Manning said, were being held because Parliament was "stifling" his ability to speak out.

Parliament "stifles" one's ability to speak out? The "highest court in the land" that "upholds free speech"?

He said, "We want to know (and) we demand to know, on behalf of a people of a nation..."

The gentleman is clearly suffering from some sort of memory loss. He lost his office due to the Project Manager's inability to answer questions about issues that the people of a nation were demanding to know... (the majority of these questions have yet to be answered. Perhaps these "press conferences" could be used to solve this dilemma)

Manning said he wanted an update on the status of the police investigation.

How nice. On behalf of a people of a nation, we would like an update about the other stuff that we demand to know, the sheer mass of which - as well as how long the very demand has existed - makes it a greater priority:

1. A Failed Health Sector
2. Runaway Crime Spree
3. Pothole riddle Roads
4. Water Shortage
5. Massive Flooding
6. A Recession Economy
7. Out of Control Inflation Rate
8. A withered Agriculture Sector
9. $20 billion CLICO Crisis
10. $1.5 billion Contractors debt
11. The Scandalous Tobago Hospital rip-off
12. Traffic Jams galore
13. Unsettled wage negotiation with PSA, Police,
14. Maco Manning SIA
15. A Rundown outdated Police Service
16. 9,000 former Caroni Workers waiting on land
17. 6,000 Cane Farmers waiting on compensation
18. HCU Crisis
19. $7 billion budget deficit
20. $4 billion WASA debt
21. $1 billion incomplete Tarouba Tsunami shelter
22. $650 million incomplete Legal Affairs Tower
23. $700 million incomplete Chancery Lane Complex
24. $500 million incomplete South Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA)
25. $30 million mystery church
26. UdeCOTT / Calder Hart Scandal
27. President House collapse
28. Emperor’s Palace for Mannings
29. Dustbin Terrorist still at large
30. Bombardier jet joke
31. $576Million Rapid Rail feasibility study scandal
32. A condo for the Profitess/Prophetess at UTT
33. Deadly Cancerous Smelter
34. Su the $50 million boat that can’t float
35. PNM Property Tax
36. $100 million to fix shoddy work done EMBD with Water pipes and Electricity together

[Habit7]

You all better not set the bar too high for this gov't, because they are making the same mistakes just with less revenue.

[SiR8081]

You all better not set the bar too high for this gov't, because they are making the same mistakes just with less revenue.

care to elaborate?

[Strauss]

The briefings, Manning said, were being held because Parliament was "stifling" his ability to speak out.

Parliament "stifles" one's ability to speak out? The "highest court in the land" that "upholds free speech"?

He said, "We want to know (and) we demand to know, on behalf of a people of a nation..."

The gentleman is clearly suffering from some sort of memory loss. He lost his office due to the Project Manager's inability to answer questions about issues that the people of a nation were demanding to know... (the majority of these questions have yet to be answered. Perhaps these "press conferences" could be used to solve this dilemma)

Manning said he wanted an update on the status of the police investigation.

How nice. On behalf of a people of a nation, we would like an update about the other stuff that we demand to know, the sheer mass of which - as well as how long the very demand has existed - makes it a greater priority:

1. A Failed Health Sector
2. Runaway Crime Spree
3. Pothole riddle Roads
4. Water Shortage
5. Massive Flooding
6. A Recession Economy
7. Out of Control Inflation Rate
8. A withered Agriculture Sector
9. $20 billion CLICO Crisis
10. $1.5 billion Contractors debt
11. The Scandalous Tobago Hospital rip-off
12. Traffic Jams galore
13. Unsettled wage negotiation with PSA, Police,
14. Maco Manning SIA
15. A Rundown outdated Police Service
16. 9,000 former Caroni Workers waiting on land
17. 6,000 Cane Farmers waiting on compensation
18. HCU Crisis
19. $7 billion budget deficit
20. $4 billion WASA debt
21. $1 billion incomplete Tarouba Tsunami shelter
22. $650 million incomplete Legal Affairs Tower
23. $700 million incomplete Chancery Lane Complex
24. $500 million incomplete South Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA)
25. $30 million mystery church
26. UdeCOTT / Calder Hart Scandal
27. President House collapse
28. Emperor’s Palace for Mannings
29. Dustbin Terrorist still at large
30. Bombardier jet joke
31. $576Million Rapid Rail feasibility study scandal
32. A condo for the Profitess/Prophetess at UTT
33. Deadly Cancerous Smelter
34. Su the $50 million boat that can’t float
35. PNM Property Tax
36. $100 million to fix shoddy work done EMBD with Water pipes and Electricity together

Buh Manning was a great leader. He aint do nutting wrong.
We want him back !!!111

[d spike]

Buh Manning was a great leader. He aint do nutting wrong.
We want him back !!!111

Ent it had a rumor he was wid someone in he cabinet?

Which one are you referring to? The one whose posting made his wife demand that she get a ministerial posting as well? Or the one who was in the vehicle with him when he was returning from the gym and was accosted by a cop who was doing his job? Or the one who... look, let me crawl back under my stone before some gullible and forgetful people start pelting ground-apple...

[rollingstock]

^ Bristene Mahadeo?

[mediahouse]

first time in he life he talk some good sense and talk about all dem drug busts and no one was arrested