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some of us can't even afford to go tobagostikid09 wrote:EVERY MORNING at 4 am, I read the card my daughter, Ijanaya, left on my pillow on July 30, the night she left Trinidad. Her words help my broken heart to face another day.
On a good day, I convince myself that it was probably inevitable that Ijanaya and my son Zino would have migrated to other countries because I come from a family of at least three generations of immigrants. Maybe migrating is in our blood. But most days I am consumed with sadness – and sometimes even bitterness – because I blame this country for pushing my children away.
This is not a country that values its young people. I feel that every time I step into prison and teach young men who fell through the cracks of our education system.
I saw this when my daughter returned from Florida with a fashion degree six years ago and couldn’t catch a break – even though she had earned accolades for fashion portfolios deemed the most marketable in her school.
When she found no real opportunities in fashion here, she fell in love with library science and earned a Master’s degree in library science from Kent State University.
Ijanaya loved this country and fought every day to make it a better place. She was environmentally conscious and into recycling. She even designed an environmentally friendly 30th birthday party that featured solar lights, discarded rum barrels for tables and pallets she had made into chairs. She constantly tried to give back to this country.
She designed the Port of Spain Prison library, with a book tree on the lemon and blue walls – colours that she chose. She supported all my prison work, and even asked the prison to host my book launch, for which she ordered handmade paper from Katmandu and handwrote most of the 100 programmes with some help from my assistants. She then burned the edges to make every programme unique. Ijanaya made everything special.
Earlier this year, perhaps in a moment of despair; perhaps in a moment of adventure, she sent a resume for a job fair in London, and got an unexpected interview and job offer from an international school almost immediately.
She hadn’t applied to the school that noticed her qualifications; she never dreamed of living in Africa, but an international school in Khartoum made her feel so special, she accepted an offer to be an elementary librarian. She lives now in Khartoum, where she now feels appreciated, and I eagerly wait to see the contributions she will make to her school and to Sudan.
And of course there is the story of my son, stabbed at dusk on Rust Street one Carnival Monday, left to die on the street if it hadn’t been for a kind, anonymous soul who put his bleeding body with its nearly severed arm in a car to take him to the Port of Spain hospital where amazing plastic surgeons sewed up his face that resembled raw meat.
A knife wound missed his lungs by about an inch. Police stationed in the hospital refused to take a report when they heard him call certain names. St Clair police said they were too busy with a murder. They did nothing. His departure from Trinidad was a matter of life and death. Zino, who once loved Trinidad more than anyone I have ever known, lives in Seattle now.
Every morning when I put Ijanaya’s card back in its envelope, I remember the message that she left, thanking me for being her mother. She asks me not to cry because “it will never be goodbye” but I do tear up when I walk out the door alone, trying to do my best for this country as I have always done. I can’t pretend that I don’t miss her. I know I could have done nothing more to instill love for this country in my children. I remember the day, not long before she left, when she said, “I’m sorry I couldn’t get the feeling that I needed from this country.”
My children remember the pommerac tree in my yard where they built a tree house. They remember playing under my desk at the Express when the housekeeper didn’t show up and visits from SuperBlue and David Rudder. They remember a happier Trinidad, and I pray every day they cling to those memories as they make their way in the world. I hold my head up only because I know I did my very best in spite of this country.
Source: https://newsday.co.tt/2018/09/24/pushed ... -trinidad/
hydroep wrote:Me eh think anywhere in the world truly safe nuh. Just look at what's happening is 1st World countries like Canada, Sweden and France. And doh talk about the US, if the crazies eh stealing plane they blowing yuh head off.
But she's right, the decay in T&T is advanced and getting worse. Long time you could say once you stay out of hotspots like Beetham, Laventille etc. yuh o.k. But just today I'm reading about some people in C3 Center that were held up as they were heading back to their car...and the mall has security eh.
Unless you're a big boy or a Government Kunte, is your arse tuh ketch...
Daran wrote:hydroep wrote:Me eh think anywhere in the world truly safe nuh. Just look at what's happening is 1st World countries like Canada, Sweden and France. And doh talk about the US, if the crazies eh stealing plane they blowing yuh head off.
But she's right, the decay in T&T is advanced and getting worse. Long time you could say once you stay out of hotspots like Beetham, Laventille etc. yuh o.k. But just today I'm reading about some people in C3 Center that were held up as they were heading back to their car...and the mall has security eh.
Unless you're a big boy or a Government Kunte, is your arse tuh ketch...
You like many trinis, need to step outside of Trinidad and see how the rest of the world is progressing while we're regressing.
You call some countries there, Canada, Sweden, France and the US.....all exponentially safer in all aspects compared to Trinidad. Look at the crime stats in those countries, in fact, look at their justice system and recourse when wronged.
for real yeshydroep wrote:Me eh think anywhere in the world truly safe nuh. Just look at what's happening is 1st World countries like Canada, Sweden and France. And doh talk about the US, if the crazies eh stealing plane they blowing yuh head off.
But she's right, the decay in T&T is advanced and getting worse. Long time you could say once you stay out of hotspots like Beetham, Laventille etc. yuh o.k. But just today I'm reading about some people in C3 Center that were held up as they were heading back to their car...and the mall has security eh.
Unless you're a big boy or a Government Kunte, is your arse tuh ketch...
ismithx wrote:trinidad too backwards because of visionless people at the top
Miktay wrote:Daran wrote:hydroep wrote:Me eh think anywhere in the world truly safe nuh. Just look at what's happening is 1st World countries like Canada, Sweden and France. And doh talk about the US, if the crazies eh stealing plane they blowing yuh head off.
But she's right, the decay in T&T is advanced and getting worse. Long time you could say once you stay out of hotspots like Beetham, Laventille etc. yuh o.k. But just today I'm reading about some people in C3 Center that were held up as they were heading back to their car...and the mall has security eh.
Unless you're a big boy or a Government Kunte, is your arse tuh ketch...
You like many trinis, need to step outside of Trinidad and see how the rest of the world is progressing while we're regressing.
You call some countries there, Canada, Sweden, France and the US.....all exponentially safer in all aspects compared to Trinidad. Look at the crime stats in those countries, in fact, look at their justice system and recourse when wronged.
SMH...take a good look at some snippets fm some countries u call dey...
Daran wrote:Miktay wrote:Daran wrote:hydroep wrote:Me eh think anywhere in the world truly safe nuh. Just look at what's happening is 1st World countries like Canada, Sweden and France. And doh talk about the US, if the crazies eh stealing plane they blowing yuh head off.
But she's right, the decay in T&T is advanced and getting worse. Long time you could say once you stay out of hotspots like Beetham, Laventille etc. yuh o.k. But just today I'm reading about some people in C3 Center that were held up as they were heading back to their car...and the mall has security eh.
Unless you're a big boy or a Government Kunte, is your arse tuh ketch...
You like many trinis, need to step outside of Trinidad and see how the rest of the world is progressing while we're regressing.
You call some countries there, Canada, Sweden, France and the US.....all exponentially safer in all aspects compared to Trinidad. Look at the crime stats in those countries, in fact, look at their justice system and recourse when wronged.
SMH...take a good look at some snippets fm some countries u call dey...
LMFAO you do realize that those are exaggerated and not the norm.
Canada a country with almost 30 times our population had 500 murders per year. That's equivalent to Trinidad having 20 murders per year.
Oh and if we had Sweden's murder rate we'd have 20 murders per year.
Want to know why these countries are SIGNIFICANTLY safer? Because their police and justice systems work.
Sweden is a surprising entry in this list. This is considering the fact that it is one of the developed countries of the world, with women liberalization as a top agenda in its social development. However, the fact that it has about 64 cases of sexual assault per 100.000 population belies the fact that is a developed country. This is from the reports of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). According to this in 2012, Sweden had 66 cases of reported rapes per 100,000 population, as per the data are given by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. This was the biggest number reported to the UNODC in 2012.
EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:Allyuh talking about this murder rate like if its innocent people getting killed. Yes there is a tiny portion that were innocent but most murders are gang related.
The legalization of marijuana will probably eliminate 75% of murders in this country but you need a leader with a vision. The current PNM is too backwards and dotish
ismithx wrote:trinidad too backwards because of visionless people at the top
Miktay wrote:Daran wrote:Miktay wrote:Daran wrote:hydroep wrote:Me eh think anywhere in the world truly safe nuh. Just look at what's happening is 1st World countries like Canada, Sweden and France. And doh talk about the US, if the crazies eh stealing plane they blowing yuh head off.
But she's right, the decay in T&T is advanced and getting worse. Long time you could say once you stay out of hotspots like Beetham, Laventille etc. yuh o.k. But just today I'm reading about some people in C3 Center that were held up as they were heading back to their car...and the mall has security eh.
Unless you're a big boy or a Government Kunte, is your arse tuh ketch...
You like many trinis, need to step outside of Trinidad and see how the rest of the world is progressing while we're regressing.
You call some countries there, Canada, Sweden, France and the US.....all exponentially safer in all aspects compared to Trinidad. Look at the crime stats in those countries, in fact, look at their justice system and recourse when wronged.
SMH...take a good look at some snippets fm some countries u call dey...
LMFAO you do realize that those are exaggerated and not the norm.
Canada a country with almost 30 times our population had 500 murders per year. That's equivalent to Trinidad having 20 murders per year.
Oh and if we had Sweden's murder rate we'd have 20 murders per year.
Want to know why these countries are SIGNIFICANTLY safer? Because their police and justice systems work.
Son...u really have no idea what ur talking about.
Sweden’s rape per capita has been amongst the highest in the world since 2012 per the United Nations. That’s not an ‘isolated incident’.Sweden is a surprising entry in this list. This is considering the fact that it is one of the developed countries of the world, with women liberalization as a top agenda in its social development. However, the fact that it has about 64 cases of sexual assault per 100.000 population belies the fact that is a developed country. This is from the reports of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). According to this in 2012, Sweden had 66 cases of reported rapes per 100,000 population, as per the data are given by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. This was the biggest number reported to the UNODC in 2012.
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And downtown Paris iza ghetto. Beggars and homeless people are everywhere. To combat the Parisian crime wave and terrorism heavily armed police and security guards are in every single hotel and shop. You have to go thru 3 security checks to visit the Eiffel Tower.
U really need to travel and see what the world is actually like before spouting such ignorant nonsense.
Daran wrote:Numb3r4,
Miktay has never left Trinidad, he has no clue how much safer other countries are.
Miktay wrote:Daran wrote:Numb3r4,
Miktay has never left Trinidad, he has no clue how much safer other countries are.
Son... u have no idea what ur talking about....
Daran wrote:Miktay wrote:Daran wrote:Numb3r4,
Miktay has never left Trinidad, he has no clue how much safer other countries are.
Son... u have no idea what ur talking about....
Trust me I do, otherwise only an ignorant fool would have the views you do. You don't travel, and if you do you're a paranoid traveller who never ventures outside the confines of your resort or shopping mall.
.ROZAC:.. wrote:Leave if you can.
My parents and some cousins still there fighting the good fight. We got robbed 4 times living in sleepy lil Barrackpore in the 90s.
You can try and stay away from hotspots as much as possible but crime comes looking for you and just pray it's the car they coming for and will spare your life.
My wife and I moved to Brampton July of this year and there has been a spike in crime but they doing something about it, following up, putting the message out there.
It's not about where is better is what you can deal with. I went from travelling home alone 7pm from sando in standard 3 to locking up the gate before dusk. Things got bad.
jhonnieblue wrote:Agreed fully. In the process of organizing my stuff to leave this God forsaken place. I've been robbed more times than I can count. Had surgery from getting stabbed.
Travelled the world and everywhere is better than here.
Infrastructure is terrible here and the leadership is pathetic. Imagine in my house I have 16 cameras and still don't feel secure. This country is a mess
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