Caribbean L 8 ife, March 1–7, 2019 BQ
CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP
Beaches Turks and Caicos Resort Villages
will be closed from September 3rd to
October 15th and from September 7th
to October 22nd, 2020 and then for an
indefinite period from January 2021.
Premier and Finance Minister Sharlene
Cartwright-Robinson said her
administration has been addressing the
“long outstanding” issue with Beaches
and she remains confident that “with
the facts in fill view, we can bring an
end to a critical outstanding matter
that has seen its basis in an arrangement
in place since the resort’s operation
started in the ’90s and existed
throughout every government in the
TCI since then.”
TRINIDAD:
There are more than 2,000 gang
members in Trinidad and Tobago. The
two main gangs operating in the country
are Rasta City and Muslim, according
to a 2018 report compiled by the
Organized Crime and intelligence Unit
(OCIU), an arm of the T&T Police Service,
titled the “interim Gang Report
2018.”
The report notes that in the communities
where they thrive, gang leaders
have the same power as politicians, and
are called “community
leaders.”
These leaders get millions
of dollars in government
contracts to
help their communities, according to
the report.
The report raised concerns about the
growing power and influence of gangs
and their business and the impact it had
on the country’s murder rate.
“The most notable trends for 2018
have been a consolidation in gang membership
of criminal gangs and their
control of street gangs and their control
of street-level drug sales and collaboration
with rival gangs and other criminal
organizations,” the report said.
“Gangs in Trinidad and Tobago act
as profit-making enterprises whereby
revenue generated from gang-related
activities are directed towards sustaining
gang activities and personal profit
for their leaders of the gangs,” the
report added.
— Compiled by Azad Ali
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