Trinidad and Tobago: Crime Increase

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | February 21st, 2007 | Trackback

Jouvert, the celebration that launches carnival on these islands, prompted more than 20 victims of stabbings and beatings to go to Port of Spain’s General Hospital Feb. 19, including a man from Texas who was beaten by two men trying to steal his camcorder. The celebration is always festive but fraught with crime. The islands have been suffering from a dramatic increase in crime the last few years as the economy has boomed through development of natural gas and oil resources and Trinidad has become a prominent transshipment point for cocaine. The number of murders has tripled in five years and kidnapping is a growing problem. Some residents are calling for a police crackdown while others say police death squads are already operating, because suspects have recently been shot and killed.

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