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Ryan crime report: Soca music breeding criminals

Published on March 26, 2013 in Crime in T&T, Culture, Entertainment, General T&T, Media, Music, People's Partnership, Politics and Violence. 6 Comments Tags: Crime in T&T, Politics, Ryan Crime Report, Selwyn Ryan, T&T Govt.

Selwyn Ryan – March 26, 2013
www.guardian.co.tt/news/2013-03-25/ryan-crime-report-soca-music-breeding-criminals

Soca, dancehall and hip-hop music are said to be influencing youths into criminal behaviour. This is according to a report by the Ryan Committee on Youth at Risk. The report was laid in Parliament by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Friday. The committee’s report said while it was impossible to draw a definitive correlation between violence or explicitness of lyrics and the level of criminality among youth, the lyrics of 2012 soca hits “tend to support the idea of a contemporary youth culture that is very consistent with the rebellious behaviour of previous generations of youth.”
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Machel Montano Performed in Miami After All

Published on March 11, 2013 in Culture, Entertainment, General T&T, Media, Music, USA and Violence. 2 Comments Tags: Crime in T&T, Machel Montano, USA.

From the article below (the bottom of the first page and continuing onto the second page), it appears that Machel Montano did perform at the “Nine Mile Music Festival 2013″ which was held in Florida, Miami on March 02, 2013. There were concerns that his U.S. visa would have been revoked following his conviction last year for assaulting four persons in 2007 outside Zen night club in Port-of-Spain and for using obscene language. Montano was fined on February 25, 2013.
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Horror in Sea Lots, Protests, Reporter Fired

Published on February 26, 2013 in General T&T, Media, Police, Protest, Racism Watch and Violence. 11 Comments Tags: Crime in T&T, Newsday.

HORROR

By Alexander Bruzual and Janelle De Souza
February 25, 2013 – newsday.co.tt

In one horrifying moment yesterday morning, the lives of a 28-year-old mother and her two young daughters were tragically ended when they were hit by a motor vehicle which was reportedly driven by a member of the TT Police Service (TTPS).

At about 9am, Haydee Paul, 28, and her daughters Akasha and Shakira Paul, eight and seven years old respectively, had just left the Central Market in Sea Lots, where they had spent the majority of the morning shopping.
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Machel Montano Fined for Night Club Brawl

Published on February 26, 2013 in Court, Crime in T&T, Culture, Entertainment, General T&T, Music and Violence. 1 Comment Tags: Abuse, Crime in T&T, Machel Montano.

Machel and his mother Elizabeth Montano at Club Zen in 2007
at Machel Montano’s Appreciation Ceremony

SLAP ON WRIST

By Laurel V Williams
February 26 2013 – newsday.co.tt

HAVING been convicted last year of assaulting four persons outside a Port-of-Spain nightclub in 2007 and for using obscene language, soca superstar Machel Montano got a virtual “slap on the wrist” when he was fined $13,700.
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Apology for Slavery and Reparations: Updated

Published on February 15, 2013 in Africa, Caribbean, England, France, General T&T, Haiti, Race and Identity, Racism Watch, Religion, USA and Violence. 31 Comments Tags: Abuse, African, Kwame Nantambu, Slavery.

By Dr. Kwame Nantambu
February 15, 2013

At the outset, it must be stated quite equivocally that the order for the global apology for the European enslavement of Afrikans is as follows: The Roman Catholic Pope of Rome, first; second, the governments of Spain and Portugal; in third place are the governments of Britain, France and the Netherlands; in fourth place is the government of the United States.
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No peace and goodwill here

Published on December 16, 2012 in General T&T, Politics and Violence. 12 Comments Tags: Christmas, Crime in T&T, Politics, Raffique Shah, T&T Govt.

By Raffique Shah
December 16, 2012

THERE was a time, maybe I should write “once upon a time” since this may sound so much like a fairy-tale, when nations at war suspended hostilities on Christmas Day, such was the pervasiveness of peace and goodwill associated with the birth of the Christ child.

The most memorable such occasion was on the night of Christmas Eve 1914, during the First World War, along the Western Front.
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MACHEL GUILTY

Published on December 11, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, Culture, Entertainment, General T&T, Law, Media and Violence. 10 Comments Tags: Abuse, Crime in T&T, Machel Montano, Newsday.

By Alexander Bruzual
December 11, 2012 – newsday.co.tt

REIGNING Soca Monarch and Road March King Machel Montano was yesterday found guilty by a Port-of-Spain magistrate of five criminal charges of assault and using obscene language during a fracas near the Zen nightclub in Port-of-Spain five years ago.

Montano gasped in the Seventh Court when he was told, he was guilty as charged by Magistrate Maureen Baboolal-Gafoor. He stood next to performing artistes Kernel Roberts, son of deceased Calypso icon Aldwyn ‘Lord Kitchener’ Roberts, 2011 Young Kings Calypso Monarch Rodney “Benjai” LeBlanc and Joel “Zan” Feveck.
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BABY’S FLESH BITTEN OFF

Published on December 10, 2012 in Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Media and Violence. 14 Comments Tags: Abuse, Crime in T&T, Newsday.

By Nalinee Seelal
December 10, 2012 – newsday.co.tt

ENRAGED that there was no food in the house for him to eat, a 24-year-old man violently turned on his own five-day-old baby daughter, grabbing her tiny body and biting off the tender flesh from her left cheek before biting off a chunk of flesh from her right leg at their East Dry River, Port-of-Spain, home yesterday morning.

And while her father remains in police custody, the little baby girl who was given the name Jinayah only two days ago, is warded in a critical condition at the Paediatric Ward of the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) in Mt Hope.
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Machel Montano guilty on five criminal charges

Published on December 10, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, Culture, Entertainment, General T&T, Law, Media and Violence. 3 Comments Tags: Abuse, Machel Montano, Zen.

…to be sentenced January 17, 2013

Machel and his mother Elizabeth Montano in Club Zen
at Machel Montano’s Appreciation Ceremony 2007

By Darren Bahaw News Editor
December 10, 2012

SOCA STAR Machel Montano was this morning found guilty of five criminal offences.

Montano, the reigning Power Soca Monarch and Road March king, along with Kernel Roberts, the son of legendary Calypso icon Lord Kitchener, Joel “Zan” Feveck, a member of Montano HD Family, and Rodney “Benjai” LeBlanc, best known for his patriotic song, Trini, were all charged with a series of criminal offences arising out a fracas outside the Zen nightclub, in Port of Spain in April 2007.
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Gopeesingh’s Son ‘Planasses’ Man

Published on September 28, 2012 in Crime in T&T, General T&T, Indian, Law, People's Partnership, Politics and Violence. 32 Comments Tags: Abuse, Crime in T&T, Politics, T&T Govt, Tim Gopeesingh.

Gopeesingh: It’s my son
Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh yesterday confirmed that the man depicted in a video assaulting a man with a cutlass is his son.
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