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‘Lured by land of milk, honey’
Renuka Singh
Published:
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Chairman of the Emancipation Support Committee Khafra Kambon hugs African migrant Gregory Moses following a press conference at committee's office on Bergerac Road, Maraval yesterday. Moses was recently granted refugee status after being detained at the detention centre for three years. PHOTO: JEFF MAYERS
Nigerian detainee, Tine Okodeo Kings, 40, who was just released from the detention centre, is now married to a Trinidadian. Speaking to the media at the Emancipation Centre, Bergerac Road, Maraval, Kings said he came in, undocumented, through a small port in Cedros from Venezuela.
He said he did not know why he came to Trinidad. “I got a ticket to go to Brazil for a job and there I realised that the job I was promised was not actually the way it was explained to me and then I was stranded... so someone comes to me and says there is this land flowing with milk and honey, T&T, there are jobs, you could make some good dollars. That is how I came here,” he said.
Kings said he made a connection with a Trinidadian who owned a boat and paid the man US$250 for a ride “in a fig boat on the high seas” to Cedros. He said it was a small boat that travelled through shark-infested waters.
Back home in Nigeria, Kings was a teacher and was initially supposed to run a restaurant in Brazil. Describing conditions in the detention centre, he said: “The beds are like baby beds, the kind I buy for my six-year-old son and it is a double-decker, so when the man on top is shifting, it shifts. The windows are louvres so at night you get a lot of mosquito bites. Otherwise the place is not hygienic. It is a prison.”
Kings said he was at home last year with his wife of seven years when immigration officers picked him up. He said conditions at the centre were worse for the women and claimed a female detainee had committed suicide. His wife posted a bond for his release and even after it was posted, he was remanded for months. Kings was at the centre for over a year before finally being released into his wife's custody, according to a document signed by the Minister of National Security.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2014-11- ... y%E2%80%99
UML wrote:RASC wrote:Keep Track on PNM failure?
Thought this was a thread on GOV'T ACHIEVEMENT... Always watching others but not yourself.
u make this so easy eh
well the Government Achieving what the PNM FAILED TO DO.
pete wrote:What's going to happen to Powergen with the cut back in how much power is needed from them?
RASC wrote:UML wrote:RASC wrote:Keep Track on PNM failure?
Thought this was a thread on GOV'T ACHIEVEMENT... Always watching others but not yourself.
u make this so easy eh
well the Government Achieving what the PNM FAILED TO DO.
Ooooo OK.
So looks like it'll be an easy victory come 2015 then
Crackpot wrote:This naked Propoganda thread is the premier example of why this gov't and its lackees and mouthpieces will soon be goneBut in the meantime....
Jack, Shaka applaud Govt on grassroot plan
Sean Nero
Published:
Monday, November 17, 2014
Former national footballers Shaka Hislop and Kelvin Jack are today applauding Government’s decision to invest $32.6 million towards the development of grassroot football in T&T.
The athletes who represented this country at the Fifa World Cup Germany in 2006, said once this initiative was sustained, this country would never be in short supply of proven talent from which to draw.
They believed this move would always ensure that the standard of football to be witnessed at varying levels was delivered with the approval of the national community and admired the world over.
Finance Minister Larry Howai, during his 2014/2015 budget presentation, said the state made significant progress in establishing and enabling framework, comprising infrastructure, management and coaching, talent building, welfare of elite athletes and sport tourism.
“We are building on the existing infrastructure: the technical framework to support the development of football throughout the country has been put in place at an annual cost of $36.2 million; the five multi-purpose stadia have been or are now being upgraded; and community sporting groups and national governing bodies are continuing to receive financial assistance,” the minister said.
Jack commended the state for taking the initiative, but believed such a programme needed ten times that amount.
“But if that is what they can allocate right now, so be it. But without a doubt they would need more money than that. That’s only 3.2 million pounds. It’s a lot of money, but it isn’t a lot of money if you know what I am saying; if you want to go the way of development.
He added, “They needed to have the right people running it. That’s the crucial issue here. The right people must be running these programmes; people who understand football; people who (are) qualified in coaching football; people who are good at imparting knowledge. It’s brilliant that the money is there to do it, but they need to put the right people in place to run this programme or else it’s not going to be successful.”
Asked if he believed the time had come for the former Soca Warriors to get involved in the sustained development of T&T football, Jack responded affirmatively.
Depending on which of them would be interested in getting involved, he said, T&T had a lot of knowledge to gain from this type of engagement.
Should these calibre of players be approached and accede to the request, said Jack, local football would surely progress.
“The problem is that TTFA is not interested in tapping into that knowledge. You have all these players here—the only players that have ever gone to a World Cup final—and you haven’t used it (their knowledge). They (TTFA) went on a trip the other day overloaded with staff. Sheldon Phillips brought his dad (Lincoln Phillips) on board as goal keeping coach.
“No disrespect to Lincoln Phillips who had a great playing career and good coaching career, but it is time for the younger brigade to get involved. So far, they have been unwilling to utilise these players who were part of the most successful team of T&T’s history,” Jack said.
Hislop, an ESPN football commentator and newly appointed Fifa influential International Football Association Board (IFAB) board member said, too often, local football and the financing of it is focused on the top tier of our game, in particular, the national team.
“I have been critical in the past. For years, when World Cup comes about there’s a lot of shouting and screaming and howling about the national team. How much money the Government, the corporate sector or whoever it maybe is putting behind the national team to qualify for the next World Cup. I have been very critical of that approach. As a fan, I am equally animated every four years when it comes around. But in all honesty, I have always felt that for us to consistently threaten to qualify for the World Cup, we have to take a long term view or our game and the development of it,” he said.
Hislop added, “Our planning for World Cup 2018 should have started a decade ago. I think the development and this announcement buys into that thinking.
“We have to start developing. We have to start preparing our young athletes at the earliest possible level, because I feel it’s such a steep learning curve and we are already at a disadvantage to most nations simply because of our country’s size and the player pool that a population of 1.5 million can afford. We have to do other things and I think this is a significant step in that direction,” he said.
https://guardian.co.tt/sport/2014-11-17 ... sroot-plan
Walkover for Sea Lots
By Marlene Augustine Wednesday, November 19 2014
A walkover will finally be built for Sea Lots residents, nearly two years after a woman and her two daughters died crossing the Beetham Highway to get to the waterfront community in Port-of- Spain.
An agreement to construct the walkover was reached between Works and Infrastructure Minister Dr Suruj Rambachan and Deputy Mayor of Port-of-Spain Keron Valentine yesterday, and the project will be treated with urgency.
Valentine announced the decision in a statement yesterday.
Sea Lots residents have been crying out for the walkover, ever since Haydee Paul and her daughters, Shakira and Akasha, were killed after being run over by a car on the highway on February 24, 2013.
Although pedestrian crossing signals were installed near the Central Market and Port-of-Spain lighthouse, residents still risked getting struck by motorists.
In the statement, Valentine said a visit by the Minister to the area proved to be a success as Rambachan indicated funding for the walkover has already been allocated. It is to be located near the Central Market.
Hayden Phillip, director of the Programme for Upgrading Road Efficiency, which falls under the ministry, has assured the designs for the walkover will be completed by November 19, for the Port-of-Spain Council to give final approval for a portion of the Central Market to be used to accommodate the walkover.
In return, Valentine assured the Minister the Port-of-Spain City Council will meet in an emergency session to ensure all necessary clearances required for the space will be made available for the project. The Deputy Mayor said a formal request has to be made to the Council along with the proposed design, but he was happy that, at the end of the day, residents and commuters will be safer.
However, spokesman for the Sea Lots community, Kenroy Dopwell, was not so optimistic about the plan when Newsday broke the news to him yesterday. He said residents were not consulted and felt the walkover would be too far away from Sea Lots.
“I was able to get a brief look at the drawings of the walkover, and according to what I saw on the drawings, the walkover is going almost 120 metres heading east from the traffic lights. When you take the measurements, it is almost down by Bhagwansingh (hardware) area. I don’t see how this will serve the people of Sea Lots,” he said.
Dopwell said residents will have to cross from the market and walk west along the highway.
“I don’t think it will bring any relief for the residents in Sea Lots because the place in which they intend to build the walkover is not for us, it’s more like for the people in the vicinity of Bhagwansingh. When the walkover is placed there, people coming from the (Priority) Bus Route area who use the crossing at the traffic lights, they will now have to walk east to take the walkover to walk back west, that is total madness,” Dopwell said.
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,203138.html
Crackpot wrote:Crackpot wrote:This naked Propoganda thread is the premier example of why this gov't and its lackees and mouthpieces will soon be gone
pete wrote:One big achievement for the area is the opening of the third lane heading east. Much quicker to get out of town now.
Habit7 wrote:While you all congratulating the government for something they havent done yet (par for the course #yourgovernmentworkingforyou) no walkover was built for Sea Lots because they are squatting on prime land for port development. The PNM started plans for reconstruction of housing in the East POS area and development of new how housing that would provide a better solution for Sea Lots than propping up a shanty town. The UNC in opposition oppose this and inveigle residents to demand exorbitant prices for their homes.
Secondly, when the gov't said before that a walkover could not be built, were they lying?
sliderz1 wrote:PNM made attempts to move these people to further develop the a port in that area?
Habit7 wrote:While you all congratulating the government for something they havent done yet (par for the course #yourgovernmentworkingforyou) no walkover was built for Sea Lots because they are squatting on prime land for port development. The PNM started plans for reconstruction of housing in the East POS area and development of new how housing that would provide a better solution for Sea Lots than propping up a shanty town. The UNC in opposition oppose this and inveigle residents to demand exorbitant prices for their homes.
Secondly, when the gov't said before that a walkover could not be built, were they lying?
Crackpot wrote:Crackpot wrote:Crackpot wrote:This naked Propoganda thread is the premier example of why this gov't and its lackees and mouthpieces will soon be gone
Habit7 wrote:While you all congratulating the government for something they havent done yet (par for the course #yourgovernmentworkingforyou) no walkover was built for Sea Lots because they are squatting on prime land for port development. The PNM started plans for reconstruction of housing in the East POS area and development of new how housing that would provide a better solution for Sea Lots than propping up a shanty town. The UNC in opposition oppose this and inveigle residents to demand exorbitant prices for their homes.
Secondly, when the gov't said before that a walkover could not be built, were they lying?
desifemlove wrote:Habit, if PNM had a majority, how could Panday/UNC stop it? jus relocate dey to somewhere else...
and Zoom, if south getting developed, how come most bad floods is still in South? And how come Chaguanas still looking mashup, when I thought it was UNC too? Or roads for Penal cos it UNC in Kamla's constituency?
Habit7 wrote:For some ppl development is a box drain and a paved road. For others development is a plan from dirt road to full services supplied. PP seems like their idea of development is the former.
I like the latter, and if I can show you a plan with an architectural design for the Sea Lots area and you ask me if it is conjecture, it looks like we are talking past each other.
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