Returning Trinidad and Tobago to Paradise

[maxtech]

Magistrates, Judges, lawyers the entire legal system is the sole reason why this country is slowly but surely falling to it's demise.

The legal system needs to be regulated to allow for swift processing of case before the court. If this is not done, Lawyers and there associates will continue to milk the state financially. The longer a matter takes to resolve, it's more money in their pockets.

There need to be a cap on how much money they make or let them file income tax. How much money does one really needs. Poor and rich going by the same grocery. Nissan Sentra could drive just as far as BMW or AUDI.

Every year I wonder where all these bandits coming from and if they ain't done killing out one another. But if one show take a close look, if crimes aren't committed lawyers don't get pay, if you don't get married you won't need a lawyer to divorce.

If someone decides to kill out all the prisoners the majority of lawyers have to go look for jobs elsewhere.

So dishonesty is seemingly a natural resource of this sweet Trinidad and Tobago.

But your not alone. Remember never blame the children but the parents are responsible for governance and enforcing the law.
So don't blame the people who kill shoot and Rob when over the years the government failed to enforce the law.

The legal system was too busy financially sodomizing it's own people and now you have Bastard children to deal with.

Good luck with that.

[maj. tom]

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The solution for this is Constitutional Reform.
And the Chief Justice is responsible for a broken legal system and should attempt to fix it.
The Chief Justice bears overall responsibility for furthering the mission and vision of the Judiciary, and is in charge of the general administration of justice in Trinidad and Tobago. The Chief Magistrate reports to the Chief Justice.
http://www.ttlawcourts.org/index.php/ab ... verview-53

You're blaming lawyers and such for just doing their jobs. The system can only be fixed starting with a pronouncement by the AG for such a massive undertaking as Constitutional Reform. The process can take 5 to 10 years to review and revise the existing laws and pass them in Parliament. The MPs would have to really work for their salaries. Don't expect this to ever be anything more than election gimmicks promised every 5 years by both sides.

[Slartibartfast]

The economy is guided by market forces. For the past 10 years we have been in a recession. The only growing market seems to be crime and corruption. It's no surprise that this is what people are turning to now to make money.

Get good grades in A'Levels, study hard for 4 years to get a degree, extra 2 years to get a masters, accept a small contract position cuz jobs scarce, work you a$$ off and get fired from Petrotrin with everybody else. Except, you collect no severance because you were in a contract position so now you have to sit through a 2 hour interview to try to get a job paying $4,000 a month as an admin assistant. But you still can't get the job because there are people more overqualified that you willing to take the same small money and people less qualified that you willing to work for less.

I know that sounds pessimistic but that's actually what a chemical engineering friend of mine going through right now.

Orrrrr.... start a contracting company with your little diploma in civil eng, rope in your pardner that used to work taxi as a "lead construction engineer" and rely on the clients engineers to spoon feed you everything you need to know while you cash in you $10,000,000 contract. Also a true story with some people I worked with.

I always said, the chances of winning the lotto are far slimmer than making friends with somebody corrupt in office that could throw money your way. And the payout of winning the lotto is less. What example are we really setting? What type of growth are we promoting exactly?

[The_Honourable]

Agree with maj.tom that constitutional reform is #1. I'll add that these reforms should have meritocracy in mind. Once this is achieved, you start coming down.

- Fix legal system.

- Overhaul the security services.

- Revamp education system.

- Improving healthcare

- Diversification

The thing is, many consultations, studies, projects and reports have been done but it on a shelf or in a box somewhere ketching dust. Is just to implement.

[jl6106]

While I agree with the constitutional reform, not all laws need a 2/3 majority to pass.
The legal system needs at least 10-20 more judges, even for a period of ten years to remove the backlog.
That in itself can have a positive effect on the legal system.
The police service suffers from CHRONIC MISMANAGEMENT, even with this COP and his 78 point plan.....

[ek4ever]

Agree with maj.tom that constitutional reform is #1. I'll add that these reforms should have meritocracy in mind. Once this is achieved, you start coming down.

- Fix legal system.

- Overhaul the security services.

- Revamp education system.

- Improving healthcare

- Diversification

The thing is, many consultations, studies, projects and reports have been done but it on a shelf or in a box somewhere ketching dust. Is just to implement.

So basically the country is fcuked since none of this will ever happen