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MP for San Juan Barataria, Sadaam Hosein says tint laws will not curtail crime in the country.


He told the audience at a UNC pre-budget consultation in his constituency that it's another revenue generating measure.
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00:00Another national security minister is not the solution for crime, says MP for San Juan Barataria, Saddam Hussein.
00:08If you have to now remove the portfolio of the TTPS under Minister Hines and give it to Minister Scotland,
00:17then what is Hines doing inside there?
00:19Sleeping.
00:21Sleeping?
00:23What is Mrs. Ola here with Christopher doing?
00:26Praying.
00:29I guess I didn't tell you all to say those things, but you all came prepared.
00:33So we have one sleeping, we have one praying and we have one cycling to work.
00:38And that is the solution to crime in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:41That is what they have presented to us.
00:43The MP questions the Prime Minister's rationale in keeping Minister Hines at the helm of the national security ministry.
00:51The fact that they had to now bring in, I have to call him Minister Scotland, as a junior minister,
00:57it's an admission of failure on the part of Minister Hines.
01:00So why are you keeping him as the substantive minister after we had had the bloodiest years under his watch?
01:08Tint law, he says, is not the solution to crime.
01:12He instead describes it as another revenue-generating measure.
01:17Tint is not the solution to crime. Let me put it that way.
01:20Tint is simply not the solution to crime.
01:24They are suggesting that criminals are now tinting their vehicles dark
01:30so that you can't see them inside there and they will get away.
01:34Criminals are going and robbing people, invading people's homes,
01:37killing them in the streets in broad daylight without a mask
01:40and they're saying tint will be the solution to crime.
01:43Crime appeared to be the major theme dominating this UNC's pre-budget consultation.
01:49Just last week we had a home invasion in Dukan Drive by one of my budgets.
01:55Thank God she wasn't hurt or anything.
01:59But as soon as her husband left to drop his son to the market,
02:03persons went in, took up all their valuables and just left the woman traumatized.
02:14The crime is across the board. It's sky-bound.
02:18And consequently you have groups that have been formed to try to protect yourselves
02:24because we can't depend on people to protect us.
02:28Now that we have a junior minister of national security,
02:35so we move from one failure to two.
02:38And we expect not very much to be improved.
02:43For the businesses in this constituency, it's access to foreign exchange
02:48which has not only stymied their growth but caused a downward spiral.
02:53So it is challenging for the business sector to obtain forex
02:57in order to import their goods and merchandise for their businesses.
03:02This lack of foreign exchange is as a direct closure of many state enterprises
03:10that earn foreign exchange for the country.
03:14To date the government has not been able to diversify the economy of Trinidad and Tobago.
03:22The agriculture sector that remains underutilized to create foreign exchange for the country.
03:29The niche market for produce for the hotel industry is just one avenue to earn foreign exchange.
03:38The UNC has launched a pre-budget consultation series across the country
03:43in the lead-up to the final budget before the 2025 general election.
03:48Ravishi Tamwari, Rupnayan, TV6 News.
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