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00:00:00And a very special good morning, Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the world.
00:00:18I'm Arlan Hopkins, and as always, welcome to The Morning Edition.
00:00:20It's Thursday, 29th August, and thank you very much for joining us this morning.
00:00:24I hope that you had a good night, a safe night, and that you're with us this morning, because
00:00:29we do have a very interesting two hours for you, and we invite you to stay with us.
00:00:33All right?
00:00:34Let's check out to see what's happening in the Daily Express today.
00:00:36On the front page, conflicting reports over teen girls shot dead at home.
00:00:41Who killed Aaliyah?
00:00:43And to the left, loving and caring, 16-year-old shooting victim Aaliyah Santu.
00:00:48And to her right, in shock, Avita Bali, mother of the 16-year-old, speaks to the Express
00:00:54yesterday at her Antigua Road home in Wallerfield.
00:00:58All right?
00:00:59So let me just touch a little bit on that story.
00:01:00Deadly plague, question mark, girl killed at home.
00:01:03Was 16-year-old Aaliyah Santu killed by an intruder or a friend?
00:01:08There are conflicting reports surrounding the death of Santu.
00:01:11Santu, who lived on Antigua Road, Wallerfield, was fatally shot on Tuesday night.
00:01:17All right?
00:01:19And the Prime Minister says, don't blame me for crime.
00:01:22Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has said he is not to be blamed for crime in this country.
00:01:27As he lamented, there are devils in society who would look at a 5-year-old child and kill her.
00:01:34All right?
00:01:35So he was speaking and expressing sadness over the killing of 5-year-old Anika Guerra
00:01:42and her father Enrico Guerra, and they were shot in Moruga on August 20th.
00:01:48He says, for a fellow citizen to have seen a child in somebody's hand or in somebody's
00:01:53presence and deliberately discharge a firearm knowing that you are going to kill that child,
00:01:59you are a different kind of devil.
00:02:03All right?
00:02:04So some of the words there of the Prime Minister yesterday.
00:02:07All right?
00:02:08So we're moving on to the back page now.
00:02:10Flood pressure, commuters stuck, business disrupted after heavy rains in Port of Spain.
00:02:16And the caption says, navigating the mess, motorists make their way through floodwaters
00:02:21on Charles Street in Port of Spain following yesterday's downpour around midday.
00:02:26Look at this water.
00:02:27You see how this is looking?
00:02:29This is very, very serious.
00:02:31But this spot, as you all know, it constantly floods.
00:02:35And you remember a few weeks ago we were speaking to the Works and Transport Minister
00:02:39and he was saying, well, in this area and in the vicinity of the fire station on Wrights Road,
00:02:45it's like a bowl.
00:02:47So that's why you have this water gathering there all of the time.
00:02:52All right?
00:02:53So in two twos, the place flood out, so said a frustrated commuter who was stuck after
00:02:58yesterday's midday deluge at the CityGate Hub on South Quay Port of Spain.
00:03:02He was among hundreds of people left stranded as rain pummeled the capital for about half an hour.
00:03:09So the Trinidad and Tobago Met Office said afternoon thunderstorm activity was mainly
00:03:14confined to western Trinidad and adverse weather alert yellow level was in effect from nine
00:03:20or from noon yesterday and runs until 9 a.m. today.
00:03:24All right.
00:03:25So we're not out of the woods as yet.
00:03:27All right.
00:03:28So we're moving on to some sport now.
00:03:30All to play for TKR Royals vie for WCPL glory.
00:03:37All right.
00:03:38So it will mean a lot to us as players.
00:03:41Skipper Deandre Daughton was describing how she would feel if the TKR were to regain the title they held.
00:03:47They last held in the inaugural season of the Massey Women's Caribbean Premier League in 2022.
00:03:55So the TKR will face the defending champions Barbados Royals at the Brian Lauer Cricket Academy in Taruba.
00:04:03And get this around 3 p.m.
00:04:05Yeah.
00:04:06So you will have the opportunity to go out.
00:04:09And yesterday there was right.
00:04:11Madam producer.
00:04:13There was a statement made by CPL yesterday that they are giving away tickets free tickets.
00:04:20You know.
00:04:21Yeah.
00:04:22After after CPL realized how much tickets we were giving away.
00:04:26They decided look we have to compete with that.
00:04:29So they're giving away free tickets.
00:04:30Yeah.
00:04:31And we will provide you as we speak about the WCPL a little later that address where you can log on to and get your
00:04:38tickets to go down to see the finals.
00:04:40All right.
00:04:41OK.
00:04:42So we're moving on.
00:04:43It's time to remind you of our Trinbago Unice feature.
00:04:45Remember to participate.
00:04:47You can email your videos or images to Trinbago Unice at TV6 TNT dot com.
00:04:53All right.
00:04:54What do we have for our viewers this morning.
00:04:56Yeah.
00:04:57That looks like the wetlands.
00:05:00Yeah.
00:05:04You're sure.
00:05:07All right.
00:05:08And it's not the it's not the other one.
00:05:11All right.
00:05:12Four flamingos.
00:05:13My producer tells me.
00:05:14Yeah.
00:05:15One two three four.
00:05:17Yeah.
00:05:18But thank you very much for the picture.
00:05:19We do appreciate it.
00:05:20All right.
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00:10:07All right, so welcome back everyone.
00:10:08So this morning we discuss an issue that should be of interest to everyone.
00:10:12The labor market.
00:10:13And more so, what is happening there concerning underemployment,
00:10:16unemployment and the size of the labor force.
00:10:18Well, joining us this morning is economist Professor Roger Hossain.
00:10:21Professor, good morning and thank you very much for joining us.
00:10:24Good morning, good morning and thank you for the invitation.
00:10:28Of course, Professor.
00:10:29Well, Professor, what have you seen?
00:10:31What have you found and what do you think that should be of interest to us
00:10:36as it relates to the labor market in Trinidad and Tobago?
00:10:40Well, one of the things I've noticed is that the underemployment rate in
00:10:47Trinidad and Tobago, using Table 34,
00:10:49cut off the CSO data on CSSP,
00:10:53is that underemployment in Trinidad and Tobago has been on the rise.
00:10:58Now, this is something that we should be concerned about,
00:11:02in particular because unemployment is also on the rise.
00:11:06But let me first define underemployment.
00:11:09Of our standardized workweek, let's say everybody works 40 hours.
00:11:14What the CSO does is it classifies the amount of hours people work.
00:11:21I think it used no hours up to eight hours, then nine to 16,
00:11:27then 17 to 24, then 25 to 32, and then 33 to 40, and more than 41.
00:11:34So if it is you were to take all the people, because of the classification,
00:11:39let's use 33 hours or more for the week as fully employed for the week.
00:11:44If you use the number of people working less than 33 hours for the week,
00:11:49you will find if you compare 2023 with, say, 2022 or 2021,
00:11:56or in particular 2019 or 18,
00:12:00you would find that the proportion of people working less than 33 hours per week
00:12:07has been on the rise.
00:12:08So you have rising unemployment and rising underemployment,
00:12:12which may not be surprising to anybody.
00:12:15People might say, well, yeah, well, you know, time's hard,
00:12:18and people work in less hours.
00:12:20But I got the data, so I looked at the data formally
00:12:23and could verify that underemployment is on the rise.
00:12:27But Professor, why are people working less hours?
00:12:32What is contributing to this?
00:12:35Well, likely people, and it's a very good question,
00:12:38people are working less hours likely because of the decline in economic activity.
00:12:43Some firms, instead of being able to offer their workers 40 hours,
00:12:48now try to structure their labour force in a way that they say,
00:12:52if I have five workers, I won't send everybody home.
00:12:55I would give one day off or one day and a half off during the week
00:12:59to each one of you also, or our wage bill would fall,
00:13:02but everybody will still get a dollar so they can buy a bread.
00:13:06Yeah, but does it speak to a wider picture about the state of the economy?
00:13:13Yes, I think it does, because what it simply means,
00:13:16or what it means is that if you have rising unemployment
00:13:20and rising underemployment,
00:13:22it means you have more unutilised and underutilised resources in your economy.
00:13:28Now the way macroeconomics guides the economy
00:13:32is we try to minimise unemployment
00:13:35and we try to optimally deploy all the resources at our disposal.
00:13:41So when you have an economy in which you have more unemployment
00:13:46and rising underemployment,
00:13:49it means that you can't produce at the boundary of what you are capable of
00:13:55and therefore there is a gap between what you can optimally produce
00:13:59and what you are producing,
00:14:01and that's the output gap in some sense then.
00:14:03That's the output gap in the economy,
00:14:05a measure of the potential,
00:14:08the difference between actual output and potential output,
00:14:11and policymakers have to understand that
00:14:15and look at mechanisms to help close that gap.
00:14:18Yes, and a good point there, Professor.
00:14:21So let's speak a little bit about the mechanisms.
00:14:24How do we resolve this situation or try to resolve it?
00:14:29Again, very good question and you go straight to the point.
00:14:32Well, it's going to be very difficult in my opinion
00:14:36if we don't control this situation with crime.
00:14:42When you look at the newspapers,
00:14:45so let's assume I'm an entrepreneur, I'm a business person.
00:14:49When I look at the newspapers and I see everyone around me,
00:14:53there's always these videos circulating
00:14:56with seven people invade our home,
00:14:58nine people invade our home,
00:15:00four people invade our business and murder us.
00:15:04Then you take your investable resources
00:15:07and you try to preserve life,
00:15:10you try to protect your family,
00:15:12you try to protect whatever investment you have already made
00:15:16so that you are incapable of expanding your business
00:15:21to absorb any extra employment in the economy
00:15:24and you are incapable.
00:15:26And in order to do that as well,
00:15:28you may have to shed some workers
00:15:30in order to be able to divert wages towards security.
00:15:35And so to me, the number one factor to me,
00:15:40and I'm speaking solely as an economist,
00:15:43probably in combination as a citizen,
00:15:47the number one factor to me
00:15:49that is inhibiting economic progress in Toronto Beagle is crime.
00:15:55If we could fix this crime situation,
00:15:57I'm going to use some crude numbers,
00:15:59say bring the murders from an estimated 615 this year
00:16:04down to about 200
00:16:07and significantly increase police patrol
00:16:11and reduce violent crime and home invasions
00:16:14together with, of course, other interventions by the state.
00:16:18For example, the ADB perhaps being recapitalized
00:16:21and making more loans more available
00:16:25and strategies in which we use to encourage big firms
00:16:31to invest more in rural areas.
00:16:33For example, if we can get Bermudas
00:16:35to set up an establishment in Mayaro
00:16:38or in the Southwest Peninsula,
00:16:40like type of investment where we get the giant firms
00:16:43making billions of dollars to invest
00:16:45in other parts of the country,
00:16:47we could get the economy moving forward.
00:16:50But with this crime, it's a tremendous obstacle.
00:16:54You don't have the capacity to invest as freely as you want
00:16:59and as much as you want
00:17:01because you have the diverse productive assets elsewhere.
00:17:05And so crime, in this budget that is coming up
00:17:09in a couple of months,
00:17:11should be the main or one of the main priorities
00:17:14that the Minister of Finance
00:17:15and the Minister of National Security tackles
00:17:19because it is restricting all type of things.
00:17:22A second factor is the recently read education results
00:17:27as pertains to CXC.
00:17:29Now, in one place you see X amount of people writing SE
00:17:36and Y amount of people writing CXC
00:17:40and P amount of people writing CAPE.
00:17:44And the numbers keep falling, Marlon,
00:17:46meaning that somewhere, however the other,
00:17:495,000 and 3,000 students are dropping out of getting an education
00:17:55or at least maths and English.
00:17:58I mean, I don't think you could really survive
00:17:59in this world without mathematics again.
00:18:01It has changed so much.
00:18:02And when you see numbers like, I think, 11,000 students
00:18:06or numbers to that level didn't pass mathematics.
00:18:10I may have the number wrong, but it's an enormous amount.
00:18:13Then you know this society has a far way to go.
00:18:17It's very, very difficult to converse with someone
00:18:21who does not even have a 3,
00:18:24a pass of 11th grade 3 in CXC in mathematics.
00:18:29And so we need serious planning.
00:18:32And my opinion is make a 100-day plan.
00:18:36Make a 100-day plan and set 25 targets
00:18:41that you want to put in motion.
00:18:43You will be able to change much in 100 days.
00:18:46But make a 100-day plan and during that 100-day plan,
00:18:50try to reduce the murder level,
00:18:52try to reduce the crime level and set targets,
00:18:57some of which would be achieved,
00:18:59some of which you would have achieved within 100 days,
00:19:02probably in 100 months or probably in 100 weeks.
00:19:07But let's go after it.
00:19:09The way I feel and the way people feel
00:19:11from the chatter they have and the conversations they have,
00:19:14they feel a bit of helplessness.
00:19:16When 12 armed men invade your home, that's a small army.
00:19:21That reminds me of a documentary on taking down Osama bin Laden.
00:19:28And it's about 12 men that went.
00:19:30Yes, 12 elite soldiers, but 12 men can constitute a small army.
00:19:35And so you are helpless.
00:19:37I am saying that the powers that be
00:19:40wouldn't be able to predict all the home invasions,
00:19:43but put measures in place that puts a lot of fear
00:19:47into the heart of the criminals
00:19:49so that you launch an aggressive counterattack on them, in my opinion.
00:19:54Professor, two questions.
00:19:57One is that how do we address,
00:20:01well, speak first, if you can this morning,
00:20:05to the issue of extortion
00:20:07and what's your perspective on that,
00:20:09on business in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:20:12That's one.
00:20:13And you spoke about the issue of math and English
00:20:17where our students are having great difficulty
00:20:20in attaining both subjects,
00:20:22and that is going to affect or impact their pathway
00:20:27as it relates to university and so on.
00:20:30So how do we also address this?
00:20:34So one, the issue of how extortion is impacting the business community,
00:20:39and two, how do we address this situation
00:20:42of our young people, our students, not attaining math and English?
00:20:49Well, I'll give you the second question first.
00:20:53I teach at a university.
00:20:55Although I speak in my individual capacity here,
00:20:59I can tell you if a student comes to you
00:21:02and is weak in mathematics, it's a challenge.
00:21:05It's a challenge, it's a challenge, it's a challenge.
00:21:10We as elders in the economy should let no child go forward
00:21:14without an understanding of mathematics.
00:21:17Now, the Minister of Finance would have to work
00:21:21with subject area experts.
00:21:23I'm sorry, the Minister of Education.
00:21:25I'm sure there are processes and mechanisms
00:21:28that we have over the last 50 years
00:21:31in which we could draw upon.
00:21:32Some of them may be on shelves,
00:21:34some of them may be dysfunctional,
00:21:36that we can revamp.
00:21:38Let's make one point clear.
00:21:40Our oil production is still about 50,000 barrels per day.
00:21:43Yes, it used to be significantly higher.
00:21:46At one point in time, it was about 216,000 barrels per day.
00:21:50But at 50,000 barrels per day,
00:21:53it's still 50,000 more than in Antigua and Bermuda,
00:21:5650,000 more than in Grenada,
00:21:5850,000 more than in St. Lucia.
00:22:00They produce none.
00:22:02Our gas production is still about 2,300 mmcf per day.
00:22:06That's still about 2,300 mmcf
00:22:08more than in Antigua and Bermuda,
00:22:10more than in Grenada,
00:22:11more than in St. Lucia.
00:22:13They produce none.
00:22:14So yes, we have less money,
00:22:17but we definitely have more energy revenues
00:22:20than a large number of countries in the world.
00:22:23So I don't buy into that argument.
00:22:26I think it is the use of the revenues
00:22:29that is the problem, how we use it.
00:22:33In terms of directly in relation to your question,
00:22:36there are people like Bayard Ali, for example,
00:22:39who I grew up knowing to be an excellent mathematician.
00:22:44In Seoul, I read recently where he produced
00:22:47over 168 textbooks who are magnificent.
00:22:51They are beyond good.
00:22:53They are excellent resources in mathematics.
00:22:56They have developed various software
00:22:58and interactive tools and different ways
00:23:01to bring mathematics to the students.
00:23:03Have a focus group session with about 10 people like that.
00:23:07Embrace their ideas and change the way
00:23:11we bring mathematics to the students.
00:23:13I once was part of a team that involved football
00:23:18being taught to students of the Southwest.
00:23:21Mathematics being taught to students
00:23:24of the Southwest using football.
00:23:26I know of an experiment in Me'aru
00:23:29where mathematics was taught to students
00:23:32using boat building.
00:23:34And use different techniques.
00:23:36Sometimes you may have to adapt some
00:23:38according to the community.
00:23:40But you cannot have so many students
00:23:43failing mathematics.
00:23:44That may even be the top 40 criminal level
00:23:47and the amount of crimes we are seeing.
00:23:50Because if you can't cope with basic mathematics,
00:23:53it means you become cut off from the world
00:23:55and you therefore see your options as limited
00:23:58and maybe then you think crime is your only way out.
00:24:01I don't know.
00:24:02It seems logical to me.
00:24:04On the second matter of extortion,
00:24:06the policy makers in Trinidad and Tobago
00:24:09should have an absolute zero tolerance towards it.
00:24:13It's just so rampant in terms of the circulated videos
00:24:16we see that they need to take draconian,
00:24:19drastic measures about it.
00:24:21But the way the economy seems to be drifting
00:24:26is that yes, we have a Vision 2030 plan,
00:24:29but it doesn't seem to be practical and operational
00:24:33and in place to me.
00:24:35So that maybe we should have a Vision 2024 plan.
00:24:39Stick with this year and next year.
00:24:42And let us try to get outcomes this year and next year,
00:24:46which would obviously come towards 2030.
00:24:49But we need shorter-term results
00:24:51because as extortion increases,
00:24:54as the murder level increases,
00:24:56and as crime increases,
00:24:58yes, we might feel better in 2030,
00:25:00but we need some relief today.
00:25:02We need to start to hear headlines today
00:25:05and headlines tomorrow that will give us immediate relief.
00:25:08And I think that's where policy makers are making some errors
00:25:13in terms of recognizing the extent of fear,
00:25:17the amount of gaps,
00:25:19and the room for rapid intervention
00:25:23to provide change, to improve in a quicker way
00:25:27the quality of life of the average citizen
00:25:30because in the last...
00:25:32Since 2008, in particular,
00:25:34and 2009 with the global financial crisis,
00:25:37standard of living has taken a battering.
00:25:40And so the time to act is now.
00:25:42That's my opinion.
00:25:43Yeah. Professor, how do we deal
00:25:46with some of the ills affecting the labour market?
00:25:50Do we look to the non-energy sector?
00:25:53Do we look to agriculture?
00:25:56Do we look to entrepreneurship?
00:25:58Because I know that in recent days,
00:26:01the government has been speaking about entrepreneurship.
00:26:04They're speaking about the thousands and thousands.
00:26:06I believe they're speaking about numbers such as 40,000 people
00:26:10who visited the AgriExpo recently.
00:26:15The government in recent times,
00:26:17they have come up with new programs in agriculture
00:26:21where they're not only giving you training,
00:26:23they're giving you stipend,
00:26:24they're giving you lands to cultivate your crops.
00:26:28So in what direction do we need to look?
00:26:33Well, I looked at agriculture last week.
00:26:37I went to the AgriExpo.
00:26:38I want to congratulate the minister.
00:26:40It was well attended.
00:26:41It was a good event.
00:26:43But what I would say is that the AgriExpo
00:26:46is just an activity.
00:26:49That's not going to increase agricultural output.
00:26:51I commend the minister for the activity.
00:26:54Because when you look at agriculture,
00:26:56although you see some increase in employment,
00:27:00maybe about 1,500, certainly less than last year,
00:27:03but maybe overall, I compare things to 2019 in general,
00:27:07about 1,500.
00:27:09So it's never about 22,000.
00:27:11They're about when you use central bank data, CSO data.
00:27:16But it's difficult to revive agriculture
00:27:18when you run a CPEP program at full scale.
00:27:21It's difficult.
00:27:23Because you have people starting work at about 8 o'clock
00:27:26and practically finishing about 9 o'clock.
00:27:28So everybody would run away from agriculture
00:27:30and go and work CPEP when they could.
00:27:32Because you offer much less hours, very limited work.
00:27:36And then you could probably go and walk taxi
00:27:38or sell marijuana or sell in a parlor
00:27:40or whatever you can do to make an extra dollar this time.
00:27:45So we would need to think through how we interface CPEP
00:27:49with the agricultural sector
00:27:51if we want to rebuild the agricultural sector.
00:27:53But the agricultural sector definitely has scope.
00:27:56Because although we have a rise in underemployment
00:27:59in the agricultural sector,
00:28:00a rise in unemployment in the agricultural sector,
00:28:03the food import bill is growing.
00:28:05It's now about $8 billion.
00:28:07That, therefore, definitely shows that there is scope
00:28:11for some import substitution,
00:28:13competitive import substitution.
00:28:15And some of the big companies working through civil society groups
00:28:19like Shaw Foundation have been doing an excellent job
00:28:23bringing seedlings and bringing fruit trees to the population.
00:28:27So we hope we start to see the results of that in time.
00:28:30I know places like Civilian Conservation Corps, YTC,
00:28:36some of the orphanages and what have they,
00:28:38have been growing more of their food.
00:28:40And that's what we need to do.
00:28:42Maybe we need to partner more with civil society.
00:28:45Maybe the government of Chianti Bego,
00:28:47via the Ministry of Agriculture,
00:28:49need to partner more with farmers and civil society groups
00:28:52and change household-level microeconomic interventions
00:28:57in the agricultural sector
00:28:59to lead to a mushrooming effect that has all kinds of benefits.
00:29:03The second thing is crime.
00:29:05You hear about Carlson Field area,
00:29:07almost every day somebody gets robbed, beaten up,
00:29:11so we would have to work on crime again.
00:29:14And this brings us back to the mathematics
00:29:16and fixing some aspects of the education.
00:29:18I mean, the criminologists would know much more than me
00:29:21as to how to fix the crime situation.
00:29:23But the simple point, as we did say,
00:29:26it is out of control, in my opinion,
00:29:28based upon what we see, hear and read.
00:29:32We need more investment.
00:29:34So I had a meeting with the Republic Bank recently
00:29:39and we opened up to the board
00:29:42some of the ways in which they could,
00:29:45one, analyse and analytically look at the situation.
00:29:50I think that during the period of plenty,
00:29:52some of these big banks lent in a man-hand form
00:29:55that led to all of these commercial banks,
00:29:58all of these hardwares and groceries
00:30:01and foreign exchange users open up.
00:30:04It wasn't done deliberately,
00:30:05it was just in the process of building up
00:30:07their portfolio of loans.
00:30:11But in the end, we created an economy
00:30:14and we financed an economy
00:30:16that led to a negative externality
00:30:18in the use of foreign exchange
00:30:20and we are where we are now.
00:30:22So I spoke to the bank
00:30:23and I tried to convince them
00:30:26as to how we could change loan structure
00:30:29in order to improve foreign exchange inflows to the country.
00:30:34As part of the process,
00:30:36I asked them to do a deep analysis of the economy
00:30:40so that we could make available
00:30:43the scientifically led way
00:30:46in which investment could increase
00:30:49output of manufacturing goods
00:30:51for foreign exchange union,
00:30:53output of agricultural goods for foreign exchange,
00:30:56target the tourism sector for enhanced foreign exchange
00:30:59and worker remittances via the diaspora abroad
00:31:03for increased amount of worker remittances,
00:31:05all designed to bring more foreign exchange into the system.
00:31:09Whether or not Republic Bank will take up the challenge,
00:31:11I will follow up with them,
00:31:13but I'm hoping that they take up the challenge.
00:31:15So we just don't approach this thing
00:31:17as we have done in the past
00:31:18that has led to a bank finance negative externality
00:31:23of the structure of the economy,
00:31:25but we now use the producer pay principle
00:31:29and fix it by the banks
00:31:31becoming more involved in creating
00:31:33a better structure of the economy
00:31:35linked to the generation of more foreign exchange.
00:31:37The banks definitely have a role to play,
00:31:40in my opinion,
00:31:41in fixing this problem that they have to create.
00:31:43Professor?
00:31:44The other point, the last point, is Tobago.
00:31:47We have a small gold mine here in Tobago.
00:31:51When I look at the economy of Curacao or Aruba,
00:31:54let's take Aruba,
00:31:55they generate about 2 million tourists for the year.
00:31:59And Tobago is nowhere near there.
00:32:01And I think the THA now needs to look carefully
00:32:06as to how they could generate and use tourism,
00:32:12not Trinidad and Tobago,
00:32:14Trinidad tourists going to Tobago,
00:32:15but international tourists
00:32:17as an engine for transformation of Tobago and Trinidad.
00:32:22And I think it needs to be taken much more seriously.
00:32:25I think the labor market is in a mess in Tobago,
00:32:27and we have approached the THA
00:32:29to see if we could take a deep dive look
00:32:32and start to do this thing using a more scientific method,
00:32:37given the extent of the output gap,
00:32:40given the extent of the increase in crime,
00:32:43and given the extent of the amount of underutilized
00:32:47and unutilized resources in the economy.
00:32:50I think it can be done, Marlon,
00:32:52but we need policymakers and the private sector
00:32:55to push this wheel.
00:32:57And I think technocrats like myself
00:33:00and people like yourself
00:33:02who are very, very important civil society players
00:33:05need to be calling on the policymakers
00:33:07and the private sector to join this effort
00:33:11to help the transformation of the Trinidad and Tobago economy,
00:33:15with all of us pushing in the same direction
00:33:18because we are not in a nice place.
00:33:20In my opinion, when I look at the facts and I know the data,
00:33:24the Trinidad and Tobago economy compared to 2019,
00:33:28it's not in a nice place.
00:33:30Already for 2023, when you look at the data,
00:33:33you see the average growth using data
00:33:36for the first three quarters of 2023 is 0%.
00:33:39Yes.
00:33:40No hope for 2023,
00:33:42but if it remains at that,
00:33:44in the top 10 worst performing ranked economies in the world,
00:33:47if you do the numbers.
00:33:49So I urge policymakers, I urge civil society,
00:33:52I urge the THC, the banking sector,
00:33:56let us work together in ways that we can
00:34:00to push the Trinidad and Tobago economy forward
00:34:03so that there is growth, a reduction in unemployment,
00:34:06a reduction in underemployment,
00:34:08and more than all those things,
00:34:10a reduction in crime and a generation of foreign exchange.
00:34:14Yeah.
00:34:15Professor, a good way to end our conversation this morning.
00:34:18Thank you very much for your perspective, Professor,
00:34:20and I'm sure that we will speak again as we move into
00:34:24and move up weeks before the next budget.
00:34:28I'm sure that we will speak again.
00:34:30So thank you very much again, Professor.
00:34:32So it's time for a very quick break.
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00:38:21All right, everybody.
00:38:22So welcome back.
00:38:23So we move on now to some politics, the politics of the day,
00:38:26where Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has outlined government's
00:38:29legislative agenda over the next year.
00:38:32Yesterday he singled out Tobago internal self-governance,
00:38:35campaign finance reform,
00:38:37and the EBC report on the review and recommendations of constituencies
00:38:40and boundaries as major items to be put before the parliament
00:38:44in the coming months.
00:38:46We are joined by political commentator and former government minister,
00:38:49Ralph Maraj, this morning.
00:38:51Mr. Maraj, always good to speak with you.
00:38:53Thank you very much for joining us this morning.
00:38:55Thank you very much, Marlon.
00:38:58Always good to be here with you as well.
00:39:00Yeah.
00:39:01Mr. Maraj, as you look at the political landscape, as it were,
00:39:04what do you think are some of the major issues for the electorate right now?
00:39:08I think, well, Marlon, the real issue here is the state of the country
00:39:17and the level of crime, unprecedented murders, murder levels.
00:39:24We have the sixth highest crime rate in the world.
00:39:28This country of 1.4 million has a higher crime rate than New York
00:39:33City, and nothing has really been done.
00:39:37Nothing has really been done.
00:39:39And in the economy, we are floundering.
00:39:43We are at the edge of a precipice.
00:39:45We have no new revenue streams.
00:39:47We have a budget deficit.
00:39:49We will have a budget deficit this year of $9 billion, and that will grow
00:39:55because there's no new revenue coming in because of the drop in energy prices
00:40:02and this government knew this was going to happen since 2015 when we had a
00:40:08$40 billion drop in revenue from structural changes in the energy sector globally
00:40:18so that there was the need for new revenue streams, another way of saying
00:40:23diversification, but it did absolutely nothing.
00:40:26Nothing is happening after 10 years on the economy as well.
00:40:31There's dysfunctionality also in all of the government institutions.
00:40:36So these three major indicators, the crime which stems from the social decay
00:40:42that is rampant in this country, the economy which is floundering and on the
00:40:50edge of the precipice, and institutional decay where nothing seems to be working
00:40:55to its maximum level from the delivery of justice to the removal of garbage.
00:41:03You know, nothing seems to be working.
00:41:05So this has really been a decade of darkness under the Keith Rowley administration.
00:41:12They have been there for almost 10 years, and this is the state that we are in.
00:41:15And for me, that is the most important issue that we are facing in the country today.
00:41:21Yesterday, the Prime Minister had a news conference and he spoke about a number of things, Mr. Miraj.
00:41:27One of them making the headlines this morning,
00:41:30Prime Minister, don't blame me for crime.
00:41:33Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has said he is not to be blamed for crime in this country.
00:41:37As he lamented, there are devils in society who would look at a 5-year-old child and kill her.
00:41:44He says, unfortunately, we have those in this country.
00:41:47That's what we're dealing with.
00:41:48And don't give them any pass in trying to blame me,
00:41:51because I have the responsibility to ensure that those whose job it is to identify
00:41:56and to chase down and to bring them to justice, that they are on the job.
00:42:02He says, that's my work.
00:42:04That's my job, according to the Prime Minister.
00:42:08Well, you know, nothing can be more laughable or absurd than that statement by the Prime Minister
00:42:16that he shouldn't be blamed for the crime levels in the country.
00:42:21This is after 10 years of leadership.
00:42:24It has been faulty leadership in the extreme.
00:42:29If you have the level of crime that has risen under your 10-year watch,
00:42:36to the sixth highest in the world, you know, over 5,000 murders,
00:42:42robberies, home invasions, rape, you know, violence generally in the country,
00:42:50how can you say to the population that you are not to be blamed?
00:42:54You ought to have had plans in place to do something about this.
00:43:00You should have arrested it very early.
00:43:02And I've always pointed, and I'm going to point again, to his colleague in Jamaica.
00:43:07We all know the reputation that Jamaica had for levels of crime.
00:43:12Andrew Holness came to office almost at the same time as Keith Rowley.
00:43:18And early in his career, he said to the population,
00:43:23I will lead the fight against the crime level to make Jamaica secure.
00:43:29He led the charge.
00:43:31What has Keith Rowley been doing?
00:43:34Advocating all the time, blaming everybody under the sun,
00:43:39the parents, the community, the police, the schools.
00:43:44Now he's even blaming the criminals themselves for being criminals.
00:43:48I mean, it is absurd.
00:43:50It is utterly absurd for him to be making the statement that he is not responsible.
00:43:56Look at what Holness has done.
00:43:59He has brought together the police and the army, the Jamaican Defense Force.
00:44:07Under law, he has created in Jamaica zones of special operations.
00:44:14Zones of special operations, ZOZO, if you want to call it that.
00:44:18And he has given this combination of police and army powers to go in a particular zone.
00:44:27I think he has divided the country into seven regions to go in these particular zones.
00:44:33And under emergency powers, to arrest the crime levels in the country,
00:44:40the gang activity, the murders, all serious crimes.
00:44:44And what has happened? What has happened?
00:44:47This year, Holness reported to his parliament,
00:44:51the lowest crime level in Jamaica in 24 years.
00:44:56You know what I mean? That is leadership.
00:44:59That is leadership that Rowley has not exercised in this country.
00:45:04He has been a miserable failure.
00:45:06I mean, it is sad to say it.
00:45:08And now he's looking to duck responsibility for it.
00:45:12In Jamaica, the crime levels are down, right?
00:45:17And the gangs have been reduced and so on.
00:45:20What has Rowley done? What has he done?
00:45:22Mr. Miraj, please stay with us. We are going to a very short break.
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00:48:45Alright, so welcome back everyone.
00:48:57So we are continuing our discussion on the political landscape.
00:49:00Of course, Mr. Ralph Mirage, political commentator and a former government minister,
00:49:06he's still with us as we discuss the politics of the day.
00:49:09But you know, Mr. Mirage, I think that there could be an argument by the government.
00:49:15That it has expended billions of dollars over the years to deal with the crime situation.
00:49:20I'm sure that they are going to say that they have initiated a number of programs too.
00:49:26They have outfitted the police with equipment.
00:49:30Just touching on some of the things that the Prime Minister said yesterday.
00:49:33He said National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hines can tell about the number of areas
00:49:37with which the state is engaged in trying to suppress criminal conduct in this country.
00:49:42Of course, recently you had the appointment of Keith Scotland to be this liaison between the government and the police.
00:49:49So I suspect that government can bring a number of arguments, Mr. Mirage, to what you would have said earlier.
00:49:57And the main argument, the main answer to that is that in spite of what they say they have tried to do,
00:50:03it has all come to naught.
00:50:06Look at what is happening in the country today.
00:50:10Nobody feels safe.
00:50:12Crime at an unprecedented level.
00:50:15This country of 1.4 million Marlins has a higher crime rate, a higher murder rate than New York City itself.
00:50:24With 8 million people.
00:50:27We are the sixth in the world behind countries like Venezuela, Afghanistan, South Africa and so on.
00:50:36We are up there with the highest.
00:50:38So all that you want to claim that you may have done has come to naught.
00:50:43And you have failed as a government.
00:50:45If you cannot provide the citizenry with security, you have failed miserably as a government.
00:50:52And that is going to be the legacy of the last 10 years.
00:50:56So they have done nothing, nothing really, to make the country safe.
00:51:01Everything has declined.
00:51:03Everything has gone down the drain.
00:51:06Crime has risen to the highest levels in the country.
00:51:10Mr. Maraj, I'm sure that you have been looking at all of this talk over the past few weeks.
00:51:17Of course, the Prime Minister was speaking at one of his conventions recently.
00:51:23And he spoke about a number of things.
00:51:25One of the main issues that has been the talk of the town, if I can put it that way, over the past few days
00:51:31is this issue of removing Columbus's ships from the coat of arms and replacing it with the steel pan.
00:51:40I'm sure that, as I said, you have been looking at the conversation and the debate concerning this.
00:51:45What's your perspective?
00:51:47Look, I think the Prime Minister is about to leave the political landscape, leave, exit the mess that he has generally created over the last 10 years.
00:51:58And he is desperate for a legacy.
00:52:00That is what is driving Keith Rowley at this time.
00:52:04You know, out of the blue, for example, he announced a Constitution Reform Committee and appointed this committee.
00:52:13But did he prepare the country for this?
00:52:16Wasn't it ad hoc?
00:52:18Did he say what were his problems with the Constitution, what he would like to see changed?
00:52:24There are many things that need to be changed to make it a more effective Constitution.
00:52:29But Rowley did not prepare the country for anything like that.
00:52:33That was an ad hoc-looking kind of decision.
00:52:37And it is not surprising that the country was not stimulated.
00:52:42The public hearings and so on that the committee held were very, very poorly attended.
00:52:49Look what has happened to it now.
00:52:51Look what has happened to that committee.
00:52:53It has presented a report.
00:52:55Rowley has rejected a major recommendation.
00:52:57It is going to go nowhere.
00:52:59But at least it will go down in the record that Dr. Keith Rowley, as Prime Minister, tried to reform the Constitution.
00:53:07Had there been any genuine attempt and genuine understanding of the need, the very serious need, to reform our Constitution, he would have done it.
00:53:20He would have done it.
00:53:21But he had to first understand it in the first place.
00:53:24The same with this change of the ships and putting the steel pan on it.
00:53:31Now there are many arguments back and forth.
00:53:34Did he have a discussion with the population on this at all?
00:53:38Did he float this idea?
00:53:40Were there discussions with the people?
00:53:43Now we are having all of the back and forth between the two sides.
00:53:49There are some who say yes.
00:53:51There are some who say no, we shouldn't.
00:53:53Some say we can't destroy our history.
00:53:56Some say the history that we are preserving is a brutal, cruel history.
00:54:01They talk about the cost.
00:54:03They talk about the cost.
00:54:04Now Dr. Rowley is trying to answer all of this, answer the cost in that press conference that he held yesterday.
00:54:13It is all ad hoc, not decided upon, no program, course of action, no clinical analysis.
00:54:22The poor lady, Gillian Bishop, who has been chosen to do the design.
00:54:28This morning in the paper she said, I don't know what is expected of me.
00:54:33I don't know how long it is going to take.
00:54:36There are a lot of questions that she has to answer.
00:54:40She also has to report to some college of coat of arms in England and so on.
00:54:46A lot of nebulousness about this whole process.
00:54:50That is what I have seen.
00:54:52This Prime Minister is seeking a legacy.
00:54:56And that is all.
00:54:57And he has inflicted ad hoc-ism on this nation.
00:55:00And that is also going to be part of the legacy.
00:55:03Mr. Miraj, we have run out of time, but it is always a pleasure speaking with you.
00:55:07And thank you very much for your perspective this morning.
00:55:09We do appreciate it.
00:55:10Bye for now.
00:55:11Thank you.
00:55:12Thank you very much, Mark.
00:55:13It is time for a quick break, everybody.
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00:58:18Good morning, I am Ansel Gibbs with a news update.
00:58:27The government has asked designer and artist Jillian Bishop to come up with renderings of the new look coat of arms.
00:58:35Prime Minister Rowley made the announcement on Wednesday.
00:58:38If it was done like today, and said, as of today, only the new emblem, it would mean that all the millions of dollars of stationery across the government and elsewhere would be useless.
00:58:51So we believe that in a six month period, you would have been restocking.
00:58:57And when you restock, you should be able, at the end of that, sometime during that six month period, to know that a new emblem is approved.
00:59:06That's why the cabinet will move quickly to approve it.
00:59:12Investigations are continuing into the shooting death of 16-year-old Aaliyah Santo.
00:59:17Police say she was shot and killed at her Wallerfield home on Wednesday morning while liming with friends.
00:59:23Her mother spoke with reporters.
00:59:26One last conversation I will tell Aaliyah.
00:59:29Aaliyah, it's better to have no friends and be by yourself.
00:59:34Than to have plenty of friends and you can't trust them.
00:59:38Because they are not your friends.
00:59:42And in the weather forecast, expect a few light to moderate showers with a medium chance of these showers becoming heavy and or thundery during late morning to early afternoon.
00:59:53Temperatures are expected to climb to 33 degrees Celsius in Trinidad and 32 in Tobago.
01:00:00Seas will be moderate with waves from 1.5 meters in open waters and up to 1 meter and occasionally choppy in sheltered areas.
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01:05:55Look at people in here tonight.
01:06:00I miss you running through my mind.
01:06:05All right, everybody.
01:06:07So, welcome back.
01:06:08So, Resol RS has set up shop in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:06:12Now, the company provides a range of products and services, primarily focusing on Rockwell Automation Solutions.
01:06:20All right, so we are joined this morning by Vice President at Resol RS, Gerardo Ayala.
01:06:26And we also have on the line with us Andres Felipe Valderrama Concha, Territory Sales Manager at Rockwell Automation.
01:06:35Gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us this morning.
01:06:39No, Marlon.
01:06:40Thank you to you.
01:06:41Very nice to be in your program, and hello to all your audience.
01:06:45Yes.
01:06:46So, Gerardo, let's begin with you because, you know, I've been reading a bit about your company.
01:06:54And to me, I'm just saying, Gerardo, it sounds a bit technical.
01:06:58So, I want you to explain to our viewers this morning and give them a clear picture as to the business that you are in and the service that you are offering.
01:07:10Yes, of course.
01:07:11Thank you very much.
01:07:12So, Resol is a company that's been, you know, established in Mexico and acquired a couple of years ago by the RS Group PLC from London.
01:07:25We've been an industrial distributor for 50 years in the Mexican market.
01:07:31And we have been expanding in the last couple of years to different regions, especially in the Caribbean, with a presence in the Dominican Republic, and now starting our operations in Trinidad.
01:07:43Our focus has been to be a rubber distributors for the last 30 years, and very focused in providing solutions to the industry, basically, with, you know, with the structure of engineers, sales engineers that can really provide a support hand on hand with the customers, with the end users, you know, and provide, again, different solutions on, basically, in the core of automation and control, you know, and power distribution.
01:08:14And some other solutions that can, you know, be part of all the needs that you can find in the industry, let's say like that, right?
01:08:24And excited, very excited to be now part of this region, you know, and establishing our operations in Trinidad, where we see a lot of opportunities in the near future.
01:08:36Yeah, and Andres, I want to speak, I don't want to get off the issue of the service as yet.
01:08:44When we speak about your services, the services are for what type of businesses?
01:08:52Okay, thank you.
01:08:53Good morning, everyone, first of all, and thank you for the opportunity for being live in Trinidad.
01:08:59We, as a vendor, as Rockwell Automation, we provide services for mainly all industrial complexes and industries, of course.
01:09:10Basically, in Trinidad, given the market that you guys have, which is mostly oil and gas industries, we do have services that range from products, of course, hardware, from a very small device up to a complete system that controls all the facility and all the process.
01:09:33And that, of course, is completed with all the software solutions that give the hardware life, of course, and all the project and services.
01:09:47One very important aspect of how we serve the market is our market access model, basically, in which we have very strategic partners.
01:09:56Like in this case, Resul RS, which is our limited and exclusive distributor for Trinidad and Tobago.
01:10:06They provide basically all of our products to the market only through that channel.
01:10:13And we also have system integrators that help us deliver the solutions for the Trinidadian market.
01:10:21Yeah. Gerardo, let's speak a little bit about the benefits to the organization when it uses your services.
01:10:32Yes, well, of course. I mean, we are developing a local team, of course, of engineers here in Trinidad where we see a lot of talent and opportunity.
01:10:41So what we're building right now is a group of sales engineers and product specialists is how we call it.
01:10:51Engineers specialize in specific solutions that can really provide an added value to our customers.
01:10:58So it's more or less following a structure that we have all around our different territories.
01:11:04You know, as I say, in the Dominican Republic, we have the talent there, the local team, you know, supported by some other functions from Mexico where we have a big structure.
01:11:15In Mexico, we are around over 600 people, you know, and we're starting here in Trinidad with a local team.
01:11:22Again, with very local engineers that understand that they have experience in the local business.
01:11:26And, of course, our area of opportunity. And what we want is to develop, you know, this local team of engineers here that can help us grow the market and, of course, serve the big industry that we see and continue its development in Trinidad.
01:11:45And, you know, Andres, when companies think about investing, they do want a good return on their investment.
01:11:56That's just how business is. Right. Right. Andres.
01:12:00So let's look at that, how it impacts the bottom line positively for an organization.
01:12:07And let's talk a little bit about how this system has worked in other countries where you all are operating.
01:12:16That's a very good question. And basically, as you said, every industrial business is a profit business, of course.
01:12:25And the investment in technology cannot be vanity. It has to produce results for them.
01:12:32And how we approach the market is basically through value in any of the solutions that we provide.
01:12:41We, of course, understand all of the different industries, given if it's oil and gas or consumer products or the infrastructure for a country like water, energy, et cetera.
01:12:56And we understand the main challenges that they usually have in terms of managing their production, given if it's water, energy, oil, food or anything else.
01:13:10And given the right solution, the right solution for the right specific market and the right specific problems or challenges that they may have.
01:13:22Behind that, as Gerardo was saying, we also have a team of very talented professionals that go from the consultancy stages, understanding the problem or the challenge, up to delivering the solution.
01:13:40Of course, complementing all of that with all of the partners that we have to provide the services in the market, as I mentioned before.
01:13:49Yeah. And Gerardo, I'm sure that before your introduction into the market, I'm sure that there was an assessment, an analysis of the market.
01:13:59I'm sure that you would have seen certain challenges in this market and you decided to set up shop here, as it were.
01:14:09What are some of the challenges that you think that you can assist companies here with to overcome them?
01:14:16I mean, it's part of the excitement, right, when you want to go and expand all the challenges that you face.
01:14:25But we take them also as opportunities.
01:14:28For us, the most important thing is the people, the team that we get together.
01:14:37We train them and our challenge is to earn the customer trust in what we can supply to them.
01:14:47For them to trust that we are going to go and offer a specific solution that can really solve what they want to overcome or to improve in their manufacturing processes or in general in the industry.
01:15:01So for us, as you say, we did an assessment in hand with Rockwell, but we believe that there's a lot of opportunity.
01:15:10The industry is growing. The oil and gas industry is strong, you know, and we want to be partners.
01:15:19And not only with Rockwell, the idea is that we're working in incorporating more manufacturers and brands that we can represent here.
01:15:26Again, very high tech solutions so we can provide an added value, you know.
01:15:32So the challenge is basically to earn the customer trust in what we can offer in hand with Rockwell and his team and their team, I'm sorry.
01:15:42And again, to earn the trust of the customers for them to know that what we're offering is the best solution that they can find.
01:15:51Yeah. And Andres, how do people get in touch with you all?
01:15:56That's a great question as well.
01:15:58Sorry.
01:16:00We have the local presence now in Trinidad.
01:16:03Gerardo can give out the details of the location and of course the contact numbers and everything.
01:16:10From our side, Rockwell Automation, we're going to have somebody as well covering the region locally.
01:16:20We have service engineers in sight as well.
01:16:25And all of the traditional electronic channels are open, of course, you know.
01:16:30Yeah.
01:16:32Internet and so on.
01:16:34Yeah. Gerardo, any final comments?
01:16:36No. I mean, just basically, we're going to establish in the Gulfview area, you know, in a sales office there that we will start to let our customers know.
01:16:47We have, again, a small but very talented group of professionals that we have put together as a starting point.
01:16:55As our leader of this team is Mark Molina.
01:17:01And, you know, he can be found in the following number, if you don't mind.
01:17:06Of course. Go ahead, Gerardo.
01:17:08It's 868-782-4726.
01:17:13But more than, basically, where we're going to be established is that you're going to see us around.
01:17:20We're going to start doing a lot of visits.
01:17:22Our part is to be on the field, to be on hand-on-hand with the customers, you know, with the users.
01:17:27So, basically, what I want to say is to thank you.
01:17:30Thank you to Rockwell for the support.
01:17:32And thank you for, you know, the Trinidad and Tobago government and, you know, and customers for opening us this opportunity for us to serve, you know, the industry.
01:17:46Gentlemen, it was a pleasure speaking with you all.
01:17:48Thank you very much. We do appreciate it.
01:17:50Bye for now.
01:17:52Bye. Thank you.
01:17:54All right. We are going to a very short break, everybody.
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01:19:55Alright, so you're calling us on 623-1711.
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01:20:00So you can please call us now.
01:20:02As I always tell you, we do have a lot to speak about in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:20:06And a lot of things I'm sure that you want to get off your chest.
01:20:10But let's zoom in on this death of Aaliyah Santu.
01:20:18Alright, so at this time, the police are investigating.
01:20:21They have already questioned people.
01:20:24Alright, so here's what. Let me stick up in there.
01:20:26Powder Magazine is on the line.
01:20:28Powder Magazine, good morning.
01:20:30Good morning.
01:20:32I want to extend happy independence.
01:20:3462nd independence of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
01:20:38And to you personally and your station.
01:20:41Marlon, I'm sorry to start on this sad note.
01:20:46But Marlon, my heart is wrenching this morning.
01:20:49When I see our next young person have been killed.
01:20:55So senseless.
01:20:57In Antigua Road in Komooto.
01:20:59I know that area well because I used to work at the camp not too far away in Komooto Barracks.
01:21:05And Marlon, you know, about two weeks ago,
01:21:08we heard about the death of the five-year-old child who got five bullets to her face.
01:21:13Marlon, I want to know where are we going with this kind of crime?
01:21:17And this kind of hatred and bitterness and what is happening in this society today?
01:21:25I mean, we are celebrating in the next 40 hours.
01:21:28We'll be celebrating our 62nd anniversary of independence.
01:21:33Independence is a very serious thing.
01:21:35And Marlon, we ain't going away at all.
01:21:38We're just going around, going around in circles.
01:21:41This crime is out of control.
01:21:44And we're having all kinds of discussions about all kinds of other things.
01:21:49I'm not dealing with safety.
01:21:51Marlon, you could have 10 houses, 10 cars, 10 everything, a PhD, whatever you have.
01:21:57And you don't have safety.
01:21:59You're not alive, Marlon.
01:22:00It makes no sense.
01:22:02And I don't know if the government is aware of this, you know.
01:22:04I don't know.
01:22:06Because they will go on the platform and talk all kinds of different things.
01:22:09I'm not dealing with crime.
01:22:11I am saying we are unsafe.
01:22:12And this will be on the front burner in all discussions.
01:22:17All these things about coat of arms and all those things.
01:22:20Marlon, safety is the important thing right now.
01:22:22And I want the Prime Minister this morning to know that.
01:22:25Safety of the population is very, very important.
01:22:29Anything that could come after.
01:22:31Safety.
01:22:32When an old person in the house, you beat them up, you kill them, you rob them.
01:22:35Roads of invasion all over this country.
01:22:37And now they're talking about coats of arms and all these things.
01:22:39These things will do nothing for me, Marlon.
01:22:40Thank you very much.
01:22:42So passionate.
01:22:44Thank you.
01:22:46There is absolutely nothing wrong with your contribution this morning, sir.
01:22:49I think that many people in Trinidad and Tobago feel the same way.
01:22:54Yeah, that something has to be done about the situation.
01:22:57And as you know, I have been speaking about crime for many, many years now on TV6.
01:23:05And I don't see things as a number.
01:23:10And I think that sometimes we just see it as a number.
01:23:13Well, this death is 102 or whatever.
01:23:17But that person has a mother, a father.
01:23:20They have relatives.
01:23:22And we need to look at the way that this is.
01:23:24I'm hearing you all.
01:23:26Well, I'm talking to my producer.
01:23:28She's shouting in my ear, right?
01:23:29So I'm just saying we need to look at the impact that it is having on the family.
01:23:36It is destroying families.
01:23:38Let's take the call.
01:23:40Good morning, caller.
01:23:42Caller, are you there?
01:23:44Caller?
01:23:47All right.
01:23:49The person gone?
01:23:51Yeah, but then you're shouting in my ear.
01:23:53Caller, caller, caller.
01:23:55What is wrong with him?
01:23:57Yeah?
01:23:59Caller?
01:24:01Caller?
01:24:03Yes, take down the volume on the television setter so that you can hear me.
01:24:06Go ahead, sir.
01:24:08All right, go ahead.
01:24:30Take an example from that.
01:24:32I assure you know who these three or four ministers are talking about, eh?
01:24:35And they have evidence, not information.
01:24:37Evidence.
01:24:39And they're not arresting them and charging them.
01:24:42Wanted money.
01:24:44All right, don't call anyone's name here.
01:24:47What I do know, sir, is that I don't know that any commissioner,
01:24:55any minister of national security,
01:24:57any prime minister, any government, as it relates to crime,
01:25:04I don't know that anyone has gotten the desired results.
01:25:11Yeah?
01:25:13I have said in the past that this has been a problem that we looked at
01:25:18and we allowed it to fester and grow over the past 30 years.
01:25:24And I think that any government can say, well, they're trying, they're trying, they're trying.
01:25:30But again, all it looks to me that it is being addressed in an ad hoc way.
01:25:36Yeah?
01:25:38And there has to be a more analytical, decisive way to deal with this problem.
01:25:42All right?
01:25:44We're coming back, everybody.
01:25:46We're talking WCPL when we come back.
01:25:47We'll be right back.
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01:27:46Verdict.
01:27:47On that basis.
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01:28:17All right, everybody, so welcome back.
01:28:32Of course, we are discussing WCPL.
01:28:36So it's time for a segment.
01:28:38As you all know, by now, today at 3 p.m., the WCPL finale is on at the Brian Lauer Cricket
01:28:45Academy, where we will see the reigning champions, Barbados Royals, take on the home team, Trindago
01:28:52Knight Riders.
01:28:53As such, we've got a review, a show today, and we'll be taking a look at some highlights
01:28:58from the group stage of the tournament.
01:28:59And we also have an interview with the Barbados captain, Hayley Matthews, which was done on
01:29:04Monday afternoon by Dominic Ramrup, right?
01:29:07But before we get started, let's take a look at what both captains had to say ahead of
01:29:13today's match.
01:29:15Captain of the Trindago Knight Riders women, Deandra Dutton, said they believed that they
01:29:19could reach the final because they've been putting in the hard work.
01:29:22Well, to be honest, it's been quite hard coming from the back, but I think that it's been
01:29:28very exciting.
01:29:29We actually kept the positive side on and we like more believe in ourselves that we
01:29:37could get to the final.
01:29:38So we just continue putting in the hard work and improving each game.
01:29:42She also praised Jemima Rodrigues for her knock of 59 not out.
01:29:45It was a gem of an innings, to be honest.
01:29:48She actually stood there and backed through.
01:29:51And that's something that we express on in the team that one of the players in the top
01:29:57four should back through and see the team home or see the end of, if you're batting
01:30:03first, see the end of the 20 overs.
01:30:05But to be honest, I love how she played.
01:30:08She manoeuvred and she manipulated the field a lot and that was really good.
01:30:13She actually played to her strengths.
01:30:15She also believes that the future is bright for women in the sport, with Samara Ramnat
01:30:19and others putting in top performances.
01:30:22Performances are very outstanding.
01:30:24Samara Ranath, she speaks highly in her interviews on how she wants to improve and she's hungry
01:30:29and wants to take more international players' wickets.
01:30:32You're actually seeing that as well, as well as Zeda, actually putting in the hard work
01:30:37and wanting to do well along Samara Ranath.
01:30:41I think it's very good for West Indies cricket and cricket in the Caribbean to see that these
01:30:47young ones are actually improving and they are determined as well and they want to be
01:30:55great and they want to get outside there in the international ring to play amongst other
01:31:01teams that are Australian and that's what is very, very good.
01:31:04Her opposite number, Barbados Royals women's captain Hayley Matthews says she is happy
01:31:09to be through to the final despite defeat.
01:31:12I think we've played really well.
01:31:14We've been pretty convincing for the entire season.
01:31:17I think even last night, a few players having a rest and we were still able to take the
01:31:22game down to the last over.
01:31:24So I feel like we've been in really good spirits within the group, but we've also been playing
01:31:29some really good crickets and having contributions from all over.
01:31:32She's hoping they can win the final.
01:31:34We've got a pretty good record here at Brantlower Cricket Ground, obviously winning three of
01:31:39our four here so far for the year and going pretty.
01:31:42Sergio Dufort, TV6 News.
01:31:45That was Deandra Doughton and Hayley Matthews, the respective captains of the teams in today's
01:31:51WCPL final.
01:31:53Well, let's look back now at some highlights from the tournament so far as some of the
01:31:57best shots from some of the ladies.
01:32:27Here's another.
01:32:32Lovely from Jemima Rodrigues, that is a strength of hers and she starts the over perfectly.
01:32:44Really tossing it up and Effie Fletcher goes after it, first ball, Chloe Tryon tries to
01:32:49parry it back into the boundary rope but can't do it.
01:32:53Laura Harris can give it a crack and there's a great example of it.
01:32:58A Massey maximum.
01:33:02Beautiful use of the feet.
01:33:08Use of the feet has been very effective for Shikapunde in this innings and it continues
01:33:13to be with a Massey maximum.
01:33:20She got all of this.
01:33:22Nobody move.
01:33:23No, there'll be no catching this one.
01:33:30Dee Dough is back with a Massey maximum and a 50.
01:33:38Nah, just a smidgen of room and Hayley Matthews is different.
01:33:45Missed a length for the first time in the over.
01:33:53Launched up and over, very nice into the offside and a much needed boundary.
01:34:04It's a beautiful shot.
01:34:06Just so nicely into the offside, commanding.
01:34:12Otherwise if she gives it room, that will be the touch.
01:34:19That's a beautiful shot.
01:34:21Samarith Rama getting into the action.
01:34:24That's a good swing of the bat and that will go all the way.
01:34:32Flicked away and very whippy from Deandra Dutting.
01:34:39Aggression again, boundary again.
01:34:46That's a good shot.
01:34:47That's down the ground.
01:34:48It will be a one bounce four.
01:34:50Oh, it's a full toss and what a shot in the end to be able to clear the boundary.
01:34:58Natasha McLean punches the glove of Erin Burns.
01:35:05What a shot.
01:35:06What a way to end the power play.
01:35:15Excellent effort.
01:35:16Where the feeler was previously.
01:35:22Well, I don't know if they needed to look that nervous.
01:35:29How was that?
01:35:32Some nice shots there.
01:35:33All right.
01:35:34So here's one.
01:35:35The finals take place today at 3 p.m. at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.
01:35:41All right.
01:35:42So we are going to a very short break.
01:35:43We'll be back with more on the WCPL.
01:35:58We're all in.
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01:41:34So welcome back.
01:41:35So we are continuing our coverage of some of the matches,
01:41:39some of the WCPL matches.
01:41:41Of course, today we do have the finals at the Brian Lauer Cricket Academy
01:41:46at 3pm.
01:41:48All right.
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01:41:57So let's take a look now at our interview from Monday.
01:42:00Let's take a look now at our interview from Monday
01:42:02with West Indies Women's and Barbados Royals captain Hayley Matthews.
01:42:08And there's some CPL stuff now.
01:42:10You guys have won two from two.
01:42:12How good do you think your chances are of winning the tournament?
01:42:15Yes, well, I think we've been playing really well for the first half of the camp.
01:42:19There's obviously still two more games to go,
01:42:21and the board is getting a bit closer after the game last night.
01:42:25But, yes, I think we've been in pretty good stead.
01:42:28I think the way that we won the last game and how comfortable it was,
01:42:32it definitely helps with the confidence within the group.
01:42:35I just think when we look at our lineup, we have a really good overall team.
01:42:39The internationals that we have in fill in the gaps really well.
01:42:44We have so many options with the bowling, which makes my life a lot easier.
01:42:48But at the same time, we have batting that goes right down to 9 or 10 as well.
01:42:51So I think when we do look at the balance, we're in pretty good stead.
01:42:54But at the same time, T20 cricket is a game that's played on the day,
01:42:58and anyone can win it.
01:42:59So we'll still have to come and play our A game every single time.
01:43:03So, you know, Haley, they say in tournaments you have to have that one loss
01:43:07before the number one team.
01:43:09Any sort of thoughts on that about perhaps is it coming or no?
01:43:15But news for the final, that could be the day that it happens.
01:43:17Yes, I mean, I'm not thinking about that.
01:43:19I feel as though a game of cricket,
01:43:22every time you come to the ground or you step out of the crease,
01:43:25you've got to start fresh every single time.
01:43:27And I don't feel as though the game before or the game after ever matters.
01:43:32It's about what you're doing right there and then in the moment.
01:43:34So hopefully we can get through the group stage without bearing a defeat.
01:43:40And, yeah, hopefully we're able to break that chain of people saying
01:43:43that you need to have a loss first as well.
01:43:47Of course, you've been consistent.
01:43:49What has been at the forefront for the Barbados Royals this year so far?
01:43:53Aspirations for play every tournament?
01:43:56I mean, I guess looking at the numbers, you would say that I'm up for the running.
01:44:00But I try not to think about those things when I am playing.
01:44:02I feel as though if I go out there and I perform and I do what I'm supposed to do,
01:44:07like I said earlier, all the accolades and the rewards from it are going to come naturally.
01:44:11So at the moment, I just focused on going out there and doing as well as I can
01:44:15and hopefully leading from the front.
01:44:17And, yeah, if I manage to get some runs and score some wickets in the process of that
01:44:23and happen to get the MVP, then so be it.
01:44:25But definitely not saying that that's what I'm aiming for.
01:44:29At the moment, I'm just trying to win some cricket games and perform really well.
01:44:32And what did it mean to you as a B-Gen girl representing Barbados Royals
01:44:36to win back-to-back WCPL titles?
01:44:38Yeah, it means everything.
01:44:39I think last year was definitely very special.
01:44:42The fact that we got to play at home before coming down to Trinidad.
01:44:45We saw the support, and I think one thing that I definitely noticed
01:44:48was the amount of young girls within the crowd in Barbados.
01:44:51So, like I have mentioned, the opportunity to be able to go out there and inspire
01:44:56is obviously huge for us.
01:44:58And I think being able to win back-to-back titles will inspire a lot of girls back home.
01:45:02So it would definitely mean a lot.
01:45:05But not only to Barbados.
01:45:06I think, too, there's so many girls that just look up to us
01:45:09and look up to the team from all around the Caribbean and all around the world.
01:45:13I think people underestimate the impact that you can have by winning a tournament,
01:45:18but you can impact so many persons by doing it as well.
01:45:21And just going back to you, who were your idols growing up?
01:45:24Who got you looking at cricket, loving cricket, players on the field?
01:45:28I'm not going to lie.
01:45:29When I was a young girl, I was a massive Australia fan.
01:45:33So I was actually a huge fan of Ricky Ponting growing up.
01:45:37There was obviously women's cricket being played at the time.
01:45:41But it wasn't as big as it is now.
01:45:43So I think when I was 7, 8, 9, really watching cricket,
01:45:47I was a huge, huge fan of Ricky Ponting coming up.
01:45:51And just lastly, what would you say to the little girl who wants to play cricket,
01:45:56who sees this as a career for herself in the future?
01:45:58What would you say to her?
01:46:00Yeah, just go out and go for your dreams.
01:46:02I certainly never thought that when I was 7 or 8,
01:46:07that I would be in the position that I am now,
01:46:10going all around the world playing cricket,
01:46:12making a good living for myself,
01:46:14all while enjoying it and having fun.
01:46:17So there's definitely an opportunity to go out there
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01:46:22Sometimes going after the sport may seem very far-fetched,
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01:46:28there's so many opportunities out there once you put in the hard work and go for it.
01:46:33Thanks so much, Aidy.
01:46:34Thank you.
01:46:36Alright, so Hayley Matthews in that interview done by Dominic Ramlope there.
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01:53:19so we showed you some beautiful shots earlier from a girl so
01:53:23let's now show some bowlers and fielders some love too
01:53:28oh looking for the blocker ishmael and she so often
01:53:33finds the stumps
01:53:37chopped it on ishmael has two in the over
01:53:44bold next ball well what a comeback what a return a pretty good celebration as
01:53:51well let's ask for clean well it's a night you'll want to forget
01:53:55fine
01:53:57cleaned up heron burns continues a wonderful time here in the caribbean
01:54:07out to the leg side work for sherry and fraser to do this time around
01:54:11she takes a wonderful grab
01:54:18taken
01:54:21going leg side and amanda jade wellington diving to her
01:54:26left hand side takes a lovely catch
01:54:30a visa classic catch from the australian
01:54:38a little bit of confusion here as well direct it and celebration absolutely
01:54:42brilliant
01:54:45oh that's wonderful bowling from shamelia connell she's
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01:55:00um just to keep that scoreboard ticking over
01:55:04boulder cleaned up bang on target from atapatu exactly what the barbados royals
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01:55:14awesome we get first ball great catch all right just to tell you that the
01:55:19final gets underway at three o'clock today at the brian lara cricket academy
01:55:24all right everybody so see you tomorrow have a good day bye for now
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