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  • 8 months ago
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port of Spain Jason Gordon weighs in on the state of society, the general election and the ongoing crime situation.

He was speaking on the Tv6 Morning Edition earlier.

Nicole M Romany has more.
Transcript
00:00Archbishop Jason Gordon stresses that come April 29th, all sectors of the population still have to live together.
00:10As such, he says, we should not allow race politics to cause division during the election season.
00:16And if we allow leaders who want to get a vote to use race or class or whatever they use to vote, as opposed to, let's debate the real issues.
00:31There are three real issues in this country. Crime is the number one. I could say crime, crime and crime. That's a real issue in this country.
00:40Archbishop Gordon believes more focus should be placed on the depressed communities in order to cripple the criminals.
00:48The second real issue that is feeding the crime is a poor model of development that we have used over the last 40 years.
00:58We have used economic development of the nation and we have not understood development is a sustainable development of our most poor communities.
01:07The crime is being fed by the underdevelopment of poor communities in this country.
01:13He is also calling for a revamping of the education system, saying we have a 19th century mentality for students in a 21st century digital world.
01:24And that has to change.
01:27Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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