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Opposition Senator Faris Al-Rawi says, T&T's engagement with US Southcom is nothing new, but what is new is this government's use of back-to-back SOEs as a crime-fighting plan. Al-Rawi says if the government wants to truly address the crime situation, it must do so through stronger legislation, which he notes requires parliamentary support.
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00:00When you're passing simple majority laws, it means that the severe mechanisms that you can use with a special majority
00:06are not included.
00:07I believe that you need to go to court with evidence. Catch and release is not evidence.
00:13You're catching it for five days, for three months, you're sending it home, it's going to come back.
00:18But when I was Attorney General and when our government was in effect, the UNC did not support anything to
00:25deal with getting evidence for criminal courts.
00:28They did not support witness protection, they did not support whistleblowing laws, they did not support operations for undercover agencies,
00:37they did not support follow your money into tax and criminality, they did not support the revenue authority where you
00:43would find unexplained wealth.
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