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Former Temporary Independent Senator, former Police Service Commission member, and Seventh-day Adventist pastor Clive Dottin says T&T is now operating in survival mode, as crime intensifies across the country.

He warns that while laws exist, enforcement is weakening, and in some communities, silence and complicity are allowing criminal behaviour to persist.

Nicole M Romany has the story.
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00:00SDA pastor and activist Clive Dutton says the country has crossed a critical threshold
00:07where survival, not stability, is now shaping daily life.
00:11A lot of children are living in survival mode and we are the ones to take them out of that.
00:17The disease has spread, the cancer is in stage four metastasis condition.
00:24He argues that the criminal justice framework is not failing because of a lack of laws,
00:31but because of weak and inconsistent enforcement on the ground.
00:36Although there is the law, but the implementation and practicalizing and operationalizing of the law is where the problem is.
00:44The former senator also referenced the ongoing search in Tobago for the missing two year old.
00:50You have the very heartbreaking and traumatic situation with young Angelo.
00:57And like we cannot make a move as yet in terms of finding out who is really responsible for that
01:05child.
01:06All right. Disappearing into thin air. Who is really responsible?
01:11And may I suggest to you, I ask the question, who will be held responsible?
01:15He says more should have been done.
01:18So obviously the biological father is out of the immediate environment.
01:23All right. And maybe has been out for a good while.
01:27Whatever the social psychosocial dynamics in that situation,
01:32you have a child who I would dare say needed protection and didn't get the protection the child should have
01:40gotten.
01:40Pastor Dutton tells the morning edition silence is especially dangerous when it comes to child protection,
01:47noting that vulnerable children are often placed at greater risk when wrongdoing is ignored or concealed.
01:56Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
01:59we front here for you. We
01:59go to make a video out of the country. How
02:00are we going to do that? Productive
02:00kingdoms. Oh. How are we going
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