UNC: Trinidad is burning because of crime

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UNC: Trinidad is burning because of crime

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Sean Sobers - PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE United National Congress (UNC) member and former temporary senator Sean Sobers said TT is burning and the Government is failing to address the country’s “spiralling crime situation.” Sobers also pointedly asked what was going on in south Trinidad. Sobers, along with St Augustine MP Khadijah Ameen, addressed the country’s crime situation at its weekly press briefing on Sunday at its Charles Street, Port […]

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