Travel Advisory for T&T.....AGAIN....

[Redlum08]

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161513461

How lovely, T&T continues to be on the watch list for places NOT to visit due to the current and ongoing, seemingly endless crime wave that is just devastating to the citizens but also tourists that visit and spend money there...when will the nonsense STOP. This is ridiculous! 

[W1nTry]

I am almost willing to bet that it's a TRINI in tobago that commited the crime. Tobagonians aren't usually bad ppl (compared to trinis) and it's the influence of the rogue element in Trinidad spilling over into TObago AND even the rest of our caribbean neighbours. I remember going grenada and guys there telling me that the police recently stopped a crime ring that was led by trinis.... that is NOT the kind of thing you want to hear when you visit another caribbean island.... GOD! and what are our leaders doing about it? well supposedly all they can, but when will they REALLY do what it takes? when tobago has no revenue? when Carnival is completely tainted by innumerous violent crimes? what will it take?

[woodyear99]

Hmm I was told Barbados does not publish much of their crime in the local media for fear of harming their tourist industry, in Trinidad the major headlines point to crimes such as murders and rapes. Just an observation.

I was trying to directly compare Barbados' crimes stats with ours but did not find too much, do not know how reliable the info is on the nationmaster site though the "interesting facts - crime" section are interesting hehe.....lol at "Venezuela is one of the happiest and most murderous places in the world."
I wonder if Chavez had anything to do with that :p

Barbados
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/country/bb-barbados/cri-crime&all=1

Trinidad
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/country/td-trinidad-and-tobago/cri-crime&all=1

http://www.nationmaster.com/facts/Crime

    *  You're 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA than in France
    * If you're in Montserrat, watch your back! Nearly 1% of the population are police officers.
    * Per capita, South Africa has the most assaults, rapes, and murders with firearms.
    * Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China.
    * America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation.
    * Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia.
    * Venezuela is one of the happiest and most murderous places in the world.
    * Russia has almost twice as many judges and magistrates as the United States. Meanwhile, the United States has 8 times as much crime.
    * In the Maldives, there are more than 2 jails for every 1000 people.
    * One in every three Australians is a victim of crime.
    * Saudi diplomats have 367 unpaid parking fines in Britain.
    * In pure number terms, more crimes are committed in America than in any other nation. The same goes for burglaries, car thefts, rapes and assaults.
    * The United States puts 0.7 % of its population in Prison - a vastly higher percentage than any other nation.
    * India’s criminal courts acquitted over a million defendants in 1999, more than the next 48 surveyed countries combined.
    * Women make up more than 10% of the prison population in only six countries: Thailand, , Qatar, Paraguay, Costa Rica, and Singapore.
    * People trust Swedes! Swedish companies are the world’s least-likely to be perceived as paying bribes.
    * 84% of people in Finland feel that they are at a low risk of experiencing a burglary - but just look at how many burglaries they have!

[Nephilim]

i wanna see the article you get the facts quoted from please

if you just take the numbers into consideration.. Trinidad have like a million+ ppl, Barbados has like what, 300k...just by probability living in Trinidad you have a higher chance to run into a bandit.

[woodyear99]

Yeah updated, hmm most murderous countries (per capita) Jamaica is pretty bad

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

# 1       Colombia:     0.617847 per 1,000 people      
# 2      South Africa:    0.496008 per 1,000 people     
# 3      Jamaica:    0.324196 per 1,000 people     
# 4      Venezuela:    0.316138 per 1,000 people     
# 5      Russia:    0.201534 per 1,000 people     
# 6      Mexico:    0.130213 per 1,000 people     
# 7      Estonia:    0.107277 per 1,000 people     
# 8      Latvia:    0.10393 per 1,000 people     
# 9      Lithuania:    0.102863 per 1,000 people     
# 10      Belarus:    0.0983495 per 1,000 people     
# 11      Ukraine:    0.094006 per 1,000 people     
# 12      Papua New Guinea:    0.0838593 per 1,000 people     
# 13      Kyrgyzstan:    0.0802565 per 1,000 people     
# 14      Thailand:    0.0800798 per 1,000 people     
# 15      Moldova:    0.0781145 per 1,000 people     
# 16      Zimbabwe:    0.0749938 per 1,000 people     
# 17      Seychelles:    0.0739025 per 1,000 people     
# 18      Zambia:    0.070769 per 1,000 people     
# 19      Costa Rica:    0.061006 per 1,000 people     
# 20      Poland:    0.0562789 per 1,000 people     
# 21      Georgia:    0.0511011 per 1,000 people     
# 22      Uruguay:    0.045082 per 1,000 people     
# 23      Bulgaria:    0.0445638 per 1,000 people     
# 24      United States:    0.042802 per 1,000 people     
# 25      Armenia:    0.0425746 per 1,000 people     
# 26      India:    0.0344083 per 1,000 people     
# 27      Yemen:    0.0336276 per 1,000 people     
# 28      Dominica:    0.0289733 per 1,000 people     
# 29      Azerbaijan:    0.0285642 per 1,000 people     
# 30      Finland:    0.0283362 per 1,000 people     
# 31      Slovakia:    0.0263303 per 1,000 people     
# 32      Romania:    0.0250784 per 1,000 people     
# 33      Portugal:    0.0233769 per 1,000 people     
# 34      Malaysia:    0.0230034 per 1,000 people     
# 35      Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:    0.0229829 per 1,000 people     
# 36      Mauritius:    0.021121 per 1,000 people     
# 37      Hungary:    0.0204857 per 1,000 people     
# 38      Korea, South:    0.0196336 per 1,000 people     
# 39      Slovenia:    0.0179015 per 1,000 people     
# 40      France:    0.0173272 per 1,000 people     
# 41      Czech Republic:    0.0169905 per 1,000 people     
# 42      Iceland:    0.0168499 per 1,000 people     
# 43      Australia:    0.0150324 per 1,000 people     
# 44      Canada:    0.0149063 per 1,000 people     
# 45      Chile:    0.014705 per 1,000 people     
# 46      United Kingdom:    0.0140633 per 1,000 people     
# 47      Italy:    0.0128393 per 1,000 people     
# 48      Spain:    0.0122456 per 1,000 people     
# 49      Germany:    0.0116461 per 1,000 people     
# 50      Tunisia:    0.0112159 per 1,000 people     
# 51      Netherlands:    0.0111538 per 1,000 people     
# 52      New Zealand:    0.0111524 per 1,000 people     
# 53      Denmark:    0.0106775 per 1,000 people     
# 54      Norway:    0.0106684 per 1,000 people     
# 55      Ireland:    0.00946215 per 1,000 people     
# 56      Switzerland:    0.00921351 per 1,000 people     
# 57      Indonesia:    0.00910842 per 1,000 people     
# 58      Greece:    0.0075928 per 1,000 people     
# 59      Hong Kong:    0.00550804 per 1,000 people     
# 60      Japan:    0.00499933 per 1,000 people     
# 61      Saudi Arabia:    0.00397456 per 1,000 people     
# 62      Qatar:    0.00115868 per 1,000 people     

 

[haterforever]

doh worry , martin 'leary' joseph have a crime plan