Taken from BBCCaribbean.com on February 13, 2008
Professor Deosaran is the editor of Crime, Delinquency and Justice: A Caribbean Reader published in 2007.
State of emergency needed?
An independent senator is calling on Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister to declare a state of emergency.
It comes as murder, gun violence and setting fire to houses escalate on the outskirts of the capital Port of Spain.
Criminologist, Professor Ramesh Deosaran, says this will allow the security forces to break up gangs and take their guns.
BBC Caribbean understands that the violence, earlier this week in the Laventille community, resulted in some residents moving out.
Heavily armed police mounted an operation in the area in which a number of people were arrested and weapons seized.
Prime Minister Patrick Manning has resisted calls for a state of emergency saying it will not bring results.
But Professor Deosaran, who is also an independent senator, says the situation calls for an unconventional solution.
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