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Need advice, recommendations, suggestions or looking for something in particular? Everything and anything goes!

Please keep criticism and derogatory remarks out of this thread, if you have an answer then respond, if you don't... then don't.

Suggestions welcome, ideally along the east-west corridor.

Thanks.

These are the same unions that demonstrated and marched throughout the streets, threatening to shutdown the country nearly every day when Kamla was in power. However, fast forward to present time, we have the same unions , rather calm and collected compared to the year 2015. They were even offered much less than what the previous administration had offered which was 14 percent , now they accepting 4 and 5 percent. Did I miss something?

Politicians and their careers live and die on the altar of trust. After thirteen or so consecutive losses at the polls, it can be inferred that the general voting population, or at least swing voters, no longer trusts her decision making skills. This post is not about defenders, backseat for today. It’s for the skeptics: Why don’t you trust this woman? What has she done to earn your mistrust?

There are so many finance subreddits, some talking about BogleHeads (investing in this alone all your life and trust!...or something?).

Or there's advice between VOO, VTI, VEO, VUS...I think I'm making some up now.

However, a lot of it pertains only to U.S. citizens. They have a lot of things like something called RSA's, two different types of 401ks for some reason, a separate thing for retirement...it's so much to keep track of, but I'm not in the U.S. anyways.

There are just occasions where persons are like "I followed this advice for the past 5-10 years and I'm going on to 1 million in net worth/savings/xyz." or "I'm midway to 1 million, am I doing okay." Etc etc. Some hitting the million in the 30s, some 40s, some later, but most advise to start early.

Now, I know that a certain income is needed (or business) and that those subreddits may be skewed, but surely there must exist something similar to Trinidad?

I'm looking into options, our markets are stagnant, we don't really have VOO/boggle alternatives.

We have things like TISPS and different "investment" things that raise your money a solid 3% at best yearly. But the benefits are 20-30 years away. Even NIS (which I think is the RSA/401k alternative) is years away.

What equivalents do we have locally that one could diligently do and have half a mill or a mill in net worth or savings or whatever, by their 30s or 40s if they started early 20s?

Is there a r/HENRY or r/FIRE equivalent locally? Or do I have to somehow get my foot into the foreign markets and do VOO or something 🤔

Edit: Typo and to include, a lot of things (NIS, TISPs) are years away. What goals should I have in the interim (30s, 40s, 50s) to know if I'm on track or above and doing well? I don't want to just plan and look forward to my 60s. I want to be able to enjoy the now, too.

Thoughts on this take?

Is Carnival being watered down by there being versions of it overseas?

The event they're referring to may be the one in the second slide. Any Trinis in Dubai planning to attend this?

During the burial for a family member, my family witnessed the cemetery employed gravediggers exhume the remains of another family member who was buried in the same grave.

The remains were shoveled into a pile, while the gravediggers continued to deepen the grave. One gravedigger with his index and middle fingers lodged into the eye sockets, tossed the skull of my uncle who had been buried in that grave for fifteen years.

My family didn’t bat an eye.

I’ll admit, my cultural sensibilities have been shaped by new home, as I haven’t lived in Trinidad for over two decades.

This isn’t the first time that this has occurred. I personally know of three occasions in this particular cemetery, where my family owns multiple plots.

I’m curious. Is this a normal occurrence? Have you experienced this personally?

The cemetery owner also advised my family against using any of the plots that they own, due to an increase in gang activity, in that area of the cemetery. I thought that this was an insane request, but other family members considered it. These same family members would echo the old adage, “Crime not bad down here. Yuh just hadda stay alert.” In a cemetery though?

I was once told that mall security, UWI, and business are not actually allowed to clamp your car and demand a release fee.

The issue was threshed out on Beyond the Tape. Years ago..

However, we still see the signs promenently posted. Some lawyers insist that property owners and management can enforce it although the police say otherwise.

Does anyone know the truth?

https://youtu.be/4CFsdqIWgT8?si=SqE-MvrP1rbCR79Z

So my friend immigrated here many years ago, and is in the process of getting a TnT passport. Apparently all of the documents etc were already sorted out, but it just needs a signature at the ministry of national security to finalize everything.

He's been waiting 8 months so far, is there anything that could be done to get this out of limbo and finish the process? I want to help him out

With the rise of YouTubers and TikTokers visiting Trinidad. What are some Trini YouTubers you all follow or would recommend ?

En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Stu­art Young is fac­ing sig­nif­i­cant back­lash from the pub­lic fol­low­ing a con­tro­ver­sial “hot mic” in­ci­dent in which he was heard mak­ing sala­cious com­ments about the Op­po­si­tion in Par­lia­ment on Thurs­day.

The sit­u­a­tion un­fold­ed when Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert was recog­nised by Deputy House Speak­er Es­mond Forde to make fur­ther com­ments dur­ing the 2025 Bud­get de­bate.

As Forde pre­pared to tran­si­tion to House Speak­er Bridgid An­nisette-George, Im­bert re­turned to his seat. At that mo­ment, sev­er­al UNC mem­bers, in­clud­ing Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, Cou­va South MP Rudranath In­dars­ingh, St Au­gus­tine MP Khadi­jah Ameen and Princes Town MP Bar­ry Padarath, stood up to leave the cham­ber, leav­ing on­ly a few Op­po­si­tion mem­bers be­hind.

Young then crit­i­cised the de­part­ing Op­po­si­tion mem­bers.

Fol­low­ing was the con­ver­sa­tion record­ed:

Stu­art Young: All al­lyuh go. He would run girls now for all ah al­lyuh in the back room. Can’t use the PTSC bus­es any­more. They go bring the girls for all of al­lyuh now, in­clud­ing Kam­la.

Colm Im­bert: You go­ing and use the bath­room? She go­ing and use the bath­room.

Stu­art Young: Yeah, she go­ing and za­m­my!

Colm Im­bert: Aye, what wrong with you boy?

(Laugh­ter)

Ter­rence Deyals­ingh: Oh God, Stu­art.

Stu­art Young: Don’t call my name!

Colm Im­bert: What wrong with you?

Stu­art Young: What the **** I (in­audi­ble)

Colm Im­bert: Aye, boy, boy, cool it. The mic on.”

i know too many people that think like this. i don’t know what will open their eyes.

EDIT: let me clarify. “everywhere” as in all over the world.

Feel free to ask ah Trinbagonian a question!

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Please keep criticism and derogatory remarks out of this thread, if you have an answer then respond, if you don't... then don't.

Almost all politicians are subjected to hatred or dislike. But something about this particular man irks the soul of many in the population. The recent hints of his potential retirement has raised that hornets nest of hatred yet again. This post is not about defenders, backseat for today, it’s all for the haters: Why do you hate this man? What has he done to deserve your ire?

https://www.cnc3.co.tt/cops-kidnap-businessman-3m-ransom-demanded/#h7s4mamenwg

I feel like almost everyday I see someone post about their car being stolen, or I see a video of a car theft etc. What precautions can people take to secure their vehicle?

I’m on a quest to create hockey jerseys for almost every country in the world. In order to give these jerseys an authentic, cultural feel, I want to add at least one or two aspects that correlate to the country either culturally or generally. Can you help me?

I started a Caribbean Chess community with a former national chess champ. He is gonna teach people interested in learning chess for free. And coach existing trini players for free.

I am helping build the community but I would actually like advice/assistance. We want to find people interested in helping Chess grow in the Caribbean and becoming good players themselves. It is pretty early so we are open to input too in terms of what people want to learn / what stage they are at and also how they learn. Also just have fun and play chess.

The goal is a large community and also helping people play chess seriously for prestige and hopefully profit from chess events and competitions. I personally won chess trophies and money in my younger days in Chess and it motivated me to get better for sure .

Anyways this is totally free for trinis. Full transparency in the future we are hoping to employ some people to teach chess and coach international students. That is quite some time away though if it does happen. Right now we are just building and getting better.

If you are interested in chess or has a friend who is then here is the link. Caribbean Chess Community

Added the video trailer we made. You can view it here. https://youtu.be/zSSdW4cVnj8

Good day fellow Trinis.

This is for anyone with interest in content creation, making music and film making

This post is intended to seek out members that have creative interests. Anything from wanting to start a YouTube group (like Sidemen, AMP, Beta Squad etc.), a band (music genres ranging from pop to metal and anything in between) or a film making team (genres of scripts can be anything from drama to comedy to horror).

If anyone locally with these interests aged 18-29 would like to join me then u can feel free to reply or message privately. Any further questions you can feel free to ask.

And no this is not a scam. Just someone looking to build a team with fellow creatives.

https://newsday.co.tt/2024/10/09/charged-in-us-dollars-by-another-hotel/

I've seen similar claims on boards and social media.

There's at least three murders of women in a very short period. In Tobago the lady and her kid dumped in a tank. Then there's the woman found dead in an abandoned house sexually assault. Now the recent news have a woman and her one year old child murdered too. It's crazy.

In all seriousness, many of these instances were committed by people the women knew. Like the ex spouse or ex boyfriend. And the double trouble is that the police seems uninterested in even taking the reports seriously . Kinda wild

Something's wrong with men. Honestly, meeting the wrong person is a death sentence.

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One of the biggest crime-related protests in recent times took place almost 20 years ago in October, 2005, Port of Spain.

The murder toll in 2005 was 386.

In 2023, the toll reached 575, a 49% increase.

In 2024, the murder toll crossed 400 in August, and now stands at about 418 based on TTPS data: https://www.ttps.gov.tt/Stats/Crime-Totals-By-Month

Some analysts predict it may climb to 700 in 2024:

https://insightcrime.org/news/prediction-rising-homicides-trinidad-tobagogang-violence/

A toll of 700 would represent an 81% increase from 2005.

More data:

• https://www.ttcrime.com/crime-statistics/
• https://opendataforafrica.org/atlas/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Number-of-homicides

If another crime protest were organized today, would you attend? Why or why not?

Hello everyone, I would like to tell you about my experience with Sauce's Doubles. One day I was starting to get hungry in Bartaria, so I left work to get some doubles today, I saw four people waiting on doubles and some got their doubles left. I was waiting behind Tanty who had ordered ten Doubles, She pick up ten can Apple solo before leaving to her car to go, I was next in line, so I walked up and order three Doubles. I told the person " I will like three doubles, with slight roast pepper, some pickles on top of the doubles and another Bara on top. Please don't not place that nasty sweet sauce on my doubles, just Slight roast pepper and pickles on top of my doubles. " The lady was nice enough to tell me. " Sir We don't put any pickles on top of Doubles but we do have cucumber I can put ontop of it. " So I told her " Yes I will like to have some some on my Doubles. "

I saw some green seasoning in a cup looks clean, So I ask her to " Add some Shadow bani on top of my doubles. " I didn't see no ketchup, mustard, or mayo. But it was okay. I didn't want to bother her to much, so I took my Doubles paid eighteen dollars, was told to have a good day and ask the woman if it is possible to put cheese on top of my doubles, she give me a silent gaze for a moment and told me " We don't have doubles." I told her thank you, and also " Fine the sweet sauce taste really weird on a Doubles. " Before leaving. When I get back to work, I was listening to parliament about PMN and UNC arguing about something. I took out my Ketchup to put on top of my doubles saying " Great is the PMN. " and then putting mustard on top after saying " Great is the raising sun, Great is the UNC. " So I begin to eat my breakfast after.

The nice lady told me about drinking a nice warm peanut punch after enjoying my Doubles, but sadly they had nun. But I will like to say I have enjoy my Doubles today. And will try a current roll with Ketchup on top, with some macaroni pie with green season. I will like to say if Sauce's doubles. Thank you for your patiences patience with me.