Crime in T&T — Afri-centric analysis

The most intractable, vexing and perplexing problem in Trinidad and Tobago is crime. And the raison d'etre successive governments have been unable and unsuccessful in dealing with this problem is primarily because they have all adopted a Euro-centric approach instead of an Afri-centric approach.

The Euro-centric  approach focuses  on the  results/effects of a problem while the Afri-centric  deals with the causes

* Dr Kwame Nantambu is a part-time lecturer  at Cipriani College of Labour  and Co-operative Studies

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The fact of the matter is that the current Euro-centric education system  produces  young people who are unemployable, devoid of the vital  life-survival- empowerment skills and  any sense  of direction plus low esteem.

As a result of all this societal baggage on their shoulders, these young people  have no other choice but to resort to a life of crime to survive, And this mind-set makes sense to them, period.
The Euro-centric education system continues to imbue in these young people  a sense of worthlessness, nothingness and  unpreparedness.
At the end of their matriculation, these young people seriously and disgracefully  lack the "3Rs"— Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. They  are doomed, period.

The Euro-centric education system continues to imbue in these young people  a sense of worthlessness, nothingness and  unpreparedness.