29 March 2008

FIRST PAST THE ... POST?

Hi
We're entering another realm with this blog which we hope will drive more listeners to our show.
This Sunday's show promises to be a controversial one. The topic is deportees, an ever-increasing burden on our small Caribbean societies.
The US Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Dr. Roy Austin issued a statement that suggests the problem is not as bad as people make it out to be; there are no statistics that prove deportees are contributing to the crime and violence explosion. Ambassador Austin also claims that deportees are afforded adequate facilities to contact [non-existent] family members before their return.
To refute the Amnassador's claims will be Wayne Chance, a former inmate and now CEO of Vision on Mission, one of the few (or perhaps the only) organisation catering to the needs of deportees who return home with nothing, no-one and no support to rebuild their lives in what is now a foreign land.
Wayne asserts that deportees are facing an uphill battle when they return and no assistance is offered by the government to resettle them, determine if the crimes they committed categorise them as dangerous; whether they are drug addicts, rapists, murderers or HIV positive.
Sure to be an interesting discussion. Join us!

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