Trinidad and Tobago’s streets are a bloodbath. Yet all our politicians offer are platitudes | Kenneth Mohammed

A state of emergency has been declared amid unprecedented gun violence, but no one in our stagnating government is taking responsibility

Just before the new year, Trinidad and Tobago's government declared a state of emergency after a weekend of gun violence.

Trinidad and Tobago, a country of about 1.5 million people and once the wealthiest in the Caribbean, has been plagued by decades of poor economic and social leadership, gang violence, home invasions, murders and corruption.