Today in Trini news

"Rent-a-gun racket in police service?":

Concerned policemen are calling on Commissioner Trevor Paul to investigate what they describe as a lucrative practice at a particular police station where guns are rented to hunters for more sinister motives from a station plumb in the East-West Corridor.

Sources say the guns that traded through a third party and that now the renters are mostly hunters who want to take advantage of the hunting season. Hunters don't have to pay cash to rent a gun but rather pay with wild meat, the source said.

"A senior officer's instructions, through his liaison, are that the pot is on fire, the garlic is peeled, the bundle of chadon beni is on hand and the only payment necessary is to bring back wild meat for the officers to enjoy," the source said.

"Boy, you should see the unlucky hunters who take advantage of the offer but haven't caught any wild game.

"They have to continue hunting into the broad daylight to ensure that they have something to put in the officers' pot because the word has gone out that one gun-renter who didn't bring back wild meat was put in jail for 24 hours," said the source...

Another restaurant proprietor patently applied modern thinking to this problem. "Ministry: Dog carcasses used to make sausages":

The dog carcasses found deep in the Valencia forest by Ministry of Public Utilities and the Environment workers last month are remains of animals slaughtered so their flesh could be processed as sausage.

This is the shocking trail Ministry of Public Utilities investigators are uncovering as they continue to probe the mysterious carcasses that prompted an initial suspicion that restaurants in Sangre Grande were offering cooked dog meat on their menu.

A Public Utilities Ministry spokesman told the Sunday Guardian that investigations are not yet completed but the information so far points to the canine remains being the bones of animals which have been killed to provide meat for processing into sausage.

"When our foresters stumbled upon the bones it seems people were seen skinning animals and they scampered.

"Our investigations have led us to a particular company," a source from the Ministry of Public Utilities said...

In other news, Candace Guppy feels like she's in the Matrix. Peter Quentrall-Thomas responds to a reader's complaint about his remarks about Liat. Judy Raymond discusses aroused passions. And, last but by no means least, Anand Ramlogan continues his discussions of integrity. Go read the whole thing!