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37 comments:
I agree. HTS gave a voice to criminals.
Give it up Regis, you are way over your head with your bloated ego. Go catch those criminals instead, it's your job, it's not business as usual, it's time for action.
Now you know who's threatening you why don't you go catch them? Stop your "kill the messenger attitude."
Enough is enough, do your jobs, it's taxpayers money that pays you people. We are your employers and we demand a fair day's work for a fair day's pay.
Stop the bias toward Regis. It's all political we know that. Look to me as if some people would feel very happy with the country in chaos.
Their hopes it will benefit the SLP at the expense of the country. Let us allow it to get very bad. Blame the cops and SLP will make everything alright once it gets to power.
It does not matter how many innocent lucians must die until the SLP comes to power. The worse it makes the government look the better.
Regis leave the young man alone,he is more intelligent than you, and get rid of the criminals around town that is what we are paying you for. All the energies you spend by talking about a reporter who did your work for you, should be diverted towards making our city and country safe.
I do not know what has the slp has done to some people that is so bad, that anything that is being discussed, they have to come up with something about the slp. We all know the slp was doing something about crime, they built a better prison, they built many new police stations, they was building a forensic lab, they equipped the police with more transports and bicks, they increased the numbers of the force, they brought the British men to help etc, etc. What has this government done.
These postings clearly what is wrong with our country. Not even the mayhem on our streets can take the political mote out of our eyes. Can't you all see this isn't about SLP or UWP or ONE or None? This is about Saint Lucia. Stupse!!!
Maybe the SLP policies did not work. Maybe this is what we are reaping right now. 10 years of a misguided policy on crime has come home to roost.
Same persons were raising hell when Regis was sent on vacation. Same persons who brough the english men to our country could not wait for them to leave once Regis was sent on vacation.
You can build prisons and police stations for all you want but you can't change the mindset of criminals without proper intervention.
This is where the SLP failed and where this government got stuck with the bill.
Ha, I am sure some of you never thought about it this way. Think I am in a hurry to return to the polls to bring back another group of fellas with no vision on crime. You mad?
Aint this issue similar to terrorists videos being broadcast on American media.We don't hear the President or law officials threatening to take legal action against the media. Their primary objective is to sought these individuals who have made those threats.Although I subscribe that the news clip should have been tone down a bit, I am of the opinion that this issue was blown way out of proportion.Mr. Regis the young man has provided you with some physical evidence, use it to get those criminals off our streets.
Reynolds should accept he suffered a lapse in judgement and get on with it. It is (or should be a crime) for someone to threaten the life of another. If I was walking down the road and heard one man threaten to kill another man, and that man carries out that threat, then that makes me a material witness. Reynolds did not know the identity of the men who wore masks, which makes matters even worse, because he is in no position to serve as a material witness or to assist the police. He did exactly what the maked men wanted - to publicise their threats. It is because of sitautions like these that most radio stations use delay devices during talk shows. As a trained Journalist, Reynolds should have known better.
What i am saying is, yes we all agree that the slp policies did not work but they did something anyway and were continuing to do things, you forget to mention the forensic lab. The question we must ask ourself is what is this government doing,or has done? Who in this government is capable to formulating a policy in anything. Tell me i am waiting. All they did was a two week peace and love football competition, every time i think of that i have to laugh. You talking about bill, tell me which government in this world that do not have to continue to foot the debt of the previous government. If the government is not capable of doing that, then they are not FIT to govern. When slp came into power there was $45 million debt left in the SLBGA, they had to service, there should NEVER be a debt in the SLBGA because bananas use to bring millions in the country, so how we end up owing money? plus the national debt. At lease everyone could see what the slp did with the money. Before we talk about bill, tell us how much money this government has borrowed, did you follow the last sitting of the house? they borrowed again. Please show me what they are doing with the money.
I think by HTS airing the clip it in some way difused the true and serious situation at hand which is the escalating crime in the country. I do not care if "traditionally" crime increased during the carnival season, I think we need to look at how to combat this element once and for all. It is not to say that crime is going to stop however some serious planning, investigating, and proper advice from bigger crime fighting institutions like the KJB,FBI,CIA ect and even churches should take place in order to curb this situation.
I think the poor reporter should not be to blame for anything after all he is not the editor and all he did was capture the story the owness is upon the editor whether or not to air the clip, he is also not the news station manager. Linford Fevriere/ Valerie Albert where were your thinking caps?
I listened to Claudius Francis and some other people calling the station the other day coming up with all kinds of excuses for what happened and using Bin Laden as a reference, and I just thought that they were full of crap, because before anything Mr. Bin Laden tapes reaches the news station to be aired, it goes through the relevant authorites FBI, CIA etc first for careful perusing.
And Claudius, I am sorry, but when you said the young man did not threaten a person or people in the police force but the institution, guess what, it is people who make up the institution. And if within that law there is no crime committed, why is it the police scramble when there is a bomb scare isn't that a threat too? I mean yes they police come to restore order but to also try to apprehend the perpertrator.
Sorry HTS I Blame you. Now can we get back to fighting crime.
CAN WE PLEASE STOP POLITICIZING EVERYTHING GOSH!!!
This POLITICS thing is going to be the downfall of this country.
People stop looking at the RED and the YELLOW and start thinking about the BLUE, BLACK, YELLOW AND WHITE, St. Lucia....after all we are St. Lucians.
The media's responsibility is not to the government....they are not the government P.I department. Reynold's was within his rights as a journalist.
Politics is EVIL.
Reynolds has a valid point, he was simply reporting from a "war zone". It is common practice for journalists to air the views of opposing sides in a "war". And, this does, in fact add to the overall public understanding of the issues.
Furthermore, if Regis' objections are taken to their logical conclusion, a result could be that in a different time under other circumstances actions of the state might remain without jouralistic scrutiny, which could be a greater evil than giving a platform to these foul miscreants at this time.
I can understand and share the outrage expressed by Regis at seeing those villains on TV spewing their venom. But, as has been pointed out, Regis should concern himself with bringing these criminals to justice. Maybe Reynolds' broadcast gave Regis some additional motivation to get out there and tackle crime head-on, no holds barred. Let's hope so.
Reporting from a WaR ZONE? What doees that mean. If Reynolds wanted to report from a WAR Zone, all he had to do is book a flight to Iran.
This make believe kiss me ass notion of WAr Zone does not apply to St lucia. What we have here is a reporter watching too much international television and forgeting he was in the grave yard and not Iran.
This isn't the islamic world this is St Lucia, place where none of those so called coward criminals could never stand and make such a statement and live to see another day.
To Reynolds: Stop your wanna be reporting and get on the issue of reporting news in St Lucia.
Reynolds is the News Editor of HTS. the buck stops with him not valerie or Linford. I agree with the sentiments in last post. When Reynolds says he stands by his story he is saying he did nothing wrong and that to me is very sad. The bottom line is: no reporter should be in the business of helping criminals to threaten the lives of our policemen. The making of the threat is in itself a serious crime. So what does that say about what Reynolds did? It's really amazing that there is even a debate on this.
One does not need to fly to some blighted foreign country to report on mayhem, Reynolds has ably demonstrated that those kinds of conditions exist right here in SLU. In effect, Reynolds simply held up a mirror of the country for us to look into. Since we do not like what we see, we want to break the mirror. However, even without the mirror, the problems persist.
Suppressing and attacking the press is the wrong target. That's how they do it in dictatorships where the authorities don't want to be made to look into a mirror, because they don't like what they see.
We are not called to like or approve of the facts. We are called to deal with them. Crime is the problem, not crime reporting.
Deal with it.
I agree with the poster above, diverting the problem to Reynolds does not solve the problem. Reynolds is not the problem, the criminals are. Reynolds did not threaten the copps.
Mr. Reynolds accept the fact that you suffered a lapse of judgement. You were in charge of that interview and you should hav ecautioned these folks about what is permissible or not. Ultimately as, someone observed the editor should be held responsible as to what should be aired or not.
I am of the view that the journalists and media houses indulge in a kind of one-up-manship type of jouralism in St. Lucia. Sensationalism for viewership or readership, please temper this because you guys are sowing the wind.
The COP is right to express his indignation about this type of irresponsible journalism. However, he should use the evidence provided to him, the video tape to apprehend these criminals and bring them to justice for making terroristic threats against the police.
Juornalists have a responsibility to disseminate information, but airing criminals making terroristic threats against the police is certainly aviolation the tenents of journalistic integrity and ethical standards.
Folk I have said time and time again that we should refrain from making crime a political football. Neither the UWP nor the SLP can legislate human behavior.
Crime is a societal dysfunction. Criminals do not give a rat's ass whether you are Flambeau or Labar when they want to victimize you.
Give the police the support, both in terms of crime fighting resources, (someone suggested that the Labour government did that- and that's admirable) and the critical intelligence.
The police have a responsibility to put their house in order. They must not only pay lip service to weeding out the "rotten apples" who undermine the work of the police, but be seen to be doing that. This is the only way the populace can have the confidence t tell you things in CONFIDENCE.
It is the responsibility of ALL ST. LUCIANS to join in the fight of wrestling our country from the hands of the criminals.
We are all passengers on this sea-borne vessel; "HMS HELEN" and if one of us sees someone digging a hole in the bottom of the ship and keep quiet about it. You guess what will inevitable happen....
Sorry, people, but St. Lucia is not a fairy-tale land. Perhaps, you would prefer to bury your heads in the sand, but HTS blew that sand away for just an instant. Thank you, Mr. Reynolds.
Ausbert Regis needs to get a grip of himself.
Where on earth he got his sense from? The media was simply doing their job "Informing ,Educating and Entertaining the nation", And so I see no harm in that.
The Citizens have a right to Freedom, That Regis will not know seens he wants the Island to be ruled by his "MULES" in uniforms.
For too long the people of St.Lucia has been mis-lead by the hands of Regis and his service men & women.
The Nation are entitled of their "Democratic and Fundamental Rights".....Freedom of Speech,Equality Rights,Mobility Rights,Legal Rights and so on.
Regis and his followers needs to study the Consitution on The "Charter of Rights and Freedom".
Regis you are way over your "BIG" head,man.
Mr.Reynolds,I thank you for the good service.
I stand with you and support your decisions,May god bless and keep you so you will continue doing us a favour in this land of ours St.Lucia.
Keep up the good work mr.Reyonlds.
"Peace"
I am here to support the police and not Mr. Reynolds.
If what I read as news on the HTS website is the product of Mr. Reynolds, then heck we have really fallen in our standards.
This isn't the first time that HTS have gone overboard. The showing of dead bodies and gross images after an accident, long before the family of victims have been informed of the death of their love one, is one of the many reasons why Mr. Reynolds should be fired.
This isn't responsible journalism. This is mindless reporting without any care for what harm it will cause. Any true editor or journalist knows how to use good judgement before releasing any given report.
Fire his ass!
Maybe Reynolds should take a look at the role of the media in the "Stop snitching campaign" in the US to see how wrong his actions were. As a journalist, he has a responsibility to use good judgment as well and he has failed miserably in this task. He has allowed this idiots to threaten police and thereby scare the general population out of cooperating with the police. The thinking on the ground is now "if these thugs will kill the police, what will they do to me if I help the police protect St. Lucians." Congratulations Reynolds, you just got the biggest fail of the day. You inexperience shows. Failure to honor your "social contract" as a journalist.
I love mr.Reynolds, He has devoted time to listen to us and has been one of the best St.Lucia could ever wish for.
"May god continue to watch over you".
And as for Regis I think the time has come for him to step down, We need an honest man at headquaters cause the entire police service has fail the citizens which they were to serve & protect.
Regis leave the media out of your dirty business.
"Hats off HTS...To God Be The The Glory".
Get your head out of the cloud. As far as I am concerned, Regis is more valuable to me as a citizen than Reynolds.
I agree with all those above who have sided with the police. Thank god my head is not screwed backwards. I can see the bigger picture of the Regis' efforts to combat crime in my country.
Thanks you Sir!
"Regis said. “In so far as me feeling the way I felt, first and foremost I am a police officer and the head of the organization, and [the report] has a very tremendous impact because I was threatened personally, and so was every member of my organization. Now, that threat was transmitted via a particular medium, so I believe, in my own estimation, that is enough to get me upset.”"
Regis should definately step down after making this comment. All police officers are putting their lives at risk EVERYDAY and are threatened by criminals in many different forms from day one they are enlisted in the force. For Regis to say that HE the commissioner is THREATENED by the criminals has just EXPOSED a sign of being a coward. Its obvious that he is not fit to lead the force if that is the example he is setting. Its time for him to step down and let someone who is BRAVE enough to take over and lead the force to tackle crimes and leave the coward like him to stay indoors in hoping that the crime level alleviates.
Mr.Reynolds...good job. I know you will continue to be successful in your endeavors where ever it may be.
Reynolds helped the police. Guess the police too stupid to realize that. Instead of wasting time with Reynolds the police should be going after those people who made the threats and take Reynolds for finding them a few criminals, after all we all know the SLU police need all the help they can get to catch criminals.
How did Reynolds help the police? By showing young kids on the streets that its ok to challege authority?
Have you ever thought that it might have embolden other criminal minds watch that broadcast?
I really agree with what Reynolds did...this shows the police what the criminals feel about them....Regis should be trying to stop the criminals and leave Reynolds alone...He is just doing his job. The public and the police now knows what to expect from these criminals and now get them of the streets. Reynolds just opened the eyes of the public and police force by showing this news clip...Regis Start getting the police to tackle and crime and don't tackle crime when it become a great problem.....Do your jobs...
After reading this article my thoughts are: Reynolds should learn to respect the police.
And in summmary, some of these comments are hilarious! Seriously, the SLP wants crime so King and his guys can look bad? Seriously? How do you ppl come up with this things. I would have to be really drunk to even try to sell that argument. I am a concerned citizen. The crime is crazy but what's scarier is that the perpetrators are all young ppl with no regard for the value of life. 13 yr old girl stabs a woman? PPL five years ago she was 8! And we here arguing about Regis and Reynolds? Come on! They both have a job to do and yes maybe
Reynolds could have gone to the police b4 airing the video but he didn't so we should look on the bright side and realise we have criminals on tape making threats, which means leh me see, um, maybe we can um like catch them b4 dey actually do something.
BTW. I have no problem with Reynolds but if he is the news editor at HTS, he or whoever the person who edits what on the website needs a grammar lesson.
What kind of childish attitude is that "slp want crime so that king and his guys can look bad" I know you are not in St Lucia and you do not know, or make it your business to know what is happening in St Lucia. We do not need any crime in St Lucia to have king and YOUR GUYS to look bad, They are making themselves look bad by the scandals after scandals they create for themselves. You all use to blame kenny for crime in his times, now he is out, you all still blame him. When will this government take on their responsiblity, it is already half way through their term.
Hts had a right to show it "freedom of the press".when they show other things no one budges but when they show the raw truth that's when we Lucians open our mouths and cry.instead of the police doing their jobs and going after these very same people they showed what do officers do? go around and drink,chase women with the government vehicles as if it's their private property.can someone tell me if the men who were threatening the police were they every incarcerated for what was said cause that is act of treason as far as i see it
"Regis, who said the report contained “threats that constituted a criminal offense,” promised to take legal action against the broadcast station that facilitated the transmission."
Against the broadcast station? Find who made these threats and arrest them. The broadcast station are doing their job. I was recently giving the press heat for not following up on stories but i must now retract. Good job
I do not know why the sudden feel of being personally threatened; meaning the members of the police organization. As far as i know being a police officer already makes one a target.
As far as i see it, the press exposing this justifies whatever action the police needs to take (within the confides of the law) and now that it is public, police won't get hassled for brutality if this do get (god forbid) dicey.
I applaud the initiative taken by the report as i have long said and i know many others have, that our press needs to take a page or two from foreign counterparts i.e CNN, BBC and the list goes on....
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