Dear Editor: Pepper spray is best short-term safety device for women
“[…] For what it’s worth, [pepper spray] seems to be a best choice self-defence arsenal, particularly in the climate of impunity that prevails and where perpetrators rarely face justice.
“[…] Is the approval really T&T solution to this unbearable violence? At a minimum, it is a short-term necessary life-saving guard that must pave the way for longer-term redress where that violence has evolved as habits rather than crimes…”
The following Letter to the Editor on the potential benefit of pepper spray to women in Trinidad and Tobago was submitted by Ula Nathai-Lutchman, former war crimes prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, The Hague: