OUTSPOKEN and somewhat controversial pundit Satyanand Maharaj has written to the Commissioner of Police asking for crime statistics based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, location and religion for the first five months of the year.
OUTSPOKEN and somewhat controversial pundit Satyanand Maharaj has written to the Commissioner of Police asking for crime statistics based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, location and religion for the first five months of the year.
TREVOR SUDAMA THE RECENT public statements by two pundits, Satyanand Maharaj and Bramanand Rambachan, that urban youths from the east-west corridor (read young Afro-Trinidadians) are responsible for the upsurge of crime in Aranguez and that East Indians (Indo-Trinidadians) have been the targets have elicited a flurry of commentary in the media overwhelmingly condemning the two
SHABAKA KAMBON ON MAY 4 the Newsday published a letter to the editor by Fatima Mohammed under the title "Kambon vs Maharaj: Pot calling kettle black." Mohammed used the letter to endorse the irresponsible and now infamous race mythology attributed to Pundit Satyanand Maharaj that “Urban miscreants…with the same complexion, from the same ethnic group”
Lawyers representing Pundit Satyanand Maharaj of the Satyanand Ashram, Aranguez, have sent a pre-action protocol letter to Opposition Senator David Nakhid, accusing him of defaming their client. They have asked for a retraction of his statements by May 19, as well as compensation for Maharaj’s legal fees.