solution for the Homeless / Vagrants situation in Trinidad?

Basically everywhere you go in Trinidad you will see either a Homeless or Vagrant person. Some are genuinely not in a position to do better for some reason or the other while others are suffering the effects of drug use. There also those who are mentally deranged and can even at times become violent.

The question here is this... What is the solution for the Homeless / Vagrants situation in Trinidad?

dey better move on coz word on d street is ah next pick up exercise soon.....an wat will happen to all ah dem in d police headquaters....how much ah we money dey go use to get dem off d streets again an again.......ah doh hav ah solution nah coz dey does come rite back!!!

Yep..vagrants is the new thing now yes everyone begging... but we cannot judge them but it have the homeless shelters why dont people put them there to be taken care off

Katrina wrote:Yep..vagrants is the new thing now yes everyone begging... but we cannot judge them but it have the homeless shelters why dont people put them there to be taken care off

yeah cuz abuse is just nonexistent. but in all honesty I eh know nah, all I know is that I dont encourage it by giving them anything

some ah dem need to b put in carara island coz dey don't want to better dey self...some ah dey family their collect public assistance (money)an doh give dem any....so lets hold the care takers or nominee responsible for dem an ensure d social worker do their job!!!

Some people especially Sociologists said that giving vagrants money or food stuff will allow them to have a dependency mind frame of only living off people and not helping themselves thinking that some one would always give them something..what you guys tihnk?

they depend on handouts yes,but most of them does get assistance from the government, as someone said, their family should be tracked down and held responsible in some way or be given an incentive to keep them at home, the community social worker don't do their work withing the community to know who went missing and all the names of the elderly from the health centers, everyone needs to do their job and don't turn a blind eye or turn away and pretend not to know

Let Obama visit. That seemed to fix the problem the last time.

Yep they will..many people judge vagrants but many do not know what medical condition they have to cause them to act that way and also as to how in the first place they became vagrants sooo please people just help donate clothes stuff or food if u can to shelters that help the vagrants or to themselves

A homeless man spent more than 24 hours locked inside a container on San Fernando Street, San Fernando, before he was freed by police yesterday. who identified himself as “Helicopter Persad”, crawled into the container to spend the night sometime on Tuesday evening the container belonged to a businessman
Police said the man climbed up the side of the container and went through a hole in the top. Sometime later, the businessman padlocked it without realising someone was inside. When “Helicopter Persad” woke up, he noticed the door locked and began to scream and cry for help. Customs and Excise officers investigated and called the police.
Police warned the man not to return to the container. They told him he could be charged with trespassing if he entered the container again