Port of Spain, Oct 13: Two opposition MPs were arrested when they were marching to protest the continuous kidnapping of Indo-Trinidadians in the Caribbean country and the police's "inability" to solve the problem. Members of Parliament Manohar Ramsaran and Hamza Rafeeq, both from former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday's United National Congress, were arrested along with several others for "marching without permission," police said.

Since the beginning of this year, 178 people, almost all of them Indo-Trinidadians, have been kidnapped, and Panday, has promised, "civil disobedience to bring home the point to the black-dominated government that Indo-Trinidadians are the target for the past two years." Panday has also claimed that People of Indian Origin have been discriminated against and oppressed, and are not given equal opportunities in jobs, housing schemes and scholarships.

Bureau Report