CALL TO ORDER

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Call to order is an anti-crime initiative launched by the Ministry of National Security and  its Minister Fitzgerlad Hinds today at City Hall in Port of Spain.  They  believe a local collaboration between local musicians and the ministry can impact at-risk communities and stymie gang recruitment and gang violence across the country.  Mark Bassant explains in this report.

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00:00This song by homegrown musicians Mr. King, iSasha, King David, Prophet Benjamin and Izigi

00:13Ranking attracted the Ministry of National Security's attention after it was released

00:18on social media a few weeks ago.

00:20They saw this song as a bridge to reach out to the youth in the hope of containing gang

00:24violence and murders and so the ministry reached out for a meaningful collaboration.

00:29One which Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hines says is gravely needed to save the youth,

00:35mainly between the ages of 15 to 24 from the scourge of crime and criminality that a country

00:40now faces.

00:41How do we pull back?

00:43How do we as Mr. King say push back?

00:46Because the business of leadership now in a country, the business of parenting is no

00:51longer a passive sit back, pray and hope for the best.

00:57It requires far more activity than that.

01:00You have to fight to hold the youngsters now.

01:03They're resisting teachers, they're resisting parents, they're resisting police, they're

01:09resisting even inside of the services.

01:13If the truth be told, it's not easy.

01:16Minister Hines says that while music has the power to engender violence, it also has the

01:20power to persuade, transform and heal and he was confident that the collaboration with

01:26these local musicians can have the latter effect.

01:30The local musicians, also part of this project, are also hopeful that it can transform the

01:35landscape into one of positivity and upliftment for the youth.

01:40I believe it is much needed in today's society.

01:42We need to start to fight back with some positive message in.

01:46Now if we could take that same power and put it towards life, lifestyle choices and behavioural

01:51patterns, that would be a great thing.

01:53This project is a divine project sent from the most high to cover the people of Trinidad

01:58and Tobago.

01:59Because of what is going on in the country, we're losing too much and it's too much males

02:04we're losing.

02:05So anything to save the youths and them, I dare, I'm here to serve.

02:09Several ambassadors of countries such as China, Australia, Japan and Canada were also present

02:14during the initiative and some had already offered up ideas to Minister Hines to collaborate

02:19in order to stymie violent crime in this country.

02:22Mark Besant, TV6 News.

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