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00:00:00And a very special good morning Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the world. I'm Marlon
00:00:22Hopkinson and welcome to the Morning Edition. It's Friday 13th September, always Black Friday.
00:00:28Have any sale today? Let me not to say that because I know all you will get dressed, jump in
00:00:32all the car and head somewhere to get big TV and to get computer and all kind of thing, all right?
00:00:38But a very special good morning to all of you. We had some rain last night. You all need to stop
00:00:42speeding. If you see all you on the highway this morning getting on crazy, stop the madness and
00:00:48wildness now, all right? Let's check out to see what's happening in the Daily Express. We have
00:00:51a lot for you on the program today, all right? So Health Minister demands apology from opposition
00:00:56leader for fake COVID vaccines comment. Say sorry, Kamala. And missing farmer found dead.
00:01:03Inconsolable, head of the Hunter's Search and Rescue Team, Valance Rambarath, sits with Marta
00:01:09Romany, who has been comforted by relatives after the body of her son, Diego Roper, was found in
00:01:14the bushes at Cameron Road in Petey Valley yesterday. Roper went missing on Sunday. To
00:01:20the back page now. Bridle Road crossing to be closed two weeks after opening. Bridge of Contempt,
00:01:28a bridge no longer than 90 meters, which took more than 10 months to build and was delayed by
00:01:33four months, will now be closed for two days after it was reopened two weeks ago, all right? So we're
00:01:40moving on to some sport. Central on hold, Cowlissa out as chairman. Elections end in tie as a result
00:01:48of the removal of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Empires Council. As an affiliate member of the TNT
00:01:53Cricket Board, the Central Zonal Council has been left without a chairman, with Kelman Cowlissa
00:01:59forced to vacate the post and new elections have not produced a clear winner yet. And Falcons fall
00:02:05again to catch or not to catch. Hassan Khan of Antigua and Barbuda Falcons makes an attempt to
00:02:11take a catch during the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League. All right, so we're moving on. As I
00:02:18said, we're speeding this morning, not like the people on the highway who is speeding in the rain,
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00:05:48Now there are historic points of interest until the end of time. Remember the Spanish, the British,
00:05:56the French, and the Dutch. They all left their homes just to come to this wonderful island
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00:06:11All right, so welcome back everyone. Thank you very much for joining us this morning, this Friday
00:06:15morning. Now concern is being raised again about the crime situation in Tobago following the
00:06:20discovery of the bodies of two children and their mother in a decommissioned water tank belonging to
00:06:25WASA. On the line this morning, we do have businesswoman Diane Haddad. Ms. Haddad, good morning, thank you
00:06:31very much for joining us. Good morning to you, Marlon. Good morning to all your colleagues and
00:06:38good morning to Tobago and Trinidad. Yeah, Ms. Haddad, you know, you have had a long association with
00:06:46Tobago. Ms. Haddad, as you look as to what is happening in Tobago, I'm sure, well for me, this
00:06:53is not the Tobago I know, and I'm sure this is not the Tobago that you know. What is happening there?
00:07:01Well, what is happening there is just simply a reflection of what is happening in Trinidad.
00:07:06I don't know that it is different. Unfortunately, Tobago is, and has always been, and probably
00:07:14always will be, a spin-off of the effects of what takes place in Trinidad. And Tobago becomes,
00:07:23whether it is an easy avenue, an easy port, an easy target, or a comfort zone in many instances
00:07:34for persons who have different agendas. So, Tobago will always be in that position
00:07:42once we continue to do the things we do the way we do them. So, you do always have to wonder at times
00:07:51what is happening. We are a very copycat society to begin with. We seem to be
00:07:59copycatting the wrong things, and the influence of what is happening globally is what is taking
00:08:06Trinidad and Tobago, or has taken it by storm. And so, you notice that there is a trend. It is
00:08:13a trend at one stage where children want to cut themselves. Then there is a trend that they do
00:08:18different things like cheating in exams. Then there is a trend of everybody doing tattoos.
00:08:24Then there is a trend. So, we just get into it and we copy. So, I think what in many instances
00:08:32we have lost is the minds of our own to make decisions that are in our best interest for the
00:08:41longevity of whatever we are doing to live on it. That is my first point in terms of where Tobago is.
00:08:48So, let us start there. Well, you know, yes, we are one country, but you know there has always
00:08:56been the feeling that Tobagonians are very much different from Trinidadians. The way that they
00:09:02think, everything about them, they are a bit different. They are more conservative than us
00:09:09in Trinidad. So, I think that some people, including me, would be a bit surprised to
00:09:16hear some of the comments that you are saying, well, because of what is happening in Trinidad,
00:09:22it is a copycat type of behavior that they are involving themselves in. Do you think so?
00:09:29Well, I do not think that it is copycat alone, you know. There is also a presence of Trinidad
00:09:36in Tobago, but we cannot, and I have said this before in previous interviews, we cannot remove
00:09:43the fact that our own society participates in whatever is going on. If we keep dividing it and
00:09:51saying, well, it is not Tobagonians, but it is Trinidadians coming over to do whatever,
00:09:57I think that is where you will lose your fight in terms of understanding what is going on.
00:10:04There are too many things or talk that goes around for us to ignore,
00:10:08is it? So, I did an interview the other day with you on licensing, and I remember my experience
00:10:15at licensing where a senior gentleman told me when I went in there, well, Ms. Haddad, we have
00:10:21to clean up licensing, licensing, and I missed for too long and I had to ask him, who has it like
00:10:26that? It surely is not me, maybe your father, grandfather, uncle or whatever, because there
00:10:31is a history that governs licensing and the Port Authority and so, but all of those, as I said to
00:10:38you, are avenues or ways of crime. Crime is not just the murder, crime is not just the gun or the
00:10:48drugs or whatever. Crime has taken us over and we have also gotten to a level of tolerance for it.
00:10:56It's okay. That is where the big miss is and regardless of what, society, you will choose
00:11:05your direction from religion, but there in religion, all religion carries a level of faith
00:11:13and hope, okay? The problem starts when our children have no guidance. I'm not telling you
00:11:22stay there because there's a level of spirituality where you can evolve, but I'm saying that those
00:11:29places carry some measure of a guide. We've lost our way there too, because how? There are stories
00:11:38of people being hurt in those environments. So, there are stories, Marlon, through church,
00:11:45through the school system and education, through the police service, through the licensing,
00:11:50through customs, through the judiciary, through every entity that I can call on my fingers today,
00:11:58through our services, our public services, of how we do private business, through our banking sector,
00:12:05in terms of how people have to do things in order to get through. So, a simple example,
00:12:12and I'm sure this is live, this is as live as last week for me. I am on a board of where I
00:12:20live, and we now have to get these pins as directors of the board or whatever for you to
00:12:28be able to participate in doing anything for people to sell their homes and whatever, right?
00:12:34And you cannot file 2022 and 2023 unless it is electronically. And then trying to get the pin,
00:12:41I also have my businesses, so it's one pin I have to have. So, my accountant is doing it,
00:12:46and it's taking time, and I'm waiting for this email to come through. Long story short,
00:12:51one of the homeowners who need to sell is very upset and sends some very damning messages about
00:12:57my incompetence and my dragging my feet to get things done. Now, I'm waiting on the AG's office
00:13:02to send me what they have to send me, right? And proceeds to tell one of the other members,
00:13:08but there's some link they have, and they could pay $1,000 for this person to get it done or
00:13:13whatever. So, of course, I bluntly refused. I don't want to hear it's not happening.
00:13:18Eventually, she gets my number, and we are speaking on the phone, and she told me. I said,
00:13:22well, I am not participating. You know what her answer was? Well, this is Trinidad and Tobago,
00:13:27Ms. Harad. That's the way I get things done. So, I am saying this is something that's passed on,
00:13:34and we have accepted it as okay. And therefore, and therein lies why we have come to the place
00:13:43where we just accept this, and I'm talking about micro, small, medium, large, extra large, jumbo.
00:13:53All sizes of society have participated in one way or the other or in many ways for us to get here.
00:14:02So, we cannot turn a blind eye. I have no idea why a mother was found with her two children.
00:14:09It seems to be murder. I don't think she will murder her two children and then jump in a tank,
00:14:15you know, a decommissioned tank. But the intolerance, the impatience, the anger that
00:14:22exists, the greed, they are all what was classified as a sin. But we seem to be happy
00:14:31there, because when I don't get my way, I just knock you off. That's the end of it.
00:14:36Earlier, you alluded to a point at the port. You feel that there is need for greater policing
00:14:45of business at the port, because I know in recent times the authorities have spoken about
00:14:52an increase in guns in Tobago. They have even spoken about an increase in car thefts and people
00:14:59using fake number plates and so on in Tobago. Is there need for a greater policing of what is
00:15:05happening at the port? That has been something that we have lobbied for for years, in terms of
00:15:13the scanners, in terms of, you know, that the vehicle can actually drive to the scanner and
00:15:19you detect any metal and so on it. But, Marlon, it also serves some persons not to have it. So,
00:15:26in spite of you fighting to get it, even authority will not put it, because authority is benefit.
00:15:35So, there's no need to put that scanner. We are begging for that scanner for eons now, right?
00:15:42And again, I am pulling you back. When the time gets rough, when there's no boat,
00:15:49there is also serious word on the ground for years that people pay bribes to get their trucks on.
00:15:55I'm speaking about it. So, the same way I will pay the bribe for my truck to get on with goods,
00:16:01it's the same way I will pay a bribe to get the vehicle on with the guns that we speak about.
00:16:08So, I don't know. The society needs to make a decision of change. This is a human element
00:16:15change. This is a mindset. But you have people telling you that, you know, one contractor
00:16:23gave up a contract because the parties who gave him the contract want too much kickback and it
00:16:29doesn't make sense. So, he walk away from a contract, but another one picks it up in a few
00:16:34days. What is going on in our society? Crime is not just the guns. The guns is the final call.
00:16:40The guns are the final call. I was an ex-banker and I remember in the bank, and this is why I'm
00:16:49so thinking about this for years, eh? When you are going to purchase anything, you needed 10%
00:16:55down payment. And in the scheme of things in business, based on the margins you should be
00:17:00making, 10% is reasonable and achievable for you to require anything. Do you know the margins,
00:17:07what were the requirements for the last number of years? It's 33%.
00:17:14Where did we get to that? Do you know where we got to that? We got to that because we are funneling
00:17:20and fueling and the money is passing through the system. The system is bloated, showing this
00:17:26income to be so great and therefore the banking system creates a new formula, making demands. So,
00:17:32the honest man cannot find a way through the system for him to survive. So, he either gets
00:17:40caught up in the wrong thing or he can't make it. So, he also gets frustrated.
00:17:46Ms. Haddad, I want to pull you in another direction now, if you'd allow me.
00:17:53What do you think about the police's response? We have seen in recent times where the police
00:18:00have tried, I think, in Tobago to try to put up a strong front and a strong face and try to give
00:18:06assurances to Tobagonians that everything is being done to address the situation
00:18:13and that crime is not out of control in Tobago and that it is still
00:18:18a safe and serene place. What do you think about the response of the police?
00:18:23I really can't say that I have my pulse on that. I have seen police vehicles up to yesterday parked
00:18:32right in a certain bit of the road outside the port, removing persons loitering and being there
00:18:40for too long. I know that the persons who have marijuana on them and so probably within the
00:18:50the regulation, once they're out there too long, they see them coming back, they're moving them.
00:18:58My question for that is how long is that going to last? Because we start hot and sweaty and
00:19:04then as soon as we think we put a lid on something, we stop. So, there is the police presence,
00:19:11but our police service has always been part of it. That should have been number 10 for me to call
00:19:16the police service. The police service have always had the reputation that they are not
00:19:26dealing with things as damning as they should. They don't have that force or punch that they
00:19:33should. And then there is also word that police are very involved. So, it's sometimes a facade.
00:19:40So, again, when this system is so poisoned and you come in, even as a good young person
00:19:46wanting to make a change or whatever, and you are overpowered by that. First of all,
00:19:51your career could be very frustrating. This is what you're going to every day.
00:19:55There's no satisfaction. And then you either come out at a particular level as a nothing,
00:20:01right? Or you get so frustrated that you leave. So, there is nothing to blossom. So, the filth
00:20:10continues to multiply in our environments. And Marlon, I want us to say that we need to go back.
00:20:17I have said it. I keep saying it. We need to go back to the home lives, the education system,
00:20:24and the lives through a hope system, a place of hope and faith. Some kind of faith and hope
00:20:33where people know that there are alternatives. But unfortunately, our system has caused this
00:20:39deterioration. And the man on the street knows who is the big boy, the medium boy, the lady,
00:20:44the whatever that is participating. And so, there's no regard for anybody anymore. Because
00:20:52in some way or the other, we are all guilty. Yeah. Let's talk a little bit now about the
00:20:57response of the authorities in Tobago. You think that they have faced citizens enough to give them
00:21:05the assurances and again to tell them, hey, yes, we see these things that are happening,
00:21:12but we are dealing with it. You think that that has happened? You think that also that they have
00:21:18tried to say to the Tobagonian public, look, we are also putting various initiatives in place
00:21:27to dampen the situation? But I don't know that we can dampen the situation.
00:21:35This country at some stage needs to decide that we are going to deal with the situation.
00:21:44Don't we go back to the days of even Mr. Manning, God rest his soul, saying that, you know,
00:21:51they are aware who Mr. Big is, Mr. Medium is, Mr. Small is, it doesn't matter. The point is,
00:21:59how are we going to deal with it? Are we going to wait for people to just die naturally or
00:22:04whatever? And therefore, we know, okay, the generations will change. Is that how it's
00:22:08going to happen? Because if that's what we're waiting on, it has already filtered all the way
00:22:13down to what I want to say is the youth, right, and today's youth. But I don't think that the
00:22:20authorities have convinced anybody because when people have voted in in authority, they must
00:22:27execute their duties without any favor, and they must be deemed honest in the first place.
00:22:34Unfortunately, we are not in that place. Yeah, the word on the ground and what he said,
00:22:39we are not there with leadership. So they can't convince anybody of anything. Yeah,
00:22:44they they're probably ducking for themselves. Yeah. Let's look at Tobago's lifeline. Really.
00:22:51Now the tourism sector has this situation in Tobago. Has it had as yet an impact on the tourism
00:22:58product? Well, let me say that normally, July, August, our two bumper months, they are our best
00:23:08months, July, August, and Easter. And that has not been quite so this year. And I want to say
00:23:17that it probably had to do with the fact that people became a little bit more hesitant, or
00:23:24the persons who came stayed indoors, they didn't go out as much. So they probably stayed in villas
00:23:31and that kind of thing and enjoy the ambience of the environment. And so but they didn't necessarily
00:23:37go driving around, you know, to Charlottesville over to Palo Duque, Castara and come back,
00:23:42they didn't probably do those things. And they didn't cross, or what you want to say,
00:23:45they didn't break crease, they stayed within certain boundaries. And so the spend was not there
00:23:52going out and you know, doing the multiplier effect that did not happen. And I want,
00:23:58I do not know that I mean, Carl did not particularly put on any, many extra flights.
00:24:04And then of course, the boat at the port, the system didn't work very well for us to have
00:24:09extra sailing, the timing wasn't, it wasn't planned properly, that port itself is in a mess.
00:24:14And we didn't get the accommodation. However, Carl was able to bring over who wanted to come.
00:24:25And whoever came by boat, we didn't have any crisis, maybe Miss Haddad wasn't there to
00:24:31highlight them, I don't know. But we did not see that kickoff or takeoff that we normally would
00:24:38And therefore, it must be having an effect on our locals, the Trinidad public.
00:24:46But crime exists all over the world from a tourism perspective. And therefore, it doesn't
00:24:52say that people don't go to Mexico, Mexico, you know, there's that all over the world. But when
00:24:58you go, you have to take care of who you associate yourself with and what you participate in,
00:25:04in order for you to enjoy the experience of the island or country you go to.
00:25:08Yeah, Miss Haddad, I have about one minute again. Now, you mentioned a number of initiatives this
00:25:14morning. But I think that some of these initiatives that you would have suggested,
00:25:19it takes time to implement, right, Miss Haddad? So then the question is,
00:25:24what does Tobago do almost immediately to stifle this situation?
00:25:30Ah, well, that's a tough one. I don't think I need a minute. I think I need a few minutes to think.
00:25:37I would want to suggest that the, at one time, we had the joint army, the army and the police
00:25:45as a joint force on the island of Tobago. And without running us down with cars screaming,
00:25:51okay, let me start there. Let me put the head in first. We had a joint patrol of army personnel
00:26:04with the police force. And that made a big difference on the island because we had the
00:26:10influx of that. And it worked very well. And we had quite an immediate almost response to stifling
00:26:20it immediately. And then we did have some action taken in terms of probably extra eyes
00:26:28and action for hands where it took a different direction. Yeah, Miss Haddad.
00:26:37You know, when we have people being shot with big gold chains around their neck and whatever,
00:26:42we need to know where we are as a society. Yeah, we don't need anybody to tell us
00:26:49Miss Haddad, thank you very much for taking the time this morning to speak with us. As
00:26:53always, we do appreciate your perspective. And we also appreciate you always speaking
00:27:02in a frank manner. We do appreciate that. And thank you very much, ma'am. Bye for now.
00:27:09Have a good day, everyone. All right. Bye for now. It's time for a quick break,
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00:30:22Everyone, so Canadian YouTuber Christopher Hughes, you know him as Chris Must List. He's here with
00:30:28us this morning. Chris, thank you very much for coming this morning and spending some time with us.
00:30:31We appreciate it. Thank you very much for having me. Chris, when you came back to Trinidad,
00:30:37I suspect a few weeks ago, we saw a story almost immediately that you were being
00:30:44detained and we saw another story that you were being arrested. And, you know, as the days go by,
00:30:51as the hours go by, it would seem that it's a very dynamic situation. What's your status at this time?
00:30:57Yeah, it's actually quite confusing even for myself. There were allegations of money laundering
00:31:04or me having evidence to money laundering, which I was initially held for 14 hours of interrogation
00:31:12before I was released with no evidence of a crime. But the very next day, I was picked up,
00:31:17arrested and detained for deportation, a deportation order. So it's simply a document
00:31:25that says deportation. No reasoning why or no justification for the arrest at all.
00:31:31I was put into IDC, a detention center for immigrants. And after three days, my lawyers
00:31:38were able to, I guess, basically get me out. Just so everybody watching this understands,
00:31:44there's a lot of misinformation, including Mr. Fitzgerald Hines had an interview yesterday and
00:31:51said that I'm here by my own free will to create videos and get views. Since the day I arrived back
00:31:58in Trinidad, my bail conditions said, stated, I must submit my passport to the high court.
00:32:05So since the day I arrived in Trinidad, I have not been able to leave. First and foremost,
00:32:10I have no passport. And second, my bail conditions restrict me from leaving the country.
00:32:15So I am here on official court matters. I'm not here as a tourist. So the confusion becomes,
00:32:23how do I get deported from a country that I must be in? Right. So that's the complicated part that
00:32:30we'll continue to see what happens in the coming days. All right. So we all know that there is
00:32:37a sedition matter that you have to deal with. And we're not going to speak about that because
00:32:42that's before the courts. But since that, you have not been charged with anything. Correct.
00:32:49Well, the deportation, I'm not certain what the wording would be if I'm charged. But I mean,
00:32:55it's something that we're still dealing with. Yeah. I also understand that your equipment
00:33:01has been seized. Any reason has been given for that? No. See, I guess the part that I don't know
00:33:08well enough about the laws in Trinidad. Now, when I was initially picked up for money laundering,
00:33:16my items were seized. Now, when I was released and they said there's no offense or charge here,
00:33:21they still have permission to keep all of my items. In my eyes, it's not about evidence. It's
00:33:27about silencing me from the Internet. And also, all my court documents are on my laptop. Everything
00:33:35I need to get a trial, for those that don't know, with my sedition charge, I'm fighting it myself.
00:33:41I have no lawyers. So all the research I've done and everything is on a laptop that's now
00:33:46being held hostage. I don't know if I'll ever see it again. So it's impeding my opportunity
00:33:54at a fair trial. And my hopes in this whole situation is that's when I get a fair trial.
00:34:01You feel that because there may be the impression out there, judging on your journey in Trinidad and
00:34:09Tobago, from when you arrived to this time, there may be the impression that you're being harassed.
00:34:16You feel that is what is happening? 100%. Targeted is another, you know, good word.
00:34:22There's no evidence to any crime because I have never committed a crime in Trinidad.
00:34:26I abide by the rules. There's no doubt I create some videos that some people might not like.
00:34:32100%. There's videos on YouTube I don't like, so I avoid them. I definitely feel like I'm being
00:34:37targeted for that one purpose of creating somewhat controversial videos here in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:34:45So you feel that's the motivation behind the action that has been taken against you, that some
00:34:51people just do not like? And I'm sure that it is safe to say that some of the videos that we're
00:34:57speaking about shows the gang, alleged gang activity, and you speaking to these types of
00:35:05persons. You think that's where the motivation comes from? I know it. I know it. I'm not the
00:35:11first person in YouTube to walk through an area of poverty and film it. Any Trinidad song that
00:35:19you can play, including ones that have tens of millions of views, show guns and have controversial
00:35:25lyrics, I'm the only one that has a sedition charge, right? Where are the directors of these videos
00:35:33that stage the whole video? You know, there are death threats in some of these videos,
00:35:40and once again, they're openly sang by youth in school, right? So how do you pick and choose who
00:35:47gets the sedition charge? In my mindset, for a fair society, if you rob a bank, you've robbed a
00:35:55bank. It's not like I can pick and choose, well, that's a Canadian. He's seditious. But no, when
00:36:02the news reporter goes in and does an interview, no, that's okay, because that's news. Or when a
00:36:07Trinidad song comes out, no, that's entertainment. Where is the line? What crime did I actually
00:36:13commit? Yeah. Have you been, I'm sure that, I mean, one of the reasons that you were here,
00:36:21it was because of what you were hearing about the crime situation about Trinidad and Tobago.
00:36:26You have any feeling as to what you have been seeing in recent times in Trinidad and Tobago
00:36:32re-crime? Yeah, so I never came for that purpose, no. I'm on a mission to see every country in the
00:36:37world. This is my country, 128. But when I come to a country, day one or two, I try to, I call it
00:36:44a deep dive. I try to go as deep as I can into the community, talk to strangers, and just see, like,
00:36:49what's going on? What should I film? And if anybody watches my first video, I end up on Duncan Street,
00:36:56and the youth are telling me what's going on, and I'm learning along the way. So that was never my
00:37:01intention, nor is it all my content. You know, I'm very diverse with my content. It's just people
00:37:06remember the shiny guns. They don't remember me at the steel pan, or eating the traditional
00:37:11food, or going to the festivities, or Maruga. Those kind of videos don't do well. What they remember is
00:37:18only the shiny objects. Yeah, but you have any position at all as to what you would have seen
00:37:25re-crime in Trinidad and Tobago? Of course, just a short while ago, we were speaking about
00:37:31this situation in Tobago, where three bodies were found in a tank, in a water tank in Tobago.
00:37:38You have any impression, feeling, as to what you're seeing re-crime here? Yes, it's horrifying.
00:37:47I think Haiti is the only Caribbean country that I've seen worse off right now. Jamaica definitely
00:37:54has a crime problem as well. You know, I could sit and talk for hours, if not days, about my
00:38:00thoughts, and even ways that I think could be improved, but it would be embarrassing for
00:38:06myself to come to a country that's not my own, when my own country has problems as well.
00:38:13So there's no doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt, there's a crime problem. Things have to change.
00:38:18Too many innocent people are being killed, but I'm not the one to tell you how to fix that problem.
00:38:26But, you know, if there's anybody in government that would love to sit down with me, free of
00:38:31charge, of course, I would sit down and brainstorm and tell you everything I've seen. After visiting
00:38:36128 countries, and the worst countries in the world in relation to gangs and danger,
00:38:42I feel I have a knowledge that I could share. And very quickly, like when I was in Belize City,
00:38:49the university reached out to me in Miami and said, Chris, you have knowledge that we can't
00:38:53get anywhere else. Let's sit down and talk about this because we need to know more. So they took
00:38:59my knowledge because they care about lowering the crime rate. Here, so far in Trinidad,
00:39:05nobody's reached out to me and said, Chris, let's have a talk and let's figure out how we can,
00:39:11you know, create some peace in this beautiful country.
00:39:13Yeah. What's next for you?
00:39:15Today, right now, after this appearance, I have court at 930 in High Court. It's a virtual
00:39:22appearance in which I hope and I should get my passport back for the first time since I've been
00:39:29here. Now, the only hurdle is due to my deportation order, I am now stuck in the country again until
00:39:35the 20th of the month. But I've spoken to lawyers and they said there might be a way to get out
00:39:41sooner if I get the right signatures, which would allow me to leave the country. Yeah. So
00:39:47today's the anticipated court appearance. All right, Chris, thank you very much for coming
00:39:51this morning and we wish you all the best. Thank you very much, sir. All right. We are
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00:43:55Let's take a selfie. It looking good boy. I present online.
00:44:11Hey, I thought you said you went to the beach with your parents.
00:44:15Who's you? It's me, Larry from online.
00:44:26So,
00:44:45the parents on them don't stop and try to bring up their kids in a proper way
00:44:53All right, everybody, so welcome back.
00:45:02So September is recognized as Adoption and, come on, studio, yeah.
00:45:10Thank you very much, studio.
00:45:11Let me do that again, all right.
00:45:14So September is recognized as Adoption and Foster Care Awareness Month.
00:45:17We're now joined with Anjali Tiwari-Defarge, Foster Care Team Lead from the Children's
00:45:23Authority.
00:45:24Anjali, it's that time of the year again, a very special good morning to you.
00:45:28Yes.
00:45:29Yeah.
00:45:30Good morning, Marlon.
00:45:31Thanks again for having me here today.
00:45:33Of course.
00:45:34Well, Anjali, let's talk a little bit about, let's start from the beginning because we
00:45:38have spoken about this in the past, but I think it would be a benefit to again speak
00:45:44about foster care and what is foster care.
00:45:49Sure.
00:45:50And Marlon, every time I get asked that question, I always start by saying foster care is not
00:45:55adoption.
00:45:56In Trinidad and Tobago, no matter how many times we talk about foster care, people always
00:46:00seem to mix up the two.
00:46:01And I want to say from the start, foster care is temporary.
00:46:05That's a temporary space where we're giving children a safe space if we find them in need
00:46:10of attention, care, neglect, protection.
00:46:13If they need that safe, temporary space, and adoption is actually a permanent space.
00:46:19So only if a child has been released for adoption, their children have given up, their parents
00:46:23have given up consent for them, then a child is placed in adoption.
00:46:27But temporary, really, that space in foster care keeps children safe while parents get
00:46:32a chance to heal.
00:46:34So we want to give families time to heal and get back on their own two feet before we can
00:46:38maybe possibly consider reintegration where possible and appropriate.
00:46:43Yeah, but Anjali, let's dig a little deeper, because I know that there are different types
00:46:50of foster care, right?
00:46:53Yes, definitely.
00:46:54So when persons get temporary, they tend to get scared a little bit, but temporary can
00:46:59mean many things.
00:47:00It can mean as short as one day, a couple of days, a couple of weeks, a couple of months,
00:47:06even a couple of years.
00:47:07It all really depends on the circumstances of the child.
00:47:10So what we want to think about is there's two different, there's two main types of foster
00:47:15care. There's traditional foster care, where any person from the public can come forward
00:47:19and they can volunteer to be assessed by our unit, and they can actually do short-term
00:47:25foster care, long-term foster care, emergency foster care, or even respite foster care.
00:47:30So if it is a foster parent needs a break, we can place a child with another foster parent.
00:47:36But now what we've actually been dealing with recently and what we've formalized is
00:47:39kinship foster care, and that's what we've been focusing a lot on these days.
00:47:43This allows us to place children with vetted family members.
00:47:48So our legislation allows us to check specific family members.
00:47:53And if it's a safe space and if it's appropriate, children can actually place back into
00:47:57their families and gain that support from the authorities.
00:48:00So we're very excited about kinship foster care.
00:48:02Yeah. But in what circumstances or under what circumstances is foster care you think necessary?
00:48:13So if it is, I want to give an example.
00:48:15So say example, we get a child, we get a call maybe late at night.
00:48:19A child has been abandoned.
00:48:20We found a child walking on the side of the street.
00:48:23We can't find any relatives or family members at that point in time.
00:48:28And we need a safe space.
00:48:29This child needs a bed to sleep in, food in their stomachs, you know, just a safe space to be.
00:48:34That's when foster care kicks in.
00:48:36It allows the children's authority to do deeper investigations, find out the circumstances of this child.
00:48:41Is it appropriate for them to go back home?
00:48:43Why were they abandoned?
00:48:44Why were they walking on the streets late at night?
00:48:47And foster care really gives us that space to figure things out.
00:48:50So if it is that we identify relatives, but maybe they don't have the capacity at that point in time,
00:48:57short term foster care gives us that space to work with those families in the background.
00:49:00So I think it's important for persons to know when a child comes into foster care, we don't rule out family members.
00:49:06We are working silently in the background once those family members are willing to work with us.
00:49:11So really, it gives us an opportunity to kind of get persons back on their feet where appropriate.
00:49:16Yeah. And just returning to the kinship foster care, I suspect
00:49:21it gives the child an opportunity to be in an environment, a familiar environment.
00:49:31Yes, absolutely.
00:49:33And that's the beauty of kinship foster care.
00:49:34And if you think about it, Marlon, it's something that Caribbeans do naturally.
00:49:38We've been doing it for centuries in an informal way.
00:49:41But kinship foster care really allows us that opportunity to vet persons, to determine those who actually need support.
00:49:48Not every relative will need the support of the authority and not every child will meet the criteria of foster care.
00:49:54So really, we ask persons who need that additional support to care for their family members.
00:49:59Get in touch with us.
00:50:00See if it is that you meet the criteria of kinship foster care and help us support you to better care for that child.
00:50:06Yeah. Is there a particular age where foster care is considered?
00:50:12So actually, a lot of persons maybe think it's just babies, just younger children,
00:50:17but foster care goes from zero to 17.
00:50:19We have babies, toddlers, we have teenagers.
00:50:22And that's actually a really big category that persons are hesitant to approach us about.
00:50:28But teenagers are very important.
00:50:30Can you imagine if a teenager who's had instability their entire lives,
00:50:34who've not had their needs met, comes into foster care
00:50:38and they are able to maybe go to school, maybe get the tools that they didn't have before?
00:50:42It really sets them up for a great future.
00:50:45So foster care in general for teenagers really, really helps.
00:50:48And we really do appeal to the public to think about teenagers.
00:50:51They're not just children coming with baggage.
00:50:54You have an opportunity to change a child's trajectory.
00:50:58Yeah. Anjali, we do have still a lot more to speak about.
00:51:02OK, but we must go to a very short break.
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00:53:55All right, so welcome back, everyone.
00:53:57So we are continuing our conversation on foster care with Anjali Tewari-Defog
00:54:02of Foster, who is the foster care team lead at the Children's Authority.
00:54:07Anjali, let's speak a little bit about who can become a foster parent.
00:54:14Sure. So really and truly, anybody who has a safe space to provide
00:54:19and love to give, we really encourage this person to come forward
00:54:22so you can be a single applicant, you can be married,
00:54:25you can be a mother living with a daughter, you could be sisters living together.
00:54:29We have all different types of foster parents.
00:54:32And what our vetting process allows us to do is to make sure
00:54:35that you have a support network.
00:54:37So even if you're a single foster parent, once you have support
00:54:40persons who can assist in times of need or if you have a safe space,
00:54:44those are the things that we determine in our assessment.
00:54:46So really and truly, it doesn't matter your age, even if you're elderly.
00:54:50Our checks will ensure that you are well enough to take care of a child.
00:54:54Yeah. Let's speak a little bit about the vetting process,
00:54:57because I'm sure that is very, very important as we in the context
00:55:02of the environment that we are operating in in Trinidad and Tobago these days.
00:55:06So let's speak about the vetting process.
00:55:10So absolutely.
00:55:11I think the vetting is the most important part of our process
00:55:14because it really determines whether that home is a safe space for a child.
00:55:18We don't want to move a child from a space of danger into another space of danger.
00:55:23So we encourage patients when they get in touch with us
00:55:25to talk to us about what foster care is.
00:55:27Then we do in-depth interviews with all persons in the household.
00:55:31We do background checks, a home assessment.
00:55:34And we also do psychological assessments, reference checks.
00:55:37And we even do some basic training before you come into foster care
00:55:41to ensure that you have the skills to take care of a child.
00:55:44So even if the early process is thorough,
00:55:47it does not have to be lengthy.
00:55:49So we really want patients to really think about the reason why we're doing these checks.
00:55:53We want to ensure that it's a safe space for children to come into.
00:55:56Yeah. But is there also a vetting process for the child?
00:55:59Because again, I suspect people who want to
00:56:05put themselves forward to become a foster parent,
00:56:08you have to know who is coming into your household.
00:56:13That's a really good question.
00:56:14So there's not a vetting process per se.
00:56:17In the sense that we're not screening a child to see if they're safe.
00:56:20What we're doing is we're assessing children to determine what their needs are.
00:56:24So whether they have medical needs, psychological needs, what their backgrounds are.
00:56:29But sometimes, Marlon, when we get a call late at night,
00:56:32when it's an emergency circumstance, we don't have that liberty.
00:56:35We weren't able to find out the length and breadth of the history of this child.
00:56:39So sometimes we have to go on just a basic medical
00:56:42as to what that child immediately presents with.
00:56:44But the authority does continue working with this child,
00:56:47monitoring and supporting to find out what their needs are
00:56:50to better enable the foster parent to care for them.
00:56:53Yeah. And how can a prospective
00:56:56foster care parent approach the authority?
00:57:02So we encourage patients to give us a call on 627-0748
00:57:07extension 40988.
00:57:09Or you can give us an email at fostercareatttchildren.org
00:57:14Give us a call. Get in touch with us.
00:57:16We will contact you.
00:57:17We really want to encourage patients to open their hearts and homes.
00:57:21There's also information on our website, www.ttchildren.org.
00:57:26You can download the application package and find out lots of information
00:57:29on foster care, kin to foster care, as well as adoption.
00:57:33Yeah. And, you know, Anjali,
00:57:34this is not the first time that we have spoken about foster care.
00:57:37What has the response been from the general public?
00:57:40So in general, patients tend to want adoption more than foster care.
00:57:44Something about that temporary nature of foster care seems to scare people off.
00:57:49And we really do want to encourage patients not to be afraid
00:57:52of getting attached to children and having to say goodbye.
00:57:55It's not a bad thing. It's not a negative thing.
00:57:57We are doing a good thing.
00:57:59We're contributing to the overall society.
00:58:01So it's been slow and steady.
00:58:04But I do want to give a shout out and thank you to our committed
00:58:08and dedicated foster parents.
00:58:10We have about 104 foster parents at this point in time across Trinidad and Tobago.
00:58:16And that includes 81 traditional foster parents, as well as 23 kinship
00:58:20foster parents, and they really are a committed bunch who are working with us.
00:58:24And I am very grateful for their dedication.
00:58:27Yeah. Anjali, I also want to give you the
00:58:30opportunity to place a plug for your Children's Authority 24 hour hotline.
00:58:36Definitely, if it is that somebody has any
00:58:38concerns about a child in need of care and protection,
00:58:42you can give us a call on our hotline, which is 996 or 800-2014.
00:58:47It's free of charge.
00:58:48It's 24-7.
00:58:50Anyone who knows something that there's
00:58:52concerns about a child, definitely give us a call on that number.
00:58:55Yeah. Anjali, it's always a pleasure speaking with you.
00:58:58Thank you very much for the tips and all of the information that you have shared
00:59:02with us this morning. We do appreciate it.
00:59:04Bye for now.
00:59:06Thank you very much. Bye bye.
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01:03:20days. That's if you're having to come in for an interview at the embassy.
01:03:25For people who qualify for our interview waiver program, those are people who are
01:03:29under the age of 14 or people who are over the age of 80 or people who are
01:03:34renewing their U.S. visa that was valid for 10 years and not annotated.
01:03:39That is, didn't have any writing down at the bottom of the visa.
01:03:42Those people can mail in their visas for renewal and there is zero wait time.
01:03:47They can mail their visas in right away as soon as they finish applying.
01:03:51So we're very excited to report that.
01:03:53We know that people are excited to travel
01:03:55to the United States and we're excited that we can facilitate that much more
01:03:58quickly than in recent years. Yeah.
01:04:01But what's the process and the process
01:04:04really for the person who is now applying for a U.S. visa?
01:04:08Does that person apply online and seek an interview?
01:04:14Is that the process? How does the process work?
01:04:18So the first step is going to be to fill out the DS-160 application online.
01:04:23And I want to stress something really important here.
01:04:26When filling out an application, a lot of people seek to have some assistance.
01:04:30I know that filling out a visa application can feel very intimidating.
01:04:33The entire process feels very intimidating
01:04:36to a lot of people, and we understand that.
01:04:38But the reality is for visa applications, there's no expert like yourself.
01:04:43You are the expert at your own visa application.
01:04:45And so we encourage people to fill out their own visa applications.
01:04:49It starts with you.
01:04:51And so the first step is to fill out your
01:04:53DS-160 application as completely and honestly as possible.
01:04:57That can all be done online.
01:04:59After you filled out your application,
01:05:01you're going to pay your visa fee that can be paid either online or at a Scotiabank
01:05:06location. And then if you qualify for the interview waiver,
01:05:09you'll send in your documents to the embassy.
01:05:12And if you need to come in for an interview,
01:05:13then you'll schedule your interview at the embassy and arrive for your interview.
01:05:17Yeah.
01:05:18How much is the visa fee?
01:05:22I believe the visa fee is one hundred and eighty US dollars.
01:05:26Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:27And is it possible that you can tell us
01:05:29this morning or is all of this information online about the documents that people
01:05:35would need to work with?
01:05:38So the only required documents that you have to bring to your visa interview are
01:05:42your DS-160 form, which will have a barcode printed on it,
01:05:46your passport and passport size photo.
01:05:49Those are the only required documents.
01:05:52Anything else that you would like to bring can be supplemental.
01:05:55Those are things like bank documents, employment letters, things like that.
01:05:59Those are all optional.
01:06:01They're not required.
01:06:02But a lot of people do choose to bring those documents.
01:06:05And we also absolutely encourage people to only bring documents that are legitimate.
01:06:10We have seen an increase in fraudulent
01:06:12documents being brought into the U.S. embassy.
01:06:15All right,
01:06:17Miss Babbage, I just have a few more questions for you,
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01:09:30So we are continuing our discussion on consular services being offered by the
01:09:35U.S. Embassy in Port of Spain, and we do still have on the line consular officer
01:09:40at the U.S. Embassy, Miss Emily Babbage.
01:09:43Emily, thank you very much for staying with us, Emily.
01:09:47So after the interview,
01:09:50after the interview is done, how much time later would an individual
01:09:55be told if they have been accepted or rejected?
01:10:00Or denied?
01:10:01So generally, sure, generally speaking,
01:10:05applicants are told immediately at the end of the interview if it's accepted or
01:10:09refused visa. In certain situations, we might require
01:10:13some additional processing time to figure out if we can approve or deny a visa.
01:10:18But generally speaking, at the end of the interview,
01:10:20an applicant will know if it's approved or denied.
01:10:22And at the end of an interview, if it's approved, the applicant can expect
01:10:27to receive their visa in about two weeks, in about two weeks.
01:10:30If that person is denied, how long after can that person make an application again?
01:10:39There is no time limit in terms of when you can reapply for a U.S. visa.
01:10:44However, we encourage applicants to wait
01:10:47until there is new information that they can apply for.
01:10:51Wait until there is new information to present.
01:10:54You can assume that if you come to the U.S.
01:10:56Embassy and present the exact same information,
01:10:58you can expect that you're going to get the same answer.
01:11:02Yeah. So is it then that the does the embassy
01:11:06tell you why you would have been denied and and maybe if it is that you did not
01:11:12have the correct information and so on, does the embassy kind of guide you
01:11:16through the process?
01:11:19So we're actually instructed not to coach
01:11:22applicants in terms of why they did or didn't receive their visa.
01:11:25We're given very strict instructions that we cannot coach applicants as to why they
01:11:30did not receive their visa.
01:11:31I know that can be very frustrating to applicants who may be wondering what it
01:11:35was that they were missing, and we understand that that's frustrating.
01:11:38However, we're not allowed to tell people.
01:11:42We do give a letter explaining some
01:11:44of the reasons why people may be refused a visa.
01:11:46And we encourage applicants to read that
01:11:48letter before reapplying if they do choose to reapply in the future.
01:11:53But we are limited in what we can tell applicants if they are refused.
01:11:56Emily, Emily, have there been incidents of fraud at all?
01:12:02There have we have seen an uptick in fraudulent visa applications that includes
01:12:08applicants who are including incorrect or fraudulent information on the
01:12:12applications themselves on the DS-160 applications, whether that be because
01:12:17they are having people fill out their applications on their behalf.
01:12:21And those people are bad actors who are
01:12:24choosing to inflate the information on the applications.
01:12:27Or if people are bringing in fraudulent
01:12:30documents to the embassy and presenting them as legitimate.
01:12:33We have seen an increase in fraudulent documents.
01:12:36And this is a serious issue not only for
01:12:39visa processes, but also for criminal matters within Trinidad and Tobago.
01:12:44We have very strong partners in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service,
01:12:48and they take this very seriously as well.
01:12:50This can prevent you for life for receiving a U.S.
01:12:54visa and have serious consequences with the TTPs as well.
01:12:59Yeah. Emily, is there anything else that you'd
01:13:02like to tell us before you leave us this morning?
01:13:05I'd like to pivot just briefly to our
01:13:07American citizens in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:13:10We are on the eve of the International Day of Democracy, which is September 15th.
01:13:15And we are also nearing an important federal
01:13:18election as we approach our presidential election in November.
01:13:22And I want to encourage all U.S.
01:13:24citizens who live in Trinidad and Tobago to exercise their constitutional right to
01:13:29vote in this federal election just because you are not in the United States.
01:13:33You can vote in this election.
01:13:35And we encourage you to go to the website
01:13:37FVAP.gov to find all of your resources for voting as an absentee voter.
01:13:44Yes. Emily Babbage, it was a pleasure speaking with you this morning.
01:13:47Thank you very much. Bye for now.
01:13:49Thank you.
01:13:51All right. So we are going to take a few of your
01:13:54calls after the break. You're calling us on 623-1711, the extension.
01:13:59It's 1995. It's Friday, everybody.
01:14:02We're getting ready for the weekend.
01:14:03Yeah, we're taking your calls right after.
01:14:34And
01:14:52just like that, we are back.
01:14:54Yeah, you're calling us on 623-1711, the extension.
01:14:59It's 1995.
01:15:00Yeah, we only have a few more minutes.
01:15:02You know, call us and speak with us.
01:15:04This week has been another challenging week in Trinidad and Tobago, right?
01:15:08So you can please call us now.
01:15:10We just have a few minutes again to take your calls.
01:15:16Yeah. So according to the health minister,
01:15:19D.L. Singh, Kamala's claims, an effort or an affront to entire health sector.
01:15:25So take back fake vaccines talk.
01:15:28So health minister Terence D.L. Singh has
01:15:29demanded that opposition leader Kamala Prasad Biseser provide a full and complete
01:15:34retraction of a comment that fake vaccines were given to hundreds of thousands
01:15:40of people in Trinidad and Tobago during the covid-19 pandemic.
01:15:44So in a media release yesterday, the minister said Prasad Biseser's
01:15:48assertion that a fake vaccine was administered to citizens is an affront
01:15:52to the entire public and private health and the private health sector and implies
01:15:58that doctors and nurses and other publicly spirited individuals who
01:16:02administered these vaccines were complicit in a hoax.
01:16:07All right. So we do have a first call.
01:16:09Good morning, caller.
01:16:12Good morning. Morning.
01:16:15Caller, go ahead, please listen to us
01:16:17via the line and not your television set, go ahead.
01:16:21I'm trying to find out where do we get the visa application form from.
01:16:28All right.
01:16:29Well, I know that Miss Babbage did speak about it, but maybe, ma'am, what you can do
01:16:35is to Google U.S. embassy, Port of Spain, and I suspect it will take you to the website.
01:16:43All right. So try that.
01:16:45I suspect that will work. All right.
01:16:47What we can do is that we'll have a rerun
01:16:49of that segment, hopefully a little later, so you can get the additional information
01:16:54there. But in the meantime, you can you can have someone Google it for you.
01:16:58Let's take another call. Good morning, caller.
01:17:01Hi, madam. Morning.
01:17:03Morning.
01:17:06Concerning the police recruitment.
01:17:08Concerning the?
01:17:10Police recruitment.
01:17:12Right. Go ahead.
01:17:15I cannot understand why
01:17:19they are sending officers
01:17:22and recruit, sorry,
01:17:26for a medical
01:17:28when they have not completed
01:17:32the polygraph test for the polymetric.
01:17:37Reason being, if you fail the polygraph or the polymetric and you pass your medical,
01:17:45you have nothing to get back.
01:17:46You must pay twenty two hundred dollars to do a medical.
01:17:53So it makes no sense.
01:17:54And in fact, if you don't pass the polygraph or your polymetric,
01:17:59you will pass the medical,
01:18:02but you could fail the polygraph.
01:18:05It makes no sense.
01:18:06It makes no sense.
01:18:08Yeah.
01:18:09All right. Thank you very much.
01:18:11I think that I think we would have seen over the years that this process
01:18:17needs to be tightened up a little bit.
01:18:20Yeah. When you are recruiting persons into the police service,
01:18:24that process needs to be relooked and reviewed.
01:18:28Let's take another call.
01:18:29Good morning, caller.
01:18:31Yeah. Good morning.
01:18:32Thanks for taking my call.
01:18:34Of course.
01:18:35I am a bit very low, low in spirit this morning.
01:18:41And I say that to say what took place in Tobago with that mother and her two children.
01:18:51Yeah. Marlon, I'm hurt.
01:18:56How, what did we do as a society?
01:18:59Marlon, I'm 60 years old, right?
01:19:01So I like talk, I've been talking a long time.
01:19:05And Marlon, what did we do to resist it?
01:19:09Marlon, I mean, what could happen again?
01:19:13They went marvel, they pulled out that fella,
01:19:16they hit him like a dog on the road to North Coast.
01:19:19Marlon, what must happen again to shake this government and know that this country is too unsafe?
01:19:28Marlon, look, you decide to leave your home wherever you live, Marlon.
01:19:33And all over the morning they come and do a beautiful program.
01:19:37Marlon, I just pray for you.
01:19:39Because your life at risk.
01:19:41These criminals, Marlon, are all over, all over.
01:19:47And we study in Christmas, the guy we study in here.
01:19:51And Marlon, he is no threat to me.
01:19:53Why you don't go after these criminals who tell nothing for me and killing people and getting away?
01:20:00I am very concerned, Marlon.
01:20:02I don't know what to say again, how to say it again.
01:20:05Because you talk so to say it's a UNC.
01:20:08When you're thinking about these issues that are affecting this country,
01:20:11they're branding you and saying you don't like this country.
01:20:15Marlon, I'm feeling sad this morning.
01:20:17I tell you, what must happen again to shake this government?
01:20:21I don't know. Something must be done.
01:20:23Time's up to protect the citizens of this country.
01:20:27Thank you, Marlon.
01:20:27Yeah.
01:20:29Kola, you know, every time I hear you, I constantly speak about your passion and concern.
01:20:35And what I would say, if more we have more people in this selfish society that would
01:20:41speak more like you and have your concerns, well, then things may be a little different.
01:20:47Yeah. Let's take another call.
01:20:49Good morning, Kola.
01:20:52Good morning, Marlon.
01:20:53Yes. Good morning.
01:20:54Good morning.
01:20:56Kola and concern, Mr. Robert Amar, who has owned some business and also the Kiskidi Caravan,
01:21:02he has done a lot in terms of the development of the arts in the country.
01:21:06And that dealt with crime in a really significant way.
01:21:08And I want to say that to the National Award Committee to consider Robert Amar
01:21:13for a National Award, right? He's a strong hero.
01:21:15And he has done a lot in terms of the development of the arts and culture.
01:21:19His studio was rated number three in the world and so on.
01:21:22So could you consider him for a National Award, please, while he's alive?
01:21:26Thank you very much. All right.
01:21:27Thank you very much.
01:21:29Like him or not, the gentleman has really changed the landscape.
01:21:32As it relates to entertainment in Trinidad and Tobago, you remember before
01:21:36back in the day, you had these these duty white tents and people performing.
01:21:41You remember when Kiskidi Caravan came and changed all of that.
01:21:45And you had these beautiful big stages
01:21:47with lights and and all of these sorts of things.
01:21:49So, yeah. Yeah.
01:21:50Let's take another call.
01:21:51We just have a few minutes again.
01:21:53You're calling us on six, two, three, 17, 11, the extension.
01:21:55It's nineteen ninety five.
01:21:57We are getting ready for the weekend, everybody.
01:21:59Yeah. We have some cricket to discuss after.
01:22:02You know, we have some very I have a very special guest in the studio.
01:22:05You know, I have to be on my P's and Q's this morning.
01:22:08Yeah. That gentleman has come in with a
01:22:11document that he's going to score me, you know.
01:22:14All right.
01:22:16So here's what let's take one last call.
01:22:18You're calling us on six, two, three, 17, 11, the extension.
01:22:23It's nineteen ninety five.
01:22:24So so one of the persons who got a promotion yesterday, guess who, boy?
01:22:29Roger D. Alexander.
01:22:30Yes, he's now a senior superintendent.
01:22:33Yeah. Good morning, Roger D.
01:22:35Let's take our last call.
01:22:37Good morning, caller.
01:22:39Caller, you're there.
01:22:41Hi, morning. Morning, sir.
01:22:44Morning, morning, morning.
01:22:46You have about 30 seconds. Go ahead, sir.
01:22:49Yeah, I'm going to share a couple of things with you.
01:22:53Go ahead. Go ahead.
01:22:55Yes, I just wanted to find out
01:22:58when you.
01:23:01Go ahead, sir, because you have a lot of time, you know,
01:23:05why didn't you have a reason why?
01:23:08Why?
01:23:10All right, so we have we have run out of time,
01:23:14but hopefully the authorities have have heard you and there could be a response.
01:23:19Wait, we're not going to break it.
01:23:20I have one minute, right?
01:23:22I have to do something that I've had to do for the past few days.
01:23:27Where's the document, boy?
01:23:29I want to see.
01:23:30Ah, I have to say this.
01:23:32I have to say this.
01:23:33So a very special good morning and belated birthday to Rosalind Gentle.
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01:23:46Rosalind is there. Right.
01:23:48Miss Gentle, thank you very much for that picture.
01:23:51And I hope that you had a good day and you are in good spirits today.
01:23:56All right, everybody, we are going to very quick break.
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01:27:37All right, everybody, so welcome back.
01:27:39So we are discussing now CPL.
01:27:41We do have some very special guests in studio with me this morning.
01:27:44We do have the general manager of CCN TV6, Richard Purcell.
01:27:49And we also have Raul D'Souza,
01:27:52marketing and customer relations manager, Gem Radio 5 Limited.
01:27:56Gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us this morning.
01:27:58We do appreciate it.
01:27:59We know that you are busy men, you know.
01:28:01So we're glad that you're here this morning.
01:28:03Well, thank you, Marlon.
01:28:04It's always a pleasure to be here with you.
01:28:07It must come more often.
01:28:09I don't know about that.
01:28:11It must come more often.
01:28:12But I must say, yes, I was marking you here.
01:28:14Yeah. And, you know, a little fiddling with the papers before and so on.
01:28:18Yeah. But it's all good because it was about the lady's birthday.
01:28:22A hundred and how much? A hundred, one hundred.
01:28:24Flat a hundred. Congratulations, man.
01:28:26Yeah. All right, gentlemen.
01:28:28So let's get right into this.
01:28:31Let's look at TV6's involvement.
01:28:34Of course, we have been there from the beginning with the WCPL.
01:28:39We're now with the men's CPL.
01:28:42Yes.
01:28:43Let me pose this question to you.
01:28:45Why did you feel, why did the company feel that this was a good fit for them
01:28:50to be associated with the CPL? Well, you know, the CPL
01:28:54boasts of even before we were associated
01:28:58with it, of having the largest television audiences worldwide.
01:29:03And of course,
01:29:05television is about audience so that you can get the advertising.
01:29:09But it's more than that. It's about it's about serving the people and so on.
01:29:14And we know we know cricket is big in the Caribbean.
01:29:18It's huge in Trinidad and club cricket is growing and has grown.
01:29:24Yeah. And it was really a no brainer, really,
01:29:27because of the brand CPL and brand TV6.
01:29:32We thought those two big brands should get together.
01:29:35And so far it's worked well.
01:29:38Yeah, for some cricket is life.
01:29:40You know, there's a saying, so and so is life.
01:29:43Yeah, well, cricket is life for us in the in the Caribbean.
01:29:47Raul, let's talk a little bit about JEM Radio
01:29:52involvement in the WCPL and also the CPL.
01:29:59Yeah, so Marlon,
01:30:02as you said, you know,
01:30:05OCM is a regional
01:30:08regional brand and so is CPL.
01:30:11So so they mirror each other quite well.
01:30:14But we thought it to be a good fit where JEM Radio is concerned.
01:30:17This is actually our sixth year of producing and distributing the radio
01:30:23commentary throughout the Caribbean for the CPL and the WCPL by extension.
01:30:30JEM Radio has done it for, like I said, the last six years.
01:30:34We've really enjoyed doing it.
01:30:36We've put together what we believe to be an incredible radio broadcast.
01:30:41It's a cricket commentary.
01:30:43We have some of the best guys in the region working with us from the media houses
01:30:48straight down to the commentators. We have excellent commentators.
01:30:52And so for JEM Radio,
01:30:55you know, we see the CPL as one of our staples for the year.
01:31:03Yeah. So is it, Raoul, so is it that when we are viewing
01:31:09the cricket on television, you have a simulcast on JEM, on the JEM Radio network?
01:31:17Is that it? What you all are doing?
01:31:20Right.
01:31:21So I wouldn't say simulcast because we don't take the commentary from the
01:31:24television. Right. So we actually put together commentary teams in respective
01:31:29regions, either Richard or myself would produce it in terms of being on the ground
01:31:34and showing it all as well. And when it comes to distribution,
01:31:38you know, we distribute to over 10 markets in the Caribbean, you know,
01:31:42all the way from BVI, Antigua, Jamaica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts,
01:31:49Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana.
01:31:51So, I mean, we really do cover the entire
01:31:54region when it comes to the CPL commentary on the radio side.
01:31:58Yeah. So it's really, from what I'm hearing,
01:32:01Raoul saying, Mr Purcell, it's really a blitz that we have.
01:32:04Call me Richard.
01:32:05Call me Richard.
01:32:08OK, Richard. Yes, it's a radio and television blitz,
01:32:12really, except that we have the rights only, the broadcast rights for television,
01:32:17only for Trinidad and Grenada. Yeah.
01:32:20Yeah. Beyond that, no.
01:32:21But for radio, yes, we have for the entire Caribbean.
01:32:24And we also give our feed, our radio feed to the CPL for them
01:32:29to broadcast that internationally. But our market is within the Caribbean
01:32:35and it's worked very well for us on the radio end.
01:32:38And this is our second year on the TV end.
01:32:41And it's working well here, too.
01:32:43We are doing well.
01:32:44I want to say, Marlon, you told me I could talk, right?
01:32:47I don't have to wait for you to ask me any questions.
01:32:50I'm looking at the pins or medals on your chest.
01:32:52Oh, oh, OK.
01:32:55You get to that.
01:32:57Yes, our sponsors, I want to thank our sponsors for coming on board.
01:33:02They understand the importance of
01:33:06of coming on so that we can pay for the broadcast.
01:33:10But also they understand how it works well for their brands.
01:33:15And so I want to thank them, especially
01:33:17Republic Bank, which is the main sponsor who have come in again this year on
01:33:23television and they're also on the radio end.
01:33:26But yes, we'll talk about that.
01:33:28But yes, so it's it's worked well for us so far.
01:33:31And sponsors, we still have some some space
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01:33:39It's a great time to come in because we're going to the Trinidad leg now.
01:33:43Yeah. And then the finals.
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01:38:30All right, everybody, so welcome back.
01:38:32So we are continuing our discussion on the CPO.
01:38:34We do have Richard Purcell, general manager of CCN TV six.
01:38:37And we also have Raul D'Souza,
01:38:40marketing and customer relations manager, Gem Radio five limited.
01:38:44But Richard, as we look at CPO in the Caribbean
01:38:48and what is happening in cricket, the women cricket, the men's cricket,
01:38:53isn't.
01:38:55And I'm looking at the role that CCN is
01:38:57also playing in this respect, in promoting the sport in the Caribbean.
01:39:02Isn't that an objective as to why this partnership was entered in?
01:39:07Exactly so.
01:39:08And that is one of the things that we've done
01:39:12tremendously well for the CPL since last year in that.
01:39:17Yes, we only have we have the broadcast rights only for Trinidad and Grenada.
01:39:22Yeah. But we have promoted the CPL and the CPL
01:39:27matches and so on throughout the Caribbean using the OCM network.
01:39:32So we've had the CPL personnel appear on our radio stations in Barbados,
01:39:36Grenada, Antigua, everywhere, promoting it.
01:39:40And also our TV station in Grenada.
01:39:43Plus we have partner stations throughout the Caribbean.
01:39:46So we've linked them up well.
01:39:48And it's something that they are very appreciative of.
01:39:50So, yes, so we we we do that.
01:39:53We have when you add our partners to the OCM network,
01:39:59we cover all the islands, all the territories in the Caribbean.
01:40:02Yeah. And Raul, we do have some very
01:40:04interesting weeks coming up as it relates to the CPL.
01:40:08A number of very interesting
01:40:10games and also some some very big teams.
01:40:15You know, this is the shirt he's wearing today.
01:40:17Yeah, I realize that. Look at how he's smiling.
01:40:19I think that's mine.
01:40:20He's he's a brave individual.
01:40:23Right, Raul?
01:40:24So interesting times in the next few weeks.
01:40:29Yeah, I mean, I'm blessed to be before St Lucia this week for the games.
01:40:33I mean, it's been such a topsy turvy week for the St Lucia team.
01:40:38Definitely seeing Pollard simply explode on Tuesday night,
01:40:42destroying the St Lucia team, but a great bounce back last night for them.
01:40:48And, you know, winning the St Kitts game.
01:40:51So as it is right now, you know,
01:40:53the teams that have started off are doing their home games.
01:40:57They've all struggled a bit.
01:40:59And we have three teams really battling at the top there.
01:41:03You know, you have Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad just at the top of the table.
01:41:08But the thing with CPL is,
01:41:10two games could really just change the entire look of the table.
01:41:15And because of that, the excitement is always there.
01:41:19You know, every single game is important.
01:41:21And each of the teams from each of the regions,
01:41:24they take every single game as a do or die.
01:41:27So looking forward to the competition,
01:41:29I just want to tell the public, you know, Trinidad especially,
01:41:32and those of you who may be in Guyana,
01:41:35ensure that you run out there and get those tickets now because,
01:41:39you know, tickets are moving pretty quickly.
01:41:41It's going to be tough to get into those games.
01:41:44The CPL, the halftime shows have been excellent here.
01:41:50We've gotten great entertainment.
01:41:52The crowds are really into it.
01:41:55I don't believe Richard or Marlon that I've seen a fan in the crowd actually
01:42:01completely one handed cash for a thousand dollars US.
01:42:05I could be wrong, but I haven't seen.
01:42:06I would love to see.
01:42:10I would love to see one of our Trinidadian fans.
01:42:14Catch that ball with one hand.
01:42:17Oh, it's probably going to be me.
01:42:18Yeah, Rahul, you should go there, you know.
01:42:21All right.
01:42:23That even one handed cash, you know, and yeah,
01:42:27these things really do bring added elements of excitement for the patron.
01:42:34Yes.
01:42:35When you look at the television broadcast or you listen to the radio broadcast,
01:42:41the excitement is there.
01:42:42There is so much to talk about.
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01:42:47I mean, this year I would have to say, as with the years prior,
01:42:52you know, the excitement continues to build.
01:42:55CPL is such an amazing product.
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01:47:29All right, gentlemen, so we are continuing our discussion on the CPL.
01:47:32We do have the general manager of TV6, Richard Purcell and also Raul D'Souza
01:47:37of Gem Radio 5 Ltd.
01:47:40Richard, let's speak a little bit about the state of play, what you have seen thus
01:47:45far, WCPL and the men's WCPL this year was
01:47:51a very good year for the men's WCPL.
01:47:53What you have seen thus far, WCPL and the men's WCPL this year was
01:47:59much better than last year.
01:48:01The women are improving their game and it was very exciting.
01:48:07You know, the clearing, the boundaries much easier now and much more excitement.
01:48:12And I find a lot of the women's matches are close, much closer than the men's.
01:48:19So there's that.
01:48:20And I want to thank Marcy again for coming on board with the WCPL.
01:48:26We have a great partnership there.
01:48:28Hopefully next year you can do the same thing.
01:48:32The men's, oh, I mean, as I said earlier, it's to me,
01:48:37it's like every over two, three, sixes, four sixes, you know,
01:48:43it's getting really incredible.
01:48:45It is now, I mean,
01:48:47we always had the vibe over the IPL,
01:48:51but now I find that the CPL is also on the field just as exciting as the IPL.
01:48:57Yeah. And that is super terrific.
01:49:00Let me just say that
01:49:02I miss being in St. Lucia this year.
01:49:05Usually that's my market.
01:49:07But Raul was cutting costs this year, so I got left out.
01:49:14But because, you know, it's I'm much more expensive to accommodate the team than he is.
01:49:20So there's your medals and pins and rings.
01:49:25Raul, we have just about a minute before we go to our next break,
01:49:28but let's look at the game, what you would have seen thus far.
01:49:34Were you impressed by the state of play?
01:49:36Yeah, I mean, definitely.
01:49:39What we've seen is like coming out of the said Kitts games,
01:49:42we saw, I believe, the highest number of sixes in a single CPL game ever.
01:49:48That game was incredible.
01:49:50Other than that, one of the key things to look for in this format of cricket is
01:49:55excitement when it comes to the feeling.
01:49:57And we've seen some incredible catches this year, both for the WCPL and the men's CPL.
01:50:05Excellent feeling.
01:50:06And that really adds to the vibe and the energy.
01:50:08You really hear the crowd gets behind
01:50:10someone either leaping into the air,
01:50:13grabbing a ball one handed out of the air or sprinting across quite a bit of yards
01:50:18and then diving, taking a wonderful catch.
01:50:21So the excitement for the play has really been up this year.
01:50:25I mean, really great batting, really good bowling.
01:50:28And the feeling has been excellent.
01:50:29Yeah, gentlemen, let's go to a very short break again.
01:50:32We're coming back. Everybody stay right there.
01:50:33We're coming back.
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01:55:06So welcome back.
01:55:07We just have a few minutes again before we end.
01:55:10So we do have the general manager of CCN TV6, Richard Purcell.
01:55:13And we also have Raul D'Souza of Gem Radio 5 Ltd.
01:55:17And we are discussing and continuing our discussion on CPL.
01:55:21Gentlemen, just a few minutes again.
01:55:23Mr. Purcell, Richard.
01:55:24Yes.
01:55:25I want to tell the viewers about how they can get the matches.
01:55:30And I'm sure they already know.
01:55:31But hey, TV6 of course and cable are free to air.
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01:55:47Good to go.
01:55:48You can also get it online on the website.
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01:55:51So basically anywhere you are.
01:55:54You can be in your shower.
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01:56:02Alright.
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01:56:10Yeah.
01:56:11Alright.
01:56:12Thank you very much.
01:56:13My boy, Raul.
01:56:15Any final comments there?
01:56:16Your boy, Raul?
01:56:17Yeah, my boy, Raul.
01:56:18I'm not your boy.
01:56:19No, no, no.
01:56:20We are one Caribbean media.
01:56:27Within the region we are the largest media.
01:56:30So, it is our responsibility to ensure that we connect the Caribbean.
01:56:34Just as CPL does.
01:56:36And in so doing for the Trinidad market, like Richard said.
01:56:39TV6 is the go-to to see the CPL.
01:56:42And TASC 92.3 FM is the go-to to listen to the CPL.
01:56:47So, we've covered it on all angles.
01:56:49I want to say the TV6 app is amazing.
01:56:53If you do not have the TV6 app downloaded, you need to do that immediately.
01:56:58The content is excellent.
01:56:59Shout out to the team that put that together.
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01:57:02The CPL is live on the TV6 app.
01:57:06Like I said, if you listen to the CPL on the radio, TASC 92.3 FM is your go-to in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:57:12So, make sure to tune in.
01:57:14Yeah.
01:57:15Gentlemen, it was a pleasure having you all here this morning.
01:57:17Yeah.
01:57:18It was a pleasure being here.
01:57:19Next time, bring something to eat and drink.
01:57:21I think not.
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01:57:23Yeah.
01:57:24Bye, gentlemen.
01:57:25Alright.
01:57:26So, that's going to do it for our program.
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