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03:15My name is Whitney Husbands.
03:17Now what is the role and function when it comes to men in society?
03:21Just being a man holds a lot of responsibility, not just as a father, but also as a friend.
03:27But how could one say they're really a man by definition?
03:32Today we're going to dive in more about the role and function of men in society, especially
03:36as fathers.
03:37And with that being said, representing the TTPS, we'd like to welcome back to the show,
03:41representing the Community Oriented Policing Unit is Sergeant JC Small of the Central
03:48Division and President of the Single Fathers Association, Mr. Rondell Fields.
03:52I call him, he is the mayor when it comes to advocation for the men in Trinidad and
03:59Tobago.
04:00And it's something that I really believe is great in what he's doing because sometimes
04:04men feel like they are not heard and understood in society.
04:09So with that being said, good afternoon, gentlemen, well, good evening, gentlemen.
04:14I hope all is well with you all.
04:16Yes, by all's grace.
04:17Yes, it's the day before the holiday and we're getting ready to celebrate our Republic Day
04:21tomorrow.
04:22And apart from celebrations, many people can't really celebrate when they want to spend time
04:27with their immediate family.
04:28And the one element that we always bring up, it's the men, where are the men?
04:35So I want to start off with Rondell, first of all, and let us know, you know, the role
04:42and function, first of all, of the Single Fathers Association.
04:45Well, I mean, definitely our role and function started, I mean, we wanted to represent what
04:51good fatherhood should look like and not just good fatherhood.
04:55We also, as young boys, I think our generation of men were the generation that grew up without
05:01fathers.
05:03Our fathers, even if they weren't separated from our mothers, were the ones outside breadwinning
05:08all the time.
05:09They didn't have time to come and get that emotional connection with the children and
05:12do as much as they see some fathers maybe doing at points in time, in our points in
05:16time right now.
05:17And I think growing up, I could tell you why I personally started it.
05:22Growing up as a young man, you know, you always heard about deadbeat father.
05:28I grew up with a single mother myself as well, so I understood what it was to have
05:32a father that wasn't there as well.
05:34I understood the gap.
05:36When you see her playing, I was a good basketballer in school and it held no real significance
05:42to not have your father there to cheer you on, to not have your father there to say,
05:46son, I'm proud of you, boy.
05:48So even from a child, people think I started this because just the predicament I ended
05:53up with my son.
05:54But it really was the boy in me understanding the value of fatherhood and seeing how significant
06:00it was because I didn't have it.
06:02I had the opportunity of seeing fathers, Errol Turing went to my school in St. George's College
06:07and to see fathers like Errol come there, and them days he was age and blonde, so he
06:12was a star boy, and seeing him come and picking up his churn at school was something that
06:16I looked, I was in awe of as a youth man in school.
06:20So those were the things that drove me to say, hey, I had to be involved in my son's
06:26life and if I see I'm having a challenge that I didn't foresee, which was a judicial one
06:31at that point in time, I think I owed it to my son to do anything under the sun to be
06:37a part of his life.
06:38And that is exactly what we did.
06:40We started the Single Fathers Association, started to advocate for fathers who wanted
06:43to be involved in their children's life, and we wanted to overturn that notion of deadbeat
06:49father.
06:50That's all you say about fatherhood, deadbeat father, deadbeat father, deadbeat father,
06:53everywhere you spin, and it was kind of demotivating even for us boys, to only be a deadbeat father.
06:59You always thought, like, hey, maybe I may grow up to be, I was in favor of growing up
07:03to be a deadbeat father, so to speak, and I realized the negative impact I think it
07:08had on boys and even men generally in society, and we started to show a more positive view
07:13of father, excitement, a zeal to be a father, the joys of it, of fatherhood, even to provoke
07:20men who were not being involved in their children's life to be involved in their children's life
07:24as well.
07:25And we took it all from there, and now you hear, as much as you could hear people mention
07:29deadbeat father, I'm sure there are no single fathers in the United Kingdom.
07:32Yes, yes, they do.
07:33They do.
07:34So Sergeant Small, where does the TTPS intervene here, or step in, to deal with the men in
07:41society?
07:42Well, the TTPS as an organization understands firstly and foremost the critical role of
07:48the father.
07:49In any culture, you look at the role of the father as the protector, the provider, the
07:53disciplinarian, but we understand in the society in which we live in Trinidad and Tobago, it
08:00is really critically important for fathers to be involved in their children's life in
08:04terms of guiding them and leading them to go out into society.
08:10Being a police club leader also, and you see so many young men who live in households
08:14without their fathers for many different reasons, and the way that they look up to the fact
08:18that we as officers mentor them and guide them, they really appreciate it.
08:23And we will go into definitely a few stories in terms of how, as officers, as men in society,
08:30we impacted the lives of children that wasn't even our children.
08:33So we understand the value of fatherhood, and men being involved in their children's
08:38life.
08:39And we will discuss more the role and function of the TTPS in the space of community-orienting
08:44policing, how you're able to also help the men, too, because sometimes we have men who
08:48may not be fathers yet, but you just don't know how to be a man.
08:51I can't tell a man how to be a man.
08:53It's so true.
08:54I cannot.
08:55You know, and other women cannot, but we need the examples, the right examples, not the
09:00ones that we see out there, as I said, being the community leader and leading them astray.
09:05At this time, we dive straight into what made the headlines over the weekend, and today
09:08let's take a look.
10:08More shootings, more robberies, more madness taking place in our country, and many times
10:30we see it's the young men who are out there committing some of these crimes.
10:34We'll continue further with the discussion where men are in society and their role and
10:39function, but the sergeants will understand that the TTP has lost someone really great
10:44recently.
10:45We speak of Senior Superintendent Neil Brandon-John, and I know you have to say a few words on
10:51behalf.
10:52Yes, you know, on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, the Executive of the Trinidad and
10:56Tobago Police Service, and on all the police service, you know, we extend deepest condolences
11:00to the family of Senior Superintendent Brandon-John.
11:03He's really unfortunate.
11:04I knew him personally, you know, unfortunately, when I just joined the police service back
11:09in 2003.
11:10He was a detective on the Sheffield Coover Police Station at the time, and really been
11:14a great mentor.
11:15So, you know, he's really sad, you know, we mourn at this time, you know, he's unfortunate,
11:20you know, that he lost his life, and, you know, condolences to the family.
11:24Yes, condolences to the family.
11:25He was also on the show recently, and what an amazing gentleman.
11:29Definitely.
11:30He was upstanding, and willing to try his best to do...
11:35Definitely.
11:36A true crime fighter.
11:37Yes, yeah.
11:38He was really for that, and trying to help Trinidad and Tobago deal with the crime situation
11:43that we are faced with right now.
11:44So condolences to the family once again.
11:48As we continue with what made the headlines earlier this morning, there was a murder along
11:53the long circular St. James area, and I'm sure the TTPS will be dealing with this with
12:02further investigations.
12:03Yeah, definitely.
12:04The Homicide Bureau of Investigation, you know, they're already on the ground and, you
12:07know, doing initial inquiries into this incident.
12:09Yes, and anyone with any information at all, please contact the TTPS with the numbers that
12:17are available for you to at least assist in finding out what transpired there.
12:22Also along in reports, a body found at the Mosquito Creek around 7.30 this morning, and
12:30again, anyone with information, I'm sure they will be trying to identify the body at this
12:35time to know who the individual is, and we'll keep you updated with that.
12:42Also a big reveal, I'll have to say, that took place where military warheads found at
12:49Mosquito Creek.
12:51Two men fishing along the Gordino Riverbank in the vicinity of the Gordino Bridge in South
12:59Oroprooch have discovered what resembled to be missiles, according to police.
13:04The projectiles were found between rocks on the southeastern side of the bridge.
13:10The discovery was made at 7 p.m. on Sunday, but by Monday afternoon, officers were able
13:15to identify what they had found.
13:19Yeah.
13:20I wonder if that might have to go in the museum.
13:26I'm not sure, but again, we'll keep you up to date with that.
13:30So let's continue more, Sergeant Small, with the initiatives you all are putting in place
13:35to help men.
13:36Today is about men.
13:38I'm sorry to say, but it is, and we have to show focus and show the spotlight on men because
13:45they need it.
13:46So what are some of the initiatives you all have there for men to come to and try to better
13:50themselves?
13:51In terms of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service as an organization, through our Police
13:55Youth Club movement, I can relate to just probably two years ago in Central Division,
14:00we collaborated with the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services, and we had
14:04a parenting workshop.
14:06So things like that in terms of working and focusing on parenting, co-parenting, the importance
14:12of us mentoring youngsters as officers.
14:16We have our Police Youth Clubs, we have our different sporting disciplines within the
14:19organization that go out to the schools, go out to the communities, and really give youths
14:25or young men role models to look up to.
14:27So we take the lead by leading by example in terms of them being able to look up to
14:32us, to look at that positive role model as opposed to looking at some of the negative
14:38things that some men are doing in society, like for example, the ones who choose to live
14:41a life of crime and encouraging youths to go down that path.
14:45We rebuke that, and thanks to an organization like the Fathers Association, we really try
14:50our best to go outside there together and work as not only men, but as parents, as adults
14:55in society, to do things that are uplifting and will overall better the quality of life
15:00for everyone, including our children.
15:02So how are we dealing with our young men who are placed in positions where they are watching
15:06these individuals and feel, this is the life that I want, this is the life that I need
15:11to be a part of?
15:12Well, we rebuke that at every given chance, because the truth is, that life is really
15:16a short life, and most of the persons that I know who have been involved in criminal
15:21or gang activities, most of them would have passed on, unfortunately, whether it was because
15:26of the hands of the police, probably in an exchange, or other criminal elements seeking
15:31after their lives, most of them.
15:33So we discourage youths from being a part of anything gang-related or negative, or anything
15:38that will cause them to tarnish their character or their good name.
15:42We deter that, and we try our best to point them into the direction of being somebody
15:48law-abiding, upstanding in society, contributing positively.
15:53But how are we going to deal now with the young men, or the youth also, who have already
16:00made up their mind, that if I die, I die?
16:04Because that is some of the thinking of some of them.
16:07Well, I mean, you have to give them a sense of hope, because we have come across many
16:11hopeless youths who felt as though all is lost, and they can't find their way.
16:16And we point them into that direction, not only with our mouth, but we had to, hands-on,
16:21go and do things to assist them.
16:22I can draw one reference to a young man, Mr. Christian Chandri, from the Four Roads area
16:29in northeast Trinidad, and he was going through some challenges, and he was a little rebellious
16:35at the time, but fortunately, he gave him a hearing, and I reached out to Mr. Fields
16:40in particular, to assist with us to get him in the MILAT program, because we didn't think
16:44that the short-term things, in terms of, you know, the police youth program, how it is
16:49structured, is not a living program, you know, so we partnered with other organizations like
16:54MILAT, which have a living model, where they stay in the program full-time for about two
16:59years straight, and we understood that it would work for people in different scenarios,
17:05and it really did work for him, you know, thankfully, although he entered the program
17:10in terms of registration a little late, again, my good friend, Mr. Fields, was able to intervene,
17:15talk to whoever he talked to, and we got Christian Chandri in the program, and he ended up being
17:20the top candidate in the MILAT program this year, 2024.
17:25So, you know, it's about that hands-on, it's about really showing that genuine sense of
17:29care, and in some cases, getting on the ground now, doing what you need to do to make it happen
17:35sometimes. Mr. Fields, I know we'll be going to a break shortly, but I want to also know,
17:40I'm putting that out there to you, you deal with men, right, but how are you dealing with
17:45the young people who have to deal with the men, like their fathers or uncles in society,
17:50yeah? So, we take a break, when we come back, we'll answer that question when we return.
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21:12of your organizations, really, for the men. But we spoke about young persons who may be looking to
21:20join the life of crime, and I'm sure they reach out to you. How are you dealing with them as
21:24young men in society? I mean, definitely, as Sajan and Smolta identified, there are different organizations
21:32that we partner with, Milat and all these things. We could talk about the MIC and all these places
21:36that you could better place them. But from my experience, and possibly because I was a rebellious
21:42youth as well, it kind of gave me an advantage, you know, to deal with youth like that. You see,
21:47love and trust, that is what a young man likes to see from an adult male. He loves to know, if you
21:54tell me, eh, you mean, eh. If you say you're going to do this for me, you're going to do that for me. And
22:02strangely enough, some of them feel they get that from the community leader.
22:07I say I'm going to buy Jordan for you, he bring the Jordan and bring the boots by his foot.
22:11He never had that experience. He didn't have a father to do that for him. He didn't have a mentor
22:16to do that for him. Had he had those things, had he had a male mentor that gave him that affection,
22:22and he could trust his promises, no other man could come in his shoes. And that is what I have
22:29seen. We've used myself and Sajan Smolta. I remember the same group that won all the
22:35Commissioner's Cup, those boys from Rasa City and Unruly Gang. And I always tell Sajan Smolta,
22:40I remember one of the young men, Mackay, say, he say, boy, Mr. Fields, Sajan Smolta,
22:46only really love for we boy. And that is because the promises we made, as little as it was,
22:51we carrying all your pizza, we carrying them pizza. We carrying all you. No broken promises.
22:56No broken promises at all. They had a level of confidence and respect. Like, hey, these men,
23:03these men like our fathers, they never had a male that showed them that kind of mentorship,
23:10that kind of love, that kind of trust that they could have in that person. You know,
23:13they could, hey, if this man say he going and do this, he going and not going to disappointment.
23:17And I think that is how it has been, young men. That is how you could get them to become like
23:22Christian Chandri. When you see you're committed and, hey, I ain't get you, well then, and then
23:27people I don't know decide, let me fight for him to get him in there. When you go into that
23:31motivation, I remember for the Independence Walk, talking about Chandri again. Chandri told me
23:36something for his passing out, because I was there, that touched me so much. He said he was
23:40marching on the road during the Independence parade, and like he was fatigued and he was on
23:45his end. And I was just on the road, watching the parade with everybody first time, and I saw him,
23:50and I said, Chandri, you make us proud, boy. And when he saw me on the pass out, he said,
23:56he said, sir, you know, I was looking for you to tell you, I was so burned. But when I hear you
24:01say that, that give me the energy to finish the parade, you know. And that is what young men need
24:06from positive role models in this society. And I use Errol Fabian. Errol Fabian was my mentor
24:15without knowing he was my mentor. I wanted to be on TV like Errol Fabian. The person who helped me,
24:20who gave me my first advice to start Single Fathers Association was Errol Fabian. When I came
24:26back there, I went to see my son, and when I went, it was acrimonious at the time, and I couldn't
24:31see him, and I went driving, because people don't know how frustrating that could make you,
24:35driving crazy, driving, I don't drink, I drive around my bar. Who I see outside the bar by St.
24:40Joseph, my mentor, who don't even know me, Errol Fabian. I pull up the car and go inside, I just
24:46talked to him, and that is the first day I meet Errol Fabian. And after that, Errol Fabian
24:51continued to mentor me, going forward like that, and this whole thing. So, I say all that to show
24:56you, positive roles, positive mentorship, a young man seeing that, and I say even, this is even
25:02tell the youths, even if you might not have it in the immediate space, you could do just like I do.
25:08Look at somebody on TV, I want to be like, who's a male? Let that motivate you. I want to be like
25:14Errol Fabian. I want to be like Sgt. Small. I want to be like Mr. Fields. I want to use that as a
25:20motivation, and that is something that I did as a youth man when I was a little rebellious and
25:25getting in trouble. I just said my school principal and them might be shocked to see
25:29this man on TV. So, yeah, that's what I'm saying. So, basically, to get youth under that level
25:37of trust is to really show them that we care about you, show them that we're not about broken promises.
25:44And this is where I will come back to Sgt. Small, because I want to know,
25:50Mon, how are you all protecting and sheltering them when you do all this work in making sure
25:56that you try to groom and protect these young men from all the negative elements that they may be in
26:02the environment that they have to spend most of their time in, from those who are saying, oh wait,
26:06so you don't want to be a part of this. I realize you're better than, you know, that's
26:12the same. Once you start to better yourself or change your thinking, we have problems. So, how are
26:19you all there to protect them because you all can't be there 24-7? I mean, we have that open door policy
26:23in terms of if the youths facing anything that I'm challenging them or is really challenging
26:28for them to address or deal with, we try to step in, even if it means going to talk to some of
26:34the men in the community and tell them have a hands-off on the youths, even if it means that.
26:39And, you know, we wouldn't be going so, you know, peaceful if it is we realize people
26:45encouraging youths to sell drugs or to take part in illegal activities and do crime.
26:50We also, on the ground, to send a strong message to the criminal elements too, but because we're
26:55always present and the youths could call us at any time, whether it's midnight, whether it's one in
26:59the morning, and they have a situation, they could approach us. And that open door policy, you know,
27:04is really what makes them, as Mr. Fields said, the love and the trust. They say it for themselves.
27:10Look, we would have worked with some youths back in 2019, and just imagine today, to this day,
27:15they still, Dre, Dre was in, he joined the U.S. Army. That is one of the youths who was in our
27:21police youth club and that we mentored personally. Even when he was, you know, people trying to pull
27:26him in the wrong direction, his mother saying, hey, Mr. Som, Mr. Fields, well, like I abandoned Dre, you know,
27:30they had to stand up with me, you know, because his father was living in the States, and Dre is a member of the
27:34U.S. Army now. And, you know, when he was in the passing out parade, he called me. I think he had tried to call
27:39Mr. Fields, but the mother ended up getting on to me, and the day of the passing out,
27:43she video called and she said, we want to join Mr. Fields. And, you know, he was just so excited to
27:48show us that he became somebody in life. And, you know, he owed a lot of gratitude
27:53towards us because of what he felt that we did for him. His mother, even this day, is so very thankful
27:58that she supports anything that we're doing in terms of the police youth club and, you know, still
28:02working with other youths of vulnerable youths. And being hands-on. Yeah. At this time, we'll take a break. We'll be back.
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30:52We have Sgt. Small and also from the president of the Single Fathers Association, Mr. Rondell Fields.
31:00Now, I know Sgt. Small, we had some information that you want the public to know about. Yes. So,
31:06you can touch on that. The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service and the Central Police Station
31:09under the leadership of Inspector Turi is seeking assistance from members of the public
31:15to identify a man in his 50s of mixed descent, low haircut, clean shaven, oval face,
31:22brown in complexion, stocky built, about 5'8", 6 inches tall. On Saturday, the 21st of September,
31:302024, he collapsed just about 6.46 p.m. on Broadway, Portisville. He was taken to the
31:36Portisville General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Anyone with information
31:42about a gentleman that fit in this description, please reach out to the Trinidad and Tobago Police
31:46Service or to the Central Police Station, Inspector Turi. Yeah. Thank you so much for that. Now,
31:54this is open for both of you gentlemen here this time.
31:59Women. Now, I'm bringing this in the equation. As we said, today is all about the men and the
32:05young men in our society at risk, young boys, youth. But when women enter into a space
32:12with a man, whatever the circumstances may be, because there are many circumstances that,
32:17you know, a gentleman could end up in and then a child is born in the situation. We could,
32:21the list could go on and on. It's not being specific. But are we as women, including myself,
32:28I'm including myself with all the women, at times really doing damage more than good
32:36when it comes to exposing our young men in society? Yes, we have young girls. But in this
32:43case, we're seeing the persons who committed most of the crimes because of our behavior towards the
32:49father of the child. I don't want to point finger at any one scenario. But I want to tell people,
32:56look in the mirror. Look at your situation. Parents, whether you're a father or a mother,
33:03you must want what is best for your child. And even if it means peacefully co-parenting
33:08in a situation where, according to Mr. Fields, he always says it, even when the intimate
33:12relationship has ended, you have to see the value and the importance of co-parenting
33:17peacefully. And you know, generally to men, I mean, we could go on and on about scenarios,
33:23but men have to understand too, I mean, don't give up the fight. And to the ones that really
33:29doing damage in terms of misleading the future generation, let us step up as men to really be
33:36positive male role models in the lives of children, including boys and girls. And especially
33:42boys, they look up to their fathers in terms of how they should behave and how they should
33:47act and how they should go about themselves in society. They look to the fathers for that. So
33:52let us really be good examples. Mr. Fields, I will let you answer shortly. We just have a call
33:57on the line. Let's take that call quickly. Hello. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening.
34:07Yeah.
34:22All right.
34:32Well, all right.
34:37No, mommy.
34:39What is one of the boys, 24 years and the little girl is about 12 years old.
34:44The little girl took 711, jewelry and her expensive phone and carried on by the father.
34:53So two of them is a different child father. Three of them, there's three of them, there's now about
34:58five, there's two, eight, nine, ten of them. See, I want to clarify something with this. We don't
35:04need you.
35:05Father.
35:05Don't you say?
35:06Well, look, we find social social.
35:08Call me, sister. When you read it, you'll come up to be on the phone.
35:13You send 100 dollars.
35:14No, you get a stereo.
35:16You send 100 dollars.
35:17And if you
35:20talk to me, you will find it on when that man was a step.
35:24We really need a man is to services.
35:27I give it to you.
35:29I'm
35:30going to
35:32give you
35:34a
35:36little
35:38bit.
35:40And
35:42then
35:44you get my next
35:46step.
35:48I like the
35:50young behavior
35:52in this
35:54criminal
35:56world.
35:58I'm
36:00going to
36:02give you
36:04a
36:06little bit.
36:08I'm
36:10going to
36:12give you
36:14a little bit.
36:16I'm
36:18going to
36:20give you
36:22a little bit.
36:24I'm
36:27going to
36:29give you
36:31a
36:33little bit.
36:35I'm
36:37going to
36:39give you
36:41a little
36:43bit.
36:45I'm
36:47going to
36:49give you
36:51a little bit.
36:53I'm
36:55in that area, whichever area it is,
36:57to pay a visit to that location
36:59and get directly involved in terms of what is happening.
37:01Look at what's happening with the child in school,
37:03get the student support services directly involved.
37:06And for the children that uncontrollable,
37:08you know, we refer to them in terms of the children,
37:10that has the child in need of supervision.
37:14Parents can reach out directly to the children's court
37:17and request for a CHINS application
37:20and they will do a hearing just to hear about
37:22some brief facts in terms of the scenario
37:24involving the behavior of that child.
37:26And in some cases, I have assisted parents to apply
37:29and the children's authority,
37:31through the order of the court,
37:32remove the child from that home environment
37:34and place them under the full care
37:36of the state and the children's authority.
37:38And, you know, supervise their behavior.
37:40And, you know, when you see some level of improvement,
37:42you try to redirect them in terms of the best situation
37:45or the best household that they should be in.
37:48So, you know, that's just some advice.
37:49And I don't know if there's a few more questions.
37:51Before you go, we have to take a break.
37:53You'll answer the two questions here.
37:54Time is moving fast with all the information.
37:56We take that break and you'll respond.
37:58We'll be back.
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38:48I see you, okay.
38:50Do your dance, do your thing.
38:52I see you, okay.
38:53Let me see you, Cherry Hill, uh, yeah.
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39:00Let me see you rock off, rock off, yeah, yeah.
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40:48Mr Fields, you can respond to what the caller was,
40:52you know, expressing himself about.
40:54I mean, definitely there are reactive approaches
40:56and proactive approaches, and small.
40:58I mean, because of the ETTPS,
41:00most times after these things happen, they must react.
41:02I mean, he expounded on a lot of that as well.
41:05And I often ask, where is the ministry of social development
41:10when these things are happening?
41:12I mean, it's not just the TV6 News.
41:15Where is the ministry of social development
41:17when these things happen?
41:18Yes, I know they will have their little partnerships here
41:20and there with certain NGOs.
41:22But I think even we, the citizens,
41:25and I continue to say that because I feel so,
41:27don't understand the value
41:28of a ministry of social development.
41:32Their role isn't just to give a grant to the underprivileged.
41:35Their role is to develop our society,
41:39the psychosocial issues.
41:41You hear the example I just explained there?
41:44I often tell people that single-family homes,
41:48every form of it is a home that is created by trauma.
41:53It's either somebody dead, it's either somebody left,
41:56it's either somebody abandoned somebody.
41:58There's no form of it where it was something healthy
42:01and it happened.
42:02It is always something unhealthy.
42:04So you're talking about three different children,
42:06three different fathers, three different issues,
42:08three different stories they hear about their father.
42:12Trauma, trauma, trauma.
42:13The first one traumatizes the mother.
42:15After her, everybody else after, under her.
42:19So you have to understand the value
42:22of empowering a social development,
42:25to have a reactive approach in instances
42:27to go in with a mother like that now,
42:29give her co-parenting lessons,
42:31have a program to deal with the children.
42:34The children must hate the thing
42:35because they don't know how to react.
42:36The children possibly was in an environment
42:38where they saw theft as something that was normalized.
42:41So what do we do here now?
42:43You understand?
42:44Then forget the reactive approach on the social development.
42:48What about the proactive approach?
42:50Where are the programs that are going to stop?
42:52She must was pregnant since she was a teenager,
42:54that are going to stop teenage pregnancy.
42:56Where are the programs that are going to stop infidelity
42:58in marriage so that we don't have broken homes?
43:01Where are the programs that is developing our society?
43:05Our human resource is the most valuable resource
43:08in this society.
43:10It is continuously utilized.
43:12When you're going to work, when you're going to this,
43:14you're expending, expending, expending, expending.
43:17The Ministry of Social Development must be empowered
43:21in a way where it can replenish the psychosocial needs
43:25of our members of the society.
43:28I believe that wholeheartedly because to me,
43:30it should be in a position where the members
43:34who work in that ministry in particular
43:37should be getting information on date.
43:39We love to use data.
43:41Gathering data in all communities to find out
43:43what is going on, some of the issues,
43:45some of these single parent homes
43:48in some of these communities and then engage
43:50because as you said, each home is different.
43:53We have to strengthen the ambit of the
43:54National Family Service.
43:55We only see Ministry of Social Development,
43:57Disability Grant, Public Assistance Grant,
43:59but there's a National Family Service
44:01that need strengthening, that need counselors
44:04to deal with all these issues, that need psychiatrists,
44:07that need to make these things available to the community,
44:10come into the community, put them in communal spaces.
44:13Don't just drop one person, but come with a whole campaign.
44:15Don't just partner with an NGO
44:17and rely on the untrained NGO.
44:19Hire people.
44:20They don't need to tell me.
44:21They don't say it, but they are grossly understaffed.
44:24Yes, they are.
44:25They don't have the resources to deal with the need.
44:29If we from Single Fathers Association start to send,
44:32we have to stop because they don't have it.
44:35That is the reality of it.
44:36So they're stretching themselves thin.
44:38Too thin.
44:38And the thing is, we have so many graduates coming out of UWE
44:41with all these social degrees that just can't get a job.
44:45And that is where I always say,
44:47how would they get experience
44:48if you don't put them into the field?
44:50Sergeant Small, I know we have some information
44:52we want the public to know about
44:54when it comes to the town meetings
44:57that will be taking place.
44:58Thursday, we have a police town meeting,
45:00the 26th of September, 2024.
45:027 p.m. at the RMA Hardware.
45:05That is in Cheese Village.
45:07She's gonna send Derek Root to be particular.
45:10Come out, share concern with us,
45:12and let us really work together
45:14to make our communities safer.
45:15You know, our senior superintendent,
45:16kudos to him, Mr. Gavin Simon.
45:19He really knows how to engender partnership
45:22in terms of the police partner with the community.
45:25And that is what these town meetings are about,
45:27is opportunity for the public to really come and share
45:29and let us strategize, come up with solutions.
45:31As I mentioned, I want to mention
45:33our monthly station council meetings
45:35that are happening across Trinidad and Tobago
45:37in the different police station districts.
45:38And it's really an opportunity for the police
45:41to continue to work together with the public,
45:43or we just cannot do it alone.
45:44I mean, thanks again to the members of the public
45:46in the Central Division.
45:48We were able to make several arrests this week
45:50in terms of information coming forth
45:51from the members of the public.
45:53And I know we had some real success in Central Division.
45:55Thanks again to you all sharing the information with us.
45:58We also launched our Christmas Crime Plan Initiative,
46:02just as earlier today,
46:04we had officers of the defense force
46:07joining our police officers
46:08to patrol the streets of Shogunah.
46:10So criminals, if you want to do crime,
46:12don't come to Central Division,
46:14because we are outside in full force.
46:15I mean, across the country,
46:17you're going to see a heavy police and army presence
46:20taking charge of the streets.
46:21You know, a message to criminals,
46:23don't come out here to do crime.
46:24Better you go and plant corn, plant peas,
46:27but don't come out here to do crime.
46:28You're going to get caught.
46:30But I mean, we have heard the TTPS say this
46:34time and time again, over and over.
46:36And I just believe that the criminal element
46:40have zero heart.
46:42I can't even say they have cold
46:43because that means they have a heart in their body.
46:46Like they have whatever could replace their heart.
46:50You see, they have zero understanding of what self worth is.
46:55They don't know their history.
46:56They don't know their value.
46:57They don't have a purpose.
46:59They don't identify themself with nothing more
47:01than what they've seen on the block.
47:03You understand?
47:04They haven't, they had nothing to look to.
47:06And many come, as you say, from fatherless homes.
47:09If you look at some of those who are very, very,
47:11people always talk about Martin Luther King.
47:14You need to read on Martin Luther King's father
47:16and you'd understand why Martin Luther King
47:18was the man that he was.
47:20Because of what he saw.
47:22His father was one man that he had real respect for.
47:25You saw his mouth,
47:26even when he was this big civil rights man.
47:28So when you have young men that don't have that,
47:31that don't see no value,
47:32that don't see no, they don't see their grandfather.
47:34They don't even know who their grand,
47:36I go into many sessions with young boys
47:38and ask them, who know your grandfather?
47:40Three quarter of them don't even know
47:42who's their paternal grandfather, maternal grandfather.
47:45And that says, if you don't know where you came from.
47:48You'll be lost.
47:49Yeah, they have no idea where you're going
47:51until they take, unless they take stock here
47:53and say, yeah, well, it's starting with me.
47:55And from me go down,
47:56my descendants will know where they came from.
47:59Yeah.
47:59And that is the position they need to take.
48:01Sergeant Small, I know there's a football tournament
48:03that will be coming up.
48:04Tell us a little bit more about that.
48:06Well, this is a tournament that,
48:09you know, we ask the members of the public generally
48:11to come on, you know,
48:12support the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service
48:14as they're competing in this football tournament.
48:16And these type of initiatives,
48:18just like we have cricket going on,
48:20it's really, it really promotes a sense of
48:22community spirit and camaraderie and, you know, love.
48:25So, you know, come out and support.
48:26The information is there.
48:28You know, you will be thrilled.
48:31To see what's going on.
48:32All right.
48:33I'm happy to hear that.
48:34Now, Mr. Fields, quickly,
48:36how men could reach out?
48:37Because I'm sure there are men out there
48:39who will be trying to find a way,
48:42a start, as you said.
48:43It starts with me,
48:44but they just don't know where to begin.
48:46How they could reach out to you?
48:47Where, how could they start?
48:48What's the first step?
48:50First of all,
48:52you have to want to find some kind of solution
48:57before anything else.
48:58Go look to Fields to save you.
49:00And I have to be real with that,
49:01because that is what most people try to do.
49:04You're looking for a savior.
49:05When there are tools that you could save yourself.
49:07At the end of the day,
49:08when I started single father,
49:10I had nobody to look to, you know.
49:11I was searching wide and low all over the place.
49:13I had to find something.
49:15And we, however, have since over the years,
49:17put things outside there.
49:18We have website, www.tfatt.com.
49:23We have loads of information on there.
49:25Loads of videos, research papers,
49:27that somebody, a man or a woman,
49:29can go on and edify themselves
49:31when it comes to things like co-parenting
49:33and these issues.
49:34We have our Facebook page.
49:36Once you message our Facebook page,
49:38we're going to give,
49:39but this is for men only.
49:40We give you our response.
49:42That puts you on a telegram chat
49:44where you're going to have a group of men there,
49:47support together with that group of men.
49:49And on top of that,
49:50we always have one Zoom meeting every single month.
49:54Every single Friday, however,
49:56on another network or on the radio,
49:59we have a show.
50:00I mean, they could go to our Facebook page
50:01and we'll give them the information
50:03from 4.15 to 6,
50:04where you could call us during that period of time
50:06and you'll have your outreach done there.
50:08To be quite honest,
50:10many men sometimes,
50:11they want the help.
50:12But what emails are?
50:13When I tell you,
50:14fill the capacity with messages.
50:16But sometimes they're so demotivated
50:19to help the self,
50:20it's problems.
50:21Yeah.
50:22So we need them to be more motivated.
50:23I hope they got that information.
50:24We'll take a break.
50:25When we come back,
50:25we will wrap things up.
50:34I see you.
50:35Okay.
50:36Do your dance.
50:36Do your thing.
50:37I see you.
50:38Okay.
50:39Let me see you.
50:40Cherry Hill.
50:41Yeah.
50:42Now take it back.
50:42Let me see you.
50:43Rock off.
50:44Rock off.
50:45Shake off.
50:46I see you.
50:47Rock off.
50:47Rock off.
50:48Yeah, yeah.
50:49Cherry Hill.
50:50Side kick.
50:51Sponge Bob.
50:52Sexy walk.
50:53Heel toe.
50:53Footwork.
50:54Crazy leg.
50:55Let me see you.
50:56Kick right.
50:57Now kick left.
50:58Now step forward.
50:58Now step back.
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53:06to have a healthy co-parenting relationship.
53:09It's very important.
53:10You have to study the children in this.
53:12They're not responsible for anything,
53:13no matter who did whoever wrong at a point in the time.
53:16You had to be the adult to seek the help you need
53:19to deal with the trauma that you're going through
53:22so that you all could become civil
53:23so the children could get the best semblance
53:25of a relationship.
53:26I would say, boy, fathers also,
53:30it's a joy to father.
53:33If you're not fathering and you have the opportunity,
53:36even if you're living in the same house
53:37and you always find you're too busy,
53:39enjoy your children, boy.
53:40You don't have it forever.
53:41My son was six or four
53:43when I started Single Fathers Association.
53:44He's 16.
53:45He's working with me now.
53:47And I just blink of an eye.
53:49Enjoy the accolades of fatherhood.
53:52Be the best father I could be in Trinidad and Tobago.
53:55I mean, not even for Trinidad and Tobago,
53:56but for yourself, your self-growth, real important.
53:59Sergeant Small.
54:00I want to also say to men, understand your role,
54:04understand the importance and the value
54:06of what you can contribute to your child's life
54:08in terms of their development
54:09and their well-being in society.
54:11And I draw reference to my own son.
54:12When he have a basketball game,
54:14and I go to that game and I sit down
54:17and I watch him play and I cheer him on,
54:19I just see the figure and the motivation and the energy.
54:22He does play good, but you know-
54:25When you're there, it's a difference.
54:27It's a total difference.
54:27And you know, I get to support him and tell him,
54:30I think you need to strengthen up here and do this.
54:34I just see it in his face how he appreciates it.
54:36And you know, he feel thankful that, you know,
54:38he have his father here to stand up with him.
54:41Probably on that day,
54:42he probably don't even get a small talk from nobody.
54:44That's his father here, you know?
54:47So, you know, take your role seriously in terms of,
54:50you know, bonding with the children,
54:51having a relationship with them.
54:52You know, it's really, really important.
54:55You know, the father, as we say, is the protector,
54:58the provider, disciplinarian.
55:00And children really look up to you
55:01in terms of how you carry about yourself,
55:04how you engage people.
55:04You know, they emanate to be just like you.
55:07Once it is there, you're doing good or bad,
55:09so it's important to do good,
55:12so that they can, you know, follow good.
55:13Yeah, because they're observing everything that we do
55:15when you think they're not.
55:17And the generation now, it's not like maybe 20 years ago
55:21where you're able to say, you do what I say, you know?
55:25Exactly.
55:26I mean-
55:27And not as I do, which I hear that saying.
55:28And even for the fathers, I mean,
55:29who go say, well, boy, he's struggling, I wanna see him.
55:32I know I say it all the time, keep fighting.
55:34Yes, yes, exactly.
55:35They're worth it.
55:36Don't give up and say, when they get bigger, keep fighting.
55:39Trust me, they will always honor and respect you
55:42for that fight.
55:43Mommy eventually will come together
55:44and we'll go fix it, trust me.
55:45Yeah, yeah.
55:46If it happened with me, it could happen for you.
55:48Have an open mind.
55:49Yeah, definitely.
55:50So keep fighting, yeah, man.
55:51And I think also, too, as I said,
55:54when we started the show,
55:55we were focusing heavily on the men in Trinidad and Tobago,
55:58and we will stick with that.
56:00So with that being said, the women also,
56:02we have to understand that we have to show respect
56:04to the men when they are willing
56:07and they want to be involved in the child's life.
56:11Yes, you will have to have a relationship with your mom
56:14because you'll have a child together.
56:15Correct.
56:16The father can't just show up and you'll be like,
56:19all right, take the child, no conversation,
56:20no communication, it can't work.
56:22You need to know what's going on
56:23because either the child is with the father
56:26or the child is with the mother,
56:27so you need to find a way to communicate
56:30and remove all of the animosity and hate
56:34and sometimes the love lost,
56:38love lost that you were caught up in.
56:41And we have a child now, but we have to move forward.
56:44Correct.
56:45It takes a different level of maturity.
56:47Yeah.
56:48And you have to take in to yourself
56:50that it's not just you alone in a situation.
56:52We always have to think of the children
56:54and we, as the adults, always hurt the children.
56:58We have to be mindful with Nina.
57:00We put them in a situation.
57:01Yeah.
57:02So true.
57:03So we have to take them out of it.
57:04We have to take them out of it.
57:04Correct.
57:05So let's do better as usual, TNT.
57:07I plead for that every single day
57:09and that is including myself because I am not perfect
57:12and I'm still trying to do the best as I can
57:15as a person in society.
57:17With that being said, we get ready for news coming up next.
57:19From Wednesday, we will have the show starting at 4.45.
57:22Tomorrow is a holiday.
57:23Happy Republic Day, gentlemen.
57:25God bless you all.
57:26Stay safe, TNT.
57:27Make yourself a hot target.
57:29And don't forget, we have cricket tomorrow,
57:30the big one that is on.
57:31Southside will be outside.
57:33TNT, always remember, be pure and just
57:34and have God in your life no matter what.
57:36We're out.
57:37God bless.
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