MP VISITS PRE SCHOOL WHERE 5 WERE SHOT OUTSIDE

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Plans are afoot to get Roxann's Learning and Childcare Centre temporarily relocated. That's according to Member of Parliament Adrian Leonce. He has paid a visit to the pre-school in Morvant, outside of which  gunmen opened fire on Wednesday killing two people.   Alicia Boucher has more in this report.

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00:00Roxanne's Learning and Child Care Center has been closed since Wednesday after a

00:04shooting in the early hours of Wednesday morning led to the deaths of two people

00:08and caused injury to three others including a four-year-old child. The

00:13school is supposed to be a safe space and has been prior to the incident and

00:17is described by a member of Parliament for Laventille East Mova, Adrian Leonce,

00:22has a pillar in the community that has been around for 40 years. He says a lot

00:27of trauma is being felt at the preschool by both children and staff

00:31alike and we are here to give that that support. We also are organizing to get

00:40some temporary relocation while the trauma is ongoing. We already contacted

00:45two places and we're waiting on some feedback. I know the TTPS has also

00:50contacted the principal and to get some parents and the students to get some

00:57counseling. Leonce tells us alternative counseling has also been discussed

01:01following the session with a TTPS. The school's administrator Roxanne King

01:06admits that the incident was highly traumatic and based on the time it

01:11occurred she tells us the situation could have been worse. Because not only

01:15our parents was dropping and picking up, we had children from the nearby primary

01:20school and secondary schools in the community, they were on their way to and

01:24from a taxi stopping and picking up and it was traumatizing. While King

01:31confirms that one of the men who got shot did run under the compound of the

01:35school, she is seeking to dispel misinformation she states is circulating.

01:40He did not die as it is on social media. Nobody died in this school. King is

01:45thankful for the support she says the school has received since the tragic

01:49incident locally, regionally and internationally. She believes the school

01:54will emerge from what has occurred and she gives an assurance that it is not

01:58the end of the institution. According to her, the children impacted by the

02:02incident are all coping and are eager to return to school. Meanwhile Leonce is

02:07making a call to the powers that be. We would require some additional presence,

02:12some police presence and we would even like if someone could be stationed close

02:18by, both in the 7th Avenue area and in the 6th Avenue area, just for the period of

02:25while all of this is happening.

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