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02:50Welcome to Beyond the Tape.
02:51I'm your host, Mark Bassan.
02:53We're mixing it up a bit here on Monday.
02:56From going forward from today, we'll be sharing this platform with the Hunter's Search and Rescue Team.
03:02Definitely who has been going beyond the call of duty to help and assist a lot of families across the country in locating missing loved ones.
03:12And of course, it's a very important duty that they do.
03:17And we definitely want to welcome Captain Valence Rambarak to the show.
03:21Welcome.
03:22It's a pleasure to be on Beyond the Tape, Mark.
03:25And I'm here to share a lot of experiences we've had over the past three years with the national population.
03:33And I hope we can get into some details about missing persons as we go along with the program.
03:39Most definitely.
03:40And one of the things before we get into that is that I want to really congratulate you all.
03:45I understand you all got two awards.
03:47One from the Chaguanas Borough Corporation quite recently.
03:51And then you were also given a – well, not you per se, but under the organization, Shea Kirai, is it?
03:59Yeah, Shea Kirai.
04:00Yeah, you got a National Service Award and Humanitarianism from the Ministry of Youth.
04:08And, you know, that's pretty inspiring for people when you're doing this kind of voluntary work across the country.
04:15I mean, it must make you feel a sense of pride, not just you but your entire team.
04:20Yeah, it falls in the area of motivation.
04:23While the majority of the team don't need to be intrinsically – extrinsically motivated, because they are intrinsically motivated,
04:33we on record are saying these are vanity awards.
04:37But we do appreciate when organizations do reward us in some formal fashion.
04:46But coming back to Shea Kirai, he received the Youth 2024 Award for National Service and Humanitarianism.
04:56As a 15-year-old boy attending Vishnu Boys College, I think that was exceptional.
05:01He goes out with us, his father and mother, they are members of the team.
05:05And here, thanks to Chagones Borough Corporation, the Mayor, Faik Mohammed, for reaching out to us in the hero category.
05:13I just want to ask, walk us through a little bit about Shea's award and how it came into being, of course.
05:18Well, he was recognized for that.
05:21Just to jog the memory of some of those people who might not have read it or seen it on the media.
05:25Yeah, Shea Kirai started with us at age 12.
05:28So his dad is a member of the team and mom.
05:31And whenever they go on missions, he would go along.
05:34And he was very much enthusiastic about the whole thing.
05:37And he became fit, he became knowledgeable about the forest, all the terrain we cover.
05:43And in the space of one year, he was qualified as a member.
05:49And he has been doing a tremendous amount of work up in the Northeast area.
05:55The unit they belong to, as well as doing searches throughout Trinidad.
06:00And he has learned a lot.
06:03And he enjoys what he does.
06:07And he loves it.
06:09He's passionate about it.
06:11And I think for a young man, 15 years old, Mark, he has done exceptionally well.
06:16And I mean, there is obviously a history behind the Hunter, Search and Rescue team.
06:22And I think, I recall, while covering the Andrew Barath kidnapping,
06:28that tragic story back in, I believe it's February 2021.
06:32I think that might have triggered or inspired you and other people to come together
06:38and just kind of walk us through, you know, that particular day,
06:42and in essence, what it triggered later on.
06:45Yeah, Mark, and I think you would recall, I was liaising with you on February the 2nd as well.
06:51But what I did was reach out to the TTPS and asked if hunters could have joined in the search.
06:58Looking on, I don't know if you remember, this was Carnival Friday.
07:01We had no carnival in Trinidad in 2021.
07:04So the news came through that Andrea was kidnapped.
07:07And looking on as a hunter, I thought when I saw them searching in non-parallel estate
07:15in Sandy Grande and Fish and Pond and other areas, I thought they needed hunters on board
07:20and reached out to the TTPS and DCP Joanne Archie had called late the night to say,
07:27yes, come on board hunters and we joined the search on the 2nd of February 2021.
07:34And so after that search, DCP Joanne Archie wanted us to do what's called the Aripo Sweep,
07:42where we went through the entire nine kilometres of cliffs and valleys in heights of Aripo
07:50and we were able to pick up different bones and stuff and assists generally.
07:56And then the guys after that decided they wanted to continue this in some form or fashion.
08:03And so we've continued until today without stopping.
08:07Initially through COVID, we would do one or two missions per month.
08:12But currently, we are averaging around four search missions and as well as helping persons who go missing.
08:21But where search is not required, we help them with deploying a whole set of strategies and devices to get back their loved ones.
08:29I imagine that, you know, with all that kind of terrain, there must be some expertise that you and your team have to go through.
08:36Is there some kind of training that you all will employ for new members coming in and who have that enthusiasm
08:42and that interest in wanting to assist people on a voluntary basis?
08:46Yeah, we do now. Currently, when we started, we had no certification whatsoever.
08:53Currently, all members of the team are internationally certified as first responders,
08:59as well as we are certified to operate in wilderness and international training.
09:05I came down and we were trained to handle different types of things in the environment,
09:10terrain, of course, but as well as poisonous plants and animals and different things in the environment.
09:17And so we are internationally certified.
09:21And that was a big tipping point for the team because we felt that if we were going to rescue somebody,
09:27we had to have some knowledge.
09:29So if, for instance, Mark, you want to join the team, you come on board, you spend six months with us,
09:35we look at your temperament, we look at your ability to gel with the team, and we train you.
09:41As we go along on missions, we ask you to come out and we train you.
09:46And very quickly, you will learn the rules.
09:49So let me ask you a question then.
09:51There's all these reality shows on Netflix where they go to Alaska to survive and so on,
09:56and in other areas of the world, you guys can survive?
10:00Yeah, we can survive.
10:01I mean, we've been out there, we've camped.
10:04I know we camped in Togo for six days.
10:07We camped in Blanchiches for three days overnight, sometimes surviving on just cricks and sardines
10:14and cricks and eggs and cheese, but we have that ability.
10:19But hopefully, I think with our experience now, I know for sure no member of this team will ever get lost.
10:28Wonderful.
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11:32I lost my only child because still nothing is being done.
11:39It was unfair what had happened to my son because of bullying.
11:45My son was scared to even come out of the classroom to go to the washroom
11:50because he was so in fear of those kids that were bullying him.
11:58Wow, so certainly that last clip there, Mr. Ambarat, you know, a mother speaking about her son being bullied
12:06and, of course, dying by suicide.
12:09Rather sad things like this are happening in schools across the country and, of course, across the world.
12:16And I'm sure you deal with a lot of grief on a very regular basis sometimes
12:23because decisions don't always stay all positive.
12:26Yeah, and Mark, my career has been in education.
12:32I recently retired as a school supervisor.
12:35So it has been teacher, principal, school supervisor.
12:39And the issue of education is close to me.
12:42And just before this incident, St. Stephen's Day, I had a peace walk, a lovely peace walk,
12:47through the town of Prince's Town and I followed it and I said this was a grand idea
12:52only to be faced by this very touching.
12:55And I felt sad when I heard about it because the Ministry of Education
13:01has a division called the Student Support Services.
13:06And I think when children are being bullied, there exists this division
13:14so that children can get psychosocial support and other support that is necessary
13:20so that they can combat whatsoever challenges they have.
13:24But, I mean, it's a sad story.
13:28I want to try to get down to Prince's Town where there is a candlelight village.
13:33Just to express my support.
13:35Definitely.
13:36We want to take a look at a video that was caught, I believe, in Santa Cruz.
13:45My apologies.
13:47We are not certain of where the incident occurred, but we are appealing to anyone
13:54who has any kind of information about the identity of the offender
13:58to call the Special Victims Unit at 612-2470, extensions 16070 to 99990555.
14:12See, there's an elderly woman walking up the stairs there, followed by a gentleman.
14:17It appears he has a piece of something that resembles a piece of wood or something.
14:28And he's striking her several times as she walks up the stairs.
14:32Obviously, it's very disturbing to see something like that,
14:36especially methodos and elderly people that suffer so much abuse at the hands of
14:42not just their relatives or even other people, but even in some of these homes.
14:46It is happening.
14:48Yeah, we've had two cases where persons are still currently missing who walked out of homes from 2023,
14:56and we have one for 2024.
15:00The issue of elderly persons, we promote it on our page. It's not nice.
15:04Currently, we have Ravi Ramratan out in Guapo looking for a gentleman who went missing yesterday from Alzheimer's.
15:11And the issue of the elderly, we've been raising it because we find that too many of them have been going missing.
15:19And the whole question of the homes and how the elderly is treated is big on our agenda as well
15:27because we see it all the time.
15:29I call Guapo Police Station on my way up.
15:32When I heard what the police officer had to tell me, I felt sad.
15:37But our members are out there trying to locate the gentleman who suffers from Alzheimer's.
15:42But in this case, where violence is meted out to an elderly folk,
15:47that's unacceptable in civil society, in a society where we ought to be doing better.
15:54Definitely. Thanks a lot. We'll have much more after this break, so stay with us.
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18:07Welcome back to Beyond the Tape, I'm your host Marc Bessant.
18:23Of course, we're joined by Captain Valens Ram Barhat from the Hunter, Search and Rescue Team.
18:32Pretty busy man, so you know, sometimes if you catch him, you have to talk to him because he's always on the go.
18:38And certainly, I know you all have ongoing cases that you all have been looking into.
18:45And I just want us to look at some of the unaccompanied persons for the month of September.
18:51And of course, Captain Ram Barhat will give us a kind of insight into some of these people.
18:57And if they have made any headway in locating them.
19:00Yeah, so for September, as we moved into October, we have four carrier cross cases.
19:07We have Ariana Chablal.
19:11We did pay a visit to Princess Town with the Princess Town Police.
19:17And Marc, I must mention the police.
19:20They have been very helpful.
19:22They're always helpful.
19:23And they're willing to go with us whenever we have to look for anybody who is missing.
19:29But she's still outstanding.
19:31I'm very hopeful that based on our conversation, I had again on my way up that she should be safely located by tonight.
19:40We had Chanel Singh, who is from the Port of Spain District.
19:45And the police again is assisting us with this one.
19:50And the Port of Spain Police.
19:52And we should make a breakthrough on this one pretty soon.
19:56We have, then we have missing a couple of others.
20:06Ishmael Phillip is one.
20:08We're hoping again, hopeful for him.
20:12And the other one that bothers me a bit is, the one that bothers me a bit is Daisha Peters.
20:22I find that she has been outstanding for too long.
20:25And we have had nobody established connection, communication with this young girl.
20:31And we had two sightings.
20:34We investigated them, one in Maloney and one in the retail.
20:37They bore no fruit.
20:39And the police again has been doing a lot of work together with us to try to locate Daisha Peters.
20:46But this is the one that's bothering us at this point in time.
20:49I'll tell you something.
20:51Mark, most of our teenagers are what you call runaways.
20:56And we tend to account for all at the end of the year.
21:02Sometimes it takes us a week, two weeks, a month, month and a half, two months.
21:06But we were able to locate them.
21:08So this is one that we're not really fearful about.
21:12But we want to remind parents and those young girls and boys out there.
21:18There's a case called Rachel Richardson.
21:21She was 16 years a student and she was found murdered in San Rafael.
21:29And there's another case, I can't remember the girl's first name, a long time ago.
21:36Rachel Richardson, if I distinctly recall, she was waiting for a taxi.
21:40Yes, she was waiting for a taxi in the morning.
21:43And she never found the person responsible for that either.
21:48So the thing about it is when we have to put in a lot of resources to find the missing teens,
21:55they also have to be aware that danger lurks out there.
21:59They could be moving from a car to a car, from a house to a house.
22:03But there are predators out there.
22:05And their lives are in danger.
22:07And they must always remember this case.
22:09Rachel Richardson.
22:11There is a nun and girl down in La Brea as well, Corrie Village, La Brea.
22:15And people were saying that she went here, she went there.
22:19But she was found murdered on her way home.
22:21She dropped out of her taxi and she was held down and raped.
22:26And these are the dangers that we want to point out to the teenagers.
22:32But thankfully over the last three years we have been able to account for them.
22:37I imagine that your network has to be vast.
22:40And of course the information that comes into you.
22:43How are you able to sift through the information to ensure what is accurate and what is inaccurate
22:50so that you might get 20 leads about a particular person,
22:54but you have to track down which one is the most viable or which one is the most accurate.
22:59How do you all go about doing such?
23:01Well, once a poster goes up on our page,
23:04you begin to get calls, messages, messages on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok.
23:10And members of the public do call.
23:12Our team phone doesn't rest at all.
23:15But when the information comes in, we have the police with us.
23:19We have to pass the information with them.
23:21Then there is a team chat that we have where members will kind of weigh in on the situation.
23:26And because of the expertise, they will begin to narrow down what we have.
23:31Of course you also rely on informants, just like police officers.
23:34Yeah, a lot of informants.
23:35Just like journalists at times to get information that you could quantify and say,
23:40this is solid based on speaking the X, Y and Z.
23:43It seems to add up to be the same thing.
23:45Yeah, and you raise a good point with the media.
23:47I do liaise with the media to ask them what they have on this case.
23:50And they liaise with me as well.
23:53And it's a lot of information that comes in and has to be processed and filtered
24:00so that when you make your move, you know you're stepping out in the correct direction.
24:07Well, we want to encourage our viewers to call in at 623-1711, extensions 1992, 1993 and 1997.
24:18But before that, of course we want to go to, I believe there's a picture of a rescue by you guys last Saturday
24:25in the Silibia Forest area.
24:27If you can take a look and you can just walk us through.
24:29Yeah, so this is Darian Robinson, a young hunter.
24:33He went into the forest with his slippers.
24:36If you watch the picture carefully, you will see that one side of his, he isn't wearing something on one feet.
24:43He went there just to meet them in the camp, but on his way he got lost.
24:48He spent the night and the command centre, the national command centre, the TTPS command centre,
24:55they contacted us and we worked with the Mathura police.
24:59We went up there and he was able to come out, we were able to get him out safely.
25:05But just a word of caution, this is the second hunter we pulled out in the last two weeks, in the last week.
25:12So just a word of caution, pay attention, you have a cutlass in your hand,
25:17make marks as you're walking through the forest so you can always track back.
25:21And then he did a good thing in that when he got up in the morning,
25:26he paid attention to the sun so he knew which way was east
25:31and he knew that east would lead him to the Toco main road.
25:34So he began walking out when he was located.
25:37So just some tips to hunters and those people who are in the outdoors,
25:41leave your mark while you're walking.
25:43If you're like me and you know trees, identify the tree and say,
25:48I see a tree here, I dig a tree here, a log here, a river here.
25:53So that's how I mark where I walk.
25:55And I know that you obviously not only rely on the citizens, or informants rather,
26:02but also how critical is the role of the police service and also assisting you guys and vice versa
26:07because it's obviously a symbiotic relationship.
26:10Yes, it's like we have the peas and they have the rice.
26:15So when we come together, we make our rice peas cook up, right, our peas and rice cook up.
26:20They're different skills.
26:22When an officer begins an investigation, he thinks about prosecution.
26:29On the other hand, we are searchers.
26:31And when we sense that harm has come to somebody, there is a platform
26:37which we share our information with, with the anti-kidnapping unit.
26:41And that platform is where the information is shared.
26:45So Mark, you go missing right away.
26:48Let's say your dad hasn't reached the police station.
26:53He calls us. He speaks to us.
26:56He's raising some red flags about you, that you normally get home by this time, you know.
27:03We pass on that information immediately to the anti-kidnapping unit.
27:07We raise the red flag.
27:09They put it on the front burner and our search begins right away.
27:12So the police has been extremely helpful.
27:15When we go to police stations, they are very polite and professional with us
27:20and we get the assistance that we need.
27:24So people would want to compare us to the police
27:28and they may say the police are not doing their job.
27:30That is not so.
27:32We are apples and they are oranges.
27:35The skills we bring, the skills that we move from being hunters
27:42to transfer to being searching for missing persons.
27:46Most definitely.
27:48And of course, we're going to have to take a short break,
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30:02Welcome back to Beyond the Tape.
30:03I'm your host, Mark Bess.
30:04I'm, of course, joined by Captain Valence Ramnarat,
30:07here today from the Hunter Search and Rescue Team.
30:11And I do believe we have a caller.
30:13Captain, that's your nickname, of course.
30:16We'll talk about that a little more.
30:17Good afternoon, caller.
30:42Trinidad and Tobago,
30:43with respect to located missing personnel in Trinidad
30:49and activity the TTPS struggles with.
30:53Now, what I am annoyed about is that I haven't seen,
30:57and I might be wrong,
30:59your organization give a national award for service,
31:05public service to Trinidad and Tobago.
31:09I don't know what the leadership of this country,
31:12you have to do to show you good leadership.
31:15Now, my question to you, based on your protocol,
31:20you said that when you basically get a call
31:25for assistance in locating somebody,
31:27you go to the TTPS and they have been very helpful.
31:31That is good for my advantage.
31:34That seems to be working.
31:37What happens when the TTPS gets a call for missing persons?
31:43Do they come to you first?
31:46Yeah, we tend to get a lot of calls
31:48from when people get lost and need to be rescued.
31:51They always call us out, right?
31:54But when persons go missing,
31:57you find we are on top of it
31:59because the family would normally call us
32:02before they make the report to the police or just after.
32:05So it's not a question of they have to call us.
32:09We already know when someone goes missing in Trinidad and Tobago.
32:13And with respect to the national award,
32:15I think we have to face reality.
32:17Your organization is just three years and nine months.
32:21When you have to receive a national award,
32:25it must be based on longevity, good service, good practice.
32:31We have done a lot of work in three years and nine months.
32:36But let's face reality.
32:38We have a long way to go.
32:40I think that was well said.
32:42You have assisted between, let's say,
32:44an average of 2,500 to 3,000 families in that duration.
32:47And of course, as you said,
32:49a national civil service award is something that people have to
32:52obviously nominate you and so on.
32:54And that is part of a process.
32:56And I guess nothing happens before its time.
33:00And speaking about nothing happens before its time,
33:02I know this is your 40th.
33:05We've had 15 reports received in the first six days of October.
33:09Just walk us through some of the updates that you would have received
33:12in reference to some of these missing people.
33:14Yeah, well, we've been dealing with a record number of missing persons,
33:21at least for the post-COVID period.
33:25During COVID, we thought what we were dealing with
33:28would have been a normal thing.
33:30But as we started January 2022,
33:34we recognized that there was a rise.
33:37But when we look at the figures of missing persons,
33:41we realize that on average is about 500, 600 persons.
33:45We deal with it.
33:47The TTPS figures would be much higher.
33:50And, you know, it's so interesting that for such a small country,
33:54we have so many people that are unaccounted for.
33:58And so it's a lot.
34:02But for October thus far, we've had 16 reports we received.
34:08But thankfully, we were able to account for 15 of those so far.
34:14We've not been able to account for Derrick Cooper.
34:17Derrick Cooper, his relatives told us that he stopped at Caroney,
34:21around about there, to purchase a coconut.
34:24And he was grabbed. He was shot and grabbed.
34:27My understanding, he was shot at least three times.
34:30At least.
34:31Twice in the stomach.
34:32Based on my interaction with police officers,
34:34where he was actually in the car.
34:36And I believe the gentleman that came out to get a coconut
34:39because they went to transfer vehicle and the licensing authority.
34:42And when they came out of there, men dressed in tactical uniform
34:45and a man in civilian clothing came across,
34:48blocked the car while he was parked.
34:50He resisted, of course, trying to come out of the vehicle.
34:52They shot him.
34:53I know that, you know, there had been some report of somebody
34:56being found a couple of days ago in Maraval area.
34:59But I don't think police have been able to verify in any measure if it was him.
35:03If it was him.
35:04So, he's outstanding.
35:06And again, on my way up, we have one Anthony Phillip
35:11who went missing in the 0.14 Kuapuik district.
35:15Since yesterday, he suffered some Alzheimer's.
35:18So the people down there who are out and about,
35:21please look out for Mr. Anthony Phillip.
35:23He's 50, 60 years old.
35:25And we currently have our members out there looking for him.
35:28In the four years, just before we go to the brief,
35:30do you recall any particular case in those four years
35:35that really, really, really can't fuffle you?
35:39Yeah, we've had quite a few.
35:42I mean, we've searched for four or five days
35:44and we've never found anyone.
35:47But we've had some searches.
35:49I know back when in Maraval Swamp,
35:51they got a guy who went to harvest parrots.
35:55That was a new thing for us.
35:58Back when the Chesite water, they get to his body.
36:01That was new to us.
36:03And we always have missing fishermen from Icacos.
36:09And there are cases, there are only two cases in Icacos.
36:14There were a guy was harvesting coconuts and he went missing.
36:18And up to today, we could not have found him.
36:21But we searched every square inch of those coconut estates
36:24down in the southwest Icacos area.
36:27And that one always baffles us, up to today.
36:31Warren Jews is his name.
36:33I imagine it will always sit on your mind
36:36until, of course, there's some type of resolution or closure, as you see.
36:40Yeah.
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36:43But, of course, we'll get to those after this break.
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39:36Welcome back to Beyond the Tube.
39:38I'm your host Marc Besson,
39:39of course joined by Captain Valence Rambarat
39:42from the Hunter, Search and Rescue team.
39:45And we just want to go back to the clip of Farida Lalchan yesterday
39:49speaking with the Express, of course, on TV6
39:53following the sad incident involving her son
39:57who died by suicide earlier last week.
40:04He had a subtle problem.
40:07So they would laugh at him.
40:08They would tell him to go back to his country.
40:13And they would be calling him names.
40:18Like he said, he walked like a gay, he spoke like a gay,
40:21he acted like a faggot, stuff like that.
40:27Yes, he did.
40:32Yes, I did.
40:33I went to the school and I spoke to the home teacher about that.
40:38Nothing really happened then.
40:40It just continued.
40:46Straight to phone.
40:50Yes, I did.
40:55Well, I had an incident in school
40:57and then I went to school and I made a report.
41:02Yes, there was a kid who had been bullied recently.
41:08And then he attacked him.
41:09He attacked him on Tuesday.
41:11He started calling him names.
41:13He attacked him on Tuesday when he snatched his mask off his face
41:16and with the reflect of my son, he punched back.
41:20So he got lashed by his nose.
41:23And after that, they started sending threats to him,
41:26which we have recorded.
41:28So the threats were sent...
41:31Not directly to him, it was on Instagram.
41:34That was sent back to my son.
41:37Okay, first I'm going to say
41:39after the incident that happened in school on Tuesday,
41:42my son came home and told me what happened.
41:45We had a message to the home teacher about the incident, right?
41:50And her response was,
41:52call the school on Friday.
41:55I did not call the school.
41:57I went to the school.
41:58I was there by 8.30.
42:00The principal wasn't there and I spoke to the dean.
42:03The dean promised me nothing was going to happen to my son.
42:10When you're bullying in school, nothing is being done.
42:12They are just taking everything for granted.
42:16When the students complain about it,
42:18it's just being brushed aside.
42:20They're not taking further steps
42:22to prevent anything from happening.
42:27I don't know what to say, what to think.
42:29To be honest, it's really tough
42:32because it's not today my son is being bullied.
42:34I lose my son because of the bullying, right?
42:39I brought this attention to the school.
42:41Nothing was being done.
42:43Even the dean who I spoke to
42:47said she's going to call in more parents
42:49after I made the complaint.
42:51Four days went by.
42:53I never got a call.
42:57I lose my only child because...
43:03Still nothing is being done.
43:05The school is not holding accountability for his death.
43:09Has the school reached out to you?
43:11No.
43:13I went to the school on Friday
43:16because they never reached out to me.
43:19And it was unfair
43:22what had happened to my son because of bullying.
43:25My son was scared to even come out of the classroom
43:29to go to the washroom
43:31because he was so afraid
43:33of these kids that were bullying him.
43:37Really, really sad situation, Captain.
43:41I mean, you could see the hurt,
43:43you could see the grief etched on the faces of those parents.
43:47And when you listen to that story,
43:49it's three years of bullying.
43:51And I read the newspaper story
43:53and it talked about that bullying also
43:56extending to social media.
43:59A young man, a very promising young man,
44:02Jayden Lalchand,
44:04academic excellence here,
44:06you see him on the front page of the Express,
44:08holding his trophies.
44:10And now, three years after that incident,
44:14he died by suicide.
44:16And his mother is saying
44:18that school, for so long,
44:21didn't act.
44:23And you, being a teacher,
44:25I know that would resonate with you.
44:27And because I know the ministry
44:29and its operations thoroughly.
44:32And it's sad that
44:34bullying, cyberbullying,
44:37these are issues that have been
44:39in the school system for a long while
44:42and there are methods to deal with it.
44:44And I know that deans,
44:46if they cannot deal,
44:48the deans in the school,
44:49if they cannot deal with it,
44:51there is also support by the students,
44:53support services to deal with this.
44:56And also, I read in the newspaper,
44:59that it is also a criminal offence.
45:02So if it is that you cannot get through
45:06using the student support services,
45:09you always have the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service there
45:12because it has been pointed out
45:14that it is a criminal offence.
45:17Senior Superintendent Wayne Meister
45:19did say that today in the newspaper,
45:20that it will be thoroughly investigated
45:22and will be done in a very swift manner.
45:24We do have a caller on the line.
45:27Caller, good afternoon.
45:29Hi, good afternoon, Mr. Omar Sustan.
45:32I'm the congressman for Trinidad and Tobago Police.
45:35Good afternoon.
45:36My name is Brenda John.
45:37I'm the Councillor for Enterprise and London Hills.
45:41I'm just calling to say the fantastic job
45:43they have been doing and working with the police.
45:45But I'm asking if I could be a part of that
45:48so they can come into the communities
45:51and the schools,
45:52so that we need to get into the schools because of bullying.
45:54I have one child who was,
45:57if you can remember, Mr. Sustan,
45:59a couple of months ago,
46:00a 15-year-old Mr. Lashley,
46:02that was stabbed by 50 terrorists
46:04because of the bullying and the threats
46:06that all of a sudden stopped.
46:08And it didn't make a report that nothing happened.
46:10So while we wait for a report or something to take place,
46:14then we can have something like a preventative measure
46:17and to take action.
46:18So up here, I'm willing to work with anyone
46:21because the children like speaking up.
46:23And if you think it's too far,
46:25because of the depression, the suicide,
46:27all that is still hopeless.
46:29I'm voting for the community.
46:31I'm running for the community.
46:32I'm asking for us to come together
46:34to see how best we can work together
46:36to save lives of the children.
46:40Councillor Kola, definitely.
46:42I'll reach out to you.
46:44Tell me, please, at 799-1453.
46:47We do do some outreach programs with schools.
46:51And other organizations.
46:53So we're willing to partner with you in enterprise there
46:59and help you with your situation
47:01because that is how civil society
47:04has to begin to respond to these issues.
47:08Let me just say that it's very important
47:11and critical, of course,
47:13not just parents playing a critical role
47:16in the lives of their children,
47:17but you also have teachers
47:19who are also like their parents
47:21because they spend the majority of their time at school
47:24Monday to Friday.
47:26So they are like their second parents.
47:28And then you have other people in society.
47:31You know, growing up,
47:32if you did something,
47:33or I did something wrong in the village,
47:35we get a curtail from somebody.
47:36It doesn't have to be your mother or your father
47:38or a telenorphan.
47:39You let your parents know.
47:41And that doesn't exist in that extent
47:44that it does in those days that it does now.
47:47So you have an absence of the village coming in
47:51where the village had the standards
47:54for the community to operate
47:55and there were certain behaviors
47:58that would not be tolerated
48:00or as it would be reported on
48:01and you understand the consequences.
48:03But now we have a situation
48:05where families are living in homes
48:07all fenced together.
48:09And there's an absence of socialization as well
48:13and so a lot of socialization.
48:16Young children are learning to socialize in schools,
48:20not with parents and amongst children
48:24in the normal scheme of things.
48:27And that is posing a problem as well.
48:30You think that there needs to be
48:33a more serious approach?
48:34I mean, countless times, you know,
48:37somebody reports, like,
48:39the counselor was speaking about an incident
48:41involving a 15-year-old that was bullied.
48:44Countless times.
48:45What does it take before the school acts?
48:48I mean, it's tragic that this young 15-year-old boy,
48:53he couldn't take it anymore
48:55and, you know, he died.
48:57But this is not the first time bullying has come up
49:00and it continues to come up in instances like Jada.
49:05But what is needed is for proper training
49:08for school administrators
49:10to ensure that they follow
49:12the standard operating procedures
49:14laid down by the Ministry of Education.
49:16And if that is done,
49:17we would know that there exists a way
49:20to deal with cyberbullying and bullying in schools.
49:24All right.
49:25There you go.
49:27We certainly have to take a short break,
49:29but stay with us.
49:30We'll be back.
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51:37Mary decides to call when she's five minutes away
51:40to let her daughter know that she is close by.
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52:11A message from the TTPS.
52:37The team captain, Valens Rambrath.
52:39Of course, I was asking,
52:41how did you get that name, Captain?
52:43Yeah, well, I didn't have that name before,
52:47prior to February the 2nd, 2021.
52:51But on the first day of searching
52:53in the non-parallel estate and Duranta Gardens
52:57in Sandy Grande for Andrea Barrett,
53:00within minutes,
53:02all the hunters who were there
53:05began to call me Captain.
53:07Captain.
53:08It has now evolved to Cap.
53:10So if we are on a search,
53:12you will hear people calling,
53:13Cap, come check this.
53:14Cap, come check that.
53:16And so it has stuck,
53:18and I've used it because I mean,
53:20I'm captain of the team as well,
53:22in terms of leading the team.
53:24It's an official designation by virtue of a nickname, yeah?
53:26Yeah.
53:28I imagine this job can be very
53:31emotionally and psychologically draining,
53:33especially when the outcome is not what you hoped for.
53:36How do you and your team members deal with that,
53:39that heaviness of grief sometimes
53:42that families share that with you?
53:45How are you all able to cope with that?
53:47Well, there are frontliners in the team
53:49who always search up front.
53:51Even though I'm one of them,
53:53I am one of them who would not approach a body
53:55under any circumstances.
53:57I may spot from a distance,
53:59but there are those who are able to cope with it
54:02five or six on the team
54:04that are tough in that regard.
54:08And because we observe a particular protocol
54:12with respect to the TTPS
54:14and it being a crime scene,
54:16one of them would be chosen to approach the body,
54:19take a closer examination,
54:21not all of them,
54:23and then retreat from the scene.
54:25So they're tough.
54:27We've discussed it from time to time,
54:29but I've seen how they operate,
54:31and I think they're not affected psychologically.
54:34But it's something that we ourselves
54:37discuss all the time,
54:39our mental health.
54:40Remember, we're also physically trained
54:43most times when we find something,
54:45and then you have to deal with these emotions.
54:48And I think really the challenge for us
54:50is really how to bring the news to the family.
54:54To me, that is the emotional stress we go through
55:00when we have to bring the news to the family.
55:02It's always difficult when you have to approach,
55:04even the media have to go and approach people
55:06in a time of grief.
55:07But just quickly, can you tell us
55:09how people can get in contact with you
55:11if they need your assistance?
55:13Oh yes, so we're on Facebook,
55:15so you contact us at 799 1453.
55:18We're on Instagram, we're on TikTok,
55:21and our name is almost a household name
55:25in the country,
55:26and you just Google our name
55:28and you will get a number.
55:30And one thing about the team
55:32is the team always answers the phone
55:35and responds, will respond to messages.
55:38Except on a search,
55:40because sometimes we're on a search,
55:42rain is falling,
55:43we have the team phone packed away
55:46properly in the bag securely.
55:48But 99% of the time you'll be able to reach us.
55:52And I want to say this.
55:56Please, we have developed expertise
55:59in finding missing persons
56:01over the last three years and nine months,
56:05and please feel free to reach out to us.
56:08We've built out into units.
56:10So we have Northeast, North Central,
56:13Northwest, South, Southwest, Tobago,
56:17and we have experts right through the country
56:20now who can assist you with your problems.
56:24So that's how you're able to contact us.
56:27Captain Rambarat,
56:28I certainly want to thank you
56:29for coming on the program,
56:30and of course we'll see you every Monday.
56:32And of course the team there
56:33that works very hard and diligently
56:36behind the scenes,
56:37we are extremely grateful
56:39for everything that you all have done
56:41for the citizens of this country
56:42and continue to do
56:44in the weeks, months to come,
56:47and even years.
56:49Remember, repeat tonight at 11.30,
56:51tomorrow at 11 a.m.
56:53The TV6 News is up next.
56:55Stay with us.
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