00:00What is happening is that we are seeing a proliferation of incidents involving women and girls.
00:08And we want to really, well I'm out of the service right now and whatever, but I still hold dear to my heart
00:18when I hear situations about women and girls and women and children being abused and so on.
00:26And so I feel that this program here, Deborah's Court, I am going to throw myself fully into this.
00:40I am extremely concerned, I am worried, and I'm saying up to this morning, I am saying 25 would have spread over almost a 12 year period.
00:48They would get two or three murders, but when you can get a callous person sitting down and somebody just shooting four or five bullets,
00:55Tobago is too small. Everybody know everybody in Tobago.
01:00How come that we can't jump over this hurdle that seems to be climbing?
01:06Former Health Secretary Dr. Agatha Carrington, PhD, and one of the main persons behind the Empower Her project
01:14and Deborah Courtyard Service, Mount Mary Scarborough, said a similar center is also located in Trinidad.
01:22There are several components of our project and service. There's a health and wellness component.
01:28For the health and wellness component, we are screening all women and girls.
01:32All the health screening is taking place as of today, we will be doing breast ultrasounds, we are doing pap testing and so on.
01:42Much of what we do is sponsored service.
01:45Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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