EMPOWHER PROJECT OPENS

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Retired ASP Margaret Sampson-Browne is not at all happy with the crime situation in Tobago and the high incidence of crime against women and girls.  Her comments came during the launch of EMPOWHER Project and Deborah's Courtyard Service in Scarborough at the Police Credit union building on Thursday. More in this Elizabeth Williams report.

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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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