COMMUNITIES NEED TO STAND UP

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People within communities are being encouraged to band together and stand up against the criminals living among them.  This was a common issue raised by some of the speakers in Wednesday’s Crime Talk Initiative hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago Scrap Iron Dealers Association, in St Mary’s Village, Moruga.  The event took place at the Basketball court, obliquely opposite where mini-mart owner Enrico Guerra and his five-year-old daughter Anika were murdered two months ago.  Our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh was there.

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00:00Today is me. Tomorrow could be one of you. We need to stand as a community and get it back.

00:07Our community is losing our ground to these people.

00:11Hespa Ali Dasu on Wednesday pleaded with her community of St. Mary's Village, Moruga,

00:18to stand up against criminals responsible for taking the lives of the nation's innocents.

00:25Her 34-year-old son, Enrico Guerra, and her 5-year-old granddaughter, Anika Guerra,

00:31were both shot dead at their St. Mary's home back in August.

00:35A nightmare, she says, which she continues to live every single day.

00:40Our community is killing our community.

00:45The people in our community are killing our own people.

00:49And you know what? They are the ones walking in the midst and sitting in the midst and

00:54talking the news. Who do we trust? Who can we trust?

00:59When some of those in authority are also working with them.

01:04I'm not asking. I'm telling you.

01:07She was one on a list of speakers at the Trinidad and Tobago Scrap Iron Dealers Association's

01:13Crime Talk Initiative and Hamper Drive in the community.

01:17TTPS representative, Acting ASP Bandon, in charge of the Southern Divisions Area East, said

01:24while the police have a job to do, parents and residents can help in the fight against crime.

01:31We have seen where the youth are being led astray.

01:36And we as parents need to pull them back.

01:39The police can't do it alone. We are aware who the perpetrators may be.

01:45Come and talk to me. I will fix them.

01:49Other speakers called on citizens to point out wrongdoing wherever they see it

01:55and to recognize where the problems begin.

01:58If you don't have laws in your home and rules in your home, you are producing a bandit for the future.

02:05You must have laws and rules in your home.

02:08If the school opens 3 o'clock, why must it come home 7 o'clock?

02:13Where are you spending those self-promos?

02:15We who know for a fact that we are living in a home and for some reason you know that your child is living a life of crime

02:22and you are being profited off of that, you must know that you are responsible also too.

02:29Cindy Raguvantika Singh, TV6 News.

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