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Machel Montano partied away with his 11th Road March win
SEa Lots residents sought the help of the police amid an internal war
and the Acting Prime Minister promised more protection for victims of gender based-violence
SEa Lots residents sought the help of the police amid an internal war
and the Acting Prime Minister promised more protection for victims of gender based-violence
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00:00Good evening and welcome to the past 7 days on 6. I am Renessa Cutting as what made the
00:23news this past week. Marshall Montano partied away with his 11th roadmatch win. Sealot residents
00:30sought the help of the police amid an internal war and the acting Prime Minister promised
00:36more protection for victims of gender-based violence. As per usual if it was happening
00:42it was on 6. Let's get right into it. Marshall Montano walked away with his 11th roadmatch
00:49title last week while the lost tribe found themselves band of the year again. Here's
00:55a look back at the action. Our roadmatch for 2025 Tuko B-Mobile roadmatch for 2025 is party
01:08by Marshall Montano played across the nation 267 plays. It's official Marshall Montano
01:20has copped his 11th roadmatch title adding his 2025 party to the list. He is now tied
01:27with Old Wind Lord Kitchener Roberts with 11 such titles. Montano's power song was played
01:33some 267 times at Tuko's various judging points. Hot on the party trail was Ian Bunchy
01:52Garland Alvarez's Carry It. That song was played 253 times. Bunchy didn't end there
02:10he went away with third place with his other offering thousands which played 22 times.
02:17The bands of the year were also announced. In the large band category the lost tribe
02:22copped the coveted title of band of the year with 1324 points. It retained the top spot with
02:30its presentation Lost in Time. This marks its third band of the year title for band leader
02:37Valmiki Maharaj. In the medium man category K2K Alliance and partners won with their presentation
02:44titled Holy Trespasses Life's Bitter Sweet and Savory Moments. It is the eighth medium band of
02:51the year title for the women-run band. In the small band category Authentic Indian Mass would
02:57dominate with Tribal Connection Cultural Promotions beating 15 other bands to attain a final score
03:04of 1168 and topping the category. And in the mini category the majestic Moco Sumoco,
03:14though not impressing judges on Dimash Grande night, they went away with Bragging Rights and
03:19the top spot on Carnival Tuesday with their presentation Cane, the 1805 Christmas Rebellion.
03:30Meantime Helan Francis dethroned Marshall Montano to be crowned the Calypso Monarch 2025
03:37with the letter he penned to whom it may be. But all the competitors had their say through song
03:42on the day-to-day operations of TNT. Historically Calypso has been used as a form of political
03:49expression. From the way enslaved Africans use rhythmic vocals to express their approval
04:06or disapproval of the way things are being done. Centuries later in this Gael it is clear all is not
04:14well. The country appears to not have the leadership qualities desired.
04:44Maybe we just need to forget the leaders and carry on in unity ourselves.
05:14Maybe those leaders need to go on their own.
05:45One competitor was not afraid to name the antagonist in his story,
05:50saying in the big yard none is exempt from critique.
06:15So
06:19independent senator Helan Francis was not as risky in his commentary.
07:15So when the results were announced Francis emerged the winner with 268 points to a
07:23somewhat disgruntled crowd response. I'm in the senate as an independent senator
07:29so I always take the approach of a balanced perspective. Most of the time at least.
07:35I would have my views on the island and I would try to put them in the best way possible in song.
07:46Things that the nation would need to know at this period, at this part of our history.
07:53So I think that might be the edge. Francis himself said he was just like the other competitors
07:59other competitors, noting this competition this year was stiff.
08:04It so happened he said he was the winner on the deciding night. Kurt Allen just a single
08:10point behind placed second and newcomer Yungbretta walking away third with 260 points.
08:18We had a quick break. We'll have more news when we return.
08:20Welcome back. The acting police commissioner commended his officers for providing what he
08:33called a generally safe carnival but he acknowledged that two homicides during
08:38carnival left him with a bittersweet feeling. The acting top cop also spoke about the reduction
08:43in homicides as this country continues to be under a state of emergency.
08:48Acting police commissioner Junior Benjamin said he had a bittersweet feeling as he led
08:53the police services media briefing on Ash Wednesday where he spoke about the police
08:57presence during the two days of the parade of the bands on carnival Monday and Tuesday.
09:03We had at least two homicides that took place during the carnival period and this is where
09:10probably that damper probably comes upon what we did because it was something that again was
09:17rather unfortunate. We want to take the opportunity at this time to first of all
09:23extend condolences to the families. One of those homicides occurred in Saint James on
09:29carnival Tuesday evening. The acting top cop extended condolences on behalf of the police
09:34service to the families of those two murder victims before reviewing the performance of
09:39the police on carnival Monday and Tuesday and the weekend leading up to those two mass days.
09:46Because of the deployment of our officers and the fact that they were nearly everywhere at
09:53every corner these two situations and homicides we can say today that the suspects in both
10:03homicides they were apprehended and they are in the custody of the police. The goal of the
10:09commander for carnival assistant police commissioner Richard Smith said a firearm
10:13and a knife related to those homicides were seized and are in the custody of the police.
10:19The acting police commissioner spoke about the murder statistics this year so far. When we look
10:25at our murder statistics to date we have at least 66 murders compared to 95 in 2024 and 111 in 2023
10:40and therefore this a 31 percent decrease. Again the Trinidad and Tobago police service we take
10:48absolutely no great satisfaction because we understand very clearly that crime is not static
10:58and it's very dynamic it can change. However we want you to know that we continue in the midst of
11:05an SOE still seeking to ensure that the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago are well taken care of.
11:13A reference to the state of emergency in effect that does not include a curfew and does not have
11:18any restrictions on public gatherings such as the carnival fests or the parade of the bands
11:24on carnival Monday and Tuesday. We have a general overview that the carnival was generally a safe
11:32one and for this we want to take the opportunity to first and foremost thank all our police
11:41officers for really turning up and ensuring that we are able to at least be outside there and create
11:49that level of safety and security. The acting top cop also thanked the public for their assistance.
11:56Jewel Brown TV6 News. A community is divided and some Sealot West residents claimed the war is due
12:05to political affiliations and benefits. Desperate for peace the residents invited the police for a
12:11meeting last week but not even the presence of police deterred one faction from orchestrating
12:17an attack. Now even as police were meeting with Sealot West residents an attack was being
12:23perpetrated right here mere meters away along the Beetham Highway.
12:28This as was ensued among three factions of what was once one community.
12:41It was shortly after midday when chaos erupted on Pioneer Drive in Sealots after a Sealot West
12:54resident was attacked as residents were gathered at the community center with police. The residents
13:00had invited the police for a meeting in the hope of bringing an end to a war between Sealot East,
13:06West and the Beetham Highway Sealots which has seen at least 12 people attacked
13:11over the course of this week.
13:27So this is gang related?
13:37The younger ones like myself and the others we might have a little beef.
13:44Some of them might not be in the beef but when they see them out there
13:49they come around them hitting them big stones slapping them up. Don't let ageable woman get slapped up.
13:56Another victim is nursing broken bones.
14:07Yeah but I don't want to slap everybody or anybody so I didn't expect that to happen to me.
14:13I didn't expect that to happen to me or to everybody.
14:19However some residents told the police that the war is rooted in political affiliations
14:24and benefits. Sealot is now separated into three segments. Sealot West, Sealot East
14:32and Beetham Highway Sealots. These three communities are now at war. Some of the
14:39residents are claiming that the war is politically based where some sections are getting
14:45contracts and other sections are not getting contracts and that is really fueling the war.
14:49We're seeing development in some areas and no development in others. So our approach
14:56would be to reach out to the various community leaders because while we might want to say we
15:01want to meet everybody at the same time we recognize how volatile that can be. So the wise
15:07approach is to meet with the various sections under their respective heads chart the way forward
15:13and eventually we'd want to have one meeting with everybody at a round table and be able to bring
15:20some level of normalcy back to that community. In the interim what the police have done is that
15:26they've established around the clock police presence within the Sealot area because it's
15:32not just the young police involved they're also attacking the elders, they're also attacking
15:36senior citizens and we cannot just leave that to continue. So until we meet with all the sections
15:41the police have established a heavy presence within the Sealot community. Will you all be
15:46setting up a post also? No, no, no. We simply don't have the resources to set up a police post
15:53but we'll have the statics. So at Pioneer Drive, at Production Avenue, further down near to the
15:59lighthouse we'll have officers on standby and officers roving as well so that we're able to
16:04maintain that presence and we can respond accordingly in case of any eventuality. The
16:10women of Sealot West have banded together calling for peace and they're urging their counterparts
16:16in the other factions to do the same. We don't want war, we're not about it. We lost too much.
16:22It's too much funeral we attend to, too much graves we dig and too much tears we have spread
16:29on our children. Now the ones that's here, what we gonna do? Let them end up the same way? No.
16:36We are who's going to take the blame so why we can't take front now and protect where we live
16:41because this is where we live. This is where we home is and this is where the children is.
16:47So if we can't fight for anything else, why can't we fight for our home because we're losing it
16:52amongst ourselves. We wake up, too long we have been sleeping. Now we're up and we're
16:59fighting and we're not giving up. This is the past seven days on six. We'll be right back.
17:12Also happening last week, a high court judge ordered the military museum be handed back to
17:18its operators after they were evicted by the Chagoramas Development Authority. It's victory
17:24for the Chagoramas Military Museum. President of the Chagoramas Military Museum Linda Kelsholt
17:30celebrates as the Chagoramas Development Authority has been ordered by High Court Justice
17:35Devendra Rampersad to return the premises to the museum until Monday's court proceedings.
17:42So happy we can get in here today. First thing I want to thank God for letting us in here today.
17:54And I would like to ask the people of Trinidad and Tobago, this piece of land is a lot of heritage,
18:06history and I would like this piece of land to stay on, go on and on and on.
18:17I can't wait to walk in. Four days ago, the Chagoramas Development Authority announced
18:23it took possession of the premises, saying the occupiers were offered numerous opportunities
18:28over the years to regularize their tenancy, but refused.
18:31Well, here is her home also as well. She lived here for the past 30 years.
18:36My late husband, he was watching over us.
18:44Now he's watching over us. He's back.
18:51The museum was created by late Lieutenant Commander Gaylord Kelsholt, Linda's husband,
18:57who collected and preserved artifacts of TNT's military history. On its Facebook page,
19:03the museum says it will inform the public when it will be reopened for visitors.
19:08And the Attorney General's office announced that following what it calls a collaborative process
19:14led by the Minister and the Office of the Attorney General, Renuka Sagram Singh Suklal,
19:18steps were taken for the consideration of potential amendments to the Hindu marriage
19:23regulations under the Hindu Marriage Act. The AG's office said AG Reginald Amor referred a
19:29report with the proposed amendments to the Law Reform Commission. The AG's office added that
19:35the AG directed the Law Reform Commission to examine the potential for similar policy
19:41consideration for reform in other sectors of the national community, with a view for greater
19:46national recognition of women's rights. Well, one week before he was due to assume his role
19:52as Prime Minister, Stuart Young promised more protection for women. On the occasion of
19:58International Women's Day, Acting Prime Minister Stuart Young has a special tribute. I pay a special
20:05tribute and I welcome someone who not only brought me into the world, literally, but has carried me
20:13and my family for the last, well for me personally, the last 50 years. And someone I'd like to pay
20:20some special tribute to here this morning. My mother was braved a public appearance this
20:27morning. If we can give my mum, Priscilla Young, a round of applause. Though omitting the first
20:34female Prime Minister, Kamala Prasad Bisaso, Young says it makes him a proud Trinbagonian
20:40to see women in leadership positions. We were the first to have, quite rightly, the head of our state
20:49being a powerful woman, then succeeded by our current head of state, another powerful woman,
20:55the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House. At an International Women's Day
21:01breakfast meeting, he sought to give a personal testimony. I smile when I see the many stories
21:07and the many narratives being put forward of me, and who I am, and where I've come from,
21:13and these types of things. Because you see, I have no intention of engaging those conversations,
21:20because to me those are shallow conversations, and we as a society are beyond that.
21:26Young calls himself a product of a strong woman in a household, and that is what he
21:32envisions for all children of TNT. How is it that we now as a government can introduce
21:39things via policy, but I am more concerned about implementation, to provide as much as we can
21:48that level of support to the women throughout our society, to ensure that every young child,
21:56or as many young children as we can, because I'm realistic and pragmatic,
21:59can get the benefits of women who have support, women who have the ability to have people to speak to, etc.
22:12It means more penalties for those responsible for crimes against women.
22:17You see domestic violence, both with intimate partners and non-intimate partners,
22:24we are going to take on that scourge frontally. One of the things that I'll be asking
22:29the opposition in parliament at the appropriate time to do, is for us to increase the penalties
22:36and the sentencing for those who commit those heinous acts on our women.
22:45And more protection for the women who need it.
22:49Providing more protection when women take the step of getting protection orders,
22:56and not letting it just be a piece of paper, that is also something I intend for us to focus heavily on.
23:03And after seeing the struggles of young mothers in his constituency,
23:07to be able to provide for their children, mental health care is on its way.
23:12I understand that a big part of support that we the government can give to them,
23:17is providing those who are trained, whether it be psychiatrists, psychologists,
23:23persons who can listen, who can offer advice, I intend to go to the cabinet to ask,
23:29because there are a lot of young people who have studied in those areas,
23:33for us to implement programs utilising the Ministry of Social Development, Family Services,
23:37I know we have it in the Ministry of Education, out of the office of the Prime Minister,
23:42to offer that professional level of support across Trinidad and Tobago.
23:48The acting Prime Minister, on the cusp of a general election,
23:52did not leave without lobbying votes.
23:55We have decisions to make in the next few months, and I'm asking you to very carefully reflect
24:02on whose actions have spoken louder in the last few years,
24:08as we make a decision as to who will lead us forward.
24:11Sport is up next, keep it here.
24:19In sport, the Red Force Divas are women's Super 50 champions for the first time in eight years,
24:25after beating Barbados by seven wickets in the final.
24:28Star spin bowler Nisa Mohammed took three wickets to bowl out Barbados for 71,
24:34a total that was cheese on bread for the Divas.
24:37The youngsters out in the middle.
24:39It was a good decision by TNT to put Barbados into bat in the women's Super 50 Cup final in St. Kitts.
24:45The spin attack did well in keeping the runs down and taking wickets.
24:50Asabi Kalinder was the top scorer with 28, while the others failed with Willow in hand.
25:00Captain Karishma Ramharak was frugal, taking 2 for 12 from 8 overs.
25:06Samara Ramnath was also good with a wide cherry.
25:08Ramnath picked up 2 herself, with Janaba Joseph taking a superb catch in the deep.
25:16Amrita Ramtehal was also on the money, taking 2 for 5 from 4 overs.
25:23But the one grabbing the most scabs was the experienced Anisa Mohammed.
25:28Second catch for keeper Shukla was a good one,
25:30but she missed it by a hair's breadth.
25:33But the one grabbing the most scabs was the experienced Anisa Mohammed.
25:37Second catch for keeper Chanel Sow.
25:41Mohammed finished with 3 for 17 as Barbados capitulated for 71 in 29 overs.
25:48When TNT responded, Chanel Sow and Janaba Joseph put on 21 for the first wicket.
25:56Sow was gone for 9, with Shamelia Cornell getting the scab.
26:02Joseph was circumspect, hitting just one boundary in her 28.
26:09Brittany Cooper fell for 17, with Cornell ending with 2 wickets.
26:16Joseph was the next batter to depart, but the Red Force Divas were nearly home.
26:24Leanne Kirby got the job done in style as TNT reached 75 for 3 in the 24th over,
26:29to be crowned Queens of the Caribbean.
26:32Venu, now on ITV6port.
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