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02:16Welcome to Beyond the Tape. I'm your host, Mark Bassan.
02:21Welcome to our viewers across Trinidad and Tobago, and of course, our global viewers.
02:26A special hello to our brothers and sisters in the Grenada Isles.
02:30Of course, there's a lot happening, you know, over the weekend.
02:33And of course, a 16-year-old who tried to intervene in a domestic situation sometime this morning in Samaru Village.
02:41And we're going to catch up with all those things a little later in the program.
02:44But today with us is Captain Valens Ramrat of the Hunter Search and Rescue Team.
02:49How was your weekend?
02:50Well, Mark, it was a very exhausting weekend for Hunter Search and Rescue Team.
02:55But before I go on, let me just say it's a pleasure to be with you and Beyond the Tape again today.
03:03It was a difficult week for us.
03:08Shiraz Ali, a gentleman who applied his PH card for hire in and around the Siparia area.
03:17He went missing last Monday.
03:20And on Wednesday, we began searching for him.
03:24And we searched from Wednesday to Sunday, every day for him.
03:31We covered, I would think, hundreds of miles, a couple of hundreds of miles of oil field roads from between Mosquito Creek and San Fernando.
03:41That's just opposite the cremation site to Santa Flora.
03:47And in between, we would have gone through districts like Avocado and Faisalabad.
03:54And that is really the bedrock of heritage oil operations in Trinidad and lots of oil field roads.
04:03And as you can see there, every little grass road we checked.
04:08And last night, they had a suspect in custody.
04:14And he would have taken the police to a particular location where the body was found.
04:21But let me say, Mark, from the onset, this is how searches are supposed to be conducted.
04:27We had the full support of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
04:32It's K-9 unit, the Air Support Unit, Task Force, Siparia Police, Santa Flora Police.
04:40So the images we're looking at right now presently is where they would have found the body.
04:45The police, CSI and everybody is on the scene.
04:48And they have retrieved the body.
04:50How far into the forest and where exactly did they find it?
04:53You would have had to go.
04:54The undertakers could not have driven their vehicle where that car was driven.
04:59Right.
05:00There's an overhanging tree and that disguised that track.
05:04And it was unbelievable that somebody would have driven that car, that B-14, in that track.
05:12He went probably another 200 feet up and then just toppled the body.
05:20So what area was this exactly?
05:22This is in the Faisalabad district on Total Avenue.
05:26It's a very remote oilfield road in the near Forest Reserve area.
05:31And as I was saying, family, hunters, search and rescue team, police officers,
05:39all their units were involved.
05:41There was proper communication.
05:43Once the CCTV footage was had by the police, they relayed the information to us in the field.
05:50And there was a really good coordinated effort.
05:53So as we pulled out areas, they would know where we were at.
05:57And the family was searching.
05:59They knew where everybody was at any one point in time.
06:02And this took place over a five-day period.
06:06It involved hundreds of police officers, our team and the relatives and friends.
06:12And I think this is how a search is supposed to be conducted in Trinidad and Tobago.
06:19Do you suspect that it was perhaps a carjacking that went wrong?
06:23They would have robbed the taxi driver and then in their haste, of course, decided to take his life?
06:31Yeah, we believe that may be one of the motives.
06:35But in speaking to the family, they said that he became an acquaintance with the alleged suspect just about two weeks ago.
06:48And they knew each other from the gentleman who was working at a particular business place.
06:56And the driver, Sharaz Ali, had a trip to that grocery every morning to drop off workers.
07:03And so they knew each other and an acquaintance, a relationship was built just over two weeks ago.
07:09And it seems as if this alleged suspect would have had some ill intention on his mind.
07:17And we suspect it was a carjacking.
07:20Where the car was found, we found a boat trailer,
07:27a huge steel boat trailer that was used to actually close off one of the roads.
07:33So probably when, you know, they had a car to hide, they would open it and stash the car there and close it with using the boat trailer.
07:43And so we feel strongly it could have been a carjacking.
07:47But certainly, you know, it's really hard for, I don't know, what was the situation with your father?
07:53Well, he was married. His wife died a couple of years ago. He had no children.
07:58But he does have his brothers living with him in Siparia Old Road area.
08:06And he could have barely walked.
08:10So he used to wheel himself up to the car in his wheelchair and get in.
08:15What the residents told us is once he was driving, he was very comfortable.
08:20He was an excellent slow driver. He took his time.
08:23And he didn't go on the hustle for passengers.
08:27He would stay home and wait for calls.
08:30So he will drop a person here, go home, you know, that type of thing.
08:34An elderly gentleman trying to eke out, well, earn a living doing, you know, making himself occupied when the days come.
08:42The fact that he knew this person even makes it worse, you know, that they would capitalise or wait on the right time.
08:48So obviously we know that in some way the crime would have been premeditated.
08:52Yes, it was. We feel strongly it was premeditated.
08:56But hands off to the officers. They did an excellent job.
08:59I think by Saturday the population was calling on the police officers, you know, to get this gentleman to, you know, take them to the body.
09:07And I think that was accomplished.
09:09Congratulations. I would say commendations to everybody.
09:13A great effort was made.
09:15And Mark, our motto is closure matters.
09:19And we feel what we really after was if in case he had been killed, we wanted to find the body.
09:27And the police will do their investigations and their side of the work.
09:31But our aim is always to try and locate that body if someone is murdered.
09:36I hope that you also copyright that.
09:39Closure matters.
09:42I know that there's another pending matter.
09:44Right. So we had Marlon Sambury and we've been looking for him.
09:48And most Mondays when we leave here, we go on the promenade to look for him.
09:52But some member of the public spotted him on the promenade.
09:56Now, these two pictures, the problem we had is look at those two pictures and look at the actual picture of Marlon presently.
10:06He was photographed and videotaped on the Brian Lara promenade.
10:13And this is what he looks like.
10:15We had a member get to the promenade minutes after this video was taken.
10:21But unfortunately, both our member and a couple of his relatives were unable to spot him.
10:28They spent a couple of hours searching the area.
10:30So we just want members of the public, those who frequent Portespin, especially to look at this picture, this image of Marlon Sambury.
10:41And see, just call 799-1453 and we'll have someone come and get him.
10:47He's in urgent need of attention and his family really wants to have him home.
10:53His mental health is compromised and so he may not know where he is or what he is about.
11:00So we're asking for your assistance, especially those vendors in and around Portespin.
11:07We'll make a rev right after the program as per usual.
11:10Certainly, it looks very different there from the photo that you showed before the images on the promenade.
11:17So as you said, anybody with information on Mr. Sambury's whereabouts, don't forget to contact the Hunter Search and Rescue Team or the nearest police station once you spot him.
11:29Alright, we're going to take a look now at our headlines.
11:46So those are some of the headlines over the last 24 hours.
12:06Of course, one of the main things is that those deportees that were brought back into Trinidad and Tobago on Friday, I believe 21 of them.
12:15Reading about them and having to place them in various homes.
12:20Some of them don't have any family here.
12:22I know it's going to be a very difficult transition, but from what I read in the media, it did speak to the fact that they were willing to contribute positively to the society here.
12:31Yeah, and it's important that I also read that the police service is also looking into managing them and have a safe management system in place for these retaining deportees.
12:45I know Vision and Mission is one such non-governmental organization that helps with transitioning and I think they're on board in this project as well, but it's very important.
12:58Yes, most certainly.
13:00Alright, well, we had a shooting incident in the Barretts area early this morning.
13:06I think we have some video footage here.
13:10So that's the vehicle that I was shot up this morning.
13:15I don't have a lot of particulars about it, but certainly you're seeing the police officers on the scene and the windscreen is riddled with several bullet holes there.
13:25Police would have obviously blocked off the area.
13:28There was somebody in the vehicle that was obviously shot and injured during the shooting and they would have been taken to hospital.
13:40So clearly another person being targeted, my understanding is talking to somebody in the police service a couple hours ago, they were saying that it has something to do with some gang-related shooting incident and they're looking at it at this point in time.
14:00Yes, and it took place at a corner obviously and one has to be careful when these things happen in the public, on our roadways and that is when people could easily become collateral damage.
14:16But these scenes continue to be prevalent in Trinidad and Tobago.
14:22Yes, most certainly. It's very disturbing of course and these people would obviously monitor, look at, know what you're driving, where you go and I guess they monitor you over a period of time.
14:36So they could actually predict where you would be at what point in time and what route you would take to move from one place to another. So it's organized crime.
14:47Of course there was the unfortunate incident also earlier this morning around 1am, a business owner by the name of, there's two names, one says Hagani Ali and the other says Haikani Ali.
15:04Apparently he was ambushed outside his business sometime this morning in the Chin Chin Road area. That area has become very synonymous, that canopy area with a lot of businessmen being attacked, shot and attacked, some being killed in the process and so on.
15:23So he, I think that would have made it about 151 homicides for the year.
15:29And I read that he was managing some pool, swimming pool business as part of his probably business enterprise and he was killed. But you're quite right, that canopy area has been engaging.
15:44I should say our attention as well because you know we've had some kidnappings as well in that area. Businessmen who have been kidnapped, some successfully in jail room, some unfortunately found dead weeks, months later.
16:00So it's an area that I know the police has to pay particular attention to. But you're quite right, there are lots of businesses in that area.
16:08You see we also have this issue of extortion and so on happening in the central and other areas of course. But there seems to be a proliferation of that kind of activity in those central and going down to Karani and all these other areas there.
16:24We urge members of the public to please report any extortion because I know ACP Smith is heading that extortion unit and they've had some success in terms of matters reported and getting some persons before the court for it.
16:42So you may be threatened with extortion and you may feel that there is no hope and you must do the bidding of the criminals. Contact the police and put it in the hands of ACP Smith's unit and they will respond.
16:59Well obviously ACP Smith and his team as we talked about the central area, they were able to arrest a proprietor from the central area along with another man and a woman in an alleged murder extortion plot over the weekend.
17:18And that obviously would have drawn some eyebrows of course, raised eyebrows across the, because we know that it's been happening. The two other suspects outside of the proprietor, they're all linked apparently but they were demanding money by menace. So you know there's a trend there that's happening in certain areas in central Trinidad.
17:38Right, so and I was so happy when the extortion unit, because it was accomplished by persons out there for a long time and when the unit was formed I said thank God there is no hope for those people.
17:52Yes certainly, so we're hopeful as you said if you have any information about anybody involved in any alleged extortion or anything of the sort you reach out to the extortion unit of course headed by ACP Smith there who can assist you with your concerns. We're going to take a short break and we'll be back, stay with us.
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19:35Welcome back to Beyond the Tape. I'm your host, Mark Wissan, joined today by Captain Valence Rambarat of the Hunter Search and Rescue Team and I know he's going to give us an update of the missing persons for the month of May.
19:59Yes, Mark, and we currently have 34 reports of missing persons and today is the 26th of May, so we're running more than one per day. The average nationally is really about 1.5, but we receive probably less than that.
20:17Yes. Less than that of the police, right? So we still have outstanding, for me, this gentleman who is missing in Antigua. Antigua, yes. And we continue to liaise and stay with the authorities, in touch with the authorities in Antigua and the civil society there and of course, they're beginning to lose hope that Thomas Jagesh Vasquez is alive, but I continue to reassure his mummy,
20:46Candy, that have hope. We know in Trinidad persons have been missing much longer than this and were found and so therefore she has to hold on to some bit of hope. There's a possibility he may have migrated. If you understand Antigua, there are some islands right around. He could have probably gone there and probably don't have a phone. So there is hope for him.
21:12So is it that he landed in the airport and then from the airport to where he was going he disappeared?
21:17He arrived at a place where he was working, which is one of those legal cannabis farms in Antigua and went missing the next morning. So he actually was on the farm when he went missing and so we're monitoring that case. He is a Trinidadian and we have to keep our eyes on that case.
21:40This other case, Mark, this one is engaging our attention. Mahindra Sipasad lived on one of those quarries in Valencia. He had a house, he built a house on one of the quarries and he lived there alone and he used to work and operate machinery on the said quarry.
22:03However, just prior to him going missing, he stopped working for that quarry and we understand that there was an issue where they had asked him to remove himself from the house. Because it's a very lonely area, nobody knows and his car is missing. I can't recall the name. It's a white wing road. His vehicle is missing.
22:33We went there and we combed a large area of quarry around the home. We found nothing, but we're currently working with the police to conduct another search in the area for him. This person is outstanding since the beginning of May and we want to bring closure to his family.
22:55The other person who is missing, another one is Ricardo Hartley. Ricardo has been missing since January 2024. Now we know that Ricardo is on the streets. Hartley, his daughter, is desperately trying to find him.
23:14Now we're not sure of the picture, if he looks like that right now, but we know that he's on the streets. So if you're in the busy city areas of Port of Spain, Sawa, probably Cura, Arima, you should keep your eyes out on any sighting of Ricardo.
23:36Please call 799-1453 because his daughter is distraught and she really wants to find him, for him to have a safe place to stay.
23:49We have Richard Singh, who is still outstanding. Now Mark Richard lives in St. James. He has his family, his sisters in Philly city. He went there to spend a couple of days and on the 16th of May, he decided to return to St. James.
24:11However, he has a brother living in Maraval who he would meet almost on a daily basis and when the brother didn't see Richard return to St. James, knowing fully well that he had left Philly city to return to St. James, an alarm was raised.
24:29Now we're getting some information on Richard Singh and we are in the process of verifying it and we may have to visit Philly city shortly to try to see what we got on earth further about Richard Singh. I saw the police put up his poster today.
24:51So, it means therefore that they're working on their end as well. Now, Destiny Critchlow is a repeat missing teenager from Kokie village. This year, sometime earlier in this year, she was reported missing and she has gone again.
25:11We currently has one of our friends talking to her and when we have these cases, we try to use the soft approach to try to get them back home and hopefully this one will work out shortly, but I keep saying to Destiny, you keep jumping from the frying pan into the fire and you need to take stock of yourself
25:40and you are now age 17, you're maturing and you have to try to understand what is life and remain in your parents home, right? Then we have Ashana John from Arema. She went missing on the 20th of May. We haven't had much information on Ashana John, but the folks who reside in the Arema district, we want you to pay particular attention to Ashana John
26:08and if you have any information at all on Ashana, please contact 799-1453 so that we can get her safely home.
26:20Was it that Ashana left home or she went somewhere and disappeared on the way there?
26:25No, no, she left home. In this case, she would have…
26:28She left home and she did not return?
26:30She did not return, but one of the first things we do, Mark, is to determine if someone would have left home voluntarily and if they did, we don't launch a search, a physical search for them.
26:42We use the phones and we use our Facebook page and social media platforms to try to get acquaintances and people who know her to talk to us, so we're able to check out her friends, talk to her friends and, you know, try to get information as to her location.
27:01Mark, I want to make a point very quickly. Not all teenage girls who go missing may have to return home. There's this whole issue of abuse, different types of abuse at home.
27:17So, in some cases, when we sense that there's abuse, we take a different approach. We don't want them to return home, so we may call the Children's Authority, the Child Protection Unit, and let them handle the case.
27:31So, in some cases, we don't even publish that they are found. We don't want persons to know where they are and the fact that… because once we publish that they are found, those said persons will pick up the phone and call and ask where the person is.
27:47So, we do that sometimes. And then we have Aaliyah Church. The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service sent this on to us a short while ago and so we haven't been able to have information on Aaliyah Church.
28:01That's three days ago?
28:04Yeah, but we only got this one today.
28:07Right, yeah, it's three days.
28:08So, that's it for me, Mark.
28:12Well, we are hopeful that, you know, in your search, that you will be able to locate these missing persons. Some of them quite outstanding, as I was just asking about the young lady…
28:24From Pinal, yeah, Marika Harry, and she went missing on the 1st of January and she's always at the top of our minds.
28:32Yes.
28:34Coming up in the vehicle, a member and I, we were discussing Marika Harry's case again and we want… let's be open with the public.
28:45There's a gentleman by the name of Hans who has information on Marika Harry and he cannot be found up to this point in time.
28:55Alright, and so if you know a gentleman originally from Palo Seco District by the nickname of Hans, please contact the nearest police station, 800-TIPS-999-555 or 799-1453, so we could really put an end to this agony that her mother is facing down in Pinal.
29:17Not only her mother, but her relatives.
29:20Yes, certainly. So, anybody in the Palo Seco environment that knows Hans, definitely, as whereabouts, please, as you said, as Mr. Ambrat said, contact the nearest police station or the Hunter's Search and Rescue Team.
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31:26Welcome back to Beyond the Tape, I'm your host Mark Sawyer, joined today by Capolis
31:46Theatres.
31:47I'm your host, Mark Busan,
31:50joined today by Captain Valence
31:51Rambright of the Hunter Search
31:52and Rescue Team. Remember the
31:55most numbers to call 623-1711
31:57extensions 1996 and 1997 and of
32:01course, it's that time. Voice
32:03of the people in Arima. Let's
32:17do it.
32:33What is your biggest concerns
32:34about crime in this country?
32:37home invasions and murders. One
32:41murder, one murder too much.
32:45Because when it comes home to
32:46you, then you will feel it.
32:48Maybe neighbor or somebody who
32:50you know come and get murdered
32:51but when it reach home or
32:54somebody close to you, you will
32:56feel it. That's a serious thing
32:58and the authorities have to do
33:01something urgently about it.
33:04Compared to last year, do you
33:06think crime is a growing
33:07problem or a lessening problem?
33:09Growing problem. A growing
33:12problem is a serious thing. The
33:13politicians alone can't solve
33:15crime. It's a holy city. We
33:18have to get together and deal
33:19with that. They have marches,
33:21they have parade, they have
33:23this, they have that. Crime is
33:24going on now. Hanging alone
33:25with criminal can be a hang in
33:28court because innocent people
33:30will get in it. They have to
33:34deal seriously with it and get
33:36to the root cause. Deal with
33:38it. How has crime affected your
33:40daily lives? Yeah, well, it
33:46will touch me because I had a
33:49close relative who was murdered
33:50and I feel it. But then you
33:55have to overcome it. You can't
33:56go and go back in the past and
33:58let that torment you and you
34:00wouldn't come outside. But what
34:04is to be will be and the
34:06authorities, both the
34:08opposition and the ruling
34:10party, they mustn't politicize
34:12crime. They have to get
34:13together and solve that
34:14problem because it will affect
34:16the economy long term. People
34:17wouldn't want to come and
34:18invest here and things will get
34:20worse. Well said. Do you feel
34:24safe at home? You have to put
34:27things in God's hands and God
34:30is the ultimate protector. Have
34:34you changed the way you do
34:35things to potentially avoid
34:37dangerous situations? Of
34:38course. What are some of those
34:40things? You watch your
34:41surroundings, observe under your
34:43surroundings. If you see
34:44anybody fishy, you pay more
34:46attention to them. You change
34:48up your style, your time and
34:50movements and all of that. So
34:52you know you're on top of
34:53things. You can't move like a
34:54day sicker. You have to focus
34:57and be on top of your game. So
35:00you know you wouldn't fall
35:01victim to circumstances. Voice
35:09of the people. See man say
35:12anything you realize that
35:13fishy. Yeah. Yeah. So mark. Um
35:16but this this obviously I know
35:18the area where this was the
35:19interview was conducted. Um so
35:22you have a number of small
35:23vendors. They're applying their
35:24trade but I know when you ask
35:26the question if he was ever you
35:28know impacted by crime he he
35:30didn't say yes but uh it's good
35:33to know that he's conducting a
35:34small business right down the
35:36pavement and he himself wasn't
35:37the victim of a robbery because
35:40if it was he would have said so
35:42um but he said that um the the
35:46issue of home invasions is
35:48really one of the most severe
35:50crimes committed against
35:51business that is really
35:52intolerable and unacceptable
35:56and also the fact that um he
35:58said that politicians and they
36:00can solve crime and I agree
36:02with it. Crime is a societal
36:04problem that has to be multi
36:06tackled in a multifaceted
36:09approach. Um you have to look
36:11at prison reform. You have to
36:12look at uh how to rehabilitate
36:15persons and um also how to be
36:19strong and advanced police
36:23practice and and and and police
36:26practice to ensure that the
36:28police service could deal with
36:29the with with criminals. You
36:30have to you have to have strong
36:32practice, strong policing to
36:35deal with them. So, it has to
36:36be multifaceted in its approach.
36:39Some of the young ones, we
36:40could um rehabilitate them,
36:42change their lives, turn them
36:44around and um so it it it's an
36:47ongoing problem and it's really
36:49um endemic to Trinidad now.
36:52Crime. Yes, certainly and you
36:54know, he, you know, as you
36:56said, vendors around that area,
36:57they meet a lot of people, they
36:59hear a lot of conversations and
37:01so on and um you know, he spoke
37:02to me off camera but a number
37:04of other things, of course, but
37:06definitely uh people who have
37:09their their their their finger
37:11and the pulse so to speak. Yeah.
37:13And um it is important that we
37:14get that kind of feedback so
37:17that the police and other
37:18organizations will know what
37:20they need to target, how they
37:22need to target. Right. We will
37:24conduct in our search in that
37:26area for missing vendor. Yeah.
37:28And um we relied on these these
37:32vendors to give us all the
37:33information possible and he was
37:36found murdered. He was found
37:37murdered um and uh even his
37:41relatives didn't know he was
37:42murdered and his body was in
37:43the in the funeral home with an
37:45identification but he was found
37:47murdered but these vendors
37:49really are the eyes and ears.
37:51You know, we're going on the
37:52promenade after to look for
37:53Marlon Sambury. We're going to
37:54the we're going to the vendors.
37:57They are the ones who know and
37:58they are really the eyes and
38:00ears. So, we provide feedback
38:02to the police in terms of the
38:04operations, what's going on in
38:06Arima, you know, and they can
38:08help with the crime situation.
38:10You raise a very good point and
38:12interesting point is that
38:13observation is not just for
38:15vendors but all of us. All of
38:17us. Society, when people are
38:19missing, we might see something
38:21that is very strange to you in
38:22a particular area that you
38:24think that you need to alert
38:26the authorities. Don't wait for
38:28for it to get extreme. Yeah. Of
38:29course, you might observe
38:30somebody that probably missing.
38:32Yeah. And the person looks
38:33familiar to you. Make a call
38:35and say, well, you know, I I've
38:36seen X in the central area in
38:40Chaguanas by the market or
38:42whatever it might be. So that,
38:43you know, you give, you put
38:45yourself heads up or. Right. In
38:46this case. We have the tendency
38:48as members of Hunter's Search
38:50and Rescue Team. Once we're on
38:52the highway, we pay particular
38:54attention to those cars that
38:56have stopped. We slow down, we
38:58slow down and see, you know,
39:00whether they need help or
39:01sometimes we stop and help.
39:02Yeah. But we always pay
39:04attention to those stopped
39:06vehicles on the highway. So we
39:08ask members of the public
39:09anything out of the ordinary. I
39:11saw a video on the weekend
39:12where it's a leisure two
39:14persons were fighting in a car
39:16and the the the car went on to
39:17hit another lady's car, right?
39:19Okay. So, these are out of the
39:22ordinary situations. Pay
39:24attention to it. Take a pity of
39:26the car so that in case
39:28you could provide that
39:30information on the search on
39:33the weekend for relied heavily
39:36on CCTV footage and and
39:39information from members of the
39:40public because I I would say
39:42this eh? He the gentleman had
39:44stopped. He got a busted tire on
39:46the car mark. Yeah. And he
39:48stopped by a mechanic. Okay.
39:50And the mechanic came forward.
39:52He just he it wasn't a tire
39:53shop. He stopped by a mechanic.
39:54Hey, what I had to admit upon
39:57the car. The man said no and he
39:59drove up. Information like that
40:01is critical. So, we knew what
40:05time the car was there. We knew
40:07what time the car was there. So,
40:09it helped us, you know, and
40:10helped the police and everybody
40:12in the tracking of the vehicle
40:13and where it would have gone
40:15and that type of thing. So, pay
40:16attention to anything out of
40:18the ordinary. Citizens, pay
40:20attention because those minute
40:23details might mean the
40:24between life and death.
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42:48Welcome back to Beyond the Chip.
42:50I'm your host, Mark Bessant.
42:52Joined today by Captain Valence Rambrath
42:54of the Hunter's Search and Rescue Team.
42:56And of course, over the last couple of weeks
42:58we've been showing numerous
43:00road traffic accidents.
43:02Over the weekend, they had a couple
43:04but not everyone in the
43:06Mount Lambert area yet.
43:10So it seems that the
43:12vehicle ran off the road
43:14and it would have
43:16ran into something that appears to be
43:18a business place.
43:20Part of the shed there
43:22destroyed
43:24with the impact of the collision.
43:26Right. So Mark, we continue
43:28to talk about vehicles being used
43:30as a weapon
43:32so someone could have easily
43:34been
43:36you know, severely injured
43:38injured, severely injured
43:40or killed
43:42in an accident like that
43:44because it is a business place
43:46and you tend to have persons outside
43:48business places. So we don't know
43:50the situation, what led
43:52to it, but I mean, these are
43:54the types of accidents we don't want to
43:56see because they could result in the
43:58loss of lives of others.
44:00Yes, certainly. Then there was an
44:02accident along the Churchill Roosevelt
44:04Highway in the vicinity of Nestle.
44:06This one looked a little more
44:08you know, there
44:10is one vehicle that I'm seeing
44:12and then I'm not
44:14sure if it's just the one vehicle
44:16involved and there was a
44:18truck
44:20another vehicle, a producer
44:22saying that was also
44:24but oh, there it is.
44:26So this looks a little more serious
44:28and we're hopeful
44:30that all the occupants of both
44:32vehicles would have
44:34you know, I know they would have been
44:36injured in some way, but it wasn't
44:38hopefully it's not life-threatening
44:40but again, we talk about speed
44:42we talk about
44:44being cautious on the
44:46roadways
44:48you know, especially in the night times
44:50like on a Sunday night, you're coming back from the
44:52east, people are coming from the beach and so on
44:54everybody seems to be in a hurry
44:56to get home.
44:58So you have to be cautious at all times
45:00Mark, I think we have an estimated
45:02one million vehicles on the
45:04roads of Trinidad and Tobago
45:06and without discipline you can't
45:08have an effective traffic management
45:10system, right?
45:12And I will be one who will
45:14stand out and say I am for
45:16the enforcement of
45:18the nation's road
45:20traffic
45:22laws and make sure
45:24and discipline on our
45:26roadways. I take my time and drive at all
45:28times, I pay attention. Sometimes
45:30Mark, you know, we're exhausted coming, leaving
45:32Sunday night, yes, last night
45:34from Faizabad to get home
45:36I mean, you're exhausted, there's
45:38dust all over you, you're sweaty
45:40you need to get home
45:42but we still drive cautiously and ensure
45:44that all members get home safely
45:46and we, you know, we call
45:48each other, we text each other to make
45:50sure that we reach home. Discipline
45:52in everything is important
45:54including the roadways.
45:56That's paramount, as you said
45:58you have to be, remember you're not only driving
46:00for yourself, you're driving for others as well
46:02and I don't think
46:04some people are cognizant of that
46:06they usually drive
46:08how they want, there was a guy, he was
46:10in and out of traffic with a
46:12small load and
46:14you know, just a touch to anybody's
46:16vehicle, along
46:18you know, along the same stretch of the result highway
46:20Yeah, and I think, I'm not sure
46:22the younger
46:24drivers, you know, they're happy
46:26they get a car to drive, they want to test
46:28their driving skills and
46:30it really
46:32they should be careful, much more careful
46:34on our nation's roads.
46:36We have our first call on the line
46:38call, good evening
46:40Yeah, good evening, calling from Gwaii Gwaii
46:42Good evening
46:44Gwaii Gwaii
46:46Yeah
46:48I'm not
46:50hearing you well, caller, go ahead
46:52Calling from Gwaii Gwaii
46:54Yes, I'm hearing you, go ahead
46:56Alright, I wonder if
46:58the Hunter Social Rescue
47:00is properly resourced
47:02as an NGO
47:04given the
47:06magnificent work they have been
47:08doing, aiding in
47:10the
47:12retrieval of
47:14missing persons and all the
47:16good work that they have been doing
47:18I wonder if they are
47:20not compensated but resourced or assisted
47:22by the government in terms of
47:24GPS tracking devices
47:26support with dogs
47:28hunting
47:30dogs, vehicles
47:32IE vehicles, also
47:34if they are probably part of the
47:36ODPM's team
47:38to assist in
47:40disaster relief
47:42But
47:44my second point is
47:46to assist with the
47:48traffic management system, the police
47:50by all means
47:52driven by data
47:54is obviously
47:56they obviously know when
47:58are the high speed times
48:00and as you clearly articulated
48:02Sunday evening after the beach
48:04but generally we know when most of the accidents
48:06if not all, occur
48:08during
48:10any 24 hour period
48:12so it is at that time
48:14the police should be able to put more resources
48:16out on the nation's highways and
48:18highways just to
48:20alert persons that are
48:22present and guide persons' behaviour
48:24Thirdly and my final point
48:26in closing
48:28let me hear what your
48:30view is or your views are
48:32office holders who
48:34have been appointed
48:36state boards who have been
48:38so appointed by a previous
48:40administration should
48:42do the honourable thing and resign
48:44given that the
48:46administration has changed
48:48so people like
48:50the chief of defence staff
48:52who was given an extension
48:54on the previous government
48:56the commissioner of police
48:58those people should do the honourable thing and resign
49:00because I remember previous
49:02chief of defence staff resigned
49:04three months after
49:06the PM
49:08administration came into office
49:10so I would like to hear your views on that
49:12as I take in the sea breeze here at the Guayaguayari
49:14in my village of Guayaguayari
49:38and a model called
49:40hunter search and rescue team
49:42it has a lot of potential
49:44if you explore the model
49:46and you want to take the potential
49:48further then certainly
49:50government could step in
49:52and build it out
49:54and for the nation
49:56to benefit
49:58what we've been doing for the past four years
50:00is making sure we fine tune
50:02and tweak the model
50:04but certainly when you talk
50:06about government financing
50:08you're talking about expansion
50:10you're talking about training
50:12you're talking about vehicles
50:14you're talking about everything
50:16right now we are self funded
50:18right and we make sure
50:20we get out there
50:22we do have some corporate sponsors with meals
50:24we do have meals
50:26coffee and drinks and so forth
50:28but things like
50:30a gas fund
50:32we raise our own funds
50:34right but
50:36I'm sticking to the model we could expand
50:38and grow it
50:40whosoever wants to do it
50:42it doesn't have to be me
50:44but it's a model we're tweaking
50:46so that Trinidad and Tobago could benefit
50:48and the second one on the road accidents
50:50I agree with you you said data driven
50:52bring the data and let's look at it
50:54and let's see the high peak hours
50:56where traffic
50:58occurs and again
51:00put resources on the
51:02roads to deal with that at that point
51:04in time.
51:06Thanks a lot for your call
51:08and of course
51:10you can always invite us when you have a good cook
51:12down there.
51:14I'm always in Guayaguayari
51:16it's one of my favorite spots there.
51:18Alright we're going to take a short break and we'll be back
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52:30And we have the right
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52:34to be angry sometimes, to be frustrated
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52:38it's all natural, it's all normal
52:40but what we don't have the right
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53:00Welcome back to Beyond the Tape
53:02I'm your host Mark Bassan
53:04joined today by Captain Valens Rambarat
53:06of the Hunter, Search and Rescue Team
53:08and we quickly want to go to a video
53:10of another RTA, a little bit different
53:12So it seems
53:14that the vehicle has
53:16veered off the road
53:18and we can see
53:20that the vehicle has
53:22veered off the road
53:24and we can see
53:26that the vehicle has
53:28has veered off the road
53:32and it appears
53:34that somebody came and
53:38I was trying to pick up Mark
53:40if the vehicle was an accident
53:42if it ran off the road
53:44So it looked like in some way
53:46that the persons
53:48in that vehicle might have fallen asleep
53:50Yes
53:52You know? Yeah
53:54and you were reminding me of an incident
53:56some time ago
53:58where the driver had jumped in the backseat
54:00and played
54:02passenger, right?
54:04So we were hoping this wasn't the case
54:06and that the passenger would have gone his way
54:08but he had, not the passenger
54:10the driver
54:12but obviously he's sleeping, probably
54:14taking a nap
54:16You saw the front of the vehicle
54:18would have made contact with something
54:20When I first saw the video
54:22I wasn't sure that it did make contact
54:24but I'm seeing it here
54:28It's important when you're tired
54:30if you can't drive and you're driving alone
54:32just pull aside
54:34don't try to strain it
54:36even if you're not intoxicated
54:38but you're just tired
54:40from a long day
54:42or you've worked a double shift or something
54:44just pull aside
54:46or call a friend to come and pick you up
54:48or a relative and leave your vehicle on the compound
54:50if it permits, you can't do such
54:52I agree with you
54:54And I know that
54:56quickly we want to just go to a highlight
54:58But before we go to the highlights
55:00let me just mention
55:02a day in the life of our Hunter Search and Rescue
55:04team member
55:06So after a tough weekend
55:08finished late last night, today we got two calls
55:10There's the presence of a snake
55:12at a secondary school
55:14in a secondary school ceiling
55:16in South Trinidad
55:18It's a pretty large snake
55:20It was bound to that area
55:22deep south, however he was unable to get to it
55:24because to get to it
55:26he has to destroy the ceiling
55:28and the principal
55:30didn't want that
55:32but it appears to be
55:34a pigeon infestation
55:36so the snake had really lived there
55:38for a long time
55:40And then right now as we speak
55:42we have two members
55:44in a storm drain, Pricemat, San Fernando
55:46trying to rescue a little puppy
55:48that would have fell through
55:50the Great India
55:52and gotten into the storm drain
55:54Some ladies called us
55:56and said, oh gosh, come
55:58try and help rescue the puppy
56:00So we have two members out there
56:02doing this at this point in time
56:04So Mark, we always do
56:06outreach, we do a lot
56:08of stuff
56:10So on last Friday
56:12morning
56:14we had a luncheon
56:16with the 38
56:18patients at Mudd's Home Care
56:20Services Limited in
56:22Williamsville
56:24And so
56:26there is a
56:28beautiful lady, she's on the pan
56:30Carol Sarwan Singh Jadunanan
56:32She's a philanthropist
56:34in Trinidad and Tobago
56:36and she works with Hunter's Search and Rescue
56:38team on a number of
56:40projects, and this is one of her projects
56:42and we were invited
56:44to spend some time with the folks
56:46here at the home
56:48this home, and you see they're very
56:50happy having a meal
56:52and she entertained them on the pan
56:54It was also
56:56her birthday, so on behalf
56:58of TV6
57:00and Beyond the Tape, I want to wish Carol
57:02a very happy
57:04birthday, and Carol, thanks for reaching
57:06out to these folks who
57:08certainly enjoy themselves
57:10and as I told Carol
57:12this gives the folks a happy moment
57:14a memory
57:16and something positive
57:18in life, so that
57:20we always have to be reaching out
57:22to those who need
57:24these type of memories and these types
57:26of experiences
57:28and we have a lot more in stock
57:30for the rest of the year
57:34I don't know how we get the time
57:36or we get the energy, but we
57:38just keep going, going, going
57:40Alright, hats off to Carol
57:42Carol, happy birthday, and of course, you know
57:44you talked about the snakes, maybe there's a
57:46prequel called Snakes in the Ceiling
57:48you know, there were snakes on the plane
57:50Alright, we run tonight at 11.30
57:52repeat tomorrow at 11 o'clock
57:54The TV6 News
57:56is up next, and we'll be back
57:58tomorrow at 6, stay with us
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