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02:37And a very special good evening to you and you and you and even you and welcome to Beyond the Tape.
02:57I'm Marlon Hopkinson.
02:58As always, thank you for joining us.
03:00I know it's a shock to some of you, but let me tell you, nothing happens before it's time.
03:07All right?
03:07So for this entire week, I'm going to be here with you and we'll discuss some serious matters.
03:15We'll reminisce a bit and hopefully we could have some fun this week too.
03:21All right?
03:21So I can promise you that.
03:23Yeah?
03:24So the entire team is here.
03:26Yeah?
03:26Let's do a roll call.
03:28Jackie is here.
03:29Yeah?
03:30Lester is here.
03:31Yeah?
03:33Somebody missing.
03:34You see, I told you.
03:35I told you.
03:36Who is Batman?
03:37Batman is here.
03:38I don't know where Robin is.
03:40I don't know.
03:41All right?
03:41But it's going to be a very interesting week and thank you very much again for joining us.
03:46So here's what.
03:47Let's get down to some business.
03:49All right?
03:49So we do have Mr. and Captain Valance Rambarath.
03:53Of course, he's here with us every Monday.
03:57Mr. Rambarath, thank you very much for coming today.
04:00Yeah.
04:00It's a pleasure to be back on.
04:01This is your home now, you know.
04:02I'm a guest.
04:03It's a pleasure to be back on Beyond the Tape and TV6 on a Monday afternoon.
04:08I'm Marlon.
04:10I'm not too sure if you're aware, but the pleasure is mine to welcome you to Beyond the Tape.
04:17The task was mine because I know you have a fan club with Beyond the Tape.
04:23So the task was mine in the interim to try and find you.
04:26You know, I can find anybody.
04:27So to try and find you, little kids, you and bring you back for some cameo appearances.
04:32Yes.
04:33After all, you know, Marlon, Beyond the Tape, you were one of the rock and the pillars behind Beyond the Tape.
04:40So it's a pleasure to have you and to be with you on today's program.
04:45Yeah.
04:45And, you know, Jackie was just telling me that the last time I was here, of course, this is a different studio.
04:51We were at the other studio.
04:54But the last time I was here was in January 2024.
04:58You know, so it's a deja vu moment for me.
05:04As Leston was telling me a short while ago, when I heard the music, I started to smile.
05:09You know, it took me back to another time.
05:12So, yeah, we are going to have the opportunity, as I said, to reminisce and so on.
05:17But we have some unfinished business.
05:19You know how I always would say in the past, you know, I want to tell you some things.
05:24So this week I'm going to tell you some things.
05:26But, you know, Mr.
05:27Marlon, just to make viewers aware, those who are at home and maybe sitting and waiting and their loved ones from north and way up,
05:36what we saw was a jackknife container vehicle, truck and vehicle, in and around the Gasparalo area.
05:44And that has resulted in traffic backing up all the way to Portispean.
05:48It's very serious.
05:50And so you could expect your loved ones who are traveling from north to south a little bit later,
05:55just to put you on a look that they would be home a bit later on today.
06:00Yeah.
06:00So I know that you all are very awkward, are very aware of the work that Mr.
06:08Rambarath and his team continue to do in Trinidad and Tobago.
06:14And, Mr.
06:14Rambarath, I think that, I think it would be remiss of me if I didn't say thank you.
06:21And we, as a country, do appreciate the work that you all continue to do.
06:27But I want to take it into this direction first today.
06:32Because when you look, I don't know that you may have data in black and white.
06:42Yeah, we do.
06:42Right?
06:43But when you do look at this situation of people missing bodies, being found all over the place,
06:52and calls to your organization to assist, to help to find the loved ones.
07:00Is there, when compared to, let's say, last year, the year before,
07:04is there any increase at all that you're seeing this year?
07:07Well, we're seeing a reduction with respect to 21, I'm sorry, 22, 23 over 22,
07:16where we had found located 38 bodies.
07:18And then we came, we had 24 in 2024.
07:23And thus far for 2025, we've located 13 bodies thus far.
07:29But those 13 comprises two drownings and two binatural, death by natural causes.
07:38So really and truly, the others are really victims of crime.
07:43Yeah.
07:44But any sort of particular crime, is it domestically related?
07:50Or is it a hit?
07:53Is it just murder?
07:54What is it?
07:55Yeah, I think that violence is murders, but we don't get into the investigation part.
08:00But I think there and then, the investigators will determine the motive.
08:05But yes, violent crime is the major cause.
08:08This year, you have gun-related, no known stabbings thus far, and one burned body we recovered.
08:17Yeah.
08:18But what about these, because I know that the police would have had to respond to this claim in the past.
08:27And they have had to really rubbish that claim, where in the past, some police officers would have told people,
08:34well, here's what, no.
08:36You have to be missing for a certain period of time before the police investigate
08:42and before organizations such as yours investigate.
08:46So is it that if I expect, let's say, a child, my girlfriend, my wife, every day,
08:53if I expect them home at 2 o'clock every day, and I'm not seeing that individual on a particular day,
08:59can I contact you?
09:00Can I contact the police?
09:01Yeah, you can contact us right away.
09:02But as we get into search and looking for missing persons, I understand why they want a 24-hour notice,
09:09although they've rescinded that.
09:11And that is because there are cases where, you know, persons would have left home voluntarily.
09:16And so they want to give the family time to, you know, check around and that type of thing.
09:21However, what exists now between the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service and our team
09:26is that once we get a call and we're able to red flag it and say,
09:32listen, this one, Pam could have come to this person,
09:36then we notify the anti-kidnapping unit immediately and there is a liaison going.
09:41So we have come in and we fast-tracked that process.
09:47So this missing person now goes to the front burner in terms of the TTPS dealing with it.
09:53And that has helped a lot and we've gotten full cooperation with respect from the TTPS
09:59and our ability to get out into the field and try and locate this person.
10:05So I understand the 12-hour concept as we go along, as we grow
10:10and we understand the steep learning curve of the TTPS,
10:14but that is really for persons who would have voluntarily gone missing.
10:18And, you know, they need some space, some time.
10:21And the parents have to do some investigations because we've begun to do it as well.
10:26What's the correct procedure that someone should use
10:31when it comes to reporting their loved one that is missing?
10:35All right.
10:35They simply get on to 799-1453 or any of our social media platforms.
10:41They contact the team.
10:42And what we do is we request and we hear the back story to the person going missing
10:47and we will do a poster, post it.
10:50And as I said, if harm comes, if we feel harm has come to that person,
10:56we jump out immediately and begin searching for them.
10:59If it's a rescue situation, again, jump out immediately and try to find them.
11:04And so the process is well-established.
11:07Persons out there know the number by heart.
11:10They know hunters, which ends our household name, Marlon,
11:12and they just need to get to us quickly.
11:16But there was some good news, Marlon, on the weekend.
11:19We had a missing person, Jamie Mohamed, from Separia.
11:23We found her body.
11:26Her body was located, but the family was waiting for DNA test results.
11:33And after eight months, on the weekend, they got confirmation that the body
11:38that was found of Maritres in Separia was that of hers.
11:44We've been speaking about DNA testing in Trinidad and Tobago.
11:49We are saying that families have to wait too long.
11:52We have another case I want to highlight, Kevin Ranu.
11:55He was missing since his body was located on the 23rd of December, 2023.
12:03And to date, his family is still awaiting DNA results.
12:08I know the body may have been about two months old on the ground.
12:14But 18 months, Marlon, is a long time to wait.
12:19So what we want to urge the authorities to do is to try to speed up,
12:24get the DNA testing done quickly so these families could achieve closure.
12:30One, they will know for sure that the body belongs to their loved one,
12:34and they could have a peaceful send-off for their loved one.
12:39But I know that there was a discussion to do DNA testing here.
12:43I believe some is done here.
12:46I don't think all is sent abroad.
12:47But there is some level or threshold probably that we could achieve in the Forensic Science Center,
12:54and then probably beyond that, those will be sent abroad.
12:57But this is about high time because the technology exists,
13:01and the scientists, I mean, you could get them.
13:04We would have qualified people in Trinidad and the lab spaces there.
13:09So I think it's an area that they have to move on quickly.
13:12And for those who may not know, the new police commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago, Mr. Alistair Guevaro,
13:22he had a news conference today, and he made a major announcement at that news conference
13:28concerning DCP Suzette Martin.
13:30You all know, on Wednesday, the 18th of June, 2025,
13:38I was formally given my letter to be promoted to the rank of commissioner of police.
13:45On that said day of assuming the office of commissioner of police,
13:50I would have received a report from a firearms dealer
13:55against a deputy commissioner of police, Ms. Suzette Martin.
14:01That matter is well voiced in the public domain,
14:09and as a result of that, I would have decided to take some decisive action
14:14in terms of bringing to the fore accountability and transparency in dealing with the matter.
14:23As a result of that report, I would have firstly informed the police service commission
14:30via a covering memo with a copy of the report
14:35so that they will be able to adopt whatever action that they deem fit
14:39as the remit of treating with the commissioner of police
14:44and the three deputy commissioners of police
14:46rest solely in the hands of the police service commission
14:49under section 123 of the constitution.
14:55The second action I would have taken is that I would have immediately appointed
14:59Assistant Commissioner Kurt Simon, seated to my left,
15:04as the investigator and would have given him my full reassurance
15:09of all the resources that he would need to be available to him
15:14to carry out this very important remit.
15:18The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service does not have,
15:21and the commission of police does not have,
15:24certain powers as regards to treating with the deputy commission of police,
15:29and that rests in the hands of the police service commission.
15:33On the other hand, the adjudication of this matter
15:37also does not rest in the hands of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service
15:41nor the commission of police,
15:42and we will be seeking advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions
15:47at the conclusion of Mr. Simon's investigation.
15:51We urge the members of the public to view this as a transparent
15:55and accountable act on behalf of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service,
15:59that we will be able to put this matter to rest either one way or the other,
16:06and I urge them to cooperate and support the police in its efforts
16:11to ensure that this matter is done in a transparent and fair manner,
16:16and any member of the public who has any information as regards to this matter,
16:20they can feel freely to contact the investigator or members of his team
16:24so that they will be able to share this information
16:27and we can all have a transparent investigation
16:32where we will be able to bring closure to this matter.
16:37Police Commissioner Alistair Guevaro speaking at a news conference this afternoon.
16:42But here's what, we do have some headlines for you.
16:43Let's get to that now.
16:44Let's get to that now.
17:14All right, thank you very much, everybody.
17:22So, you know, Mr. Ambarat, one of the major stories happening over the past few days
17:28is the attack on a prison officer.
17:31Yeah.
17:31From what we were told yesterday by the police commissioner
17:33was that the officer in question, he's at hospital.
17:39His relatives are now asking for blood,
17:43but he is in a critical condition at this time.
17:48Yeah, and that's rather unfortunate, Marlon,
17:50that one of our servants of the public, a prison officer,
17:56who has the task of guarding these prisoners,
18:02he was the unfortunate person to be the victim of a very violent crime.
18:10I saw the prisoners' association renewing their call for firearms for prison officers,
18:16and that is a call that has long been made,
18:19and also that, you know, that officers be, you know, granted special security,
18:27you know, that type of thing.
18:28Marlon, and to a certain extent, I may not agree fully with the firearms,
18:32but I agree that special attention has to, you know,
18:37be paid to prison officers in the conduct of their duties.
18:41Yeah.
18:42Yeah, so let's hope that that situation is addressed,
18:45but also in a holistic way, the security of prison officers,
18:49because I know that they have been clamoring for greater protection
18:53for years and years and years.
18:56Now, from the time my hair was black, all black,
19:01Jackie, do we have time for the purse snatcher in Port of Spain?
19:07All right, so here's what, everybody, we are going to a very short break.
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21:27So, welcome back.
21:28All right, so we do have an update for you now concerning missing persons.
21:32And from what I'm seeing here, there were 20 reports of missing persons in June alone.
21:37Yeah, in June alone, Mal, and June, well, normally we run at one per day, but the annual average is really 1.5 per day, so we end up with about 500 at the end of the year who were reported missing.
21:52So it has some months, we go ahead, some years, we lag in a bit, although one came in a short while ago to make it 21, but it wasn't prepared in time for the program.
22:02So I will deal with that next week, Monday, but we have, we've had 20 reports thus far for June, and out of the 20, we have 11 still, 11 persons who remain outstanding.
22:17Now, I'll go through them one by one, and then you will understand why the number is as high as 11.
22:23We have Jeremy, Jerome, David, and what has happened is that a body was found in Princess Town, a burnt body, and based on information provided by its mother,
22:38she feels sure that the body that was found in Princess Town belongs to Jeremy, Jerome, David, and so again, we're waiting for DNA testing to be done on this body to confirm that it's Jeremy.
22:51Jeremy. The next person is still outstanding, Terry Hinkson. He was, he is missing at sea. He fell off the rocks in the North Post area in Degomartin.
23:04He was last seen on the 4th of June, and he is from Bagatelle. He's still outstanding, and by now, Marlon, if his body has not been found, then at some point in time, he will have to be declared lost at sea.
23:19But we're finding this is the second person in Trinidad for 2025 who can be classified as lost at sea thus far.
23:29And then we have Janiah Skinner. Janiah Skinner is one of a repeat teenage runaway.
23:35We know how well she is one who was taken to Mount Hope Hospital, and then, you know, she looted the authorities there and entered a panel van on the compound and left.
23:48So, Janiah, we've dealt with you so long that we're asking you to please return to St. Jude's home or to our relatives' home so you could continue your work at St. Jude's home.
24:00It's important work that you have to do there. You're emerging as a young woman, and the training there is exceptionally good.
24:11And then we have Amelia Lafleur from Arima. We're working with her mother and that we got some videos, you know, of Amelia on her little holiday away from home.
24:24And we urge in Amelia to please return to your mother in Arima.
24:31We have gotten all the videos of you and what you're doing in your little vacation away from home.
24:36Please, if you have any information on any of these missing persons, please call 799-1453.
24:43Now, the problem with Kimberley Lane is that we've located Kimberley Lane in the Mera Road District.
24:51Now, she was listed as New Grant, but the number we have for the relative who reported her missing is wrong.
24:59So, I want to make an appeal here this afternoon.
25:02For anybody who knows Kimberley Lane and her relative to please ask them to contact 799-1453, we've located Kimberley Lane thus far, but we cannot get in contact with her relatives.
25:18Chaz, Daniel Felix, suffers from Alzheimer's.
25:24He's really now from the Kunupia area. I think I would have sent on the wrong poster.
25:31And he is missing and our members, Marlon, once they're out there, like I am coming on the promenade, I would keep an eye out for all these, especially the elders who are missing, to see if I could spot them.
25:45So, all our members are key in terms of looking for Chaz, Daniel Felix, especially in the city centers where they may have been descended into homelessness.
25:57And it's important that the public helps us as well.
26:00And then we have Janiyah Braffet as well.
26:04Janiyah is a repeat runaway teen from Laramid.
26:09She's well known to us.
26:11And we ask Janiyah to please return home.
26:14Melinda Mohammed, by tomorrow morning, I should have located Melinda.
26:20Got the information today, but because I am obligated to be here, could not have gone to locate her.
26:26I am told that she's safe and we will confirm that tomorrow morning.
26:31Zafira Mohammed is from the Blanchise Shares Road.
26:39And she was spotted last night in Arima by the La Hocketa taxi stand picking up bottles.
26:46Zafira's mental health is compromised.
26:48And so, if you're able to spot her in the streets of Arima, please contact 799-1453.
26:58And then we have Andrea Rusillo, who is missing from Valencia in the Arima district.
27:09We have not much information of her.
27:12As with the migrants, it's difficult to communicate with.
27:19And then we have Colonel, we have Colonel Dunton.
27:23And Colonel and his vehicle, I wonder if Jackie could put up the vehicle as well.
27:31PCT 3879, they are both, both the vehicle and Colonel, they are missing.
27:38And the information we have is that Colonel was working that car for someone and would bring money to the owner of the vehicle each day.
27:50And so, we're asking members of the public if you could spot Colonel out there.
27:55Now, it's either two options you have.
27:57It's either you're genuinely missing or it could be you're hiding from making the necessary payments.
28:03But we're watching the date, the date there, the 11th, and we feel it's a long time to hide.
28:09So, it's a bit of a concern for us and his relatives and the owner of the vehicle that Colonel has been missing for this length of time.
28:18So, if you know Colonel from the central area, he's always in the Karapichaima Freeport area.
28:24Please contact 799-1453.
28:27It's free. And so, those are the 11 persons who are still outstanding for June Mallard.
28:34Yeah. Jackie, do I have one minute?
28:37All right. I want to speak, I want you to speak a little bit about the time and energy that would go into finding someone.
28:47It's a lot, worldwide, it's a lot of human resources that go into looking for missing persons.
28:53That is why, you know, sometimes it goes on the back burner of the TTPS and other jurisdictions around the world.
29:00And that is where we fall in.
29:02We could come in and we could help and, you know, save the TTPS some valuable time.
29:07Now, it takes a lot of energy from us when we have to go to search.
29:12But from our homes, we could work quietly on our phones, work with the parents to get back those who would have, by and large, voluntarily left home.
29:21Yeah. All right. Everybody, we are going to a very short break. We're coming back.
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31:00All right, welcome back everybody.
31:17You see when you step away for a little while, how things just change and ting.
31:22Let's go to the Voice of the People segment.
31:24We're going to Arima.
31:30We're going to Arima.
31:59Some people are naturally bad, or is it because of the upbringing and the environment that
32:04they are in, that they commit crime?
32:06Yeah, well, most of the time it is the environment.
32:09It is the people that they associate themselves with, because you know, it's hard to come out.
32:13People who like crime, they live for crime.
32:16And anytime they get a little one to pull in and get to do things for them, like that.
32:20Environment.
32:22Yeah, the environment.
32:23Plus to how it gets, you know, in the neighborhood, you know, child, I do nothing either.
32:30Because everybody does, as a last year child, and then again too, they have a lot of guns on the street.
32:37So everybody ball and I'll shoot you.
32:39So it's like it's all the sabacc and all now, boy.
32:41Yeah.
32:42Your kid can curse me.
32:43I can't say nothing.
32:44That is wrong, you know, by the end of the day.
32:46Bringing and the lack for a spiritual upbringing, you can't leave children to let them do what
32:52they want.
32:54Time is up for a second.
32:56You understand?
32:57So the three them, Sunday school have done a lot.
33:01People, your religious consciousness, you have to forward that and work with that as a
33:08youth and elevate yourself.
33:11Generally upbringing, how you train your children, how your mother and father have to unite more.
33:17And I say, get together and shoot children, this is the way to live.
33:20So this is what I tell you, the education and needing on life and living.
33:23I want to think from experience, it has some people, they naturally like that.
33:29But it has some people, situation make them turn into that person.
33:34Some situation make them turn.
33:35So sometimes you have to go behind the person to find out what it is behind it.
33:40I will say the person.
33:42Yeah, I will say the person, mine, mine.
33:45Choice.
33:46And you know, Mr. Ramborak, right now there's a debate concerning school violence.
33:59Of course, the prime minister would have spoken about some stringent measures to deal with
34:06delinquent persons.
34:07One is to expel them and the other is to take them before the law.
34:12Of course, there are some who are saying, well, here's what, we need to speak to them a little more.
34:18But there's the argument this has been going on for so long.
34:21I think, Marlon, what we're going through as a country with respect to our society is that, first of all, we've abandoned what we inherited as a Caribbean form of discipline.
34:36And we've thrown that out and we've brought in morals and values and systems some else way.
34:44Most of it was brought in by persons who went abroad and educated themselves and came back and started to talk about these new forms of discipline.
34:54But the moment we abandoned that form of Caribbean discipline that our parents built and carried a pretty awesome society, a great society.
35:08The moment we abandoned that, Marlon, I had my entire career in education, you know, teacher, school principal, school supervisor, you know, I would have run the entire gamut.
35:21And if I could summarize it by saying we threw it out and we imported our value system, that is not working for our country.
35:29In the old value system we had, women were held to a higher standard and we see some behaviors now that are totally unacceptable.
35:40We see it online, we see it on our faces, we see it on TikTok, on all the social media platforms.
35:46Men, we're men.
35:48And today I think men are the main contributors to the use in the society.
35:54Use of drugs, violent crime, choosing, you know, to gamble out their money instead of supporting their families, absent father figures from homes, being proper role models, and all of these things.
36:09And it's cool now to be an absent father, to be not a good role model.
36:17And that is where, you know, the person who just spoke said that the young ones are looking on.
36:24And they are seeing this as a normal thing to have guns and to go out there and commit crimes and earn money.
36:32They're seeing this as a normalized type of behavior.
36:35And therefore, we throughout the old system, well, not many families still stick to it, but by and large it was thrown out and we have a free fall.
36:47Yeah.
36:48And, you know, how do we reverse that?
36:51Because how do you, when a child gets to the age of 11 or 10, 11, 12, going up, how do you, and that child is already transformed and has this delinquent behavior, how do you reverse that?
37:07It's very difficult because they would have gone through something in the school called, there's a school management system, a dean of discipline, and a whole system that has been built out to deal with school indiscipline, children indiscipline, people indiscipline.
37:25And they now, sometimes they go through three and four suspensions.
37:29Now I'm hearing about them being expelled.
37:30And then many times they go into children's homes because their behavior is not deemed suitable.
37:36And then they come out of it and no change happens whatsoever.
37:41Right?
37:41So the thing is for us to get back that rigid value system that we had as Caribbean people and get it back into our schools.
37:50Yeah.
37:50Jackie, give me some guidance here.
37:54All right.
37:54We're heading into Port of Spain now.
37:57Yeah?
37:58So it's an incident involving a purse snatcher?
38:04A chain snatcher?
38:06Yeah.
38:06A snatcher?
38:07A snatcher?
38:08Yeah?
38:11All right.
38:12Who is the snatcher here?
38:13The one in the gray top?
38:16So he has been caught.
38:19Do we know what street?
38:27Yeah.
38:28But you know, Mr. Rambarat, incidents such as these in Port of Spain, and I want to specifically speak about Port of Spain because it is the capital of Trinidad.
38:41Yeah?
38:41I just find it is unfortunate that we are having incidents such as these.
38:54We are helping the capital city.
38:56Of course, port snatching, chain snatching is common in a lot of the urban cities around the world, but you know, a heightened police presence will reduce the occurrence of these things.
39:11I want to thank the guy for apprehending him, making a citizen's arrest and ensuring most likely that the lady there in white got back her chain or her purse.
39:21And so this is how a citizen's arrest should be made.
39:26It should be made with, you know, using cutlasses and weapons.
39:30There he has him.
39:31He can't, he's really strong arming the guy.
39:35And, yeah, I don't know what eventually happened if she got back her property and he was allowed to go free or the police was caught.
39:42But, of course, if you are intervening to make a citizen's arrest, you're going to have to assess the situation.
39:47Exactly.
39:48I don't recommend it at all.
39:50All right.
39:50Okay.
39:51Jackie.
39:52All right.
39:53We're going to San Juan now.
39:54All right.
39:55All right.
40:00All right.
40:01And this is a public beating of an individual.
40:05And just to tell you, the participants there are all ladies.
40:09Is that wrestling that we don't know about, Mr. Rambarat, you think?
40:13Is that Monday night wrestling?
40:14Yeah, it seems as Monday night wrestling.
40:17The clothing is up for wrestling as well as the blues that is being thrown.
40:21It seems to be pajama wrestling too.
40:23Exactly.
40:24And this seems to be just after some party somewhere.
40:28But I just spoke about women holding themselves to a higher standard.
40:33And this is not what we want to have as role models.
40:36You see, when persons look at this, especially the young ones, it becomes normalized behavior.
40:42If my mother could do it, my sister could do it, my auntie could do it, I could do it.
40:46And therefore, that helps in a habit forming in the young ones, and they would think it's natural to do.
40:54We do have a partial in Trinidad and Tobago for blood and violence and anger.
41:04You know, what about speaking about an incident, right?
41:09And try to bring down the tensions and dissipate whatever tensions there are.
41:17But we always feel, Mr. Rambarat, even if we are at the gas station, we want to curse one another.
41:23You want to curse one another.
41:25You want to show who is the biggest badger out here.
41:27There's a lack of anger management in a lot of our citizens.
41:33And I think we're seeing it every day in front of our eyes.
41:37But somebody has to stand up and begin to not only speak about it, correct it.
41:42Hunters, Search and Rescue Team, we are role models.
41:45Yeah.
41:46We are role models for the nation to follow.
41:48We give up our time to help citizens.
41:52And it's high time, a lot more citizens.
41:54Come on board, call 799-1453, not now, but after the program.
41:59Tell us how you can help us get involved in trying to help the society become a better one.
42:06Are you all in receipt of any national award as yet?
42:09No, no, no, not as yet.
42:11I want to nominate the Hunters Association for an award this year.
42:14So you all get out your petition and make your recommendations to the board.
42:19And have these gentlemen get an award that they deserve.
42:24All right?
42:24That is just my feeling, Mr. Ambarak.
42:26You don't have to respond.
42:27I don't want to respond, man.
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44:13All right, everybody.
44:27So welcome back.
44:28We do have a town meeting for you.
44:34All right.
44:35So it's the Lahore Keta Police Station Town Meeting.
44:38Let's work together for a better community, June 25th, 2025, at 6 p.m.
44:45at the Lahore Keta Public Library, Slinger, Francisco Boulevard in Lahore Keta.
44:51All right.
44:52So it's a good opportunity.
44:54Yes.
44:54It's 6 o'clock.
44:55Jackie.
44:56Yes.
44:56That's what I said.
44:57Yes.
44:59So it's a good opportunity for you to go out there and meet the senior officers
45:05and speak with them so that you have this close, closer relationship between you and the police officers there.
45:13So if something does happen in your community, you have the opportunity to, how do I say,
45:20because of the relationship that you would have, how do I say,
45:27the relationship that you would have gotten from those meetings,
45:30so you now have a point person at the police station to call.
45:33All right.
45:34So, Mr. Amarat, you do have Thanksgiving for us in Rusilac.
45:40Yes.
45:40So, Marlon, from time to time, families who we would have assisted to locate their loved ones
45:46would have a call back for us, and they had a bit of a Thanksgiving for us in Rusilac.
45:51This was for Mohan Kotgadari Singh, who went missing in September last year,
46:00and after about three days of searching the Rusilac area, we were able to locate his body.
46:07He was found shot from behind in the thick fields of buddhusing trees in Rusilac,
46:14and we spent a nice evening with the family, and we have some pictures there.
46:21There are some of us relaxing, chatting with the family, without uniform, of course.
46:29There are some of us with members and their wives and children as well.
46:34But we had a very nice time down in Rusilac, spending time with the family.
46:40They were never able to get justice, although the alleged suspects reside right within the yards of where they live.
46:47And, you know, there's always a cry for justice down in Rusilac.
46:54They're a very popular family, and they still have that avenue to pursue.
47:00Marlon.
47:01All right, everybody.
47:02So, we are taking your calls.
47:04You're calling us on 623-1711.
47:06The extensions are 1996 and 1997.
47:09We don't have a lot of time, so if you wish to call, please call now.
47:14Again, those are the numbers, 623-1711.
47:16The extensions are 1996 and 1997.
47:21Mr. Amorath, while we wait on those calls, I want to speak about there have been some popular spots in Trinidad and Tobago
47:30where bodies are being dumped, and we know what the spots are.
47:37Is the situation, does that situation still exist?
47:39Well, I know an attempt was made to, you know, put in some lighting in the Heights of Arepo area,
47:46and we haven't really had a problem with Heights of Arepo for a while.
47:51I think that has worked.
47:52If only that could be replicated in other areas.
47:55So, in the Savannah Dyer instance, the residents called for improved lighting.
48:02And, Marlon, Marlon, we would have conducted several searches in Carsonfield,
48:07and I endorsed the call made by the various stakeholders down in Carsonfield for improved lighting.
48:12Because lighting is a deterrent.
48:15Because criminals try to seek out lonely areas, dark-lit areas, to carry out their criminal activities.
48:23And so, these areas, these popular dumping sites, they should be, you know,
48:28and we encourage the authorities to work to get these areas rightly lit.
48:34All right, sir. We do have a first call.
48:36Good evening, caller.
48:38Hello. Pleasant afternoon, Marlon.
48:40Yes, good evening.
48:41And pleasant afternoon to your listeners.
48:44Go ahead, sir. We're listening.
48:46Right. Just a little concern.
48:48Listen, I am a retiree commissioner of the Bureau of Police Service.
48:52I have officially retired two years now, and up to this date, I have not received my job three years yet.
49:00I don't know how and if you can assist me with that situation.
49:05But who's responsible for that area of things?
49:11Is it that the police commissioner's office?
49:14Is it that the police association is championing your cause?
49:18Who is helping you along?
49:20Well, I have been in and out of police administration building for the last, I would say, about six months continuously every fortnight.
49:31And whenever I go there, it's a different problem.
49:34The fire has moved from here.
49:36But what I'm saying is, Marlon, it's two years now, and I am just living on an interim tension.
49:41So, I don't know what is taking place there.
49:47And every time I go there, it comes from them with the fire by increments.
49:52It's this problem.
49:53It went to audit.
49:54It has to come back.
49:56The point I'm getting at is that I do know if the supervisors and them, or whoever is an authority,
50:03that I'm not doing them efficiently and effectively.
50:06Is there a retiree's association?
50:11Step back, call back, as I said, two years now and nothing.
50:16Is there a retiree's association?
50:19I never joined, or I don't know if there is.
50:24But I'm almost certain that there is.
50:26Have you made representation to the police association?
50:29I'm not sure.
50:32I think you should, because I'm Marlon, I'll tell you something.
50:35Jackie, if you could, the gentleman is still there?
50:39All right, good.
50:40We'll take your number, name a number, and pass it on.
50:42Yes, go ahead.
50:42Yeah, you retire today, and in a month's time, your expenses more or less remain the same.
50:47So, how could this gentleman be surviving without a reasonable income for the past 24 months?
50:54And he would have had a pileup on bills and probably negotiating with his debtors and, you know, trying to make ends meet.
51:01But two years is too long a time, having served your employer to receive your pension, your superannuation benefits, your pension and your gratuity.
51:13There's no way one could condone that and say that that is near acceptable.
51:18It is totally unacceptable.
51:20All right, Jackie, let's go to a break, everybody.
51:23We're coming back.
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52:43That's it, buddy.
52:54Well, he goes after that one.
52:55Doesn't get a good connection.
52:57The injury and the disperse.
52:59When it rains, it pours.
53:01Ladies and gentlemen.
53:02He tries very hard to keep it in, but try out in the process.
53:06This is a pedracite.
53:09There it is.
53:10Oh!
53:10And that's a champion shot.
53:16Out!
53:17Oh, it's a wonderful catch.
53:19That is a great jump.
53:21And he's on top of the great the weapon for the...
53:24All right, everybody.
53:34So, welcome back.
53:35Let's return to our line.
53:36Scala, you have one minute.
53:37Exactly one minute.
53:38Good evening.
53:39Good evening, and thank you for your program.
53:42Again, thanks for showing up again, Marlon, and the gentlemen.
53:44We're on to the rest of the team.
53:45One question.
53:46Do you guys use canines in your searches?
53:49And from your experience, who does a better search in the context of finding things?
53:54Are canines or the human?
53:57We don't have dogs on our searches, right?
54:03What we do is that we work with the canine unit of the Trinidad Antibigal Police Service.
54:09But in terms of the canine, yes, it has its strengths.
54:13The dog has its strengths.
54:15But to me, nothing beats a hunter in terms of our tracking skills and able to pass or to find where a human being would have passed.
54:27And that is our strengths.
54:29And so, but we continue to support the dogs, the TTPs, as there's probably a need, Marlon, for them to get to a higher standard.
54:41Because Marlon, there, and to the caller, there are dogs now that could sniff out bodies from underwater.
54:47Because anybody, any human body that's underwater will let out gases, comes to the top in the form of bubbles, and the dogs are able to spot it.
54:57So we have to work with what we have from the TTPs, and we also have to raise the standard.
55:04There are guys on the team who are interested, but there's a lot of expenses.
55:08So we prefer to work with the TTPs dogs.
55:10Talking about expenses, what does your team need?
55:13And I'm talking about resources.
55:14Yeah, and we ask the public, and this is just a reminder, that we fund ourselves, basically.
55:19We have a sponsored meal provider.
55:22We do need replacement equipment.
55:25Because Marlon and I went on a 12-hour marathon rescue stage for four hikers in the Northern Range and lost an expensive torchlight.
55:33Right?
55:33So we need to replace our gear from time to time, our boots, our radios.
55:39Because we're going through that stage right now of replacement stuff.
55:43And if members of the public, they're willing to donate, please call 799-1453, and we'll take you through an established procedure.
55:52But Marlon, I just wanted to touch.
55:55I know we have about 30 seconds.
55:56You have about 30 seconds.
55:57Please, members of the public, be aware of the adverse weather alerts.
56:02We had a drowning yesterday in Maracas, and those hikers went into the forest on an orange weather alert.
56:12Please, be weather conscious.
56:15Be wise, Marlon.
56:16Mr. Ramarat, thank you again for your contribution to the program and to the country as a whole, and express gratitude to your team.
56:24Much appreciated.
56:25All right, everybody.
56:26That's going to be it for our program.
56:28Yeah?
56:29Not yet?
56:30About 15 seconds?
56:32All right.
56:32Okay, so one down.
56:35When does it repeat?
56:38Tonight at 11.30, and tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock.
56:43I'll be right back here tomorrow morning at 6 p.m., but you can join me in the morning at 6 a.m. first.
56:48All right?
56:49Bye, everybody.
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