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A call to parents to protect their children from predators, including drug dealers.

It is coming from Seventh Day Adventist Pastor Clive Dottin.

Meanwhile, a link is being made between the crime problem and unemployment among the youth.

Alicia Boucher has the details from the T&T Scrap Iron Dealers Association Crime Talks in Enterprise on Wednesday.
Transcript
00:00Seventh-day Adventist pastor Clive Doughton stresses the importance of the family unit,
00:05noting the trauma that can come from severed homes.
00:08He's calling on parents, mothers and fathers, to set good examples for their children,
00:14to be there for them, and to protect them from predators.
00:17He says this is inclusive of sexual predators,
00:20one of which he had a close encounter with as a teenager, and drug dealers.
00:25You know what a drug dealer is? A drug dealer is a rhinocerotic, crocodilian, alligatorial vampire.
00:32That's who a drug dealer is.
00:34And protect your children, especially your sons, from those parasitic vampires.
00:40That's who they are, and they're mashing up the country.
00:42Pastor Doughton stresses the importance of unity in the fight against crime,
00:46as he calls on people to break down barriers that cause division, including religion.
00:51How Trinidad will change is by the power of God.
00:55And when the power of God comes, the Hindu would love the Muslim,
00:58and the Muslim would love the Christian, and the Christian would love the Catholic,
01:01and the Baptist, and everybody loving everybody.
01:04We will not, let me tell you something, don't let the politics of divide and rule divide us.
01:09We will never, we will never win the battle against crime,
01:13unless we learn to unite and love each other. Come on.
01:17Meanwhile, president of the TNT Scrap Iron Dealers Association, Alan Ferguson, says,
01:22most of the people behind bars, or those who are perpetrating crime, are from the African race.
01:28He questions how this has become the reality,
01:31and how society has gone from being close-knit to being distant.
01:35We was not the people who were in jail now.
01:40We wasn't like this, brothers and sisters.
01:42We was, we was hard workers.
01:46We, when we went to build a house, we didn't need to call no contractor.
01:52We used to help one another to build our house.
01:56We, as neighbors, we used to help one another.
01:59Now I don't know who is my neighbor, I don't know who is my,
02:02the people living next to me because everybody pushing a hate heart.
02:06Ferguson says this is part of the problem,
02:08as no longer are communities raising children.
02:11In terms of fighting crime, he believes the answer does not lie
02:15in getting more cars or guns or seeing more young people pushed into prison.
02:21He's of the view that there are too many young people that are unemployed and idle,
02:26noting the dismantling of programs like URP and CPAP.
02:30I have no problem with the government finding whatever necessary to straighten out these problems,
02:36because if it's a people tiffing or people doing wrong things,
02:39and I wish I could understand that, straighten it out.
02:41But before you start to do that, find place for the honest people who are working on this.
02:48Find place for the people who are working on it.
02:52So we could be able to help them.
02:55You don't send one sister people home.
02:56Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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