00:00On Easter Monday, the Chinapu Mova community came together to host an Easter egg hunt for the children,
00:07only to have the event end in a hail of gunfire.
00:10Everybody was enjoying themselves, things like that, and we were seeing something that the children could have enjoyed
00:16because we done thinking about Christmas party and sports day for August, things like that,
00:22because we are in a community where the parents don't go out because they are young.
00:28They may be in the thing, and being honest, they may be in the thing or the life, and they
00:34don't go out.
00:35Hence the reason the children don't go out.
00:38So we tried to bring something to them, and it affected us as in people are now saying,
00:44we can't do nothing again, and everybody now got frightened.
00:48The TTPS is advising persons desirous of hosting community events to reach out requesting a police presence.
00:56Once you're all willing to show anything that you are not selling alcohol, you are not collecting anything by any
01:02door,
01:03and these things, and it's for something for the community, write our application.
01:08Drop it in the Mova station, it will pass to me, I will send it forward to the executive,
01:14and once everything, we will come there, and we will have a police presence to ensure that everything runs smooth,
01:21because we know that you all don't have any money to pay the police.
01:25Less than two weeks later, a young child was among four people killed on the Lady Young Road,
01:31a short distance away from the Easter incident, once again traumatizing the community.
01:38The TTPS is reminding members of the public that free psychological support is available at the police stations.
01:45I hear the sentiments, and I understand the cries, and I too, who are a mother, I'm a mother,
01:53heard the pain, even having to speak to the mother of the persons that died yesterday.
02:02It was, it was difficult, it was tough.
02:04And I know persons are living within the area, and probably hearing the gunshots,
02:09and how that will even cause a reaction emotionally, even by Chinooku being very close,
02:16and hearing the gunshots, like, where is this coming from, again?
02:18You know, but we are basically here to say that we hear you, we just need your support.
02:24And if it is that, you know, someone who need our support in offering free counseling,
02:30or even need some sort of advice, and we do a lot of referrals to different agencies.
02:36The police is also urging everyone to make use of the anonymous 800-TIPS hotline,
02:42for which a monetary reward is available.
02:46So the 800-TIPS, whenever you make a report via 800-TIPS,
02:52nobody knows who you are, unless you see.
02:56Even to collect the reward, you are granted some number, or whatever,
03:01you go and you ask for the bank manager, and the bank manager, nobody knows, you know,
03:06nobody knows anything about you.
03:08What the government and the TTPS wants, and everyone in Trinidad and Tobago,
03:14is the information.
03:15Because I want to say something.
03:18You see the guns, and the information that you keep today,
03:23tomorrow, it can come home and affect you.
03:26Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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