00:00Losing someone and losing a child is really saddening and I think the village and Tobago, by extension, is really
00:08mourning and, you know, it casts shadows over tourism because it's something that, you know, we really try to avoid.
00:15Assistant Secretary Nikita Percy spoke to TV6 News during the Dodds diving event in Charlottetville, Tobago on Saturday.
00:23Losing a child is something that nobody could really explain or really say how they feel.
00:30And as a nation, as a village, as a community, losing a toddler is even worse.
00:35You know, it's just somebody sprighty, somebody brand new into this world and losing their life innocently, not having an
00:43explanation is even worse.
00:44Assistant Secretary Percy urged citizens to exercise caution when entering relationships, stressing the importance of carefully considering who they choose
00:54to become involved with.
00:56There are so many things that we could do as a government, right?
01:00But it still remains on who you choose to be a partner with and parent a child with.
01:06Because parenting a child is not only just seeing them eat or sleep or something like that.
01:11It goes much further than that.
01:12In a long time, if you think about your old parents, what do you see?
01:17It takes a village to raise a child.
01:19It's not only about one parent or two parents.
01:21We have to go back to the days where the village is actually looking after each child.
01:25Saturday signaled day 12 of two-year-old Angelo Tobias Plaza being missing from his Goodwood Bay Tobago home.
01:33Several searches for the infant have not yielded successful results, while five of the seven persons previously held by police
01:42in the case have been released.
01:43Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
01:45Beth Williams, TV6 News.
01:46Beth Williams, TV6 News.
01:47Beth Williams, TV6 News.
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