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T&T ...Gangs take over Tunapuna

 
sgtdjones 2022-09-11 17:11:20 

T&T ...Gangs take over Tunapuna

Bloody gang rivalry and brazen killings have now taken over parts of Tunapuna as many unemployed young men find it easier to access firearms for as little as $500 to commit crimes.The easiest way to earn a dollar for some of the young men is by robbing someone, even if it means ending a life in the process.The claim: That they are faced with no other option as they face increasing unemployment and a lack of opportunities in the area. Residents blame unemployment, lack of leadership, and the absence of sporting clubs for the current crime situation.Of the law-abiding families in the community, many are facing borderline poverty. They have no form of income and are uncertain where their next meal will come from.The police admitted that “Tunapuna is hot,” especially upper Fairley Street, Maingot Road and First and Second Traces. Once regarded as close-knit areas, they are now crime hotspots.“I know we have a lot of work on our hands,” a senior officer told the Sunday Guardian.But the officer disputed that unemployment was fuelling the crime and murders.“It’s not unemployment. It is greed. If you commit robberies, sell drugs and extort money from people...that in itself to them is employment. They are involved in criminal activity.”He said the gangs are in the habit of shooting at each other for control of “certain blocks and zones”, and this has The reality for Tunapuna resident and mother of three Janet Govia (not her real name) is grim. Govia, who was too ashamed to give her real name, has been surviving on a meagre monthly $600 widow’s benefit.

Govia is one of the scores of unemployed residents in Tunapuna which has a voting population of over 25,000. Sandwiched between St Augustine and El Dorado, Tunapuna has been a People’s National Movement (PNM) stronghold for several years.Frustrated, Govia, 36, sat in the living room of her Fairley Street home on Tuesday, as she waited patiently for her children to come home from school.Pacing the floor, Govia said her “children would be annoyed because they coming home to an empty pot”. She said “They leave home this morning with nothing in their stomachs, and this evening it’s back to square one.”Govia said she sent the boys to school hoping they would be provided with a box lunch.“It’s the hardest thing a mother could face...to watch your children starve and not know where the next meal would come from. With rising food inflation $600 is nothing. I can only buy the bare necessities which run out in a matter of days.”Her boys–ages six, eight, and nine–have to walk more than a mile to get to school as she cannot afford public transport.left residents living on the edge.Trying to cope with her constant struggles, Govia said the situation has been made worse as she also has to deal with the warring gangs, murders, and bloodshed in the area.

This year, Corey Benjamin, Joshua Nicholas Le Platte, Shazim Habidoondeen and 15-year-old Antonia Badenoch also died of gunshot wounds in the area.Living in the “Zone” all her life, Jessica Johnson (not her real name) also attributed joblessness and a fight for turf as the reason for senseless killings.Searching for a permanent job before the pandemic, Johnson has not been successful.Rapid gunfire day and nightFearing for his life, an elderly resident of Sesame Street, who asked that his name be withheld, said the gangs started with one family and grew within the Zone.“It’s so strange that the youths are constantly fighting with one another but their parents live in one love.”

He said it was normal to hear rapid gunfire day and night.The gangs have names such as Rebel 6 and 9.



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sgtdjones 2022-09-11 17:18:31 

T&T Comments:

DeeBee

If the police know which Gang fighting against another Gang & the weapon of choice is guns, which are easily available, then the police have to know where the Guns coming from, When you are not part of the Solution, then you are part of the ongoing Problem.We continue to embrace the lies of every PNM government, to our own peril, this regime is the worse, lock down now started.

Eagle

The PNM Ministers er the ones getting the guns into the Country,

Young & his step daughter was caught with guns & drugs, he ship her out the Country & case was Sweep under the Carpet.


Dynamic

If you live in this area and environs, I urge you to leave now, Move out now, sell your homes and cars and don't look back.. Time is short.. Get out WHILE YOU CAN!!  

Raven Madoxx

They leaving in a box...


Brandon

While crime affects the whole country. Why is it that pnm controlled areas are exploding with violent crime? All pnm areas are ungovernable crime pits
Tunapuna, Laventille, Beethams, La romaine , La Brea.

Triniborn


The government does not care about the people but the people care about the government, with all the crime in the country, I bet anything that if an election was called now, the same people who are hurting now under this administration will go to the polls and vote them back in. So in truth and fact, a government is indicative of it's people. Get serious Trinbagoians, call for public televised debates between the those who want to run the country, see and hear their answers, don't just vote for a party or the race of the leader,  you are only "buying cat in bag"


Cowgirl


Happy Sunday morning.  This article has a lot of information, and in the end, who do you blame for the crime situation in the country?  Who is the head of Trinidad and Tobago?  All governemnt ministers collecting their salaries every month, but what about the people who put them in office? 

How can we stop crime in this once pradise islands callT&T?  I digested this article quite well, and the main problem is lack of education and employment.  What do the governemnt ministers want young peopel to do if they don't have programs that will provide some kind of skills?  It is really unfair that the governemnt of Trinidad quickly reach out to help other countries during a natural disaster, while their own are suffering.  My fellow citizens, give another political party a chance to see if the PNM is really to be blame for the numerous problems in T&T.  We can no longer continue to go down lower than we are in Trinidad.  

I hope that the Guardian will send this article to the e-mail address of every politician in Trinidad and Tobago. 

 
sgtdjones 2022-09-11 17:28:05 

Cops kill Boodram during shoot out

After spending 17 years in prison, it took reputed drug lord Phillip “The Boss” Boodram less than three months to meet his demise as police shot him and two alleged accomplices yesterday.Reports stated that Central Division police responded to a robbery in the Couva area around 1 pm.As they tried to intercept a silver Isuzu D-Max pickup along Esperanza Road, California, the occupants of the pickup fired several shots.

The officers returned fire, striking all three men.The officers took the men to the Couva District Health Facility for treatment, but they were already dead.
They identified Boodram of Dow Village, California.The other men were identified as Malick Paul of Railway Road and Gerard Thorington of Goodwill Road, Enterprise.
Police officers at the scene said they recovered three illegal firearms.


Two killed, three others injured in Malick shooting

Homicide detectives are investigating a shooting incident in Malick which resulted in the death of two people and three others being injured.According to reports around 5.45 pm today a group of people were liming at 6th Avenue in Malick when gunmen exited a black car and opened fire.All five were rushed to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope.Dead are Anthony Sergeant and Kunta Andrews.
Racquel Rodriguez, Kamine Naitram and Anton St Vincent are said to be nursing bullet wounds.


Maloney man shot dead

A 23-year-old man was shot dead in Maloney on Saturday night.
Police said Bevon Grant was standing in a car park between Buildings 18 and 19 in Maloney Gardens, D'Abadie, at around 8.25 pm when a dark coloured car drove near him.
A man got out of the car and shot Grant several times before getting back in the car and driving off.
Grant ran into the courtyard of Building 19 before a resident took him to the Arima Hospital where he was declared dead.


Siparia man shot dead on roadside

A 48-year-old man was gunned down will standing on the roadside in Siparia on Friday night.Curtis Hospedales died outside Mahwah Chinese Restaurant on High Street, at around 7 pm.The police said a gunman shot him and ran off. No one else was injured.
Hospedales was unemployed and lived at La Brea Trace, Siparia.


'Johnny' gunned down at home in Enterprise

Two days before his birthday, a man from Enterprise in Chaguanas was shot dead at home.Jonathan "Johnny" Ramirez died on the spot in his yard at Branch Trace. A labourer who lived alone, he would have turned 23 on Sunday.Residents heard several gunshots and called Central Division police. They found Ramirez's body with multiple gunshot wounds and a piece of cloth in his mouth at the back of his home.
The police do not have a motive for his killing.

On Tuesday, around 7.40 pm, 31-year-old labourer Dylan "Toe Toe" Lewis was gunned down in Chrissie Terrace in Enterprise near Dollar's Bar. He lived at Walcott Lane, Enterprise.About 24 hours earlier, on Monday night, two relatives were shot dead at their family's home at Taitt Madoo Road in Freeport.
Fazal "Beastman" Hosein, 46, and his nephew Kevin Samuel, 31, died while being treated at the Chaguanas district health facility.

Samuel was on bail for a series of offences, including having a gun, ammunition and marijuana..



Wounded victim screams for help, gunmen return and kill him

Gunmen walked into a bar in Claxton Bay on Saturday night and opened fire on patrons, killing one.The deceased was identified as 28-year-old Kyron Marcano. Two other men were wounded in the shooting which occurred at around 10.30pm.Closed circuit television camera footage showed the men wearing hooded jackets and carrying weapons, walking into the bar.One of the gunmen stood over Marcano and fired five shots, hitting him about the body.The shooter was seen running away. He stopped at the doorway as Marcano began screaming for help. The man walked back inside, fired five more shots and ran out.
More gunshots were heard inside before the second shooter was seen running away.

 
BeatDball 2022-09-11 17:41:07 

The capital city has to set the tone - clean, green & orderly...just like Kigali, Rwanda! It will then trickle to other areas. Fool stop.


See, I wasn't eristic.
cool

 
BeatDball 2022-09-11 17:45:18 

Her Majesty just passed away & unfortunately, only a FEW of the former colonies are exemplary! The best dresser in the world went to the hereafter unhappy & sad. sad confused

 
Halliwell 2022-09-11 17:48:01 

It’s so frustrating to see the body count rise, and the politicians and senior police can only say they know it’s a problem sad

If is only criminals killing criminals, how many more before the curve heads down?
I pity the poor residents of Tunapuna that have no options

 
granite 2022-09-12 19:12:33 

If TT was big like Jamaica they may never find one bloody criminal,is jess ah lil dot and so many gangs,yet police cyah find none ah dem,I always thought that a gang comes from, for example,Coffee Street in San Fernando gets into a tangle with a gang member from Mon Repos, which is about 2 or 3 miles away, so close but police cannot find crap.

 
BeatDball 2022-09-12 22:55:36 

In reply to granite Our local bwoys can do it man; our local bwoys can do it! Heheheh. Deding wid laffs. Told alyuh mudda counts donkey years ago - SOCISHITISTS HAVE NO FACTING CLUE ON LAW ENFORCEMENT! FOOLS, STOPPPPPPPPPP.
sad evil


Ps. If WI crime rate were like Singapore's, Denmark, New Zealand, Rwanda, etc. Would we be in farin lands????

Does Singapore have a 'brain drain' problem? How come Rwandans in the diaspora are coming back? confused

KISS - Keep it simple sah. Physical & economic securities...if the average chap can put food on the table, put a lilke $omething in a bank account, not hassled by cops or traffic agents or govt office workers for a bribe - he nor she would leave their booteaful cuntry. Done.