T&T bullets & blood in a kids playpark

Jade Court community left reeling after killings at play park...Residents, including children who were mere metres away when Devaughn Toussaint and Amelia Hernandez were murdered at a play park in Jade Court, Lisas Gardens, on Friday afternoon, have been left traumatised.Toussaint and Hernandez were shot and killed in the Couva settlement around 2.30 p.m. Toussaint was holding his three-year-old child when he was shot four times by a gunman, CCTV (closed-­circuit television) footage showed.

Hernandez ran towards him and the child, then attemp­ted to escape with the in­fant by running through the park.She tripped and fell, almost on top of the child.The gunman ran up to her, stood over as she screamed, and her shot multiple times.The child was not hurt.She ran away, screaming.

“Two innocent lives lost (Friday), broad daylight, and what was most horrible was in the midst of a playground where people, residents of Jade Court, would have their kids come out and play, and if you all would have observed, they were kicking a football, a lot of great footballers come from this particular area here.“For a man to run up on other people with a gun and fire shots, and in the end result murder two people in front of several little children, that is atrocious, this is unaccep­table”

43 murders in 2026, same as last year

@sgtdjones

I saw the video. One of the most disturbing videos I have ever seen. That child and those children will live with that trauma for the rest of their lives. Two lives may have been physically taken but I believe others were taken emotionally. What a heinous and dastardly act. Need to find that EVIL Man and his accomplices and ringleaders.

@voiceofreason

Voicy

Poverty the mother of crime

What occurred in that park, is sad, those kids that witnessed and ran , such will be etched in their memories for life.

T&T has changed from how I knew her. Eric williams laid the eggs of today's misfortunes.

He kept the africans in poverty so they could become subservient to the PNM. When he noted " I can put a frog in an they would vote for it" tells a story. Today they still live in poverty in such districts without services such as water, roads , electricity and employment.So when the PNM speaks as if Black communities are its territory​, areas to be “defended” from UNC “targeting”​, it reveals the ugliest underside of that dependency: communities treated less like citizens and more like inherited property.

You don’t get to govern communities for generations and then, in election season, describe them as underdeveloped, crime-ridden, socially fragile and politically exploitable without implicating yourself.

Eric gave the Syrians and Lebanese tax opportunities and funding to create entities, today they control the economy.

When the Africans protested in Black power marches ...he sent his police force and arrested them. He didn't trust them . So did Manning, he had a white man as PM when he left the country.

When they note their addresses, they are not hired for jobs, the government further humiliates by giving them 10 day jobs to paint rocks , clean drains and cut grass . These contracts are given to gang leaders who hire,they give a stipend to their member of Parliament.

The government spent over 20 million celebrating CARICOM anniversary and Meeting on Crime in T&T in lavish hotels.End result : Nothing

Some live behind Brick walls on the Beetham highway, the population cant see them.Rowleys government over 5000 died, 80% africans,his last 6 months he brought in SOE after a decade. His party lost the election massively. He left with a million dollar pension a year , citizens $3500.00 per month.Crime here also has deep social and economic roots.

Today the Opposition has struggled to look like a coherent alternative. There is noise, agitation and personalities jostling for relevance, but noise is not strategy. If the PNM’s sin is fear and inaction, the UNC’s is opportunism and indifference.

So yes: the PNM failed Black communities through timidity, complacency, and the misuse of loyalty. The UNC failed Black youth through obstruction and complicity.

Sarge