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Posted on Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:40 am by slick

Left for dead just metres away from anti-crime rally

IN a brutal and ironic twist, a homeless man was badly beaten and left for dead metres away from where an anti-crime rally was being held at Victoria Square, Port of Spain, yesterday afternoon.

Some participants in the march, which was organised by YEStt and the Tunapuna Action Group, said they found a man clad in a dark blue jersey and maroon sweatpants lying on the pavement outside the Radio Trinbago 94.7FM building around 1.45 p.m., after some of them left the area protest on hearing police sirens.

Reports said the man, who has not yet been identified, had gone into a nearby construction site shortly after six yesterday morning.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that he may have been tied up and beaten. Some eyewitnesses claim to have seen the man being thrown from a vehicle exiting the compound. Police were on the scene minutes later.

The man bore multiple wounds about his body, along with a blow to his temple. His left leg appeared to be broken. A shoe lace was still tied around his right ankle.

Several onlookers, including one of the organisers of the anti-crime rally and member of YEStt, Christine Newallo-Hosein, rushed to the man's side as he lay gasping for breath. She asked him if there was anyone he wanted her to contact for him. The man shook his head. He died shortly after.

"Never in my wildest dreams I thought I would have witnessed this. This tells you where our country is going," said United National Congress Alliance member Wade Mark, who had been invited to participate in the march.

"People are being murdered in broad daylight just opposite an anti-crime rally.....the country is under siege. It is under the grip of fear and incompetence. On the opening day of Parliament, the Government should have given the country a sense of hope but they have not done that."

Members of the anti-crime rally, including children, eventually held up their anti-crime placards in plain view of passing vehicles as they carried out a silent protest.

Standing feet away from the dead man, one marcher stood silently as he held a placard which read "Crime is a national crisis".

Newallo-Hosein said if incidents such as such at yesterday's were to go unpunished, it would encourage vigilante justice.

Article originates from Trinidad Express

What is T&T coming to? Imagine murdered in broad daylight and not even a stone's throw away from a march in protest of the escalating crime rate in T&T. What is the Government doing to stop is scourge that is plaguing of beloved country? Not enough apparently. Instead of arresting the hardened criminals, the police are arresting young children who are protesting for better roads. As usual I hear talk of another great crime plan from the Commissioner of Police and the Minister of National Security but the way these people in authority behave is like the citizens are expendable. So much murders, rapes and other brutal crimes that have been going on unchecked and only now they decide to come up with a crime plan? Well I know it's not much of a comfort to anyone with the track record these two men have, but at least they should have tried to do something a lot sooner. I'm sure if some member of the Government or a family member was brutally murdered, the police would have immediately jumped into action, heads would have rolled and public threats would have been made to the criminals at large. This is just one more reason why T&T can't reach 1st world country status - because the needs of the citizens aren't taken into consideration. Skyscrapers, smelters and multi-million dollar Prime Ministerial mansions aren't what makes a country first world, it is the improvement in the standard of living of all citizens and the nurturing and growing of a country's Human Resources that makes a country 1st world. Will the Government realise this before we see 2020? I fear they may not.

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