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btw the new iPhones can be tracked now even when turned off.
pugboy wrote:where the joint patrols?
pugboy wrote:where the joint patrols?
Local grade or vincy?pugboy wrote:where the joint patrols?
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The owner of Ryan’s Liquor Mart and four other members of his family were terrorised by bandits at their Bamboo Settlement #1 home last week Wednesday.
The ordeal, which lasted around four hours, left the family still traumatised a week after the incident, according to father Krishna Ramphal.
Speaking to the Express about the incident yesterday, Ramphal recalled that he got up around 2.30 a.m. that day to watch cricket.
He said as he sat on his bed in his room, he saw five masked men push open the door to his room and enter.
They jumped him on his bed, shouting, “Police! Police!” and other expletives, and choked him.
“Ah go to bawl, they band mih mouth, they band mih hand, they band mih foot,” Ramphal recalled.
They (criminals) then asked him who was in the other room and he told them his daughter. He was then ordered not to make any noise.
Ramphal said the bandits entered his daughter’s room where one of them grabbed her while the four others ransacked her room and took her jewelry, money and other valuables.
“I had $1,003. I checked that the day before because I say I would organise to give (a contribution) to my pundit for Divali. My phone was charging, they took it,” he said.
Pointing to a phone on the counter, he said his son had given him that one to replace the one taken by the bandits.
He said they then asked his daughter for his son, Ryan, as if they knew who he was.
Ramphal said his daughter was told by the bandits to not make any noise or raise any alarms.
She knocked on his (Ryan’s) door while the bandits had two guns to her head and when he asked what happened, she told him that their father was sick again and to be quiet.
Threats of mutilation
Ramphal said when his son opened the door to his bedroom, he was met by guns to his face and the men subsequently taped his mouth to prevent him from making any noise.
“The ordeal started there. They scrapped his room, all his money, all his jewelry. The man made some jewelry for the little child (one year old), they took all of that. But the child slept through the ordeal.
“They asked Ryan— that is all the money? Ryan gave them everything, and they real ransack the house, all of the rooms,” said Ramphal.
Dissatisfied with the amount of money they were given, the bandits put his son on the bed and threatened to cut off one of his feet.
“They were talking to somebody (on the phone) and the person told them don’t do them nothing. They are good people,” he recalled.
He said the bandits also went into his 78-year-old brother’s home on the same premises and brought him into his (Ramphal’s) home.
His brother was also robbed of $23,000 which he was saving to use for his funeral expenses.
Aware of how costly it is to conduct a funeral under Hindu rites, his brother did not want to put that financial burden on his family, Ramphal said.
He also said their family was a praying family and no strangers to charity, and it was a common practice for the family to assist anyone who was in need; so this attack on his family came as a shock to him.
“They go behind the jhandi (Hindu flags) there, they sat down, they defecate,” he added.
Ramphal said there were ten bandits—one was by the temple in the yard, one was outside at the entrance of the business place, and eight of them were inside his home.
The 73-year-old said he was unable to sleep in his bedroom because he keeps replaying the events of that night in his head.
He said besides his daughter’s two-year-old BMW car, the money, personal effects and goods that were taken were estimated to be valued at over $200,000.
The bandits loaded up everything that they stole in his daughter’s BMW and left approximately four hours after, he added.
Bar robbed of money, liquor
A bar which is also located in Bamboo Settlement Number One was burglarised in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The owner told the Express the perpetrators broke into his bar via the back entrance around 1 a.m.
He said he closed the bar at 12.30 a.m. yesterday, and returned around 7.30 a.m. when a neighbour called to tell him the back door of his business place was open.
“He (the neighbour) called me on video call and showed me (the opened door), and I was like, boy they break in the place,” said the businessman.
He said his vault, cash register with a total of $40,000 cash were stolen from his business place.
As for the drinks that were stolen in the incident, he said: “They stole the more expensive stuff, Johnnie Walker, Hennessy and Puncheon...”
He said the estimated value of the drinks that were stolen was $6,500 to $7,000.
He also said even though he was devastated by the incident, as a businessman he had to try to move on from it as he incurred a major loss.
The businessman said he intends to engage the services of a private security firm to prevent any future attacks on his business.
When asked about his thoughts about the controversial guard booth being erected in Bamboo Settlement Number Two, he said as a resident in that area he supported the initiative.
However, he added that other initiatives were needed to deal with the heightened crime situation in the area, as bandits were using the river to make their way into the community and distress residents and businesses.
He said as a businessman in the area for the past two years, he tried to implement security measures in the community but did not receive positive feedback from members of the community.
He added that people only seem to be concerned crime in the area when it hit their homes and he is of the belief that proactive steps should be taken to prevent such occurrences altogether.
“I give Inshan (Ishmael) a hundred per cent support because at least he still trying something,” said the frustrated businessman.
He also expressed disappointment with the lack of community initiatives geared towards steering youth in the area away from crime.
He said in the simple thing such as maintaining the cricket ground in the area the relevant authorities don’t seem to understand the importance of that and its role in giving youth something constructive to do with their free time.
“This ground here used to have some of the best windball tournaments in Trinidad and Tobago. I played cricket here and to see it in this state now. It’s sad,” he said.
The businessman emphasised that he believed playing cricket on the grounds kept him as a young man out of trouble because it provided him with the opportunity to do something productive with his time.
A few months ago someone from this family bounced down and killed a villager. The villagers family got no justiceRovin wrote:look at d madness going on in this country , not 3-4 men come to rob but 10
read d fb comments from political sycophants\trolls\paid bloggers [or maybe just nasty ignorant sick ppl ?] ....
https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/ ... h2HFvhvYCo
Terror in Bamboo
...1 by the temple, 1 by the business, 8 inside the houseThe owner of Ryan’s Liquor Mart and four other members of his family were terrorised by bandits at their Bamboo Settlement #1 home last week Wednesday.
The ordeal, which lasted around four hours, left the family still traumatised a week after the incident, according to father Krishna Ramphal.
Speaking to the Express about the incident yesterday, Ramphal recalled that he got up around 2.30 a.m. that day to watch cricket.
He said as he sat on his bed in his room, he saw five masked men push open the door to his room and enter.
They jumped him on his bed, shouting, “Police! Police!” and other expletives, and choked him.
“Ah go to bawl, they band mih mouth, they band mih hand, they band mih foot,” Ramphal recalled.
They (criminals) then asked him who was in the other room and he told them his daughter. He was then ordered not to make any noise.
Ramphal said the bandits entered his daughter’s room where one of them grabbed her while the four others ransacked her room and took her jewelry, money and other valuables.
“I had $1,003. I checked that the day before because I say I would organise to give (a contribution) to my pundit for Divali. My phone was charging, they took it,” he said.
Pointing to a phone on the counter, he said his son had given him that one to replace the one taken by the bandits.
He said they then asked his daughter for his son, Ryan, as if they knew who he was.
Ramphal said his daughter was told by the bandits to not make any noise or raise any alarms.
She knocked on his (Ryan’s) door while the bandits had two guns to her head and when he asked what happened, she told him that their father was sick again and to be quiet.
Threats of mutilation
Ramphal said when his son opened the door to his bedroom, he was met by guns to his face and the men subsequently taped his mouth to prevent him from making any noise.
“The ordeal started there. They scrapped his room, all his money, all his jewelry. The man made some jewelry for the little child (one year old), they took all of that. But the child slept through the ordeal.
“They asked Ryan— that is all the money? Ryan gave them everything, and they real ransack the house, all of the rooms,” said Ramphal.
Dissatisfied with the amount of money they were given, the bandits put his son on the bed and threatened to cut off one of his feet.
“They were talking to somebody (on the phone) and the person told them don’t do them nothing. They are good people,” he recalled.
He said the bandits also went into his 78-year-old brother’s home on the same premises and brought him into his (Ramphal’s) home.
His brother was also robbed of $23,000 which he was saving to use for his funeral expenses.
Aware of how costly it is to conduct a funeral under Hindu rites, his brother did not want to put that financial burden on his family, Ramphal said.
He also said their family was a praying family and no strangers to charity, and it was a common practice for the family to assist anyone who was in need; so this attack on his family came as a shock to him.
“They go behind the jhandi (Hindu flags) there, they sat down, they defecate,” he added.
Ramphal said there were ten bandits—one was by the temple in the yard, one was outside at the entrance of the business place, and eight of them were inside his home.
The 73-year-old said he was unable to sleep in his bedroom because he keeps replaying the events of that night in his head.
He said besides his daughter’s two-year-old BMW car, the money, personal effects and goods that were taken were estimated to be valued at over $200,000.
The bandits loaded up everything that they stole in his daughter’s BMW and left approximately four hours after, he added.
Bar robbed of money, liquor
A bar which is also located in Bamboo Settlement Number One was burglarised in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The owner told the Express the perpetrators broke into his bar via the back entrance around 1 a.m.
He said he closed the bar at 12.30 a.m. yesterday, and returned around 7.30 a.m. when a neighbour called to tell him the back door of his business place was open.
“He (the neighbour) called me on video call and showed me (the opened door), and I was like, boy they break in the place,” said the businessman.
He said his vault, cash register with a total of $40,000 cash were stolen from his business place.
As for the drinks that were stolen in the incident, he said: “They stole the more expensive stuff, Johnnie Walker, Hennessy and Puncheon...”
He said the estimated value of the drinks that were stolen was $6,500 to $7,000.
He also said even though he was devastated by the incident, as a businessman he had to try to move on from it as he incurred a major loss.
The businessman said he intends to engage the services of a private security firm to prevent any future attacks on his business.
When asked about his thoughts about the controversial guard booth being erected in Bamboo Settlement Number Two, he said as a resident in that area he supported the initiative.
However, he added that other initiatives were needed to deal with the heightened crime situation in the area, as bandits were using the river to make their way into the community and distress residents and businesses.
He said as a businessman in the area for the past two years, he tried to implement security measures in the community but did not receive positive feedback from members of the community.
He added that people only seem to be concerned crime in the area when it hit their homes and he is of the belief that proactive steps should be taken to prevent such occurrences altogether.
“I give Inshan (Ishmael) a hundred per cent support because at least he still trying something,” said the frustrated businessman.
He also expressed disappointment with the lack of community initiatives geared towards steering youth in the area away from crime.
He said in the simple thing such as maintaining the cricket ground in the area the relevant authorities don’t seem to understand the importance of that and its role in giving youth something constructive to do with their free time.
“This ground here used to have some of the best windball tournaments in Trinidad and Tobago. I played cricket here and to see it in this state now. It’s sad,” he said.
The businessman emphasised that he believed playing cricket on the grounds kept him as a young man out of trouble because it provided him with the opportunity to do something productive with his time.
Yes, just like the ponytail messiah and his sycophants on tuner who politicize everything and find FB comments to be the well of informed opinion. Things probably rel slow in the music business.Chimera wrote:A few months ago someone from this family bounced down and killed a villager. The villagers family got no justiceRovin wrote:look at d madness going on in this country , not 3-4 men come to rob but 10
read d fb comments from political sycophants\trolls\paid bloggers [or maybe just nasty ignorant sick ppl ?] ....
https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/ ... h2HFvhvYCo
Terror in Bamboo
...1 by the temple, 1 by the business, 8 inside the houseThe owner of Ryan’s Liquor Mart and four other members of his family were terrorised by bandits at their Bamboo Settlement #1 home last week Wednesday.
The ordeal, which lasted around four hours, left the family still traumatised a week after the incident, according to father Krishna Ramphal.
Speaking to the Express about the incident yesterday, Ramphal recalled that he got up around 2.30 a.m. that day to watch cricket.
He said as he sat on his bed in his room, he saw five masked men push open the door to his room and enter.
They jumped him on his bed, shouting, “Police! Police!” and other expletives, and choked him.
“Ah go to bawl, they band mih mouth, they band mih hand, they band mih foot,” Ramphal recalled.
They (criminals) then asked him who was in the other room and he told them his daughter. He was then ordered not to make any noise.
Ramphal said the bandits entered his daughter’s room where one of them grabbed her while the four others ransacked her room and took her jewelry, money and other valuables.
“I had $1,003. I checked that the day before because I say I would organise to give (a contribution) to my pundit for Divali. My phone was charging, they took it,” he said.
Pointing to a phone on the counter, he said his son had given him that one to replace the one taken by the bandits.
He said they then asked his daughter for his son, Ryan, as if they knew who he was.
Ramphal said his daughter was told by the bandits to not make any noise or raise any alarms.
She knocked on his (Ryan’s) door while the bandits had two guns to her head and when he asked what happened, she told him that their father was sick again and to be quiet.
Threats of mutilation
Ramphal said when his son opened the door to his bedroom, he was met by guns to his face and the men subsequently taped his mouth to prevent him from making any noise.
“The ordeal started there. They scrapped his room, all his money, all his jewelry. The man made some jewelry for the little child (one year old), they took all of that. But the child slept through the ordeal.
“They asked Ryan— that is all the money? Ryan gave them everything, and they real ransack the house, all of the rooms,” said Ramphal.
Dissatisfied with the amount of money they were given, the bandits put his son on the bed and threatened to cut off one of his feet.
“They were talking to somebody (on the phone) and the person told them don’t do them nothing. They are good people,” he recalled.
He said the bandits also went into his 78-year-old brother’s home on the same premises and brought him into his (Ramphal’s) home.
His brother was also robbed of $23,000 which he was saving to use for his funeral expenses.
Aware of how costly it is to conduct a funeral under Hindu rites, his brother did not want to put that financial burden on his family, Ramphal said.
He also said their family was a praying family and no strangers to charity, and it was a common practice for the family to assist anyone who was in need; so this attack on his family came as a shock to him.
“They go behind the jhandi (Hindu flags) there, they sat down, they defecate,” he added.
Ramphal said there were ten bandits—one was by the temple in the yard, one was outside at the entrance of the business place, and eight of them were inside his home.
The 73-year-old said he was unable to sleep in his bedroom because he keeps replaying the events of that night in his head.
He said besides his daughter’s two-year-old BMW car, the money, personal effects and goods that were taken were estimated to be valued at over $200,000.
The bandits loaded up everything that they stole in his daughter’s BMW and left approximately four hours after, he added.
Bar robbed of money, liquor
A bar which is also located in Bamboo Settlement Number One was burglarised in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The owner told the Express the perpetrators broke into his bar via the back entrance around 1 a.m.
He said he closed the bar at 12.30 a.m. yesterday, and returned around 7.30 a.m. when a neighbour called to tell him the back door of his business place was open.
“He (the neighbour) called me on video call and showed me (the opened door), and I was like, boy they break in the place,” said the businessman.
He said his vault, cash register with a total of $40,000 cash were stolen from his business place.
As for the drinks that were stolen in the incident, he said: “They stole the more expensive stuff, Johnnie Walker, Hennessy and Puncheon...”
He said the estimated value of the drinks that were stolen was $6,500 to $7,000.
He also said even though he was devastated by the incident, as a businessman he had to try to move on from it as he incurred a major loss.
The businessman said he intends to engage the services of a private security firm to prevent any future attacks on his business.
When asked about his thoughts about the controversial guard booth being erected in Bamboo Settlement Number Two, he said as a resident in that area he supported the initiative.
However, he added that other initiatives were needed to deal with the heightened crime situation in the area, as bandits were using the river to make their way into the community and distress residents and businesses.
He said as a businessman in the area for the past two years, he tried to implement security measures in the community but did not receive positive feedback from members of the community.
He added that people only seem to be concerned crime in the area when it hit their homes and he is of the belief that proactive steps should be taken to prevent such occurrences altogether.
“I give Inshan (Ishmael) a hundred per cent support because at least he still trying something,” said the frustrated businessman.
He also expressed disappointment with the lack of community initiatives geared towards steering youth in the area away from crime.
He said in the simple thing such as maintaining the cricket ground in the area the relevant authorities don’t seem to understand the importance of that and its role in giving youth something constructive to do with their free time.
“This ground here used to have some of the best windball tournaments in Trinidad and Tobago. I played cricket here and to see it in this state now. It’s sad,” he said.
The businessman emphasised that he believed playing cricket on the grounds kept him as a young man out of trouble because it provided him with the opportunity to do something productive with his time.
If you find the attack sounding strangely personal and vindictive put 2+2 together.
I've been a victim of crime countless times before. This, though, was the first time a gun was shoved in my face.
But then someone I know told me, "You need to be more alert, Paolo."
I didn't know I had a monkey gland until I read that text.
Trinis have become adept at revictimising victims by theorising they were attacked because of what they did or failed to do. "Who tell she to wear jewellery!" "Whey dem going with all dat cyash!" "You ain't see de house? Dem in drugs."
Citizens make contortions, justifications, excuses and physics-defying leaps of reason to explain away crime.
This is all done to downplay an unsettling reality: there are multiple acts of criminality every day, everywhere. It's an ongoing criminal insurrection that's continued at a steady pace for years now.
Citizens deflect the in-your-face truths for several reasons. Some do so because of slavish fealty to a nakedly derelict, dysfunctional government. Others do it to comfort themselves; make believe they won't be next because they don't do what victims do.
A few words on that: I stopped socialising years ago. I don't travel by night, go to the cinema, restaurants, boat rides, or the beach. If I need to go to the grocery or anywhere in public, I try to park closest to the entrance. Never one to wear jewellery, my public presence is decidedly inconspicuous. There's no fancy car, clothes, or any markers of affluence.
It's no way to live, but it's a way to survive.
Ninety-five per cent of my financial transactions are done through online banking and I generally use a card for retail purchases. I'd rarely have more than $100 on me at any given time. My life is a model of risk reduction.
Still, in a society under 24/7 siege, eventually one's number is called.
Worse than the criminality and the murders is the way TT society has normalised living with these soul-eaters coiled on their haunches in the shadows. We have shaped our existence around a perversely abnormal scourge – the perpetual terror of the masked gunman.
——
When citizens make excuses for criminality, we make allowances for its continuation. As society quietly accepts that a minister of national security who has failed in his job is allowed to keep it, there can be no expectation of safety or peace.
zoom rader wrote:Local grade or vincy?pugboy wrote:where the joint patrols?
That dude is a known PNM supporter and very biased in his reporting.dogg wrote:Nice article from Paolo Kernahan
Last week I was robbed at gunpoint.I've been a victim of crime countless times before. This, though, was the first time a gun was shoved in my face.
But then someone I know told me, "You need to be more alert, Paolo."
I didn't know I had a monkey gland until I read that text.Trinis have become adept at revictimising victims by theorising they were attacked because of what they did or failed to do. "Who tell she to wear jewellery!" "Whey dem going with all dat cyash!" "You ain't see de house? Dem in drugs."
Citizens make contortions, justifications, excuses and physics-defying leaps of reason to explain away crime.
This is all done to downplay an unsettling reality: there are multiple acts of criminality every day, everywhere. It's an ongoing criminal insurrection that's continued at a steady pace for years now.Citizens deflect the in-your-face truths for several reasons. Some do so because of slavish fealty to a nakedly derelict, dysfunctional government. Others do it to comfort themselves; make believe they won't be next because they don't do what victims do.
A few words on that: I stopped socialising years ago. I don't travel by night, go to the cinema, restaurants, boat rides, or the beach. If I need to go to the grocery or anywhere in public, I try to park closest to the entrance. Never one to wear jewellery, my public presence is decidedly inconspicuous. There's no fancy car, clothes, or any markers of affluence.
It's no way to live, but it's a way to survive.
Ninety-five per cent of my financial transactions are done through online banking and I generally use a card for retail purchases. I'd rarely have more than $100 on me at any given time. My life is a model of risk reduction.
Still, in a society under 24/7 siege, eventually one's number is called.Worse than the criminality and the murders is the way TT society has normalised living with these soul-eaters coiled on their haunches in the shadows. We have shaped our existence around a perversely abnormal scourge – the perpetual terror of the masked gunman.
——
When citizens make excuses for criminality, we make allowances for its continuation. As society quietly accepts that a minister of national security who has failed in his job is allowed to keep it, there can be no expectation of safety or peace.
pugboy wrote:nobody gonna riot or march
what about the andrea bharat signatures?
pugboy wrote:heinz say he give out 30 pul
out if 350 applicants
go figure
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