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Felicity temple vandalised
...Jack wants quick police action
By Susan Mohammed susan.mohammed@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Aug 6, 2013 at 9:16 PM ECT
Story Updated: Aug 7, 2013 at 12:14 PM ECT
A HINDU temple in Felicity, where Chaguanas West Member of Parliament Jack Warner held a puja (prayer service) before the last Monday’s by-election, was burglarised and torched yesterday.
Over $230,000 worth in gold jewelry which adorned 20 murtis in the temple, and cash from a donation box, was stolen.
Carpet, drapery and plastic chairs worth more than $50,000 were destroyed in the fire at the Shri Sankar Mandir at Cacandee Road.
Secretary of the temple Ramdin Rooplal said the incident followed an incident on Saturday, when the saris draped over the murtis were slashed.
Rooplal said the fire was discovered around 1 p.m. by a passerby.
Warner visited the temple yesterday afternoon and surveyed the damage.
“I am amazed that this could be done in broad daylight when the culprits can be seen by anybody vicinity of the temple”, said Warner.
“To think this is political I don’t want to rush to judgement. There is no evidence here that this was political. What I do know however there has been a wanton act of vandalism.”
Warner said he wanted the police officers “to try to solve matter quickly. I will work with the organisation here to have this place restored in the shortest possible time.”
He said: “Crime is on the rise. Seven murders in 12 hours is a shocker for any country.
If the minister is comfortable with crime, and if he is believes crime is on the downhill then so be it.”
The incident is being investigated as an act of sacrilege by officers of the Chaguanas Police Station.
—SM
Trinidad's Siewdass Sadhu Shiva Mandir Vandalized and Murtis Destroyed
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WATERLOO, TRINIDAD, August 5, 2007: (HPI note: Following are several stories on the attack by Christians upon Trinidad's most famous temple.) Members of the Siewdass Sadhu Shiva Mandir are calling for security measures to be set up on the temple's compound after it was broken into and vandalized over the weekend. Pamela Gokool, secretary of the mandir's committee, also known as the Temple in the Sea, said she received a call around 7 a.m. yesterday informing her that the temple had been broken into. Pointing to an area on the wall that was singed from the ground upwards, she said cupboards inside the building were emptied and the contents, along with puja items were piled into a corner and set afire. "This is a heinous crime, undoubtedly committed by some ungodly person with a lot of hate and animosity inside," she said. "People are supposed to have respect for God and for this holy place and I am angry and hurt that this has happened. "There have been petty break-ins before, but this by far is the worst."
Scores of temple members, devout Hindus as well as curious onlookers all braved the heavy rains and flocked to the temple as word of its vandalism spread. Deonarine Maharaj, a temple member, deemed the act as disgusting. "The person or persons who did this had to be very evil," he said. One man, who did not wish to be named, said that he became emotional on seeing the damage done to the Mandir. "A real Hindu looking at this will be hurt to the core. Words cannot express what I want to say right now," he said.
Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Satnarine Maharaj, is calling on Prime Minister Patrick Manning to take steps to prevent any upsurge in racial tensions in this pre-election period. Maharaja's call came yesterday as Hindus reeled in shock and sorrow at the news that the Siewdass Sadhu Shiva Mandir, better known as the Temple-In-The-Sea, in Orange Valley, was vandalized, and an attempt made to burn it down. Vandals toppled and smashed murtis of four Hindu deities--Lord Ganesh, Lord Krishna, Mother Durga and Lord Hanuman. They also used jhandis and boulders to smash glass window panes and attempted to burn down the structure by setting fire next to the southern wall inside the temple. Officials of the temple's committee noted, however, that the collection boxes remained untouched. Samdaye Siewdass, widow of the man who single-handedly built the temple, was reduced to tears when she entered the temple yesterday afternoon. She was so saddened by the destruction that she could not say a word. To read additional news reports and photos of the Mandir on the vandalizing of the temple, go to URL above.
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speedmelter wrote:when i was younger i went to try out for a cricket club that plays by the arima veledrome. i was only 15 or 16. the coach organised everyone into who wished to bat and bowl, he tossed a ball down to the bowling end so i assumed he wanted to give me a chance. when i picked it up and went to bowl he told me in a disdainful manner, 'what yuh feel it is, alyuh indian now come here and want to be in the middle of everyting' and sent me to field. thats racism and PNM attitude for you right there.
and there are no stats for things like these. its just the way pple are
speedmelter wrote:
its always funny though, the ignorant foolish racist ones are those who are worse off in life, like taking a red band to go home, drinking cheap wine, always broke, writing cxc three to four times..
speedmelter wrote:when i was younger i went to try out for a cricket club that plays by the arima veledrome. i was only 15 or 16. the coach organised everyone into who wished to bat and bowl, he tossed a ball down to the bowling end so i assumed he wanted to give me a chance. when i picked it up and went to bowl he told me in a disdainful manner, 'what yuh feel it is, alyuh indian now come here and want to be in the middle of everyting' and sent me to field. thats racism and PNM attitude for you right there.
and there are no stats for things like these. its just the way pple are
without ever reading a book and finding out the title Coo**e Town goes back more than 100 years. Plus, Naipaul left Trinidad because of his disdain of Trinidad (even his Indo-Trinidadian culture, read House of Mr. Biswas).toyota2nr wrote:Indos in St. James migrated because PNM and their supporters called the area Coo**e Town. Go and ask V.S. Naipaul why he had to leave T&T.
rfari wrote:Riveting.
How about a story about a pnm person cussing u up?
Use the words curry, rum, ghee and coconut oil in his dialog.
Also add a twist; makeup something about the pnm person coming to you some time afterwards to ask for money to buy breakfast while u eating ur sada roti from home.
Ready? Go...
speedmelter wrote:rfari wrote:Riveting.
How about a story about a pnm person cussing u up?
Use the words curry, rum, ghee and coconut oil in his dialog.
Also add a twist; makeup something about the pnm person coming to you some time afterwards to ask for money to buy breakfast while u eating ur sada roti from home.
Ready? Go...
ok i will tell you about my neighbour,
he is always on the board for some village council or some charity thing like a raffle or food drive, he brought some cheap "lawyers" and outsmarted a set of squatters lower down by me having them think they could pay a couple thousand to own the land they were squatting on. sometimes he would come over for lunch and coming up to the end of it, he would leave back like a really negligible amount of food in his plate and ask my mum to pack it for him in a bowl or sum for later. obviously my mum wont pack some grains of rice for him but would give him a fresh meal nicely done. although hes pnm he's not racist, he just tries to paint a picture on the outside as some classy individual but really is a cunning cheapskate looking to outsmart another individual. not to mention for election he comes alive and its alot of smiles and good news as if life is going to change for the poor people by me. they gave him black and white to share just before elections and he was selling it off cheaply lol
speedmelter wrote:habit you have certain things correct.
but the lifeblood of the PNM is the scum of trinidad, they depend on them to go out and vote. if the scum was able to multiply enough to garner enough votes to secure rule, they would say to hell with the other guys who ask for more than just small freeness. if elections were held every year, trinidad would be the happiest country on earth.
Habit7 wrote:speedmelter wrote:habit you have certain things correct.
but the lifeblood of the PNM is the scum of trinidad, they depend on them to go out and vote. if the scum was able to multiply enough to garner enough votes to secure rule, they would say to hell with the other guys who ask for more than just small freeness. if elections were held every year, trinidad would be the happiest country on earth.
Who are the "scum of Trinidad?"
Habit7 wrote:^^^dude you are beating around the bush, who is the "scum of Trinidad"?
And by what you have said so far you are in no position to criticise anyone for stereotyping anyone of a collective group.
rfari wrote:Yet another riveting tale from speedmelter but no keywords and plot twist as requested
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