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The NGO Concerned Parents Movement of TT (CPMTT) led by Clarence Mendoza is preparing to host a workshop in an attempt to curb incidences of violence in schools.
It is set to begin by the end of May to hear from students, parents, and other stakeholders.
On Friday, Mendoza told Newsday that the organisation is in the process of writing several government ministries — Education, National Security and Youth Development and National Service— to come on board in piloting the project.
"This will be a national initiative because we want to hear from each educational district. We must get out there and do something," he said.
"We are concerned about the level of violence, especially among the female students. We have grown accustomed to the males fighting, and we want to know the females are now fighting. We need to hear directly from the youths and why they are behaving the way they do. Then we need to put the necessary measures in place."
Mendoza said the police alone cannot deal with delinquents. He charged that nowadays, most children are raising themselves as parents are at work or elsewhere.
On parents intervening in brawls with students, he urged them not to take the law into their own hands and instead referred matters to the police.
Several reports of school fights nationwide have occurred in the past few weeks.
Several government ministers, including the Prime Minister and Education Minister have called on parents to do their part, saying they have a critical role to play in shaping children's minds.
On Wednesday night, a Facebook post by National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said parents are the first responders and the best crime stoppers.
The post was accompanied by a viral 29-second video that shows students in uniform fighting.
The post said a student was killed in a country in the region in a "similar episode" of bad/criminal behaviour.
"It seems that our bad behavior will not stop until we get a similar outcome. Imagine students of different schools in competition for which school could generate the most fights. Sadly, this is the unfortunate result of our collective poor socialisation of our youth," the post said.
"Bear in mind that their behaviours are also seriously influenced by the events occurring way outside of their homes and their country, via social media. Meanwhile, the girls at SAGS, are in stiff competition to see which school wins the most scholarships."
Hinds added that they demonstrate that in the midst of the madness, bacchanal and confusion that some seem to love and revel in.
There are others, he said, who are holding up the ideals and meeting the expectations of what we are supposed to be.
"Most of all, what we have the potential to become. The law enforcement platform of National Security will do our part, but parents, teachers, and others in the society must all join in, to do theirs."
Over the past few years, there have been several videos of Siparia West Secondary School (SWSS) students fighting.
SWSS PTA president Clive Auguste told News
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What do we know about the children of Deion Sanders? Former NFL athlete Deion Sanders played in the NFL for 14 years. The “Prime Time” athlete earned a number of titles and awards for his time playing. And in 2011, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Many fans recognize him for his football career, but Sanders also played professional baseball for nine years . He signed with the New York Yankees as part of the 1988 MLB draft. And the following year, he would go on to make history as the first and only person to hit a professional home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week. Even though Sanders has since retired, his love of football still lives on. Today, he acts as the head football coach of the Jackson State Tigers in Mississippi. But even having a Hall of Fame title under his belt, Sanders would argue that his greatest accomplishment is his children. He has five children: two with his ex-wife Carolyn Chambers and three with his second ex-wife Pilar...
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A 22-year-old Barataria man who lured his victims through items on sale on Facebook was identified by five victims and will be charged with larceny by trick and robbery with aggravation.
The man, police said, will be charged with four offences of larceny by trick. He advertised tools and electronics for sale and took the money from his victims and ran away after collecting the money. He tricked four people out of $3,000, $5500, $3,700 and $9,000.
He is charged with one count of robbery with aggravation for robbing one person at gunpoint of an iPhone worth $4,000.
The offences took place between May and August.
He was arrested during a sting operation by officers of the San Juan and Morvant CID.
Police reported between 3.45 pm and 6 pm on August 20, officers pretended to be customers and met with the man. Police said in keeping with his modus operandi, the man told them he was going to collect his receipt book not far away. He was arrested shortly after.
Police said the man attracted customers from all over the country, and when he met them would issue receipts before telling them to accompany him nearby for the items. He would then run off with their money.
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Entrepreneur Lamont “Tory” Stapleton is calling out Balenciaga for allegedly stealing one of his designs — a black crewneck with the word “FREE” written across the chest in varsity lettering. Stapleton took to his social media to tell his followers what inspired the line, and what happened.
Two men appeared before a Chaguanas magistrate on Thursday for multiple shooting offences, a police release said.
Nicholas Reid, 28, from Cunupia and Nevash Maraj, 20, from Las Lomas, were charged with several offences, including shooting with intent, possession of firearms and possession of firearms to endanger lives. They were charged with eight offences in total.
Reid was remanded in custody, and Maraj was granted bail of $350,000. The matter was adjourned to September 22.
The release on Friday said the two victims were in their vehicle in Chase Village on August 22 when another vehicle pulled up alongside and a man armed with a gun got out. The gunman shot at the victims several times and hit their vehicle.
The victims escaped to the Freeport police station, chased by the gunmen. At the station, the victims pointed out the attackers' vehicle to the police, who chased it along the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway.
The two suspects were eventually intercepted and police found a Smith and Wesson revolver and three spent shells in the vehicle.
In a separate incident on Thursday evening, police in Petit Valley found a Glock pistol loaded with a magazine containing five rounds of ammunition at a house on Simeon Road. Investigations are ongoing.
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Former TT radio and television broadcasting icon David Elcock has died, his son Jason Elcock confirmed yesterday.
He was 78 and would have been 79 next month.
In a brief phone interview with Newsday, Elcock said his father died at about 1.30 pm on Thursday in Brooklyn, New York.
Although he could not give thecause of death, he said, his father had been ailing for some time.
David Elcock was one of the country’s pioneering broadcasters.
A bio on Radiokyso.com said Elcock’s career spanned more than 30 years in radio and television.
He was known for the now defunct National Broadcasting Service’s (NBS) Radio 610’s Elcock in the Morning programme, which ran from the early 70s to the 90s. It was a favourite of both local and regional audiences.
On the night-time TV show TT Tonight, Elcock would interview local leading artistes, government officials, sport personalities and visiting entertainers.
He also sang popular songs with his ex-wife Mavis John such as You Are What Love Is.
Veteran journalist Dominic Kalipersad said Elcock was a legend, passionate, intense, amusing and knowledgeable.
He said it was an honour to work with him.
“I could not imagine that the person whom I had been hearing on the radio during my youth, I ended up being his programme director when I worked, after TTT, at Trinidad Broadcasting Company Ltd.
“He was one of the primary voices on Radio Tempo 105.1 FM, which was the first all-local music radio station in the country launched by the veteran Neil Giuseppi.”
Kalipersad said Elcock would continue to be recognised as one of TT’s legendary broadcasters.
Giuseppi also paid tribute to him, sharing an article he wrote about Elcock’s life and work to his Facebook page.
He said Elcock was born on September 20, 1943 on Duncan Street, Port of Spain.
He joined 610 Radio (then Radio Guardian) in 1962 as a trainee announcer, and launched The David Elcock Show which ran until 1972.
Elcock also worked in advertising at the firm Christiansen and Belgrave.
In 1976, he launched Elcock in the Morning, “which would top all the annual radio surveys for almost 15 years,” Giuseppi said.
Elcock was also one of the most in-demand MCs of his time, he added.
Giuseppi said Elcock introduced iconic international acts such as Stevie Wonder, Barry White, and Dionne Warwick.
He met Elcock professionally in the 90s when, as managing director of Trinidad Broadcasting Company, he persuaded him to leave 610 Radio and join the Radio Tempo (105.1 FM) team. Elcock also worked as the host of the New Scouting for Talent before migrating to the US.
Though semi-retired, Elcock worked with Radio Kyso.com in the US.
In 1990, he received the Humming Bird Medal (Silver) for public service.
He leaves to mourn his children Marc, Amanda and Jason and wife Juliet.
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The man whose body was found floating in waters at Swallow’s Beach, Tobago, on Wednesday has been identified as 84-year-old Friedhelm Knie.
He was identified by his son Jochen Knie, 55, a businessman.
Knie was vacationing with family members on a yacht which was docked approximately 200 metres from the shore at Swallow’s Beach. He died while trying to swim from the yacht to the shore.
Knie’s body bore no marks of violence and police have classed his death as a drowning.
Police said around noon on Wednesday, Carlson Edwards, 32, of Store Bay Local Road, Bon Accord, was sitting in a vehicle on Pigeon Point Road, Crown Point, when he saw something floating in the water and realised it was the body of an elderly man.
Edwards alerted the police and PC Woods and others from the Crown Point Police Station responded.
Knie was wearing a green and black police T-shirt, dark-coloured shorts and a watch.
Police also found some cash and a pair of three-quarter demin shorts near the body.
District medical officer Dr Delmon Baker pronounced Knie dead at approximately 1.50pm and ordered his body removed to the Scarborough Mortuary for a post-mortem.
Sgts Guy, Jones and PCs Broomes and Wharwood, of the Homicide Bureau, visited the scene. They were accompanied by PCs Grant and Abraham.
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