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A police officer escorts Tri

Tricia
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Villaruel, the moth
mother
o e of four-year-old Amarah Lallite

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(inset), into her Fifth Street, Five Rivers home yesterday. Amarah was beheaded
by a relative on Monday night. PICTURE ABRAHAM DIAZ

SHOCK
Girl, 4, beheaded
by stepfather
Woman ambushed,
executed in car
Murder victim Crystal Harricharan

Man killed during

quarrel with wife
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Online porn ring Constitution reform 8

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The
News
Digest
Today’s stories
in capsule
OPINION
Children
beyond the
legal
boundaries
There is more than one
reason to feel uncomfortable
and emotionally queasy about
some matters discussed at
last Friday’s hearing of the
Joint Select Committee on
Human Rights, Equality and
Diversity with special focus
on the question of child
labour. Numerous unpleasant
memories, old and new,
returned to heighten
my discomfort over the
framing of official positions
expressed, albeit out of
undeniable concern by state
functionaries. Don’t get me
wrong, there
was nothing
but good
intentions on
show at the
hearing.
Wesley Gibbings
—Page 12
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Quote of the Day
“Hurt leads to bitterness,
bitterness to anger,
travel too far that road
and the way is lost.”
— Terry Brooks
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LEAD STORY NEWS INTERNATIONAL REC
Girl, 4, decapitated Online porn ring victim Israel PM vows to Prestigious award
by stepfather
As news of the gruesome killing
speaks out continue invasion
Still battling the psychological of Gaza
for T&T’s Paganini
of the Steelpan
and dismembering of four-year-
old Amarah Lallite began to circu-
late in the early hours yesterday,
trauma of seeing her intimate vid-
eos and photographs shared on-
line, one victim of the local illicit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has escalated his
T&T’s Liam Teague, Head of Steel-
pan Studies at Northern Illinois
an already traumatised nation fell porn market is warning young pledge to invade the southern University (NIU), was recently
to its knees as details of the hor- women not to record and share Gaza city of Rafah, saying a date presented with the Champion
rific act became known. provocative images of themselves. has been set for the ground of- of the Arts Award by Fox Valley
An overwhelming outpouring Hannah Smith (not her real fensive into the city filled with Music Consortium’s (FVMC) Fox
of prayers began almost instantly
for the four-year-old toddler, who
name) said having intimate con-
tent exposed can ruin women’s
around 1.4 million Palestinians,
most of whom are displaced from
Valley Orchestra.
The award, which was pre-
was reportedly killed by a man lives, as she worries about her fu- other parts of the Gaza Strip.
The United States, Israel’s clos-
sented by the president of FVMC
Jonathan Houser, was in recogni-
who had been like a father to her ture job prospects. While she cur-
for the duration of almost her en- rently has a supportive boyfriend, est ally, has said a ground opera- tion of Teague’s lifetime achieve-
tion ... —Page 14 ments and support ... —Page 21
tire life. —Page 5 she found ... —Page 7
SEE
INSIDE
Astrophotographer Sherwin Cashie, right, Ravindranath Goswami and Wendy Ham prepare to watch the “Great
North American Eclipse” from Dallas, Texas, on Monday.
An eclipse chaser is born
BRENT PINHEIRO
Reporter
WEATHER
On Monday, millions in North America turned their
eyes to the heavens, peering through special glasses SUNNY
and telescopes to catch a glimpse of what had been
dubbed the “Great North American Eclipse”.
Trinbagonian Sherwin Cashie was among the
crowds in Dallas, Texas, but his eyes were focused
on something else—the display screen of his camera.
An astrophotographer by choice, Cashie went spe-
cifically to the United States to capture his first solar
eclipse. He’d spent months planning the trip—me-
ticulously choosing his viewing location. With the
path of totality, where onlookers can witness the
Sunny, slightly hazy and at
times breezy despite the odd
moon fully blocking the sun, stretching from central shower. Fair night.
Mexico, across 15 US states, and southern Canada,
Cashie was spoilt for choice. He chose Dallas based Piarco Max 34°C Min 23°C
on predicted weather conditions—anything but clear Crown Point Max 32°C Min 25°C
skies would ruin the big event.
Cashie is no stranger to photographing the stars.
An afternoon lecture at NIHERST some 20-odd years YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
Monday’s “Great North American Eclipse” as seen from
ago piqued his interest in astronomy. His first time Dallas, Texas. PICTURE SHERWIN CASHIE 10.30 am: 25 (Morocoy)
seeing a lunar eclipse through a telescope out in a 1 pm: 1 (Centipede)
field and photographing it with a mobile phone, ce- At 2.40 pm local time, Cashie’s mind was made 4 pm: 17 (Pigeon)
mented his love for space. up. Darkness enveloped the area as the moon passed
7 pm: 16 (Jamette)
The COVID-19 pandemic proved a turning point between the sun and the Earth and Cashie and his
for Cashie. Like many, he used the time to explore fellow eclipse watchers were treated to views of the 10.30 am:14,11
the world of astrophotography, training his cam- sun’s corona and Baily’s beads. Four minutes later, 1 pm: 30, 18
era lens and telescope towards some of the biggest totality was over, but Cashie would later tell Guard- 4 pm: 16, 16
and brightest objects in the night sky. Since then, ian Media that the goosebumps lasted for more than 7pm: 2, 36
he’s photographed both the known and the not so 30 minutes—and just like that, an eclipse chaser was
well-known celestial bodies and formations ... think born. 10.30 am: 3, 4, 7, 5
Mars, Jupiter and Rosette Nebula. What’s next for him? Besides running his AstroIs- 1 pm: 1, 4, 1, 9
Total solar eclipses are not an everyday occur- land YouTube channel, where he teaches astropho-
4 pm: 9, 3, 2, 7
rence and when Guardian Media spoke to him hours tography, the planning begins as there are a few
7 pm: 5, 5, 6, 9
before his flight to Texas, Cashie jokingly said he’ll total solar eclipses in the next few years at far-flung
decide after the event if he would become an eclipse locations across the globe. As for the rest of us in
chaser. Eclipse chasers travel specifically to see as- T&T, we’ll have to wait until 2045 to see a total solar 2, 4, 11, 14, 17 M: 1
tronomical events. eclipse in our own backyards.
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Nation in shock as girl, 4,
decapitated by stepfather
Act conducted while mom was in station making domestic report
ANNALISA PAUL
Senior Reporter
anna-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt
As news of the gruesome killing
and dismembering of four-year-
old Amarah Lallite began to circu-
late in the early hours yesterday,
an already traumatised nation fell
to its knees as details of the hor-
rific act became known.
An overwhelming outpouring
of prayers began almost instantly
for the four-year-old, who was
reportedly killed by a man who
had been like a father to her for
almost her entire life.
In shock as she walked out of
the Forensic Science Centre in St
James after identifying little Ama-
rah’s body yesterday, her mother,
Tricia Villaruel, choked up as she
whispered, “I never thought he
would have done that. He loved
Amarah.”
She added, “He would have
killed for her, he always protected
her. He was never violent to her.”
Little Amarah is believed to
have been killed between 10 pm
Monday and midnight yesterday
at her Fifth Street, Five Rivers,
Arouca home by her stepfather,
even as her mother stood before
officers at the Arouca Police Sta-
tion filing a domestic disturbance
report.
At the FSC yesterday, the weep-
ing Villaruel recounted, “My
daughter Amarah was a loving,
loving, loving child.”
Staring blankly off before grief
caused her to close her eyes, she
went on, “She was the light of the
tablet. But he try to drag me into
the room because he look like he
was going to harm me. I called her
to come but she not coming. She
was laughing like she thought we
were playing so I had no choice.”
Saying she anticipated the
police would have responded
sooner, Villaruel lamented the
fact that she left her house to get
help.
Fifth Street is approximately
400 metres away from the Arouca
Police Station, which is located in
Five Rivers Junction, and is walk-
ing distance away from the prop-
erty.
Guardian Media was told the
suspect recently began acting
differently and speaking strange
utterances.
The house where four-year-old Amarah Lallite was beheaded on Fifth Police reports indicate that
Street, Five Rivers, Arouca, on Monday. PICTURE ABRAHAM DIAZ Amarah’s mother arrived at the
room. Everybody loved this child. but that’s how he was acting, like Arouca Police Station around
Everybody...” if he was a different person, and 10.10 pm to lodge a report of do-
Fighting to find the words as her different personalities were talk- mestic violence and begged for
elder daughter stood at her side, ing to me that night.” police intervention.
Villaruel shook her head, saying, But she claimed she had never When officers subsequently
“I can say nothing bad about her. I experienced such a side of the went to Villaruel’s residence,
don’t know what would make him suspect before. it was locked up and in dark-
want to harm that child so much. “He never showed me that type ness. The officers called the sus-
She was a darling. She was every- of tendency. He was never an pect’s name several times and he
body darling.” angry person or violent person, emerged barebacked and wearing
Villaruel, 41, and the 39-year- so when I discovered he killed three-quarter pants.
old suspect were involved in a her, I was shocked.” The officers instructed the
common-law relationship which Admitting the incident was a mother to carry out a welfare
spanned Amarah’s age. shocking blow, she admitted to check for the child. When she
Asked if the suspect had ever leaving the child in the house to entered the house, however, she
been violent before or what could get help from the police as she screamed uncontrollably upon
have triggered the homicidal ep- feared the suspect wanted to finding Amarah’s headless body.
isode, the grieving woman ap- harm her too. A female officer then rushed
peared confused, saying, “No, he “I was in the station making the into the house, where she found
never showed any indication of report at the time. When I left, Amarah’s mutilated body.
being schizo. I don’t want to say, she was on the bed watching her A check showed the little girl
news 5
Four-year-old Amarah Lallite
was killed in one bedroom, after
which her body was dragged into
another bedroom, and her head
was stashed in a barrel at the back
of the house.
After learning of the horrify-
ing crime, people at the scene
expressed shock, noting that the
suspect appeared calm and did
not have any traces of blood on
him.
The suspect was later arrested
and taken to the police station
for questioning, whilst the North
Central Division Task Force per-
formed a static guard at the res-
idence until forensic officers
returned to the scene yesterday
morning.
In a voice note regarding the
killing, Snr Supt of the North Cen-
tral Division, Richard Smith, ap-
pealed to the public to seek help
if they were in any distress in re-
lationships.
“Please do not resort to vio-
lence to settle domestic issues.
Seek professional help from the
time the earliest signs of abuse
appears,” Smith said.
“Do not use your young in-
nocent children to settle your
scores. This is a real case of the
devastating impact of domestic
abuse where an innocent child’s
life was snuffed out.”
Guardian Media understands
that counselling has been made
available to Villaruel and other
relatives, close friends and police
officers who responded.

Amarah’s father claims he fought for custody

JENSEN LA VENDE
Senior Reporter
jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt
The father of Amarah Lallite, the
four-year-old who was beheaded
on Monday night, says he tried his
best to gain custody of his child
and had he been successful, she
would be alive today.
Shannon Lallite told Guardian
Media yesterday that while he
spent the last three years out of
the child’s life, it was not for a lack
of trying. He said after police told
him he could not file for custody,
he abandoned that and had tried
to contact her mother unsuccess-
fully since.
“Ah try! Ah try! Ah try! Because
when I tried to drop $1,500 and my
mother come back from New York
with a whole big bag of clothes for
my daughter, is because she now
come outside and say ‘I doh want
nothing from all yuh’ and she say
she was going to call the police,”
Lallite recalled.
Lallite said several attempts
Shannon Lallite, father of Amarah
Lallite, speaks to GML during an
interview yesterday.
to get in contact with the child’s
mother, Tricia Villaruel, were un-
successful.
Guardian Media was told Vil-
laruel lived at the Fifth Street, Five
Rivers, Arouca home for the better
part of three years.
“Three years now I trying to see
my daughter. Three years!” Lallite
said, adding he could not have
done any more for his child be-
cause he had no contact with her
mother and intermediaries were
not helpful.
He said he found out about the
killing from his brother, who came
banging at his door. The news
forced him to find the last known
address he had for his child.
Police said at about 10.10 pm on
Monday, the child’s mother visited
the Arouca Police Station with her
clothes tattered seeking help. Of-
ficers who took her information
escorted her to her home where
the body of the child was found
in one of the bedrooms. Her head
was found in a barrel at the back
of the house.
When Guardian Media visited
the scene around 1 am yesterday,
Snr Supt Richard Smith said his
officers, on seeing the gruesome
discovery, broke down and cried,
with some now needing counsel-
ling.
Counselling was also offered to
one neighbour, Eshana Moham-
med, who was seen crying at the
scene.
Guardian Media also overheard
one officer say they have a child as
young as Amarah and might need
counselling after processing the
scene. Another officer described
the scene as “satanic”.
Hours later, while some neigh-
bours did not want to speak on
the killing, others said they were
shocked, as the suspect, a 39-year-
old man who was arrested at the
home, was always quiet, a bit odd,
but never violent.
MP for the area, Marvin Gonza-
les, said he was disgusted by the
killing.
“While the end of any human
life is cause for sorrow, the tak-
ing of a child’s life is a reflection
of the state of the society to which
they belonged and the depravity
of the individual who carried out
the act.”
He added that with strong com-
munity bonds, such incidents will
not reoccur. He pledged his sup-
port in assisting the family and
community to heal.
As Amarah’s father sought an-
swers and looked for someone to
blame, he said he wanted to find
the suspect and do to him what
was done to his child. Lallite said
he found the systems failed to help
him get his child, which contrib-
uted to her death.
“I find the police could have
had some more understanding
because I had people who tell me
‘boy that is your daughter, nobody
can’t tell you anything’. Death was
the furthest thing from my mind, I
was not expecting death.”
Mohammed sought to comfort
him and encouraged both parents
to come together now to give their
“little angel” a proper burial.
“I know that you are hurting. I
know you have regrets but noth-
ing you do right now could bring
her back. I empathise with you
but right now being ignorant and
arrogant is not going to solve any-
thing. I know you’re hurting, and
you have a right to hurt but both
of you acted like children. All yuh
could have communicated better
and fight for that child,” she told
Lallite. (See page 6)
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Claxton Bay mom shot dead in car Vega de

SASCHA WILSON
Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
Three months after a Claxton Bay
mother fled her home after it was
firebombed twice and shot at, she
was murdered in Vistabella yester-
day morning.
Grief-stricken relatives of
38-year-old Crystal Harricharan
believe the police failed her, as she
had desperately sought their help
and protection.
They said her troubles began
shortly after she had a dispute on
New Year’s Eve with a resident over
how she parked her car. As a result,
she moved out of her home at Boo-
doo Trace Extension and left her
children with relatives, while she
stayed with her boyfriend at Jarvis
Street in Vistabella.
Yesterday morning, she had
planned to drop her boyfriend off
at work and then pick up her son
and nephew from their Claxton
Bay home and take them to school.
However, as she entered her car, a
Suzuki SX4, shortly after 7 am, a
man ran up to the driver’s window
and fired several shots at her.
CCTV footage then shows him
opening the driver’s door, duck-
ing inside the car and firing more
shots, before running back to a
white B-15 and escaping. Harricha-
ran died at the scene.
A relative who spoke at the scene
on the condition of anonymity
said Harricharan made numerous
reports at the St Margaret’s Police
Station.
“She had an incident on January
1 where her house get shoot. She
house was firebombed; they never
put she in a safe house, nothing.
Murder victim Crystal Harricharan
Waheeda Seenath, sister of murder
victim Crystal Harricharan, speaks
with reporters at her Claxton Bay
home yesterday.
PICTURE IVAN TOOLSIE
She went to the station, poor at-
titude when she gone to ask for
help.”
He said Harricharan also told the
police she was being followed.
Oropouche
man stabbed
to death by
wife
RALPH BANWARIE
An altercation between
a 19-year-old man and
his common-law wife
has led to his death,
after she stabbed him
with a kitchen knife
yesterday morning.
Crime scene investigators at the location where Crystal Harricharan was Nicholas Baptiste, of
murdered at Jarvis Street, Vistabella, yesterday. PICTURE IVAN TOOLSIE Sahadeen Trace, Vega
de Oropouche, Sangre
“We realised we not getting any the police could have done more. more
Grande, succumbed
help in St Margaret’s so we went to Lamenting her sister asked the po-
to a stab wound to his
Marabella. Marabella failed us. She lice for protection, she said, “She
chest at the Sangre
talked to an officer upstairs the was real frightened for she life and
Grande Hospital.
new building Police Administra- she used to frighten for she chil-
tion) in San Fernando.” dren. That’s why she used to keep
Reports indicated
However, the relative said police away from her children ...” that the man and
did not take her reports seriously. She said Harricharan dropped his 25-year-old com-
“When she went to tell them children to school for a living and mon-law wife had an
about the second firebomb, they was always cautious, as she sus- argument that turned
start to tell she what she coming pected she was being followed. into an altercation,
here for; it under investigation, Seenath said on Monday, her during which time she
they can’t do nothing. So she was sister took cake and ice cream to took a kitchen knife
like, all yuh waiting for me to her son’s school to celebrate his and stabbed him once
dead...” 10th birthday, while her daughter in the chest.
He said he felt helpless knowing celebrated her 15th birthday last Police have taken the
her life was at risk and he couldn’t Monday. woman into custody
do anything. Wiping away tears, she said, “I and recovered a knife
“It make me feel to do wrong and want justice for she, but the way stained with blood.
die too at the same time because it how this law working, I don’t think Officers of the San-
comes like you have no help,” he we will get justice. Everything goes gre Grande CID, led by
Inspector Vekash Ram-
added. below the rug.”
kisson, responded.
Speaking to reporters at her Clax- A senior police officer confirmed
ton Bay home, Harricharan’s older Harricharan made several reports,
sister Waheeda Seenath also felt but they could not find the suspect.

IRO president on child’s beheading:

It’s hell on Earth, strengthen your faith
JESSE RAMDEO
Senior Reporter
jesse.ramdeo@cnc3.co.tt
“We are in hell on Earth.”
That was the response from
Inter-Religious Organisation pres-
ident, Pundit Lloyd Mukram Sir-
joo, yesterday when asked about
the death of four-year-old Ama-
rah Lallite, who was beheaded by
a 39-year-old man now in police
custody.
During an interview with
Guardian Media, Pundit Sirjoo
said the incident sent shock waves
throughout the country.
“What would cause that to hap-
pen? Around the world, we see
genocide and wars taking place,
but across the world so much is
happening, and when it reaches
home where a little child is af-
fected, it shows our society is re-
ally lacking spirituality.”
As he referenced the tragedy,
he contended that given the spate
of crime and violence, which he
said continues unabated, citizens
needed to strengthen their fate.
“This couple, they would have
Pundit Lloyd Mukram Sirjoo
had their differences, and people
cannot pull apart or leave, and
that situation where the little child
has to face the consequences of
their mishandling of their own
problems, we need more spirit-
uality, and individuals need to
uplift their own spirituality and
create a momentum of positivity.”
As he lamented the crime
scourge, the IRO president main-
tained that law enforcement au-
thorities needed to continue their
fight.
“One of the main reasons why
these things are happening is be-
cause criminals are not caught;
if criminals are caught and crim-
inals are punished, and there is
an expectation of being caught
and an expectation of being pun-
ished, then you would not have
all of these things. The authorities
will always say we are doing this,
things are in process, and we will
be doing this and that. We want
to know that the criminals are
caught and put behind bars.”
He also said citizens can no
longer harbour offenders.
“Sometimes the public has a lot
of information, and if they share
the information with the author-
ities, crimes would be down a bit
and lessened a bit,” he said.
“But why are we not sharing?”
he asked.
Minister: Seek help for distressing situations
Minister of Gender and Child Affairs Ayanna Webster-Roy is urging members
of the public faced with distressing situations to seek help.
She made the appeal after the death of four-year-old Amarah Lallite.
Webster-Roy said the child’s death had immersed the nation in anguish.
However, she said professional help offered by various national social
support programmes could prevent situations from escalating into tragedy.
She said, “The tragic death of little Amarah is not only a grievous loss to her
family but has immersed our entire nation in anguish. I firmly believe that in
order to maintain peace and prosperity in our nation, all forms of abuse must
be eradicated.
“There is no excuse for mistreating anyone in an intimate relationship,
whether they are a man or a woman. As responsible adults, we can never
justify the abuse of children, nor should they ever be used as pawns in family
conflicts.”
Webster-Roy encouraged citizens to seek professional help and prevent
the family situation from escalating into unwanted and tragic circumstances,
saying that “our national social support system offers free counselling,
mediation, food, shelter, and even medical care assistance”.
Meanwhile, the Trinidad and Tobago Council of Evangelical Churches, in
a statement, condemned the murders of Amarah and mother of two Crystal
Harricharan, 35, who was shot and killed in Vistabella yesterday morning.
“We express profound shame and horror at the barbarity inflicted upon this
innocent child and the callous murder of the young mother of two, who was
shot repeatedly as she sat in her vehicle. These murders and several other acts
of criminal activity have deeply shaken our nation.”
The organisation called on the authorities to take swift and decisive action
to bring the perpetrators to justice. It also urged citizens to renew their
reverence for God and “to uphold the sanctity and dignity of human life”.
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Ward in new hospital to be named
in honour of highway crash victim
KAYMARIE FLETCHER
Senior Reporter
kay-marie.fletcher@guardian.co.tt
While thousands of Muslims are
celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with their
loved ones today, many more are
mourning the sudden loss of their
sister and friend, Azizah Moham-
med.
Mohammed, 38, who tragically
lost her life in a cross-over colli-
sion along the Solomon Hochoy
Highway, Gasparillo, on Monday,
was buried in an Islamic cere-
mony yesterday.
Paying tribute to her during the
ceremony, held at the Barakah
Grounds in Chaguanas, business-
man and social activist Inshan
Ishmael said the women’s ward of
the Barakah Medical Facility will
be named in her honour.
Ishmael said, “A special gift that
we will be bestowing on our dear
late sister, and that is the wom-
en’s ward, will be named the A
Mohammed Women’s Ward. It is
Online porn ring victim speaks out Canada warns citizens
KEVON FELMINE
Senior Reporter
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt
Still battling the psychological
trauma of seeing her intimate videos
and photographs shared online, one
victim of the local illicit porn market
is warning young women not to re-
cord and share provocative images
of themselves.
Hannah Smith (not her real name)
said having intimate content ex-
posed can ruin women’s lives, as
she worries about her future job
prospects. While she currently has
a supportive boyfriend, she found
that some men believe these victims
“are for the streets.”
“There is only so much we can
do with telling women not to take
intimate photos of themselves be-
cause it is appealing to a guy. There
is another thing with women taking
bikini pictures, but for the younger
generation, I would say do not take it
because you have a whole life ahead
of you. You do not know how it can
impact you in the future. Photos are
not a way of love,” Smith said.
Speaking with Guardian Media
yesterday, Smith said that although
intimate videos of her and her
ex-boyfriend began leaking around
August 2023, her friends saw them
in a Telegram porn-sharing chat up
to January. She believes her ex-part-
ner shared the content following a
bad break-up in March 2023.
Fast-forward to August 2023, a
random Facebook user directed
her to a profile that uses selfies
taken from her Instagram account.
Within weeks, the random man
shared screenshots of Messenger
conversations with the fake profile.
The profile would tell people about
Smith’s intimate content and share
the least we can do because we
cannot forget her and we will not
forget her. Because every time
we go up on that first floor and
we walk through that corridor
and we walk to the right, we will
see the A Mohammed’s Women’s
Ward.”
The hospital, also located at
the Barakah Grounds, is currently
under construction. He described
Mohammed as a healthy, good
person, noting she was preparing
to put together hundreds of boxes
for Eid celebrations today.
According to relatives, the Cun-
upia mother of three and her
husband, Hassan Hosein, were
in their grey Hyundai Accent
heading south on Monday when
Mohammed lost control of the ve-
hicle and crossed the median.
The car then crashed into a
Ford Ranger, which was head-
ing in a northerly direction. Mo-
hammed died at the scene. Her in stable condition at the San
husband was unable to attend Fernando Hospital up until last
her funeral because he remained evening.
A screengrab from a local Telegram
porn site.
it willingly. These photos and videos
showed Smith’s face clearly as she
got intimate with her ex-partner.
“I felt violated and angry, but it
was depressing. I never thought that
something like this would happen. I
deal with my emotions well, but I
shut down. I could not speak to peo-
ple well.”
Smith said she messaged her
ex-partner on Telegram a few days
later, inquiring about the videos and
the fake profile. While he confirmed
having the videos, he denied op-
erating the profile. The ex-partner
claimed that he carried his phone
for repairs and that someone might
have stolen the images there.
However, she said her ex never
checked with the phone technician
to see whether he accessed the im-
ages. Despite her and others report-
ing the fake profile to Facebook, the
company claims the page was not in
From left, sisters Asma Mohammed,
Amirah, and Sumayyah, are
comforted as they sit next to the
body of their mother, Azizah
Mohamed, inset, during her Janazah
at the Barakah Grounds, Chaguanas,
yesterday. PICTURE ABRAHAM DIAZ
Her daughters, 12-year-old
Asma, 16-year-old Sumayyah, and
Amirah, who turned 18 yesterday,
violation.
Just as Smith phased out the
over high degree of
trauma in December, her depres-
sion returned in January when two
friends informed her that they saw
violent crime in T&T
a video of her on a Telegram chat.
One member was requesting more
content from her. Seeking to plead
with those sharing her content,
Smith went through Telegram porn
groups and saw intimate images of
women she knows. She said while
these women thought they were
sending “View Once” images, the
recipients were using other phones
to record the images.
It has been months of anxiety for
Smith, and she now stays away from
anywhere she believes her ex-part-
ner could be. She worries that the
ordeal would damage her reputa-
tion and affect her goal of becoming
an entrepreneur. Most of all, she
shuddered at the thought of her
family finding out.
“I do not know what would hap-
pen if my family found out. It would
be horrible. My family would proba-
bly not speak to me because they are
not exactly understanding people.”
Smith did not report the leaked
content to the Police Service (TTPS)
as she did not believe it would inves-
tigate the fake profile. Although she
shared her story with a police friend
who told her to send the video so he
could get someone to trace it, it was
a dead end, and she believed he just
wanted to see it. After a Guardian
Media expose showed that other
individuals experienced her trauma
and TTPS’ willingness to pursue
these crimes, she plans to give in-
vestigators a chance.
Smith said it was disturbing how
some men handle the situation,
seeking revenge on their ex-partners
for moving on.
wept next to their mother’s cof-
fin as scores of people supported
them on the last day of Ramadan.
The government of Canada
has issued a travel advisory
informing potential visitors
to T&T to exercise a high de-
gree of caution due to violent
crime.
The website, https://travel.
gc.ca Home: Travel.gc.ca,
the Canada government’s
official one-stop shop for
comprehensive international
travel information, stated on
March 28, that violent crime,
including armed robberies,
assaults, and sexual assault,
occurs frequently on the is-
land of Trinidad, especially
in the capital, Port-of-Spain.
“Tourists have been tar-
geted,” it said.
The advisory said that
since 2018, incidents of kid-
napping for ransom have
increased. “Cruise ship pas-
sengers should be very care-
ful when walking around
the docks in Port-of-Spain.
Shootings, kidnappings, and
other gang- and drug-related
violence also occur. There is
a risk of being in the wrong
place at the wrong time,” it
added.
It also said petty crimes,
such as pickpocketing,
bag-snatching, and thefts
from cars, occur.
The Canadian authorities
stated that foreigners should
remain highly vigilant, par-
ticularly in certain areas. It
listed Laventille, Beetham
news 7
Gardens, Sea Lots, Cocorite,
Carenage, Morvant, Savan-
nah Park, Fort George, La
Brea (Pitch Lake), and Las
Cuevas Beach.
“If possible, avoid travel
outside Port-of-Spain after
dark, especially along the
Beetham Highway.”
The advisory also high-
lighted the issue of home
invasions. It said home inva-
sions are common and may
turn violent.
“If you are staying in ei-
ther private or commercial
accommodations, be aware
of your surroundings at all
times and ensure that win-
dows and doors are securely
locked. Be aware that police
response often takes time.”
Terrorism was also pointed
out to potential visitors.
According to the advisory,
there was violent crime on
the island of Tobago, includ-
ing assaults, sexual assaults,
and armed robberies.
“Incidents against foreign-
ers, including Canadians,
have occurred. Petty crime,
such as pickpocketing and
purse snatching, also occurs.
Tourists have been targeted.”
Guardian Media reached
out to Minister of Foreign and
Caricom Affairs Dr Amery
Brown for comment on the
latest advisory, but no re-
sponse was received up until
late yesterday.
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Sinanan brushes off Kamla’s calls
for him to step down
GAIL ALEXANDER
Senior Political Reporter
UNC political leader Kamla Persad-Bisses-
sar says the chairman of the Constitution
Reform Advisory Committee, Barendra Si-
nanan, must now recuse himself after he
recently endorsed the view that the Privy
Council should be abolished.
Persad-Bissessar made the claim at Mon-
day night’s UNC Cottage Meeting in En-
terprise. She said the party would never
support abolishing the Privy Council.
But yesterday, Sinanan a former speaker
of the House of Representatives said he
will not be leaving.
Persad-Bissessar dismissed Govern-
ment’s Constitution Reform Committee,
as “a pappyshow like so many of the 37
other gimmick committees they’ve im-
posed in eight years—nothing’s come of
them ... it’s another pathetic PR gimmick.
Imagine they went to the capital and only
21 people attended—not even their own
PNM activists came”.
Saying she believed the PNM will base
their general election campaign and man-
ifesto on consultation inputs, she added
“We will not go to this and we’ll never vote
to abolish the Privy Council at this time..
Not at this time! I don’t trust this Govern-
ment!”
Persad-Bissessar claimed she had heard
the chairman of the committee on the
radio recently.
“A chairman holding a consultation has
to keep neutral ground—you don’t have to
give your view. If you’re chairing you’re
there to listen to people’s points. (And)
on that radio programme the chairman
openly endorsed abolishing the Privy
Council! So you make up your mind al-
ready! You trump and follow suit the At-
torney General who said move the Privy
Council!”
She added, “You cannot be chairing and
you’ve already made up your mind! So I’d
ask the Government to reconsider and I’d
ask that chairman—I know he’s a very de-
cent human being, respectable lawyer he
is, I think he knows what he has to do: he
has to recuse himself.”
Contacted by Guardian Media yesterday,
Sinanan said his personal opinions are in
no way connected to the committee.
“I will not be stepping down. Assuming
Mohit writes PM on ‘extortion’ which stopped work on bridge
RHONDOR DOWLAT
Senior Reporter
rhondor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt
Chaguanas East MP has called on Prime
Minister Dr Keith Rowley to intervene
after work on the Bridle Bridge in Cun-
upia was halted after workers were alleg-
edly threatened at gunpoint on Sunday.
The MP said the incident was a clear ex-
ample of extortion, which the UNC said
has been taking place in numerous areas,
including central Trinidad.
During a visit to the site yesterday, a
resident, who wished not to be identified,
said on Sunday a man allegedly came to
the site armed with an AK-47.
“The man come up the river and stop
the project, so I don’t know when they
will open back. He come and tell them
the project has to stop. The fellas get
frightened and went and report it to the
boss and since then the work stop be-
cause nobody come out since,” the resi-
UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar PICTURE
RISHI RAGOONATH
it was said, I would not have been speaking
on behalf of the committee. Our mandate
is very clear, you know. It’s not my opinion
or what the opinion of any other member
of the committee is, it’s what the commit-
tee tells us is what will be reflected in our
terms of reference. So, whether I say A or
B is immaterial; it’s what the people want.”
‘Dangerous attack on judges’
The UNC leader accused Government of
holding the 2024 EBC Boundaries Report
for almost a month and refusing to lay it
in Parliament. The report was due to be
submitted to the Prime Minister and House
of Representatives Speaker by the EBC last
month. Persad- Bissessar, who spoke about
suppression of the matter in Parliament on
March 18, said she’d written the EBC ask-
ing if the report was completed.
EBC’s CEO replied that since March 13,
the report was completed and submitted
to the Prime Minister and House Speaker
on that same date.
Persad-Bissessar asked, “So what fool-
ishness is Camille Robinson-Regis talking
about, ‘acting PM’? Dr Rowley left T&T
April 2!”
She said the Parliament met on March
15, March 18, and March 22, and at no time
did the Government ever admit it had the
report, nor was it laid in Parliament.
“It was only after I wrote the EBC and
threatened legal action that an Order
Paper surfaced last Friday for a sitting on
Friday coming where the report is listed
on that Order Paper.
“Both she and Faris Al-Rawi spoke total
rubbish. Apparently they both didn’t know
Rowley got the report on March 13. But
dent said.
“I living here 20 years now and this
project is very important to the residents
and people, who depend on using the
road on a daily basis,” he added.
Contacted yesterday, Chaguanas East
MP Vandana Mohit said she wrote to the
Prime Minister Rowley informing him of
the “disturbing incident of alleged extor-
tion and violence after being informed of
the incident”.
The letter claimed gunmen “demanded
they still haven’t set a date for debate on
this. I’m again calling on Government to
debate the report earliest.
“If the Rowley Government has once
more, in this 2024 EBC report, used its
influence to cause/and/or collude with
the EBC to gerrymander and manipulate
the boundaries to enable a PNM to win in
the upcoming elections, this is unconsti-
tutional, and the UNC will mount a legal
challenge against any such move,” she
warned.
Persad- Bissessar, who said a general
election is coming since paving and other
developments were occurring, added,
“But what have you gotten from Govern-
ment? Criminals are now using arson in
addition to murder as a means of extorting
business people ... She claimed the Gov-
ernment has lost control of T&T’s security.
“Criminals are locking people in their
homes and burning them to death inside.”
She even predicted, “The SSA scandal
will only get bigger... Information that
has come to me is incredible. (Minister
Fitzgerald) Hinds and (Prime Minister Dr
Keith) Rowley cannot escape responsibil-
ity for this. This Government hijacked the
SSA equipment and gave it to operatives in
TTPS to do their bidding,” she added, cit-
ing a T&T Guardian article and noting her
2022 warning about Brent Thomas. She
said eventually, the courts would have to
decide on these matters.
Persad-Bissessar accused the Prime Min-
ister of “a dangerous attack on judges,”
with recent remarks. She said, “If you
don’t like the judgment, don’t cuss the
judge, you can appeal and then to the
Privy Council.”
She said his reported comment that
it is the Cabinet that sets the policy for
the granting of Firearm Users’ Licences.
(FULs) is wrong.
“He doesn’t understand the laws. Look
at the Firearms Act, Chap. 16:01 that says
the Police Commissioner has the sole dis-
cretion to issue a FUL.
“Is Rowley now alluding to an unspo-
ken arrangement between the Govern-
ment and the Commissioner, in which the
Government has a say in who gets these
licences? I call on the Commissioner to
clear any doubts, since the independence
of that public office is now questionable,”
Persad-Bissessar added.
Work has
been halted
at the Bridle
Bridge
construction
site at
Cunupia.
PICTURE
VASHTI
SINGH
that the truck drivers deposit earth fill
intended for backfilling, at a site of their
choosing.”
Mohit said she has since informed
the Central Division’s Senior Supt Gavin
Simon about the incident.
The MP suggested that the Prime Min-
ister “utilise your good office to intercede
and undertake some strategies in order to
minimise and or eliminate such dastardly
occurrences on State projects, especially
this undertaking”.
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UNC MP claims ‘fight’
between Govt officials
to blame for recent
arson attack
Caroni Central MP Ar-
nold Ram has alleged
that the recent arson
attack at HSM Motors
in Chase Village was
sparked by a dispute
over “contracts at a Land
Settlement Agency” and
a “fight” between two FILE: Caroni Central
senior Government offi- MP Arnold Ram
cials.
Ram made the allegations at Monday’s
UNC Cottage meeting in Enterprise. He re-
ferred to last week’s incident, where a group
of men set fire to 15 luxury vehicles at HSM.
Ram alleged that Government officials’
“families, friends and financiers are literally
fighting each other for contracts, as they
know their time in office will be short-lived”.
Ram alleged, “We’re now hearing numer-
ous rumours of what actually took place at
the arson attack at HSM. It has to with awards
of contract or the non-award or the cancel-
lation of contracts at a Land Settlement
Agency.”
Ram expressed concern about contracts
awarded and the extension of contracts
awarded between 2016 to 2017, including for
grass-cutting being extended to December
2024.
Ram alleged two family-owned companies
were the subject of a TTPS Special Branch
report which was being investigated by the
Financial Intelligence Bureau. Ram called on
the Police Commissioner to give the status
of the investigation, which began under her
predecessor.
So far, police investigators have not re-
vealed the motive for the arson attack at HSM
and they are combing through CCTV footage
to help identify the suspects.
Meanwhile, Caroni East MP Dr Rishad
Seecheran also lamented the state of crime
in his Caroni East constituency, including
the recent incident where Aqui Persad, of
Welcome Road, Cunupia, was killed during
a home invasion.
Seecheran claimed the TTPS was under-re-
sourced, Police Commissioner Erla Hare-
wood-Christopher didn’t know if she was
coming or going and the Prime Minister was
on vacation while crime had T&T in its grip.
St Augustine MP Khadijah Ameen also
called on Government to bring independent
observers for the upcoming general elec-
tions.
Meanwhile, UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bis-
sessar explained that because of the Eid-
ul-Fitr public holiday today, time to submit
nominations at the party’s head office in
Chaguanas would be extended to 6 pm to-
morrow—Thursday—when nominations close.
She warned that a general election is coming.
Ram also weighed in and urged UNC sup-
porters not to be worried by those who
wanted to see the party divided and to cre-
ate “jhanjat”. He said a PNM strategy was to
encourage third parties.
“You all remember Team Unity and the
Congress of the People? When their backs
are against the wall their financiers invest
in a third party. That’s why it’s important to
stay together united to defeat PNM,” he said.
Persad-Bissessar also noted that UNC Sen-
ator Jearlean John might be the party’s can-
didate to contest the La Horquetta/Talparo
seat alhough a final decision was yet to be
made. —GAIL ALEXANDER
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PM calls for ceasefire in Gaza;
celebrates T&T’s religious diversity
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is reiterat-
ing a call for a ceasefire in Gaza while cel-
ebrating the respect for religious diversity
in this country.
In his Eid-ul-Fitr message released yes-
terday, the Prime Minister said the Gov-
ernment and the nation share in Muslims’
traditions of gratitude to Allah, and rec-
ognise “your expressions of thanksgiving,
communal sharing of meals, and generous
gifts of charity to the less fortunate.”
He added, “Trinidad and Tobago is a land
of religious diversity and traditions, and it
is praiseworthy that we can share with you
as you recognise the omniscience, omnipo-
tence, omnipresence of an infinitely loving
God.”
But he lamented that the celebrations of
Eid-ul-Fitr come at a time when one com-
mentator describes us “as living in an age
in which ‘the world is in overdrive’—mean-
ing that the customary political, economic,
social and cultural orders are being up-
ended, across the globe, with many fearing
further disruptive and frightening conse-
President: Self-sacrifice leads to true happiness Kamla: Eid a chance to
President Christine Kangaloo says there
is so much to be learned from Muslims
and the observance of Ramadan.
She said one of the major lessons the
country learns is that of the essential
paradox of existence—that it is often and
only when we let go of our wants and de-
sires, that we invite greater abundance
into our lives.
“We learn that when we give up fleet-
ing pleasures and temporary gratifi-
cations, we often gain enduring peace
and lasting happiness. We learn that
when we pay less attention to and pour
less energy into our human wishes and
longings, we often create the space for
divinity to be at work in us. We learn the
importance of reverential sacrifice and
Mayor donates a month’s salary to the needy
SHASTRI BOODAN
Freelance Correspondent
Chaguanas Mayor Faaiq Mohammed
has donated his entire salary for the
month towards the needy for Eid-
ul-Fitr. Mohammed said he has pur-
chased around $20,000 in hampers
for distribution.
He said yesterday, “Every day I am
bombarded with requests for assis-
tance, work, food support. People
are facing greater challenges as times
grow increasingly harder. The public
would be facing a rise in electricity
rates and a draconian property tax is
hovering above their heads. To add
salt in the wounds, food prices are
rising as well as other commodities.”
Mohammed said the hampers
would be sent to several mosques
and will be distributed to Muslims
and other citizens seeking assistance
today.
The mayor appealed to people with
the economic means to assist mem-
bers of their community who may Chaguanas Mayor Faaiq Mohammed shows some of the hampers he purchased for distribution
be struggling to purchase basic food to mosques after donating a month’s salary to the needy.
items. PICTURE SHASTRI BOODAN
EIDULFITR GREETINGS
quences.”
The Prime Minister added, “Today I must
also express prayers, from my heart, for
those two million-plus followers, who are
caught in the struggle in the Gaza, and re-
affirm that this Government stands firmly
behind the international call for an imme-
diate ceasefire, so that there could be ur-
gent and effective relief efforts, across that
region, for food and medical supplies to
the suffering.”
Rowley said Muslims, like other religions,
have met crises over the centuries.
He said when questioned, believers
respond almost in unison that their in-
spiration and devotion are strengthened
through their daily reading of the Qur’an,
which for them is, unquestionably, the
word of Allah.
He said they cite the “Magnificence” of
the Qur’an. “Some referred to it as ‘a sci-
entific miracle’ praising its outlined system
of laws and justice; its balanced teachings;
its comprehensive codes which provide
answers for the everyday lives of its follow-
of prayerful discipline, and
of the rewards that practis-
ing them often bring.”
In her Eid-ul-Fitr mes-
sage, President Kangaloo
said the call of Ramadan
is universal—it is a call to
learn to find fulfilment in
the spiritual, and not only
in the temporal and mate-
rial.
“Just as the discipline of
Ramadan precedes the joy
President
of Eid, we are called to un-
Christine Kangaloo
derstand that restraint and
self-sacrifice are often the pline. These are the values which un-
precursors of deep fulfilment and true derpin a strong and resilient society,”
happiness. This is a call that applies to the President said.
File: Ten-year-old Umar Mohammed chats with Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley inside the
Mucurapo Street, San Fernando mosque during the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations in April 2023.
PICTURE RISHI RAGOONATH
ers.”
The Prime Minister also encouraged the
population to use the religious observance
all of us,” she said.
She added that Ramadan
and Eid are an invitation to
rise above the constraints of
the human mind and to em-
brace the joy and fulfilment
that are to be realised in giv-
ing of ourselves to the ser-
vice of that which is larger
than we are.
“Ramadan and Eid are
therefore an invitation to
all of us to pursue joy and
fulfilment by living lives of
self-sacrifice and of disci-
news 9
as “one of Trinidad and Tobago’s expres-
sions of its national unity, and its support
and respect for its religious diversity.”
restore love, harmony
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said
during Ramadan, as she joined her Muslim broth-
ers and sisters at various Iftars across the country
she was especially touched and inspired by their
tremendous community spirit and piety.
In her Eid-ul-Fitr message, she said they re-
minded her that Eid signifies Allah’s beneficent
reprieve after hardship and sacrifice, and a chance
to restore lives, communities, and the world to a
place of love, harmony, and humanity.
“This is especially relevant in these ongoing
times of violence, despair, destruction, and chaos,
particularly in crime-ridden T&T and war-torn
Gaza, so tragically and inhumanely devastated by
Israel’s merciless assaults,” she said.
Persad-Bissessar urged all to recommit to a life
of peace, “so that we too, can collectively dispel
the evil that stalks our lands, and claim the just
rewards promised by the Prophet Muhammad,
(Peace Be Unto Him).”
She said with the arrival of the new crescent
moon, Muslims in T&T, and across the globe will
be celebrating the sacred and significant festival
of Eid-ul-Fitr.
She said today ends the holy month of Rama-
dan, a time of renewal and reflection.
The Opposition Leader added that as Muslims
celebrate with family and loved ones, Imam Ali al-
Rida said, “The day of Fitr is appointed as Eid so
that Muslims have a gathering and come out for
the sake of God and praise Him for the blessings
they have been given; and the day of Eid is the
day of gathering, day of breaking the fasting, day
of giving Zakat, day of happiness and day of wor-
ship.”
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Man freed of murder:
Too easy to be charged
with a crime in T&T
DEREK ACHONG
Senior Reporter
derek.achong@guardian.co.tt
A man, who spent almost 15 years
on remand before being freed of
murder, has called for the Office
of the Director of Public Prosecu-
tions (DPP) and judicial officers
to be more circumspect when
deciding whether to allow police
officers to prosecute citizens for
serious crimes.
Linden Roberts made the call
after he was acquitted by High
Court Judge Gail Gonzales at the
end of his judge-alone trial at the
Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain yes-
terday.
Speaking with Guardian Media
shortly after an emotional re-
union with his mother, Roberts
questioned why the case against
him was allowed to proceed to
trial when the only evidence link-
ing him to the crime was the alle-
gations of a witness who could not
be found to testify against him.
“It is too easy to be charged
with a crime in T&T. All that a per-
son has to do is walk into a station
and say he did that. That’s it. Six-
teen years later, now I am free,”
he said.
Roberts described the police
officers, who charged him based
on the tenuous evidence, as vin-
dictive and wicked.
Roberts was charged with mur-
dering shopkeeper Lloyd George,
28, of Red Hill, D’Abadie.
George was shot dead as he left
his girlfriend’s home at O’Keeffe
Street, Tunapuna, around 9.45
pm on March 21, 2009.
Although no one witnessed
George’s murder, a neighbour
claimed he saw a man fleeing
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
guardian.co.tt
the scene in an awaiting vehicle,
which he identified by its license
plate.
State prosecutors relied on a
statement from the owner of the
vehicle, Dirk Benjamin.
Benjamin alleged that he was
hired to take Roberts to the lo-
cation and claimed he heard
gunshots before he (Roberts) re-
turned to the car.
Benjamin, who also claimed Linden Roberts, centre, hugs his mother alongside attorneys Larry Williams,
that Roberts returned to his car left, and Shaun Morris outside the Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain, after
with a gun in his hand, left the being found not guilty of murder yesterday. PICTURE DEREK ACHONG
country shortly after he was re- untested allegations in the state- ported involvement.
leased from custody upon giving ment. “Benjamin was accomplice. He
the statement implicating Rob- “It (the statement) contained had reason to minimise his role
erts. inconsistencies that could not be and make another person culpa-
While Justice Gonzales stated explained by the other evidence ble,” she said.
that she did not believe Roberts’ in the case,” she said. Roberts, a devout Muslim, ad-
alibi, she noted that she could Referring to discrepancies with mitted that the outcome of the
not be sure beyond a reasona- Benjamin’s statement, Justice case, on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr cel-
ble doubt that he was guilty of Gonzales noted that he had a ebrations today, was a welcome
the crime based on Benjamin’s motive to lie about Roberts’ pur- gift.
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Guardian
opinion
Established 1917

What Amarah’s murder says

about the soul of our nation
In 1999, calypsonian Winston “Gypsy” Peters saw
something slipping away from T&T.
Muslim women pray before they break fast on
He put pen to paper for a stirring composition called Sunday at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Soul of the Nation, as he reflected on the disintegration headquarters at Polo Ground Road Extension,
of what was then a proud image of a republic of happy Preysal, Couva. PICTURE VASHTI SINGH
island-dwelling people.
In his calypso, Peters asked several pertinent questions,

T Children beyond the

here is more than one reason
including, “How could someplace so good turn out so to feel uncomfortable and
bad, where is the love in this land that we once had?” emotionally queasy about
The refrain also made a poignant declaration,
“Somebody tiefing the soul ah mih nation, somebody
gone with the love that we had.”
some matters discussed at last
Friday’s hearing of the Joint Se-
lect Committee on Human Rights,
legal boundaries
Equality and Diversity with special
It’s been 25 years since then, but the true significance focus on the question of child la-
of those lyrics hit home to us yesterday morning, as the
country was awoken by news of the brutal beheading of
bour.
Numerous unpleasant memories,
Wesley Gibbings
four-year-old Amarah Lallite. old and new, returned to heighten
Even though as a nation we have become somewhat my discomfort over the framing of Mikhail (then a minor) that his Supt Claire Guy-Alleyne’s pro-
accustomed to senseless and horrific murders of late, the official positions expressed, albeit parents were depriving him of the fessional brief and her quoted re-
way that young Amarah’s life was taken was still a hugely out of undeniable concern by state right to hold opinions of his own! marks last Friday touched on this,
functionaries. Don’t get me wrong, Almost every single friend and but insufficiently to exhibit what I
sickening shock. there was nothing but good inten- associate of mine has heard that consider to be her sensitivity to the
Amarah was simply an innocent child, who, from tions on show at the hearing. story. numerous complexities.
police accounts, was caught in the middle of a quarrel Our own front-page headline on Later, in 2014, I covered the ILO’s As a well-informed presenter
between two adults. Saturday, however, flagged the pos- Regional Initiative: Latin America at more than one regional media
One can hardly imagine what it was like for her in the sibility of a ‘Crackdown on Child and the Caribbean Free of Child training exercise, it was clear that
last moments of her tender life, facing a heartless adult Beggars’ while the substantive Labour, which produced a ‘Brasilia the TTPS, through Guy-Alleyne and
with a blade against her throat, snuffing her life out in the story was titled ‘TTPS Going After Declaration’ aimed at eliminating her team, has within its community
Child Beggars.’ “the worst forms of child labour” a valuable resource to add the hu-
most gruesome of ways and for something she did not Eight years ago, a collaboration by 2016 and all forms by the year manitarian dynamic to application
do, much less understand. involving several institutions, in- 2020. of law.
This brutal killing tore at the very heartstrings of our cluding the Association of Car- Our then Labour Minister, Errol But such is the nature of policing
nation, particularly coming as it did in between two ibbean Media Workers (ACM), McLeod, described child labour as here, it was well beyond her brief
of the holiest commemorations of Easter and Eid-ul- UNICEF, and the Caribbean Broad- “a sin” after affixing his signature to remind the JSC and this country
Fitr, where lessons of love, compassion and caring are casting Union (CBU), produced Our to the Declaration in the Brazilian that observance of the rights of the
paramount. Children, Our Media: A Guide for capital. child constitutes a vital element
Caribbean Media Practitioners. Proceedings from that very event of social, cultural, and economic
The recent emergence of videos portraying violence I was part of the team, super- helped nuance the discussion rights.
against children in T&T has already heightened our state vised by Steve Maximay, that when President Lula da Silva (now Under such conditions of denial,
of consciousness and elevated our concerns about the worked on the publication, whose back in the saddle) described his our bungling of migrant rights has
lack of robust child welfare protection systems backed by main contributor was Barbadian early life as a child vendor and, in imposed an additional dimension
strong community support. journalist, Julius Gittens. It was the the process, inserted the dilemma we need to negotiate with greater
Amarah’s death further emphasises the need for us to product of a series of regional jour- of economic necessity versus the care.
nalism workshops and extensive strict application of law. Denial of the right of migrant
build and restore social cohesion within communities for
research. The major thrust of the Last Friday, Opposition Sena- children to an education over a
speedier interventions that can resolve conflicts before “guide” was to bring journalistic tor Jearlean John relayed a similar protracted period, followed by
they escalate into senseless killings. meaning and expression to the UN message when she spoke of her forceful application of criminal law
The adage it takes a village to raise a child speaks to Convention on the Rights of the childhood days in Charlotteville to address its outcome, constitutes
the importance of an all-of-society approach to the care, Child. selling fish and vegetables and the a brutal knee to the neck.
guidance, and protection of our children. I had by then long been influ- existence of what she described as It is also similarly injurious that
This requires active and consistent work from the enced, as a parent and journalist, a “cultural shift”. It was a singularly after almost one decade of the Bra-
by such a mandate. In 2007, for important intervention. silia photo-op, five years after the
formal social development arms of the State, and the
example, in an effort led by then One of the key lessons I have establishment of a National Steer-
pillars of communities, including religious bodies, UNIC National Information Of- learned along the way (two of ing Committee for the Prevention
sporting groups, community councils, education facilities ficer in T&T, Elizabeth Solomon my close childhood friends were and Elimination of Child Labour,
and, of course, the family. (now Caricom Assistant Secretary grossly underpaid “apprentice” and the existence of “multiple
It is within these units that the soul of communities General, Foreign and Community mechanics at 15 and 16 earning programmes,” almost nothing has
resides and from where the revival of our nation’s soul Relations), we looked at media cov- $2.50-5.00 a week), was that this happened and the absence of data
must begin, through deliberate action to take back erage guided by such rights. issue of child labour requires broad is being cited in defence of gross
Literature from that event left social dialogue based on an under- official negligence on this matter.
control of our society and our preferred peaceful way of
lying around at my home one day standing of much more than what People, we are not getting our
life. led to an accusation by my son the law permits or prohibits. priorities right!
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The cult of Persad-nality
T
here is only one correct re-
sponse to the poll question
‘Do you think that the UNC will
hold its internal elections for its na-
tional executive in June 2024?’
Answer: ‘Yes, because that is when
they are constitutionally due’.
You can elaborate with the caveat
that any political party worth its salt
for an impending general election,
would understand the need to dis-
play absolute adherence to its own
rules, far less the rules of the nation
that it seeks to govern.
Therefore, the brouhaha caused
by Rushton Paray’s call for some-
thing that is constitutionally due is
largely unnecessary but also rev-
elatory, about the current organi-
sational culture of the Opposition
party.
Paray’s action has been taken as
a threat against the party’s leader,
offering further proof of the UNC’s
metamorphosis into a political
party that has adopted the US-style
campaign strategy based around an
individual, rather than the party as
whole. It has become a cult of per-
sonality, with the attachment of ultra
sensitivity around questions of the
Opposition Leader’s ability to win a
general election.
Which proves the folly of the per-
sonality-based campaign approach.
In the face of the deplorable state of
the nation, that further deteriorates
daily (you can now add firebombing
to the latest violent trends), there
should not be lingering scepticism
of the Opposition party being an ad-
Sheldon Waithe
Creative Director at Communique
equate replacement for the incum-
bent. Yet, from both within the UNC
and from a desperate population,
serious doubts are being expressed
because the party has remained the
same, trying to unite behind a per-
sonality, instead of building a sound
collective.
Yes, the people are desperate for
change, but they also have been
battered enough throughout the re-
cent past to buck the trend of short
memories and not seek exchange for
exchange’s sake. They want to buy
into something credible that offers
a culture shift and viable solutions,
instead of a mere replacement, be-
cause the idea of continued frustra-
tion two years into a new governing
term is too much to bear thinking
about.
They look into the rearview mirror
and see the removal of ministers,
the departure of coalition partners,
the audacity and stealth of Section
34, the unaccountable $400 million
spent on Lifesport, and, of course,
the use of the ultimate tool of a state
of emergency, that even 13 years
opinion 13
Media Services Ltd
QUESTION:
WHAT DO YOU THINK CAN BE
DONE TO ALLEVIATE THE LEVEL
later, has yet to be explained.
Thus, the party’s leader became the campaign OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN T&T?
icon, because in defiance of Aristotle’s quote, Ocei Hamilton, 35, Arima
the whole of the individual leader was greater A lot more education is
than the sum of its (fractured) parts. needed in terms of parenting,
Even as this ploy failed at the 2015 general so children are brought up
election and was repeated five years later, in the with the necessary mental
tools to cope with the stress
midst of a country riddled by crime and corrup-
tion, the cult of personality remained, bringing that eventually leads to
domestic violence.
us to the present uncertainty.
An uncertainty enhanced by the fact that
the UNC has not won a general election since
1995. A coalition won the 2010 election, when Stacy Dolly, “20”,
the kingmaking Congress of the People brought Petit Valley
over 100,000 votes before inexplicably becom- I think they should bring
ing spineless once in government, to the dismay back the death penalty for
every single crime in this
of its supporters and those hoping that it would
act as a check and balance. country, whether it be small
theft, big theft, rape or
You do not need to continue looking into the
murder.
rearview mirror for the hindsight that after the
2020 election defeat, the UNC needed to con-
duct a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportu-
nities, Threats) analysis, to redefine itself and Trevon Andrews, 33,
plot its way towards a victory in the 2025 elec- Curepe
tion. Perhaps it thinks that it already has under- Tell someone about your
taken the strategic planning and that keeping situation, especially people
like community leaders
the same leader is a source of strength because
life under the PNM is so dire, that this will as- who can help you.
sure victory for the Opposition. A case of being
the only alternative.
No doubt there are the party faithful, a signif- Khedeill James, 29, Arima
icant cadre of voters, but what about those who I am aware that there is
need to be swayed? The recent displays from a gender-based unit in
the Opposition Leader have been filled with ex- the TTPS but the issue is
amples of easily taking the bait from the Gov- follow through because I’m
ernment, discrediting critics and falling into the not sure many people are
trap of losing focus of the bigger picture of as- aware of the avenues for
help such as therapy and
tute campaigning, that could convince the coun-
counselling.
try that they should vote in the UNC instead of
voting out the PNM.
Instead, we have the incredulous and incendi-
ary statement to “empty the whole clip and re- Nicho Davidson, 35,
load too”, the language of the gun culture that is Morvant
killing our people. It would be better to be bold Everything starts from the
and state that if elected, they would go after the home. But people need to
source of guns, if they dare. go back to spirituality and
There are the discriminatory undertones that will help, because this
Government rather fight
from a personality who preaches unity but uses
down each other and police
the term ‘Oreo’ and worse, attempts to achieve struggling to deal with crime.
superiority by referring to a ‘slave name’ after
being baited by the Government. This cannot be
representative of the Opposition party; it needs
to hold itself to a higher standard. Alicia Williams-Charles,
There are the swaying relationships with po- Diego Martin
tential partners who are admonished one day Probably if more of the
and welcomed the next, while some should not women’s organisations can
be in the picture at all. This is not a cultural de- come together and create
a safe space where you can
parture from the fragility of the last coalition confide certain things, it
government, rather it could act as a harbinger. could make a change.
The UNC has wasted the opportunity to re-
build and rebrand itself, while its opposite num-
ber still holds office despite its own failings. It DEAR LETTERWRITERS: Please
has not evolved, because it has kept the cult of note that before your letter can be
personality around a leader who has been the published, we must have your full
common factor throughout its missteps and de- name and contact details, including
a phone number. Your contact
feats, yet it expects different outcomes.
information will not be published.
In the quest for meaningful change in how we Letters should be no more than 500
are governed and regardless of who wins the words long and may be edited for
next general election, we need the Opposition length and clarity. Send by email
to enact changes from within itself. to: letters@guardian.co.tt

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Trinidad & Tobago
World
Digest
MEXICO
Protesters in Mexico set govt
building, vehicles on fire
Protesters in southern Mexico set
the state government building
afire Monday and torched at least
a dozen cars in the parking lot.
The protests occurred in the vi-
olence-wracked city of Chilpanc-
ingo, the capital of the Pacific
coast state of Guerrero.
The protesters are demanding
answers in the case of 43 students
at a rural teachers college who
disappeared in 2014. Another stu-
dent from that college was killed
in a confrontation with police in
March.
The Guerrero state government
said in a statement that it “regrets
and condemns the violent acts.”
The government noted the state
interior secretary had resigned
following the March confrontation
with students. The police officers
involved are under investigation
in the death.
Images of the protests showed
at least a dozen vehicles engulfed
in fire and flames shooting out of
the windows of the state office
building, which is near the main
highway leading from Mexico City
to Acapulco. The building, which
houses the governor’s office, was
ransacked.
Students at the radical Ayotzi-
napa teachers’ college, located on
the outskirts of Chilpancingo, are
known for their violent protests,
which often involve hijacking
buses and delivery trucks.
In March, protesters allied with
the college commandeered a
pickup truck and used it to ram
A truck burns after it was set on fire by rural teachers’ college students
protesting the previous month’s shooting of their classmate during a
confrontation with police, as firefighters work to control the blazes outside
the municipal government palace in Chilpancingo, Mexico, on Monday.
PICTURE AP
down the wooden doors of Mex-
ico City’s National Palace.
They battered down the doors
and entered the colonial-era pal-
ace, where the president lives
and hold his daily press briefings,
before they were driven off by se-
curity agents. The palace is a his-
toric structure dating back to the
1700s, and was built on the site of
the Aztec emperors’ palace.
The demonstration, like many
others over the years, was called
to protest the abduction and mur-
der of 43 students a decade ago.
The mass disappearance remains
one of Mexico’s most infamous
human rights cases.
In 2014, a group of students
were attacked by municipal po-
lice in the southern city of Iguala,
Guerrero, who handed them over
to a local drug gang that appar-
ently killed them and burned
their bodies. Since the September
26 attack, only three of their re-
mains have been identified.
After an initial cover up, last
year a government truth commis-
sion concluded that local, state
and federal authorities colluded
with the gang to murder the stu-
dents in what it called a “state
crime.”
The under-funded radical rural
teachers’ colleges in Mexico have
a decades-long tradition of violent
protests. In fact, when they were
abducted, the students them-
selves had been hijacking passen-
ger buses which they were going
to use to travel to another protest.
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GAZA STRIP
Israeli soldiers look at
destroyed buildings in the
Gaza Strip as they stand
near the Israeli-Gaza border,
as seen from southern Israel,
yesterday. PICTURE AP
Netanyahu vows to carry
out Gaza invasion
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin displacing over 80 per cent of the more than 130 hostages remain
Netanyahu has escalated his population and leaving more than in Gaza, with about a quarter of
pledge to invade the southern one million people on the brink of those believed dead.
Gaza city of Rafah, saying a date starvation. The Palestinian death toll from
has been set for the ground of- International efforts to broker a the war has passed 33,200, with
fensive into the city filled with ceasefire between Israel and the nearly 76,000 wounded, Gaza’s
around 1.4 million Palestinians, militant group Hamas are taking Health Ministry said. The ministry
most of whom are displaced from place in Cairo this week. doesn’t differentiate between ci-
other parts of the Gaza Strip. Egyptian officials said yesterday vilians and combatants in its tally,
The United States, Israel’s that mediators have presented a but says women and children
closest ally, has said a ground new ceasefire proposal to Hamas make up two-thirds of the dead.
operation into Rafah would be a and Israel that would include a The war began October 7 when
mistake and has demanded to see six-week pause in fighting and a Hamas-led militants stormed into
a credible plan to protect civil- swap of 40 Hamas-held hostages southern Israel, killing some 1,200
ians. Israel’s offensive has pushed for at least 700 Palestinians im- people, mostly civilians, and tak-
Gaza into a humanitarian crisis, prisoned by Israel. Israel says ing around 250 people hostage.
ISLAMABAD
Pakistan deploys more than 100,000
police for Eid-ul-Fitr
Pakistani authorities have de-
ployed more than 100,000 po-
lice and paramilitary forces at
mosques and marketplaces across
the country ahead of the massive
Eid-ul-Fitr holiday, officials said
yesterday.
Eid-ul-Fitr, which means feast,
will be celebrated in Pakistan
today, subject to sighting of the
moon. The three-day holiday
marks the end of Ramadan, Is-
lam’s holy month of fasting.
Though attacks during Eid are
rare in Pakistan, Intelligence
Paramilitary soldiers search a car at a temporary checkpoint on a road in
agencies alerted the Interior Min- Karachi, Pakistan, yesterday. Pakistani authorities have deployed more
istry that militants could use the than 100,000 police and paramilitary forces at mosques and marketplaces
holiday to target civilians, gov- across the country ahead of the massive Eid ul-Fitr holiday, officials said.
ernment and military buildings, PICTURE AP
and compounds housing police,
ul-Fitr in Afghanistan. He said soft targets, as people in a large
officials said. The country has wit-
security forces will be deployed number say their Eid prayer at
nessed a surge in militant attacks
in all crowded areas, including mosques and open places.”
in recent years, mostly claimed Yesterday people shopped as
mosques.
by Pakistani Taliban and separa-
In addition, the police chief usual at various markets, with
tists who mainly operate from the
office in the capital, Kabul, has women buying bangles, jewellery
southwestern Baluchistan prov-
requested that citizens avoid set- and clothes for themselves and
ince.
ting off fireworks or otherwise their children.
Security was also being beefed More than 52,000 police were
disturbing the peace.
up at places where high-profile
Abdullah Khan, a senior de- being deployed at mosques as
personalities are expected to say
fence analyst and managing di- part of a security plan under
their Eid prayers.
rector of the Islamabad-based which about 8,000 police were
Taliban spokesperson for the
Pakistan Institute for Conflict and sent to sensitive places and mar-
Interior Ministry Abdul Mateen
Security Studies, said he had no kets in the provincial capital La-
Qani said forces were fully alert
specific information about possi- hore, according to a statement
to ensure security during Eid
ble attacks, but “militants can hit issued by Punjab police.

Wednesday, April 10, 2024
guardian.co.tt
New procurement regulations become law The simplified procurement reg-
Minister of Finance Colm Imbert
addressing Parliament last month.
PICTURE OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT
Heritage commissions new well
Heritage Petroleum Company
(Heritage) has announced the
commissioning of its latest off-
shore oil well, S-938.
In a release yesterday, the com-
pany hailed the moment as a
significant milestone in its field
development efforts.
The well, which is located
within the Soldado East Field, has
an expected average daily rate of
500 barrels of oil per day (bopd).
Heritage said it is expected to
contribute significantly to the
company’s revenue.
The release stated, “S-938 is
the third well to be put into pro- Heritage Petroleum CEO Erik Keskula.
duction after commencing its off- PICTURE NICOLE DRAYTON
shore drilling programme, in line engineering efforts, the topsides
with Heritage’s strategy to grow were completed in March 2024.
high-margin production. Drilling This was followed by the requisite
of S-938 began in August 2023, inspections and statutory approv-
and after rigorous design and als prior to commissioning.”
A member of Heritage S-938 Well POP Team collects a sample of first oil from S-938
well last Friday.
business
ulations have been signed into
law.
In a release yesterday, Finance
Minister Colm Imbert announced
that on April 5, 2024, he signed
into law, with the agreement of
the Office of Procurement Reg-
ulation (“OPR”), the Public Pro-
curement and Disposal of Public
Property (Simplified Procure-
ment) Regulations, 2024, that is
applicable to the procurement
of all goods, services and works
valued up to $1 million or less (in-
clusive of taxes, duties and other
charges).
The release said Minister Im-
bert is confident that the regu-
lations will improve the ease of
business relative to participating
in procurement proceedings is-
sued by procuring entity, while
still ensuring that the objects of
PICTURE HERITAGE
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the Public Procurement and Dis- cro-procurements such as the Maintaining a registry of suppli-
posal of Public Property Act are procurement of goods, services ers/contractors/consultants by a
achieved. or works for which the value of procuring entity micro-procure-
The release stated the regu- the procurement does not exceed ments; The registration of suppli-
lations were published as Legal $75,000, inclusive of taxes, du- ers/contractors/consultants on
Notice No 65 of 2024 and have ties and other charges. procuring entity’s registry for mi-
undergone months of formula- It would also cover small-scale cro-procurements; and the regis-
tion and dialogue between the procurements (procurement tration of suppliers/contractors/
Finance Minister and the OPR. of goods, services or works for consultants on the Procurement
The Regulations are on the which the value of the procure- Depository for small-scale pro-
amendment in section 58A of the ment exceeds $75,000 but does curements.
Public Procurement and Disposal not exceed $1 million, inclusive of The ministry also explained all
of Public Property Act which was taxes, duties and other charges). existing procurement methods
passed by Parliament in July, The release however stated are still applicable to micro-pro-
2023, the release stated. the simplified procurement reg- curements and small-scale
The ministry explained, “The ulations does not remove the procurements, the regulations
act proposes to introduce a regulatory or supervisory role reduces a number of the appli-
streamlined procurement pro- and function of the OPR but, con- cable time periods, makes provi-
cess for both public bodies and versely, augments their role. sion for direct contracting, which
participating suppliers, contrac- The release explained it would is a new method of procurement,
tors and consultants up to $1 mil- grant special provision for the and introduces the use of verbal
lion.” OPR to issue guidelines on due quotations (which must be re-
The Regulations contain diligence requirements for micro duced in writing and kept in the
guidance for conducting mi- and small-scale procurements; prescribed form).
Heritage’ CEO Erik Keskula, the third quarter of 2024. in my career,” he explained.
said, “I wish to thank all the com- In a Guardian Media interview The Heritage CEO said with
pany and contractor personnel last July, Keskula said Heritage Heritage it is not just growing pro-
that diligently worked to safely produced about 38,000 barrels duction, but increasing the right
deliver this new production to of oil per day—both onshore and kind of production.
Trinidad and Tobago. Over the offshore combined—but there is “Growing production that has
next month, we will operate the potential for more given its acre- higher margins, and really brings
well with a goal of optimising fluid age and assets. in revenue for the Government
production rates to maximise oil He said he surveyed T&T’s ter- and the people is something that
recovery and cash flow”. rain and assessed its probable really motivates me,” he said.
He underlined the strategic im- potential for more oil success, be- He acknowledged that the com-
portance of S-938 and stated it fore he took on the challenge to pany faces issues of asset integrity
would play a role in developing increase oil production. by virtue of how long its assets
a track record of delivering new He noted that production opti- have been operational.
offshore wells and facilities to in- misation has “really unique and That, unfortunately, leads to is-
crease production. interesting challenges.” sues like leakages.
Heritage said it anticipates on- “So really trying to find a way to He noted that Heritage has un-
going benefits from this well and bring out the best of those assets, dertaken a robust asset integrity
three additional wells that are ex- even though they’ve been worked programme.
pected to be commissioned in the on for many years, and in this “But it will take time to address
coming months. Additionally, as case, decades, but that suits my and we’ve got the plans in place,
Heritage continues to expand its experience and expertise really as well as the response teams in
Offshore Drilling programme in well having done that previously place in the event,” he said.
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Daily Report on Trading, Tuesday, April 9, 2024 Angostura

ALL T&T INDEX: 1,836.03 COMPOSITE INDEX: 1,219.85 NUMBER OF SHARES VALUE OF SHARES
rises by
CHANGE: 12.83 CHANGE: 7.22 BOUGHT/SOLD: 161,745 BOUGHT/SOLD: 2,259,323.47

CHANGE
11.51%
OPEN DAY’S DAY’S O/S BID O/S BID O/S O/S LAST SALE LAST SALE VOLUME CLOSE
SECURITY PRICE HIGH LOW ($) VOL. OFFER OFFER PRICE($) DATE TRADED PRICE ($) Overall market activity re-
($) ($) ($) ($) VOL. ($)
sulted from trading in 22 secu-
ORDINARY SHARES rities of which six advanced,
AGOSTINI’S LTD 68.97 69.00 69.00 68.97 29 69.00 15,852 69.00 09-04-2024 15 68.97 nine declined and seven traded
ANGOSTURA HOLDINGS 20.51 22.95 22.75 22.74 15,276 22.95 2,113 22.95 09-04-2024 2,518 22.87 2.36 firm.
ANSA MERCHANT BANK 45.30 45.30 45.30 45.25 127 45.30 10,388 45.30 09-04-2024 396 45.30
Trading activity resulted in
ANSA MCAL 57.00 57.00 57.00 55.00 500 57.00 15,593 57.00 09-04-2024 500 57.00
FIRST CITIZEN GROUP FINANCIAL HOLDINGS 48.20 48.19 48.10 48.10 2,117 48.19 808 48.10 09-04-2024 2,446 48.11 -0.09
the following movements of
FIRST CARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL 7.04 7.01 7.01 6.95 15,540 7.01 2,438 7.01 09-04-2024 4,562 7.01 -0.03 the TTSE Indices:
GUARDIAN HOLDINGS 18.02 19.00 18.50 18.15 100 19.00 8,413 19.00 09-04-2024 4,896 18.98 0.96 • The All T&T Index ad-
GRACE KENNEDY & CO 4.07 4.07 4.07 4.01 245 4.07 12,413 4.07 09-04-2024 1,109 4.07 vanced by 12.83 points (0.70
GUARDIAN MEDIA LTD 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 1,768 2.00 09-04-2024 400 2.00 per cent) to close at 1836.03;
JMMB GROUP LTD 1.51 1.50 1.50 1.49 1,371 1.50 40,371 1.50 09-04-2024 3,519 1.50 -0.01 • The Composite Index ad-
LJ WILLIAMS A 0.21 0.22 24 0.21 03-10-2023 0.21
vanced by 7.22 points (0.60 per
LJ WILLIAMS B 1.99 1.99 5,000 1.99 08-04-2024 1.99
MASSY 4.38 4.38 4.36 4.35 1,866 4.36 11,059 4.36 09-04-2024 77,673 4.37 -0.01 cent) to close at 1219.85;
NCBFG 3.10 3.15 3.15 3.10 5,254 3.15 78,069 3.15 09-04-2024 450 3.15 0.05 • The Cross-Listed Index ad-
NATIONAL ENTERPRISES LTD 3.89 3.88 3.88 3.83 1,620 3.88 1,668 3.88 09-04-2024 1,113 3.88 -0.01 vanced by 0.17 points (0.22 per
NATIONAL FLOUR MILLS 2.20 2.20 2.20 2.20 83,020 2.25 2,000 2.20 09-04-2024 11,000 2.20 cent) to close at 78.44; and
TTNGL 8.47 8.47 8.00 8.00 4,402 8.47 447 8.47 09-04-2024 14,747 8.10 -0.37 • The SME Index remained
ONE CARIBBEAN MEDIA 3.82 3.50 842 3.82 1,970 3.82 08-04-2024 3.82
at 77.71.
PRESTIGE HOLDINGS 12.50 13.00 13.00 12.51 200 12.99 617 13.00 09-04-2024 6,373 13.00 0.50
3.73 3.78 3.70 3.50 1,000 4.10 18,950 3.70 09-04-2024 11,177 3.70 -0.03
Angostura Holdings Ltd led
POINT LISAS DEV
RFHL 119.03 119.00 119.00 118.50 3,000 119.00 43,246 119.00 09-04-2024 8,927 119.00 -0.03 advancing stocks, rising by 11.51
SCOTIABANK 70.00 70.50 70.10 70.00 209 70.10 1,608 70.10 09-04-2024 1,452 70.10 0.10 per cent, and adding $2.36, to
T’DAD CEMENT LTD 2.62 2.75 5,000 2.76 733 2.62 08-04-2024 2.62 close at $22.87. Guardian Hold-
UNILEVER CARIB LTD 12.26 12.72 12.50 12.50 10 12.72 1,180 12.55 09-04-2024 2,582 12.55 0.29 ings Ltd was higher by 5.33 per
WEST INDIAN TOBACCO CO 15.63 15.50 15.49 14.70 50 15.25 500 15.50 09-04-2024 5,890 15.49 -0.14 cent, adding $0.96, to close at
$18.98. And Prestige Holdings
Ltd rose by 4 per cent, adding
PREFERENCE SHARES
GUARDIAN MEDIA LTD 65.85 66.00 1 65.85 22-08-2023 65.85 $0.50, to close at $13.
WILLIAMS LJP 3.79 3.85 1 3.79 29-09-2023 3.79 NGL led declining stocks,
dropping by 4.37 per cent, and
SECOND TIER SHARES losing $0.37, to close on $8.10.
MORA VEN HOLDINGS 12.00 12.00 14-12-2018 12.00 Trading activity on the First-
Tier Market registered a vol-
MUTUAL FUND UNITS ume of 161,745 shares crossing
CALYPSO MACRO INDEX FUND 22.60 23.00 23.00 22.60 7,493 23.00 3,921 23.00 09-04-2024 40 22.60
CLICO INVESTMENT FUND 27.46 28.00 30-12-2022 27.46 the floor of the Exchange val-
EPPLEY CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT FUND 0.71 0.71 09-05-2023 0.71 ued at $2,259,323.47.
EPPLEY CARIBBEAN VALUE FUND 1.60 1.60 10-02-2023 1.60 Massy Holdings was the vol-
ume leader with 77,673 shares
SME SHARES changing hands for a value of
CINEMAONE LIMITED 6.45 5.98 1,545 5.98 26-03-2024 6.45
14.75 15.00 57 15.00 08-04-2024 14.75
$339,611.37, followed by NGL
ENDEAVOUR HOLDINGS LTD
with a volume of 14,747 shares
USD EQUITY SHARES being traded for $119,464.83.
MPC CARIBBEAN CLEAN ENERGY LIMITED 0.98 0.98 41,000 0.98 20-01-2023 0.98 Calypso Macro Index Fund
was the only active security on
the Mutual Fund Market, post-
Note: Closing Price Methodology updated as of December 6, 2023 ing a volume of 40 shares val-
ued at $920.
The Second Tier Market did
not record any activity.
The SME Market did not re-
cord any activity.
The USD Equity Market did
not record any activity.
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Politicians use religion

sanctimoniously
T
&T is one of the world’s top
ten countries with the most
holidays. “Of all countries
on the globe, Cambodia tops the
list for the most public holidays
with 28 observed annually. Sri
Lanka follows with 25, India and
Kazakhstan with 21, Colombia,
the Philippines and T&T with 18.”
– World Atlas.
Politicians try to manipulate
voters of different religions by
pretending to care about their
religions and holidays. They at-
tend churches and temples, don
foreign garb, and bow their heads
in reverence to show that they are
empathetic and benevolent to all.
However, by doing so, not only
do they go against the very tenets
of their personal beliefs, but they
think by proclaiming their em-
brace of other religions they will
win votes. Is that why T&T has so
many holidays?
When politicians use the
most oft-used term in political
speeches, “May God bless our na-
tion,” they think that it is safe to
do so because every religion has
a deity, so they have nothing to
lose and everything to gain. Is that
why they attend their opponent’s
holiday gatherings, eat their eth-
nic foods, make speeches about
what a great nation we are with
religious tolerance for all, and
pretend that they care?
I have news for those politicians
who pander to religious groups -
they are on to your political du-
plicity. Nevertheless, they will
welcome you with open arms,
accept the holidays that you mag-
nanimously bestow upon their
religion, and still, in the solitude
and sanctity of the voting booth,
they will vote their conscience.
Furthermore, to make matters
worse for these political pander-
ers, religion is dying.
“There’s a global, fast-growing
population of people without a re-
ligion. That’s according to a new
AP-NORC Poll. Why it matters:
Religion has long been a powerful
force in society, touching politics,
art, and daily life. The rise of non-
believers and people with no reli-
gious affiliation is diminishing its
influence.”
Despite all that has been done
to cater to religious groups, stud-
ies have shown that politics is
the reason why people are turn-
ing away from religion. They see
politicians as using religion capri-
ciously by stating one thing to one
religion on the one hand, and, on
the other hand, their own beliefs
contradict their pandering.
“Politics are an important fac-
tor, and growing religious diver-
sity likely plays a role as well.
Americans are far more likely to
have nonreligious friends and
family members today, and this
is especially true of young adults.
There’s growing evidence that re-
ligious diversity undermines com-
mitment” - Ifstudies.org.
We might as well become a syn-
cretistic nation where all religions
are rolled into one. Nevertheless,
that does not account for highly
spiritual beings who do not as-
cribe to any specific God, atheists
who have no belief in any God, or
agnostics who remain sceptics. Or
have we all become so politically
abased that we will say whatever
it takes to garner votes by utilising
pretentious rhetoric?
While many blame the lack of
religion for societal ills, BBC Sci-
ence Focus found that “If your
family isn’t religious and you’re
raised without any meaningful
contact with a religious group,
you’re less likely to believe. So the
main reason for declining belief is
that fewer people are encultur-
ated and socialised into belief.”
Is the trend of young people’s
antipathy towards religion the
Eyes up high
A contractor installs a CCTV
camera along the Churchill
Roosevelt Highway, near the
Pasea Road intersection,
Tunapuna, on Friday.
reason for the growing incidences
of criminal deportment? If politi-
cians and other leaders set an ex-
ample of magnanimity and love to
all - even their opponents - then
we can begin to build a more
compassionate society that will
embrace all people regardless of
their religious beliefs or ethnicity.
To that effect, I urge politicians
to be exemplary by terminating
their outlandish behaviour and
embracing their opponents.
REX CHOOKOLINGO

Has the fascination with porn in T&T become endemic?

Y
ou are nobody if you do not
own a cellphone. The more
expensive the better. Laptops
and tablets are accepted as part of
growing up. How many children do
not have access to these important
instruments of learning? And, in
sweet T&T style, we have to not only
ape the First World but strive to outdo them with
the salivating over pornography.
I have said it before. We have parts of central
and south Trinidad, where Trinis of all religious
persuasions have allegedly been attempting to
outdo Las Vegas. Beautiful young ladies, not all
of them having been trafficked, working in night-
clubs and bars. You do not have to come into
Port-of-Spain for sleazy, salacious entertainment.
With some nice food thrown in, of course, just to
further entice your visit. And some really great
bars and casinos.
The T&T fascination with pornography is far
from new. Well over 60-70 years. What has esca-
lated is the modus operandi. Through every child
possible being equipped with a cell phone, laptop
or tablet, it has trebled the effect/range of being
able to sell pornographic material.
Plus, of course, it is possible to buy into the
T&T macho man/woman mentality. If you rude,
you rude.
Is sharing nudity and encouraging pedophil-
iac behaviour now par for the course? Murders
of women in T&T and child endangerment have
been on the increase for the past few years.
Our children have never been more vulnerable
to sexual exploitation.

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What is questionable is the inference that a
change in government will immediately quell this
fascination with pornography.
Pornography is as rampant a crime as the de-
liberate murders taking place with gang reprisal
killings. For some, it is allegedly another means
of employment like selling nuts and doubles.
And speaking of murders using guns. The re-
cent social media story about a twelve-year-old
shooting another in school in Helsinki because
of being bullied asks the question: How safe is it
to have thousands upon thousands of FUL guns
easily available to minors?
Guns kill. End of story. Pornography is sick.
End of story. Domestic violence leading to mur-
der is rampant. End of another story. Is arson be-
cause of jealousy at a successful business venture
our newest rampant story?
It is totally brain-dead to believe that here in
T&T a few select persons possess overnight po-
litical answers.
Right at this moment, our current opposition
is incapable of making a magical dent in either
crime or pornography.
Why? You tell me.
LYNETTE JOSEPH
Diego Martin
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Bipolar disorder – A tale of three whirls
L
iving in three states of mind.
That is how I have long viewed
bipolar disorder, which is char-
acterised as the imbalances of low
moods during depression and the
unhealthy, extreme highs of mania.
But quite apart from the unusual
shifts in moods, people living with
this disorder also experience peri-
ods of “normalcy”. So, to my mind,
there has always been a third state,
a place where neither of the two ex-
tremes are present, a timeframe of
evenness that adds to the confusion
of those witnessing a person’s fluc-
tuation.
About three decades ago, long be-
fore the bipolar disorder diagnosis,
I began to refer to myself as three
different people. Somehow, as I
pursued understanding my health
issues, I saw what seemed like three
distinct personalities and began to
define them jokingly to those closest
to me. We all were trying to make
sense of the mood fluxes.
So, there was Caro, and she was
the happiest, carefree, energetic,
and creative one, almost invincible.
Then there was Caroline for the de-
pressed periods, and Miss Ravello
for the periods of “normalcy”. I used
this as a device to help others appre-
ciate my struggles and it was fun –
only for those tolerant though; only
for the committed.
Men whom I have dated presented
as not being up to the commitment
of courting a bipolar diagnosis and
would always get to a place of frus-
tration where they accused me of
blowing hot and cold. And, if you
approached the issues casually, it
would appear like this.
One man I had dated – the last too,
whenever we got into a tiff would ask
calmly: “Who am I dealing with now,
Caroline or Miss Caro?”
These great white egrets are captured
partly covered in oil residue on a branch
at a river along the Tarouba Link Road in
San Fernando on Friday. This shows the
effect recent oil leaks have had on the
environment and wild life.
PICTURE RISHI RAGOONATH
opinion 19
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS
As awful as it may sound, that was to dignity, equity, and inclusiv-
not offensive to me. He was mature, ity (DEI), they let you know they
accepting, and supportive, and I do not care for your challenges.
realised he used this as his device
to sensitively point out that I was Caroline C Ravello Today’s discourse presents
mere examples of the indignity
“acting out”. He was not part of the and compassionless arenas that
tri-personality phase of my life, so
mindful.tt@gmail.com cause more hurt and injury than
this was also very interesting. the disorder, frankly.
It became too much for him, as People lack compassion and
others before him, though. As part of the output from the issues and felt the responsible therefore people managing dis-
This variability with lack of pa- completed teamwork, there was thing was to withdraw, so I did, abilities often are excluded from
tience, understanding and compas- a further request for me to par- reluctantly. the DEI that we utter as plati-
sion, plus people’s inability to love ticipate in a recorded interview She has not responded to tudes to embellish our speeches
or respect abidingly through all three on one aspect of the multidi- date. Not even to say, “Thank and documents.
phases, is what eventually taught me mensional work. Two days be- you for letting me know.” My Most people – men, women,
that I do not need to date. It is what fore the scheduled recording, I message was read, and she has and children; at home, at work
instructs me to avoid groups and as- messaged the coordinator (with never communicated with me or in communities – would
sociations; it was the deciding factor details) to say I was unwell and since. rather interact with the period
for me leaving the workplace before could not make it to the appoint- People usually show their an- of euthymic moods.
my 50th birthday. ment. noyance. They treat bipolar di- I eventually discovered that
The workplace and work envi- After having a period of low vergence as an inconvenience. euthymia is the third pole of
ronments are even less tolerant. I moods, I felt cognitively im- They are unhappy about “your existence when one lives with
am always made aware that people paired. It was sufficiently chal- complaints” because “you al- bipolar disorder. It is the period
do not want to be involved in a pro- lenging to my concentration ways have an issue”. And in this of stable mood experienced in
ject where they need to take time to levels to limit my ability to drive place, even if they represent the middle of mania and depres-
manage someone’s “moods”, too. to Port-of- Spain. I weighed the global organisations that speak sion. Zone three!
In times past, because of the fluc-
tuations, I have had to make late can-
cellations of speaking engagements.
I have never been invited back to
speak by any of those organisers,
even though my invitation was to
speak about my mental health strug-
gles.
People generally prefer it if your
mood fluctuates somewhere else and
you speak glowingly in their forum
about the difficulties other people
have had with your difficulties.
I remain disturbed by a recent oc-
casion, for example. In 2022/2023, I
worked on an internationally driven
T&T intervention with a global or-
ganisation operating locally. The se-
lector had indicated that my mental
health expertise and advocacy was
what prompted the request to serve
on the team.
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This image released by Hulu shows Joey King in a scene from We Were the Lucky
Ones.
We Were the Lucky Ones
is a good reminder to talk
to your elders
In Hulu’s limited-series We Were
the Lucky Ones, the Kurc family in
Poland is separated during World
War II and spends years trying
to reunite. This was before the
Internet and cell phones so tracking
each other’s whereabouts was hard.
It’s based on a non-fiction book of
the same name by Georgia Hunter,
who wrote about her own family’s
story. As a teen, Hunter discovered
her late-grandfather Eddy, (who
had changed his name from Addy),
along with his parents and siblings
— were Holocaust survivors.
Logan Lerman, who plays
Hunter’s grandfather, says the
character’s story resembles his
own. Addy escaped to South
America during the war and built a
life in Brazil, while Lerman’s family
went to China.
“My grandfather was a refugee
with his family,” said Lerman. “He
fled Germany in the late 1930s
and ended up on this long journey
similar to my character. He ended
up in Shanghai with his parents and
sister because I guess it was one of
the countries that was letting Jews
in at the time. Addy also had a long
journey as a refugee, seeking a
country that would let them in.”
Joey King, who plays youngest
daughter Halina, values having
a close relationship with her
grandmother and says they are
“thick as thieves.” King says her
ancestry and heritage has “always
been such an open conversation.”
“There wasn’t ever a moment
that I learned about the Holocaust
that I can recall. It was just
something that was always talked
about in my home. When you
grow up in a Jewish family, it’s not
this defining moment in school
where they’re like, ‘And this is
the Holocaust.’ I knew about it
well before we learned about it in
school.”
When it comes to sharing
accounts of the Holocaust, not
every survivor wants to go into
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PICTURE AP
detail about their experiences.
“They had to go through such
horror and such dark times,” said
Michael Aloni, who plays Selim,
husband to Kurc sibling Mila.
“Some did not say a word about
what they went through. They just
continued with their lives and that
was their victory.”
Don M. Fox, a historian and
author, says many former WWII
combat veterans also keep that part
of their life to themselves.
“So many of them just exited the
war and, particularly if they didn’t
stay in the service, they just went
on with their lives.”
Communication is so vital to
sharing knowledge and the National
WWII Museum now uses AI for
an exhibit that allows visitors to
have virtual conversations with
photographs of veterans.
When speaking with actual
Holocaust survivors or former
military members, Fox suggests
approaching the conversation with
open-ended questions.
“I would start out by saying,
‘I know that you were in Europe
during the Second World War. Can
you tell me what that was like?’ or
‘If you don’t mind, start from the
beginning when you first became
aware of what was happening
around you.’”
Even if your relatives are no
longer alive, Henry Lloyd-Hughes,
who plays oldest sibling Genek
Kurc, points out that, like Hunter,
anyone can do research.
“It’s not always a question of
listening,” he said. “There are
diaries and photos in attics with
stories in everyone’s family that
someone might not be (aware of ).”
Sam Woolf says portraying
Halina’s boyfriend and later
husband on the series led him to
dig into his own background. “I’ve
had so many more conversations
with my mother since,” he said.
Continues on page 23
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Holocaust stories in families
From page 22
While filming in Poland, the
Britain born-and-raised actor was
able to visit a nearby town where
his grandfather was born and found
his birth certificate. It’s made Woolf
want to honour his Polish heritage.
“Now I’m applying for Polish
citizenship,” he said. “It was
this sort of knitting together of
information I’ve never had because
you often don’t think to ask and
then sometimes it’s too late. I lost
all my grandparents quite young
at 13 or 14. I could have asked. You
never get that opportunity back.”
Earlier this year, a study released
by the New York-based Conference
on Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany, known as the Claims
Conference, reported about Henry Lloyd-Hughes in a scene from We
245,000 survivors are still living Were the Lucky Ones. PICTURE AP
across more than 90 countries. to a human being that actually
Kurc family matriarch Nechuma went through (the Holocaust),” said
is portrayed by Robin Weigert, Hadas Yaron, who plays Selim’s
who admits to carrying guilt about wife, Mila.
the sobering fact that Holocaust Even if you’re personally not
survivors are dying. interested in your family’s history,
“There are Holocaust stories in or aren’t a fan of clutter and want
my family that I will never know. My to cull artifacts, Fox advises to
(grandfather) had relatives. I don’t purge wisely and keep a record of
know their names. I don’t think information to pass on.
my father ever heard about them. “Keep it in your family. Study it
I regret every single conversation I yourself in more detail. Share it
didn’t have,” she said. within your family. What’s more
This week, the Claims Conference important, from my perspective, is
announced a global initiative to that on a multi-generational basis,
combat antisemitism by using you develop a culture within your
Holocaust survivors’ stories as a own lineage... There’s always the
way to educate. chance that a generation or two
“There’s a difference between down the line, there will be some
reading something in a history great appreciation or desire to
book or on Wikipedia, and talking know more.”
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Horoscope Eugenia
Last
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Set your sights on what you want to achieve this year, and don’t stop
BY DEAN YOUNG

until you are satisfied with the results. A lifestyle change is heading in
BLONDIE

your direction that will impact financial and professional outcomes. Take
the path that lowers stress and gives you time to spend with the ones
you love doing things that bring you joy. Lower overhead; build security.
BIRTHDAY BABY
You are opportunity-driven, ambitious and quick. You are outgoing
and helpful.
YOUR NUMBERS
6, 19, 22, 24, 32, 39, 46.
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY
HEART OF THE CITY

Haley Joel Osment, 36; Mandy Moore, 40; Jamie Chung, 41;
Charlie Hunnam, 44.

Aries Libra
BY MARK TATULLI

March 21-April 19 Sept 23-October 22

2 STARS Work behind the scenes
where you can get things done
without interference. Avoid
discussions that can lead to a no-
win situation. Pay attention to your
physical and financial well-being.
Keep your thoughts to yourself.
Taurus
April 20-May 20
BY TOM ARMSTRONG
2 STARS Proceed with caution.
You’ll face opposition if you try
to force your ideas on others. Use
your charm, but stick to the truth.
Embellishing a situation will
backfire, leaving you with debt or
a product you can’t use. Personal
growth and self-improvement are
favoured.
Scorpio

October 23-Nov 21
5 STARS A change will offer insight
MARVIN

into what’s available to you. Gather 4 STARS Pay attention to detail,

information and connect with
someone who has something to
contribute that you want. Use your
acquired knowledge to increase
your profile and advance into a
better position.
the cost involved and how diverse
you can be with your offer. Don’t
hold back; use your imagination
and transform your skills and
knowledge into a prosperous
pursuit. Change is within reach;

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take advantage of what’s available
to you.
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you move. Someone will offer Nov 22-December 21
false information to encourage
PEANUTS

you to take a chance. Don’t lower
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PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
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and money. Put a schedule in place
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you reach your destination on time
and with the maximum amount of
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research, get the facts and make
decisions to help you get ahead.
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contribute to your life and goals,

proof and influence to get your way. leading to exciting and profitable
prospects.
1 star: Avoid conflicts; work behind the scenes. 2 stars: You can
accomplish, but don’t rely on others. 3 stars: Focus and you’ll reach
.LIO

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stop you; go for gold.
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AM MARKETING MAYARO HOUSE for Sale. What-
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Reg, Dealer #10
#392-394 Cedar Hill COCOYEA-
Road, ClaxtonBay 3 BEDROOMS,
768-9800/373-2558 3 BATH, 6,300S.F.
BRAND NEW $2.3M.
3 Ton LPG FORKLIFT 734-4856
3.5 Ton Diesel FORKLIFT 3 APARTMENTS
1, 2 AND 4 BEDROOMS
TABAQUITE 7 lots, 2 road front- PRICED FOR QUICK SALE
age, $595,000.00. 707-0781 SEAVIEW VIEW
GARDENS,
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Bedrooms, 2 Baths Upstairs. CARENAGE
Large sitting area Downstairs 335-0704
with Kitchen. Beautiful Flowering
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HYBRID (70K) VISTABELLA: 2 Storey House Approximately
with (2) Downstairs Apts. of 2 &3
Bedrooms. Upstairs - 3 bedrooms
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all on 5,00sq.ft. of freehold land.
(80K) Priced at $2.7m ono. Call 620- Call Or Whatsapp
3270. 680-8679
E25 LOW TOP GLASS
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condition, swimming TUNAPUNA 3 bedroom and
pool, security, parking. 3 additional apartments, 1.5M.
788-9783.
776-9654
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tion, $45.000.00. 483-9814 House with 3 Apts. Upstairs - 4
CHUPARA VILLA Luxury 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths. Downstairs-
Bedroom Townhouse in La Fil- (1) One Bedroom & (1) 2 Bed-
lette. Tastefully decorated incl. rooms. A/C in Apts. Electric Gate,
furnishings $2.8M 689-7577 Priced at $2.15m. Call 620-3270.
LUXURY WATERFRONT 4
MAYARO 2 bedroom, Valuation bedroom, Renaissance $13M.
$700,000. 680-2978 680-2978
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747-3400 CHAGUANAS MONTROSE 1

BLUE RANGE Exceptionally & 2 bedrooms $2000/ $2700.
maintained 3600 sq.ft residence 767-9300 before 5pm.
4 bedrooms, executive study,
entertainment patio, 12,647 sq.ft
freehold Sales Office: Phone: 622-3831 / 228-9927 / TWO BEDROOM House for Rent 1 BEDROOM Freeport $2500
685-5596 / 296-7307. Arima $3,000.00 774-9354 701-5203
SAN RAPHAEL Brandon Court Email: laurahomestt@gmail.com.
10,274 sq.ft residential land. Facebook: Laura Homes TT
2 STORY 3br house for rent.
Lovely development $785000 LAND
Valsayn $7500 DIEGO MARTIN studio, air/
neg AGRICULTURAL LAND AVAILABLE - email us condition with washer and
for full details 789-0768
WOODBROOK MODERN 2 dryer, $3,000.00. 684-1165
storey residence 6 bedrooms on AROUCA – Lopinot Road – 56,464 sq ft – TT$2.825M
CASCADE – 28,314 sq ft – TT$3.250M 2 BEDROOM House D’Abadie.
ALI’S REAL ESTATE 5500 sq.ft D’ABADIE – Lillian Heights – 7,781 sq ft – TT$1.1M 723-8054
CASCADE CHELSEA 11,029 2/ 2 BEDROOM APT
BUYING & SELLING CUNUPIA – Fernando Lane – 6,302 sq ft –
sq.ft residential land with ap- TT$749,000.00
Tunapuna. $3000/ $3500,
295-6964 provals $1.75M DIEGO MARTIN – La Puerta –- 11,386 sq. 2 min walk to PBR, all ameni-
BLANCHICHEUSSE 4 acres ft – TT$1.050M ties. 740-4842/ 334-7985. SAMAAN GROVE, Tobago Villa
Warehouse for Rent: land ocean views $2.5m neg MADRAS – Madras Settlement – 6,184 sq ft – For Sale. 680-4007
Aranguez 10,000sq WOODBROOK 4 bedrooms on TT$975,000.00 O.N.O. BELMONT LARGE 1 Bedroom
El Socorro 6000sq 4950 sq.ft $2.7M neg POINT FORTIN – Clifton Hill – 25,619 sq. ST AUGUSTINE studio,
$2,400.00. 781-7698 self Contained almost new
Freeport 10,000sq Email: ft – TT$1.95M
$2200.00 including Utilities. 295-
Munroe Road SAN FERNANDO – Cipero Road – 10,700 sq. CANOEBAY 5 acres. 680-2978
bibbybrokers@yahoo.com ft – TT$1.3M O.N.O. 8229 anytime.
Warehouse for Sale: CHAGUANAS
SANTA CRUZ – Saddle Road – Approx 8,600 sq
Munroe Road $10M MARAVAL, FIXER UPPER ft – TT$1.095M NEAR PRICE PLAZA 2 BEDROOM apartments, Uphill
Land For Sale: 2 -story, each self contained. SANTA FLORA – 5,350 sq. ft - TT$500,000.00 Maraval, Parking available. 377-
5 Lots Land Aranguez Main 2 bedrooms $4,500.00
3 bedrooms 2 baths. ST. HELENA – Constantine Road – 5,015 sq. 6387.
Road $10M Near Massy. $3.5M. ft – TT$600,000.00 Negotiable, All Utilities.
Aranguez 60,000sq $9M BELMONT FIXER UPPER ST. JOSEPH - Elizabeth Gardens & Maracas Gardens 388-8240 SIPARIA OLD Road, Massahood
2 Lots Land Aranguez, $1.6M 2-Story on 1855 S/F land. – 9,000 sq ft up – Starting at TT$795,000.00 & up Junction apartment for rent.
1 ACRE Land Mt Lambert $4.5M TOBAGO – Scarborough, Bacolet, Canaan, 392-0673
Near hospital. $890,000 GLENCOE. STUDIO/ one bed-
1 ACRE Land Aranguez $8M Lowlands – 5,000 sq. ft & up -Starting at
461-6879 room. A/C. All amenities. $3300
1 1/2 ACRES Land TT$450,000.00 & up 2 BEDROOM, H/C. Lower Santa
Mt Lambert $8M TRINICITY – Millenium Lakes - 20,990 sq ft -TT$7.35M monthly $900 weekly. 747-1244/ Cruz. $2800. 482-9358
VALENCIA – 22 plots 10,000 sq ft each – 633-1846
4 ACRES Land Don Miguel
Road, $22M
TT$660,000.00 each 3 BEDROOM apartment,
VALSAYN – Spring Village - 2 plots – 9,000 sq ft 1 BACHELOR room A/C, gated, Coconut Drive, San Fernando.
36 ACRES Land highway San PALMISTE RAMBERT off Seep- & 15,000 sq. ft – TT$1.1M & TT$2.5M lower Santa Cruz $2500 482-9358 SUMMERLAND SUITES
Juan, $160M 719-5566
aul Development- lots, 338-1220, 294-3330
7 ACRES Land Freeport 652-8464 SUNSET COVE La Romaine. All rooms self-contained
highway, $15M BLANCHISSEUSE- VICTORIA GARDENS
One-bedroom 1 Bedroom $2500. 2 Bedroom summerlandsuitestobago@
3 ACRES Land Preysal $4.5M PARIA MAIN ROAD. $3000. 1 Bachelor Apartment gmail.com
8000sq Land with building Garden Apartment,
Approximately Self-contained, Fully-furnished $1800. 795-7101/ 681-9594 FB: Summerland Suites
Saddle Road Maraval, $2.5M
9 ACRES Land Freeport, $13M 10,500S.F., & Equipped,
Double Occupancy: ST HELENA Madrass Road, A/C
5 ACRES Land Quarry Freehold, $2500 391-7483
Matura, $3M US$100.00 (TT$675.00)
9 ACRES Land Quarry $500,000.00 O.N.O. per night. SANGRE GRANDE & La
Matura, $6M Call Or Whatsapp Monthly US$1,000.00 Horquetta Rooms $800 and up.
1 ACRE Land Charlieville 680-8679 (TT$6,500.00) 795-1513.
Highway, $10M FREEHOLD RESIDENTIAL land, 620-7653.
3 ACRES Land St Helena, $2.5M 9752 sqft. Borough Approved BARATARIA 1 SPACIOUS
10 ACRES Land St Helena, $10M (Subdivision). Amow Street, En- BEDROOM, LIVING ROOM,
4 ACRES Land Biche Main terprise 720k O.N.O. 686-6742. H/C $2600 SANDY POINT
Road, $600,000 349-8332. VILLAGE
7 Lots Land Aranguez
BUSINESS FOR SALE 389-2378, 357-3337
TABAQUITE 7 lots, 2 road front- Including land in Arima
South $5M age, $595,000.00. 707-0781 sandypointvillagehotel@
2 ACRES Land Waterloo,
with office, trucks, loader. SAN JUAN, 3 Bedroom $4000. gmail.com
FB: Wrightson Investments 723-5113 www.sandypointhotel.se
Lease own $400,000 or call 624-5905
1 1/2 Acres Land ROUSILLAC ST. JAMES 2 bedroom $4800. BARATARIA CLOSE to
Chancellor, $8M 6,450SQ.FT. 395-6144. Maritime 1,050 sq.ft- with 2
6 ACRES St Anns, $3M washrooms, 2 offices, large
1 ACRE Beach House Sea Front $425,000.00 open areas- $6,000, Parking.
Toco Main Rd, $5.5M NEGOTIABLE. 689-7577
LA FILLETTE North Coast Road- 734-4856
17 Acres land beach front $10M LONG TERM, CROWN POINT-
HENRY STREET Port-Of- residential, some suitable for
15 ACRES La Fillette $7M Spain. 3 levels, 15,000
4 ACRES La Fillette $2.5M 1 BEDROOM apartment San Fer- retirees, near Pigeon Point,
sq.ft. excellent invest-
6 ACRES Charlieville $9M LAND FOR SALE ment. 776-9654
nando. Suitable for single person. from $2,600.00 up. 767-9300
before 5:00pm.
2 ACRES Charlieville $5.5M 774-5602
4 LOTS land Carenage, 1 ACRE MAYARO LARGE Office Com-
Panoramic View $2.5M pound. 680-2978
18 ACRES San Juan
Highway $80M
BABOONIA
TRACE,
PROPERTY FOR SALE COMMERCIAL SPACE 30ftx14ft
Homes For Sale: for rent on Mc Bean main road,
(1). Lot B1 Eastern Main Road, $4500 including electricity &
Ryan Street San-Juan $1M CHARLIEVILLE water. Contact 354-6680.
Chaguanas 3 Bedroom Sangre Chiquito (Opposite LP #1019).
T/House $1.7M (BEHIND
Valsayn North House $8M
Petit Valley House with HOLIDAY Land size: 62,219 SQ. FT. (0.5873HA)
Land has commercial Town and Country Approval
swimming pool, $5.5M
SNACKS) Building size: 16,222 SQ. FT.
WAREHOUSE 5000 sq.ft. IM-
Don Miguel Road New House MORTELLE ST COUVA $3M ono SANDY POINT TOBAGO.
Freehold land with steel structure.
with swimming pool, $3.5M
Freeport House 4 1/2
681-5922 Building 8 years old.
call 389-2725 Sleeps 7. All amenities.
632-4127/ 754-9705
Lots, $900.000
Commercial Building For MAYARO 30 acres for develop- Upper Level: 6,000 SQ.FT., ONE BEDROOM CROWN
Sale: ment. 680-2978 3 offices - 20ft X 60ft Air-conditioned units, inclusive of OF WAREHOUSE/ POINT BEACH HOTEL
El Socorro $3.5M toilet in each. Kitchen/ living-room/ porch
OFFICE SPACE
Boundary Road $9M MAYARO LOTS, near beach, ON 2 FLOORS.
ocean view, spacious compound
Building for Rent Lower Level: adjacent to Storebay 685-9052,
$175K. 368-3823
El Socorro Road Over 6000 SQ. FT. Warehouse storage space. 2 TONNE HOIST. 395-8755
2 Storey $35,000 per month MAYARO BEACHFRONT. 680- 20FT X 20FT air- conditioned area with 3 office spaces, GATED, 24/7 CROWN POINT furnished ca-
kitchen and 2 toilets.
2978
1 - outside toilet
SECURITY. bana adjoining Storebay. Augus-
795-4448, 769-2107 tus 633-0406
CARENAGE GATED, ocean 30FT X 80FT side warehouse.
views. 680-2978 60FT X 20FT Front display area.
2 STOREY HOUSE FOR SALE Parking for over 40 vehicles.
NEWLY BUILT $2.2 MIL APPROX. 2.3 Acres of Agricul-
HOMELAND GARDENS tural Land off Caparo Valley, (2). Lot B2 Eastern Main Road,
CUNUPIA T&C APPROVED. Brasso Road, Flanigin Town. DIEGO MARTIN,
TELEPHONE - 714-1699/ $90,000.00 Serious enquiries Sangre Chiquito (Opposite LP #1019). PETIT VALLEY
465-6582 please call 758-7173 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments.
Land size: 74,206 Sqft 776-9654
RESIDENTIAL LAND for sale
BLANCHISSEUSE
L’Anse Martin Beach (D2)
in Block 5 Palmiste, corner lot. Contact: 678-7669 / 354-7034
778-8862
Fully AC, furnished,
4bedroom (en suite) on 1 LOT Freehold land. Quash
the beach. Pool & large MAYARO,
Street Sangre Grande. 391-2891/ 1 BEDROOM apartment Coco-
decks. $6 Million 274-4243
FRONTIN ROAD,
Building 5,360 sq ft yea $2700 Call 742-6013 Beachfront, 5-Bedroom,
Land 14,000 sq ft
In a company name. FREEPORT/ CHICKLAND, 4 GOPAUL LANDS, Marabella A/C, Wifi, Security
FB: Wrightson Investments acres freehold, agriculture, quiet. apartments, air-condition, 2 Cameras.
$1.5M Fruit trees, house. ACCOMMODATION POS. toilet/ bath, tiled. 338-1220,
or Call 624-5905
461-6879 Kitchenette, AC. 395-6144 652-8464 678-4210
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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Arsenal rescues 2-2 draw with Bayern

Kane scores against old rival
LONDON — Harry Kane got his cus-
tomary goal against Arsenal on his
return to north London, but Bayern
Munich couldn’t leave with the win
this time.
Leandro Trossard’s second-half
equaliser rescued a 2-2 draw for Ar-
senal against Bayern in the first leg
of the Champions League quarterfi-
nals yesterday after Kane had scored
against his old rival yet again.
Trossard rolled in a low shot
in the 76th minute to cancel out
Kane’s first-half penalty and leave
the teams evenly balanced ahead of
next week’s second leg.
“It was a tough game. Of course
we are never happy when we don’t
win,” said Kane, who now has a
competition-high seven goals in the
Champions League this season and
15 against Arsenal in his career.
The hosts had taken a 12th-minute
lead through Bukayo Saka and dom-
inated the early stages until former
Arsenal player Serge Gnabry made it
1-1 in the 18th following a mistake by
defender Gabriel.
Kane then put Bayern ahead from
the penalty spot in the 25th, but two
of Arsenal’s substitutes combined
for the equaliser as Gabriel Jesus
teed up Trossard in the area.
The last time these two teams
played, Bayern routed Arsenal 10-2
on aggregate after two 5-1 wins in
the round of 16 in 2017. There was,
however, a sense that things would
be very different this time as Arsenal
is top of the Premier League while
Bayern is having its worst Bunde-
sliga season in more than a decade
and has ceded the title race to Bayer
Leverkusen.
But Kane, who scored a record
14 goals in north London derbies
between Tottenham and Arsenal
before joining the German power-
house this season, made sure Bay-
ern returns to Germany with at least
a slight advantage for the second leg
at home next Wednesday.
Kingsley Coman nearly scored a
90th-minute winner for Bayern, but
his flick-on from close range hit the
post, while Saka had a penalty ap-
peal turned down in the fifth minute
of stoppage time.
The game went ahead as sched-
uled despite an alleged Islamic
State terror threat against Champi-
ons League matches this week, and
there were no incidents at the Emir-
ates before or during the game.
Bayern got the draw despite play-
ing without any away fans in the
stadium because of a UEFA sanction
against the club, which meant Arse-
nal was able to fill all 60,000 seats
with home supporters.
And that crowd was raucous after
a strong start for Arsenal.
The opening goal came when Ben
White teed up Saka inside the area
and the England winger rolled a low
shot between two defenders and in-
side the far post, out of reach of the
diving Manuel Neuer.
White had a great chance to dou-
ble the lead in the 16th after Bay-
ern failed to clear the ball and Kai
Havertz set up the defender in the
area, but his shot went straight at
Neuer.
Soon after, a sloppy Arsenal mis-
take led to the equaliser.
Gabriel turned the ball over in
midfield to give Bayern a quick
counter, and Leon Goretzka slipped
the ball through for Gnabry to slide
in and slot the ball past goalkeeper
David Raya.
Bayern was then awarded the
penalty when William Saliba tripped
Leroy Sane in the box, and Kane—
who was greeted by a chorus of boos Bayern’s Harry Kane celebrates after he scored his side’s second goal
every time he touched the ball—sent from the penalty spot during the Champions League quarterfinal
Raya the wrong way before rolling first leg match between Arsenal and Bayern Munich at the Emirates
the ball into the right corner. Stadium, London, yesterday. PICTURES AP

Real Madrid, Man City draw 3-3 in frantic quarterfinals

MADRID—Three goals in the first
14 minutes. Back-and-forth attack-
ing. Stunning second-half strikes.
It was an instant classic be-
tween the newest Champions
League rivals, with Real Madrid
and Manchester City drawing 3-3
in a frantic first leg of the quarter-
finals yesterday.
“I imagine the fans enjoyed a
game like this, with six goals,”
City manager Pep Guardiola said.
“Both teams wanted to attack,
doing it in different ways, a bit out
of control.”
Federico Valverde scored a
79th-minute equaliser for Madrid
after City had rallied with Phil
Foden and Josko Gvardiol scoring
goals five minutes apart midway
through the second half at the
Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
Bernardo Silva had put City
ahead two minutes into the
match, but Madrid rallied with an
own-goal by City defender Rúben
Dias in the 12th and a score by for-
ward Rodrygo in the 14th.
“We wanted to take at least a
small advantage, but in the end
we are satisfied because we com-
peted well and gave our best,”
Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said.
“If we do the same in the return
match, we can come away victo-
rious.”
The second leg will be next
In the other first-leg quarterfi-
nal yesterday, Arsenal and Bayern
Munich drew 2-2 in London.
City struck early when Silva
sneaked in a low free-kick shot
that went past the wall and caught
Madrid goalkeeper Andriy Lunin
off guard by the near post.
Madrid equalized after a shot
from outside the area by Eduardo
Camavinga deflected off Dias to
wrong-foot City goalkeeper Stefan
Ortega.
Rodrygo put Madrid ahead after
breaking through the City defence
to get to a pass by Brazil teammate
Vinícius Júnior in front of the area.
Rodrygo’s shot deflected off a de-
fender’s leg and slowly rolled past
Ortega and into the net.
Foden evened the match again
with a superb shot into the top
corner in the 66th to make it 2-2,
then five minutes later Gvardiol
put the visitors ahead again with a
powerful strike into the far corner.
Real Madrid’s Rodrygo celebrates scoring his side’s second goal during the
Champions League quarterfinal first leg match against Manchester City at Valverde’s equaliser came with
the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, yesterday. a neat low volley from inside the
area.
Wednesday in Manchester. on to win the title after eliminat- “We played exceptionally well
It is the third consecutive en- ing their rivals. in the second half until the final
counter between the clubs in the The match at the Bernabeu ten or 12 minutes, but in the end
knockout stages of the Champions went on as scheduled despite of we know that for Madrid the
League. Madrid eliminated City in a possible terror threat by the match is never over,” Guardiola
the semifinals in 2022, while City Islamic State, with no security said.
got the best of Madrid at the same incidents being immediately re- The result extended Madrid’s
stage last year. Both teams went ported. 28-match unbeaten streak in all
competitions, as well as City’s
26-match unbeaten run across all
tournaments. Defending cham-
pion City is unbeaten in 22 straight
games in the Champions League.
Guardiola had to cope with the
last-minute absence of playmaker
Kevin de Bruyne, the Belgian in-
ternational who was ill and had
to be dropped from the starting
line-up.
De Bruyne vomited after the
team arrived at the Bernabeu,
though he warmed up with the
substitutes before the match and
started on the bench.
Guardiola, who complained
about the field conditions at the
Bernabeu, was also without cap-
tain and first-choice right back
Kyle Walker because of an injury,
though Gvardiol, who had been
listed as doubtful, started in the
left-back position and ended up
scoring a decisive goal.
Madrid had eight full days to
prepare for the match as there
were no Spanish league matches
this weekend. City had only two
full days to get ready after playing
in the Premier League on Satur-
day.
Ancelotti made his record-ex-
tending 200th appearance as a
coach in the Champions League.
He also is the coach with the most
titles (four) and victories (114).
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
guardian.co.tt sport 37
INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE East, South to
clash in TTCB
Inter-zone final
IAN WASON
Sport Correspondent
East Zone and South Zone will
clash in Friday’s T&T Cricket Board
(TTCB) Inter-zone final at the Na-
tional Cricket Centre (NCC) in Bal-
main, Couva after convincing wins
in the semifinals yesterday in Couva
and Scarborough.
East Zone sent Central Zone in to
bat first at the NCC and reduced the
Fareez Ali-led team to 177 in 46.5
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Heinrich Klaasen, right, stumps out Punjab Kings’ Sunrisers Hyderabad’s captain Pat Cummins, centre, celebrates the dismissal overs. Four batsmen got starts for
captain Shikhar Dhawan during the Indian Premier League cricket match of Punjab Kings’ Jonny Bairstow during the Indian Premier League cricket Central but no one carried on to
between Sunrisers Hyderabad’s and Punjab Kings in Mohali, India, match between Sunrisers Hyderabad’s and Punjab Kings in Mohali, India, make a major contribution and that
yesterday. yesterday. had an impact on the score.
Brandon Phillip (29), Fareez Ali

Hyderabad beats Punjab by 2 runs (28), Ramone Sawh (24), and Aneal
Rooplal (22) all did not take advan-
tage of their stars and Rikki Ragoo-

despite dropping 3 catches in final over

MALLANPUR — Sunrisers Hydera-
bad pulled off a dramatic two-run
win over Punjab Kings despite
dropping three catches in the
final over yesterday in the Indian
Premier League.
Needing 29 off Jaydev Un-
adkat’s final six balls, Punjab
nearly went over the line when
Ashutosh Sharma (33 not out)
was thrice dropped in the deep
with two resulting in sixes before
the home team finished at 180-6.
Earlier, 20-year-old Nitesh
Kumar Reddy hit his maiden T20
half-century and anchored Hy-
derabad to 182-9 with a 37-ball
knock of 64 after Punjab won the
toss and elected to field in its sec-
ond home game of the season.
Punjab’s top-order fell apart
against pace as Jonny Bairstow’s
struggling IPL season continued
when the Englishman got clean
bowled by Pat Cummins for zero
while attempting a shot across
the line.
Wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaas-
en’s decision to come up to the
wicket against Bhuvneshwar
Kumar was rewarded when he
got Shikhar Dhawan (14) stumped
a ball after the Punjab skipper
was dropped in the slip and the
Punjab Kings’ Jonny Bairstow is bowled out by Sunrisers Hyderabad’s
captain Pat Cummins during the Indian Premier League cricket match
between Sunrisers Hyderabad’s and Punjab Kings in Mohali, India,
yesterday.
home team slipped to 20-3 in the
fourth over.
Sam Curran (29) was brilliantly
snapped by diving Cummins and
Sikandar Raza (28) couldn’t con-
vert a good start before falling to
Unadkat in the 14th over.
Shashank Singh, who made
unbeaten 46 off 25 balls, and
Sharma countercharged in the
last three overs, but despite
smacking Unadkat for 26 runs
PICTURES AP
they couldn’t take their team
home.
Earlier, Hyderabad lost three
wickets inside the batting power
play for the first time this sea-
son with Arshdeep Singh (4-29)
dismissing Travis Head (21) and
Aiden Markram (0) in one over
and Abhishek Sharma (16) getting
caught in the covers while driving
uppishly against Curran.
Hyderabad used its impact
substitute inside the batting
powerplay but Rahul Tripathi
tried to uppercut Harshal Patel’s
(2-30) short ball and was caught
behind for 11. Patel also had the
key wicket of Klaasen, who was
caught on the edge of long-off
boundary by Curran, but Reddy’s
aggression in the last six overs
lifted Hyderabad’s total.
Reddy smacked spinner Har-
preet Brar (0-48) for 22 runs in
his final over but got a life soon
after completing his half-century
off 32 balls when Singh dropped
a sitter at mid-wicket.
Arshdeep Singh returned and
claimed two more wickets in one
over for the second time in the in-
nings as Reddy holed out at long-
off off a low full toss and Abdul
Samad (25) was caught at deep
backward point.
Punjab conceded a vital six
runs off the final ball when Patel
palmed the ball over the fence at
long-on as Unadkat attempted a
big hit against Curran’s slower
and those runs eventually cost
the home team in the end.
Hyderabad broke into top five
with six points from five games
while Punjab is at No 6 with two
wins and three defeats. (AP)
nanan (4-33) and Abdul-Raheem
Toppin (3-64) restricted the innings
to a stop-start affair.
In reply, East got to 178 for 5 with
Christian Lall getting to 73 and cap-
tain Andrew Rambaran getting to 44
not out.
In Shaw Park, Scarborough, To-
bago, the host team sent South in
to bat first and the star-studded visi-
tors got to 213 in 47.1 overs.
Steven Gomez got to 64 and Josh
Telemaque made 44 to lead the
South batsmen. Keil Ross and Bran-
don Melville each took two wickets
for the home team.
In reply, Tobago’s innings did not
get off and they were bundled out
for 93 in 24.2 overs as Brian Wil-
liams (3-14), Christian Rampersad
(2-17) and Telemaque (2-19).
Only Akel Quashie provided re-
sistance with 41 runs as Tobago sur-
rendered to South by 120 runs.
SCORES
CENTRAL ZONE 177 (46.5 overs)
(Brandon Phillip 29; Fareez Ali 28; Rikki
Ragoonanan 4-33; Abdul-Raheem Toppin
3-64) vs EAST ZONE 178/5 (30 overs)
(Christian Ali 73; Andrew Rambaran 44
not out; Ramone Sawh 2-37). East Zone
won by 5 wickets.
SOUTH 213 (47.1 overs) (S Gomez 64;
J Telemaque 44; Keil Ross 2-27;Brandon
Melville 2-20) vs TOBAGO 93 (24.2
overs) (Akel Quashie 41; Brian Williams
3-14; Christian Rampersad 2-17). South
won by 120 runs.

UEFA set to crack down on players intimidating referees at Euro 2024

DUESSELDORF — UEFA’s top ref-
eree has vowed to crack down on
players arguing with referees and
“mobbing” them on the field at
the upcoming European Champi-
onship in Germany.
Roberto Rosetti, UEFA managing
director of refereeing, addressed a
gathering of coaches from the 24
competing teams on Monday in
Germany and called on them to
ensure their players show respect
for game officials.
“Unacceptable players’ behav-
iour is a problem for officials. The
FILE: Bosnia and Herzegovina players argue with referee Halil Umut Meler players are following you and,
during the qualifying soccer match between Bosnia-Herzegovina and if you are calm, your players are
Portugal, at the Bilino Polje Stadium in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, more calm,” he told the coaches,
Monday, October 16, 2023. UEFA’s top referee has vowed to crack down on according to a UEFA statement
players arguing with referees and “mobbing” them on the field at the yesterday.
upcoming European Championship in Germany. PICTURE AP “We want to avoid unnecessary
cards and protect the image of the
game, so we will be strong with
mobbing and clear dissent. This
is about protecting the image of
the game and a positive legacy
for future generations. We have
to do something and we need you
because you are super important
for us.”
Rosetti is an experienced Italian
referee who oversaw the Euro-
pean Championship final in 2008,
when Spain beat Germany 1-0.
UEFA also said it will make a de-
cision soon on whether to allow
teams to pick 26 players instead of
the usual 23 for the tournament.
The expanded squads were used
as a temporary measure at the last
European Championship in 2021
to allow players to be replaced
quickly if they tested positive for
COVID-19 while in camp.
Netherlands coach Ronald Koe-
man argued last month for a return
to 26-player squads because “you
have to deal with more injuries
these days,” but Germany coach
Julian Nagelsmann disagreed in
comments Monday. Nagelsmann
said he favoured sticking with 23
because he was concerned about
the atmosphere in a larger squad
suffering if too many players aren’t
getting game time.
UEFA said there was no consen-
sus among the coaches at Mon-
day’s meeting.
“UEFA has taken note of the var-
ious opinions and points of view
shared, with a final decision to be
made in the coming weeks.” (AP)
 38 sport
T&T trio set for TYR Pro Swim in Texas
NIGEL SIMON
Senior Multimedia Reporter
nigel.simon@guardian.co.tt
T&T local trio of Olympian,
Cherelle Thompson, World Junior
champion Nikoli Blackman, and
Graham Chatoor will continue
their quest for Paris Olympic
Qualification when they compete
at the four-day TYR Pro Swim Se-
ries in San Antonio, Texas, from
today (Wednesday, April 10) until
Saturday, April 13.
The 31-year-old Thompson, who
recently competed at the Carifta
Games in Nassau, Bahamas, will
compete in the 50m freestyle on
Saturday.
However, 18-year-old Blackman,
who recently represented the Uni-
versity of Tennessee at the NCAA
Division I Swimming and Champi-
onship, and 24-year-old Chatoor
will be first in action on Thursday,
Blackman will contest the
100m freestyle heats on Thurs-
day before he dips into the pool
for the 200m freestyle on Friday
followed by the 50m freestyle on
Saturday while Chatoor gets going
in the 400m freestyle on Thurs-
day, and closes out the meet on
the 800m freestyle on Saturday.
In Texas, swimming superstars
Caeleb Dressel, Leon Marchand,
and Katie Ledecky will be looking
to fine-tune their preparations
ahead of the US Olympic Trials in
June, and the Olympic Games in
Paris 2024.
It will be Marchand’s first Pro
Swim Series meet since 2023,
and the French 400m individual
medley World Record holder is
the top seed in the 200m butter-
fly, 200m IM, 400 IM, and 200m
breaststroke.
Dressel, fresh from a 50 free
Choon, Selvon 14th in Dom Rep beach vball
National women’s beach volley-
ballers, Tysan Selvon and Britney
Choon had to settle for the 14th
position out of 16 teams when
the 2024 season of the NORCECA
Beach Volleyball Tour served off
at Güibia Beach on the Santo Do-
mingo Pier in Dominican Repub-
lic last weekend.
This was after the T&T woomen,
former Caribbean Zonal Volley-
ball Association Under-20 Beach
Volleyball champions, went
under to Kristina Vicek, and
Claire Crossfield of Canada 12-21,
26-24, 15-17 in their 14th to 14th
playoff on Sunday.
A day earlier, Choon and Selvon
defeated Suriname’s Zoureena
Koningverander, and Shaniva Bal-
karan 21-15, 21-7 in their 13th to
16th semifinal playoff.
When the tournament began
on Friday with Pool D round-
robin play, Choon and Selvon fell
to Mexico’s Susana Torres, and
Yeray Vidaurrazaga 12-21, 17-21
in their opener, and then Allanis
Navas, and María González of
Puerto Rico, 3-21, 8-21.
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Cherelle Thompson
T&T’s Nikoli Blackman
en’s draw and is the No. 1 seed in while Regan Smith is the 100m women’s freestyle in 26.03, and
the 400m, 800m, and 1500m and 200m backstroke top seed. 41st in the 50m butterfly.
freestyles. Simone Manuel is entered for Earlier this year at the first
She is also set to compete in the 100m freestyle alongside Pro Swim Series stop in Knox-
a stacked 200m freestyle field, Claire Curzan and Kate Douglass. ville, Tennessee, held in January,
which includes reigning world Last month, Thompson swam Thompson was 11th in the 50m
champion Siobhan Haughey. to the top spot in the women’s freestyle heats in 25.87 to qualify
Graham Chatoor The Hong Kong swimmer will 50m freestyle C-final at the 2024 for the B finals where she ended
and 100 fly win at the last event in also compete in the 100m free- Pro Swim Series at the FMC Na- in the seventh spot in 25.92.
Westmont, is entered in the 100m style and 100m breaststroke - tatorium in Westmont, Illinois T&T’s other competitor at the
freestyle, 200m freestyle, 100m having finished on the podium in in 25.69 after she had a time of meet Chatoor was 26th in the
butterfly, and 50m freestyle in both events at the world champi- 26.39 in the heats. men’s 400m freestyle heats after
Texas. onships in Doha - as well as the The swim for Olympian he ended in the seventh and final
Another reigning Olympic 50m freestyle, 400m freestyle, Thompson, who got a bronze spot in the third of five men’s
champion, Bobby Finke, is set to and the 100m butterfly. medal in the event at last year’s heats in four minutes, 04.32 sec-
compete in the 1500m, 800m, Elsewhere, reigning Olympic Central American and Caribbean onds while he placed 39th spot in
and 400m freestyles, and the champion Lydia Jacoby is the (CAC) Games in El Salvador was the men’s 200m freestyle in one
400m IM. number two seed in the 100m her first since the FINA Aquatics minute, 54.88 seconds, and 21st
Seven-time Olympic champion breaststroke behind Rio 2016 World Championship in Febru- in the men’s 800m freestyle in
Katie Ledecky headlines the wom- Olympic gold medallist Lilly King, ary where she placed 38th in the eight minutes, 31.15 seconds.
And in their final round-robin
match on Saturday, the T&T
women were beaten by USA’s Sa-
vannah Simo, and Abby Van Win-
kle 9-21, 7-21
The tournament was the first
of three events leading up to the
2024 NORCECA Continental Tour
Finals (May 11-15), which offers
the opportunity to qualify for the
NORCECA Continental Olympic
Qualification Finals ( June 19-24).
According to the NORCECA
Beach Volleyball Paris 2024 Olym-
pic Qualification System, in which
it was established that a series of
three (3) NORCECA Beach Tour
Finals in 2022, 2023 and 2024,
will qualify 12 National Feder-
ations per gender for the 2024
NORCECA Continental Beach
Volleyball Olympic Qualification
Finals foreseen to be held in the
city of Tlaxcala, Mexico on June
19-24, 2024, and will qualify two
teams (one per gender) for the
Olympic Games.
Overall, at least seven dates are
scheduled on the 2024 NORCECA
Tour calendar. T&T senior women beach volleyball duo, Tysan Selvon and Britney Choon.
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Greaves wins silver at NCJA
College & High School Champs
T&T’s Aidan Greaves clinched a silver medal in the championship. His achievement not only inence of judo in the collegiate and high
men’s under 81 kg category at the National College highlights his personal dedication and com- school sports landscape.
Judo Association (NCJA) College and High School mitment to the sport of judo but also brings As the championship drew to a close,
Championship in Texas, USA on the weekend. honour to his school and country. Greaves stood tall among his peers, embod-
The junior at Fulshear High School in Texas The event served as a platform for aspiring ying the values of perseverance, excellence,
who is affiliated to the Westlake Judo Club showed athletes to showcase their talents and com- and sportsmanship. His accomplishment
exemplary skill and dedication at the event, held pete at the highest level of collegiate and serves as an inspiration to aspiring athletes
at Texas A&M College Station. He placed second high school Judo. The spirited atmosphere and reinforces the importance of dedication T&T’s Aidan Greaves shows off his
behind Cuban Saul Gutierrez Reinoso of Langham and competitive matchups captivated spec- and hard work in achieving success on the silver medal won at the NCJA High
Creek high School. In third place was American tators and underscored the growing prom- mat and beyond. School and College Championships
Gordon Robins (Woodside Priory School) while in in Texas, USA on the weekend.
fourth place was USA’s Gonzalo Ramirez.
In round one, Greaves defeated Robins by
ippon and followed up with a similar victory over
Ramirez in round two. In round three, 16-year-old
Greaves lost by ippon to eventual winner Gutier-
rez Reinoso, who was unbeaten through the three
rounds.
Representing both his school and the proud
nation of T&T, Greaves demonstrated remarka-
ble prowess and sportsmanship throughout the

QPCC, WASA make

it six on the trot
Queen’s Park Cricket Club and WASA Sports Club
stayed on a collision course in the T&T Table Ten-
nis Association Premier Division League after both
clubs registered their sixth straight wins from as
many matches on Monday night.
At the Carenage Community Center, Haig Street,
Carenage, USA-based Derron Douglas marked his
debut in this season’s competition with two wins
to lead Queen’s Park Cricket Club to a 3-1 win over
host Carenage Blasters.
Guyana’s Shemar Britton, the A1 men’s Classi-
fied champion got the visiting Parkites off to the
best start possible when he brushed aside Luc
O’Young 11-7, 11-5, 11-9 before Douglas who is stud-
ying in the USA got his first win of the tournament
in his first match, beating Nikoli Barbour-Alexis 12-
10, 9-11, 11-8, 12-10.
However, Nicholas O’Young avoided the sweep
when he defeated A1 Classified runner-up Yuvraaj
Dookram 11-7, 11-9, 13-11, but the joy for the host
was short-lived as Douglas, who was voted as the
Premier Auto Appearance “Most Valuable Player”
of the match then defeated Luc O’Young 11-9, 11-5,
12-10 to seal his team’s win, their sixth from as
many matches to move to 18 points, and a perfect
6-0 record, the same as fellow undefeated club,
WASA who swept Couva Trailblazers 3-0 at WASA
Sports Club, St Joseph with Alaric Humphreys,
Curtis Humphreys, and Christoff Roberts all in
winners row.
The older of the Humphreys brothers, Alaric
the eventual “MVP” beat Trailblazers’ Terrence
Corbin 11-5, 11-5, 11-7 in the opener followed by
Curtis’ triumph against Ishwar Sookoonsingh 11-9,
11-8, 11-4, and Roberts beating of Satesh Jordan 11-7,
11-6, 11-8.

CURRENT STANDINGS
Pos Team P W L Won Lost Diff Pts
1 WASA 6 6 0 18 3 15 18
2 QPCC 6 6 0 18 4 14 18
3 Crusaders 5 4 1 12 9 3 13
4 Blasters 5 3 2 11 10 1 11
5 Hawks 4 2 2 9 8 1 8
6 UTT 4 2 2 6 6 0 8
7 Powergen 4 2 2 8 9 -1 8
8 Renegades 4 1 3 6 9 -3 6
9 Trailblazers 6 0 6 4 18 -14 6
10 D’Abadie 5 0 5 7 15 -8 5
11 Servivors 3 0 3 1 9 -8 3
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Carifin Games Savannah
battle set for tomorrow
Dozens of runners from T&T’s fi-
nancial sector will lay siege on the
Queen’s Park Savannah tomorrow
for the 33rd Edition of the Carifin
Games’ One Lap Savannah run
which will start opposite Victoria
Avenue (TGI Friday) at 5 pm.
The line-up of the sector’s ath-
letic elite includes powerhouse
teams from Republic Bank Limited
(RBL), Scotiabank, Central Bank
(CBTT), Sagicor, First Citizens,
Eastern Credit Union, Ministry of
Finance, and Unit Trust Corpo-
ration. With fierce competition
and friendly rivalries, the race is
charged with anticipation as the
current men’s walking champion,
Brian Jeremie of Team CBTT, who
swept all four walking events in
2023, has his eyes set not only on
defending his title but also on de-
livering a grand showdown against
the five-time champion from First
Citizens, Deodath Harrikissoon.
Meanwhile, Harrikissoon is strid-
ing back onto the scene for an-
other victory. This clash promises
to be the highlight of the evening.
On the women’s side, it is not
any less tense with Tessa Weeks of
Republic Bank, a four-time walking
champion, back, aiming to reclaim
her crown from reigning two-time
winner, Kadesha Charles of the
Dalla Costa, Dookie book J30 Singles quarters spot
NIGEL SIMON
Senior Multimedia Reporter
nigel.simon@guardian.co.tt
T&T’s Kale Dalla Costa and Jor-
dane Dookie both advanced to
the quarterfinals of their respec-
tive Boys and Girls Singles when
the second leg of the International
Tennis Federation J60 Under-18
Tournament continued at the Na-
tional Racquet Centre in Tacari-
gua, yesterday.
Dalla Costa was made to work
for his spot in the last eight as he
registered a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 win over
Brazilian Joao Marcos Angelico
and will next face Turkey’s Samim
Filiz, who beat USA’s Gadin Arun
in their round-of-16 encounter.
Dalla Costa then returned later
in the evening and paired with Co-
lombian Pablo Robledo Hoyos to
defeat T&T duo, Zachery Byng and
B’jorn Hall 6-1, 6-3 in their Boys
Doubels last-16 match and next
face Americans Brady Friesen,
and James Andrew Ross who got
past USA’s Josh Bitton, and Brazil-
ian Bernardo Tedesco 7-6(6), 6-2.
Also advancing in the Doubles
were T&T’s Nathen Martin and
Liam Byrne of Canada after they
defeated locals Nirav Dougdeen
and Deron Dumas 6-2, 6-1.
In the Girls’ Under-18 main
draw round-of-16, Dookie who
captured her sixth ITF Junior last
week on home soil with Doubles
partner Kayla Brianne Moore,
Brian Jeremie of Team CBTT, who
swept all four walking events in
2023.
team (RBL).
The running category is ablaze
with hopeful, history-making po-
tential for One Lap Savannah. Abi-
jah Phillip of team RBL, fresh from
his 2023 victory, stands on the
cusp of an unprecedented fourth
win. Yet, formidable contenders
emerge in teammates, Shay Gon-
zales and Clinton Williams from
Kale Dalla Costa.
PICTURE DANIEL PRENTICE
made light work of USA’s Aqeela
Malik, winning 6-1, 6-2 and will
face off with seventh-ranked USA’s
Ciara Harding who denied Em-
Miryam Campbell-Smith a spot
in an all-T&T match-up with a 6-2,
6-0 beating.
Dookie is already through to
the last eight of the Doubles with
partner Daisy Clifford courtesy of
a bye and awaits the winner of last
night’s match-up between T&T’s
Cameron Wong and partner Sa-
vanna Salahuddin-Wright against
American duo, Malik, and Sydney
Tessa Weekes of Republic Bank, a
four-time women’s walking
champion.
Scotiabank, both filled with aspi-
rations of glory and near victories.
Adding to the spectacle, missing
past champions sets the stage for
epic battles and exciting contests.
Sagicor’s reigning women’s run-
ning champion is missing in action
as she is sidelined with an injury,
leaving the women’s category wide
open and the title of ‘Women Run-
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
Singles:
Boys round-of-16:
Kale Dalla Costa bt Joao Marcos
Angelico (Bra) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Hugo
Fidler (Aru) bt Thomas O’Neil (Can)
6-2, 6-1; Pablo Robledo Hoyos (Col)
bt James Andrew Ross (USA) 6-2,
6-2; Lionel Ling Fung (HKG) bt Max
Kirmayr (Bra) 6-4, 6-1; Bernardo
Tedesco (Bra) bt Ross Johnson (USA)
6-3, 6-3; Colter Amey (USA) bt Ricardo
Winkel (Cur) 6-3, 6-4; Hanlei Lu (Chn)
bt Jayden Yu(USA) 6-2, 7-5;Hanlei Lu
(Chn) bt Jayden Yu (USA) 6-2, 7-5;
Samim Filiz (Turk) bt Gadin Arun
(USA) 6-2, 6-2.
Girls round-of-16
Gabriella Kellner (USA) bt Sydney
Wright (USA) 6-4, 6-2; Sophia
Budacsek (USA) bt Anvika Saraswathi
(Can) 6-1, 7-6(2); Gianna Graci (USA)
bt Sharada Gowda (USA) 6-3, 2-0 ret;
Ariana Ikwueme (USA) bt Isabella
Pisarczyk (USA) 6-1, 6-1; Ciara Harding
(USA) b Em-Miryam Campbell-Smith
Wright.
However, in the other Doubles
matches completed up to press
time involving locally based play-
ers, USA’s Sophia Budacsek and
Isabella Pisarczyk ousted Julie
George-Alexander of Antigua and
Barbuda, and T&T’s Shiloh Walker
6-1, 6-2 while North Americans,
Sharada Gowda and Ariana Ik-
wueme humbled Mohammed sis-
ters, Lilly and Naomi 6-3, 6-0.
T&T’s Campbell-Smith and Na-
ning Champion’ up for grabs. This
promises new One Lap legends
and possibly the birth of a new
champion, as seasoned contenders
and fresh talent vie for the crown.
However, beyond the physical
feats, the Carifin Games One Lap
Savannah serves a greater pur-
pose- a portion of every registra-
tion fee is generously donated to
the Vice of Lupus Foundation, in-
tertwining the event’s competitive
spirit with a commitment to giving
back and fostering community re-
silience.
Nigel Edwards, Executive Direc-
tor of Unit Trust Corporation re-
marks, “The One Lap Savannah,
as part of the Carifin Urban Chal-
lenge, symbolizes the strength and
resilience of our financial sector
community.” Edwards eloquently
captured the event’s core princi-
ples, a commitment to health, and
fitness, and the invaluable network
woven through shared sweat and
aspirations. It is a testament to the
enduring spirit of competition, ca-
maraderie, and the relentless pur-
suit of excellence that defines the
financial services community.
As contenders take their marks,
the air tingles with anticipation,
community spirit, and the palpa-
ble excitement of competition.
6-2, 6-0; Jordane Dookie bt Aqeela
Malick (USA) 6-1, 6-2; Daisy Clifford
(GBR) bt Sevanna Salahudding-Wright
(USA) 6-1, 7-5; Cookie Jarvis-Tredgett
(Can) bt Tejaswini Narala (USA) 6-2,
1-6, 6-4.
Doubles:
Boys round-of-16:
Brady Friesen (USA)/James Andrew
Ross (USA) 7-6, 6-2; Kale dalla Costa/
Pablo Robledo Hoyos (Col) bt Zachery
Byng/B’jorn hall 6-1, 6-3; Lionel Ng
Ling Fung (HKG)/Jayden Yu (USA) bt
Jovan Garibana/Jayden Mitchell 6-0,
6-0; Liam Byrne (Can)/Nathen Martin
bt Nirav Dougdeen/Deron Dumas
6-2, 6-1.
Girls round-of-16:
Sophia Budacsek (USA)/Isabella
Pisarczyk (USA) bt Julie George-
Alexander (A&B)/Shiloh Walker 6-1,
6-2; Sharada Gowda (USA)/Ariana
Ikwueme (USA) bt Lilly Mohammed/
Naomi Mohammed 6-3, 6-0.
talia Tkachenko were carded to
face USA’s Harding and Tejaswini
Narala, and Kiera Youssef and
Venezuelan Ana Sanchez met Can-
ada’s Anvika Saraswathi and Anya
Taylor of Great Britain.
And in the boys’ Aaron Subero
and Lucas Davis of Barbados met
Filiz, and China’s Hanlei Lu; Luca
Denoon and Anthony Abbott of
the USA battled Brazil’s Bernardo
Costa and Hayden Grech of Can-
ada.
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Lingo, Ramsingh
cop Masters
Doubles 60 title
In an anti-climatic finish to the
Men’s Doubles 60 final, the top-
seeded pair of Neil Lingo and
Narad Ramsingh were awarded
the title after scheduled oppo-
nents, Winston John, and Ath-
elstan Phillips forfeited in the
World Tennis Masters Tour Steve
Thomas International Senior Ten-
nis Tournament at the National
Racquet Centre in Tacarigua.
In the three-team draw, Lingo
and Ramsingh were gifted a bye
into the championship match
while John and Phillips came from
behind to beat Cliff Meade and
Frank Ramudit 1-4, 4-0, 10-3.
Today, Lingo and Phillips are
also scheduled to be on the oppo-
site side of the net for the Singles
60 finals.
Adisa Idemudia, and Askia Rich-
ards were also winners by default
in their Men’s Doubles 35 semifinal
against Adisa Idemudia, and Askia
Richards, with the latter stranded
in the southland and in the other
semifinal Kino Francis and Jerome
Warde blanked Ralph Attong, and
Kieran Gomes 4-0, 4-0.
In the women’s 35 Singles semi-
finals, Cherry Lapaix stunned sec-
ond-seeded Sarah Salandy 7-6(3),
6-2 and will face the defending
champion Catherine Campbell
who outlasted the top-ranked Sav-
itree Singh in their last-four clash
6-4, 5-7, 10-8 to move to within one
victory of retaining her crown.
The Mixed Doubles final was
also scheduled for last night with
Campbell and Mc Letchie to face
Salandy and former top T&T
men’s player, Tyler Mayers.
On Monday, Richard Mc Let-
chie brushed aside Farid Youssef
6-4, 6-1 in their semifinal and
Andre Mewett took down sec-
ond-seeded Darren Farfan, 6-1,
6-0 in their match-up.
In the men’s 35 Singles semifi-
nals, Jerome Ward stopped Adisa
Idemudia 6-2, 6-1, and Askia Rich-
ards battled past Kino Francis
7-6(9), 2-6, (10-8) to set up their
title match today.
Today, the tournament will con-
clude from 10 am with the Men’s
and Women’s 35 Singles finals
followed by the Men’s 45 Singles,
and then the Men and Women 35
Doubles finals.
RESULTS
Monday’s results
Men’s Single 35 semifinals: Jerome
Ward bt Adisa idemudia 6-2, 6-2;
Askia Richards bt Kino Francis 7-6(9),
2-6, (10-8).
Women’s Singles 35 quarterfinals:
Cherry Lapaix bt Diane Martin John
6-0, 6-0
Men’s Doubles 35 quarterfinals:
Ralph Attong/Kieran Gomes bt Dion
Alexander/Daren Alexander 4-2, 2-4,
11-9; Adisa Idemudia/Askia Richards
bt Suruj Ragoonath/Mukesh
Ramsingh 4-1, 4-0; Andre Mewett/
Farid Youssef bt Collin Auguste/
Dion Auguste 4-2, 4-0; Kino Francis/
Jerome Ward bt Praveen Kumar/
Ronald Robinson 4-0, 4-2.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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Sammy settled on core of WI squad,
says preparation now critical
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – West In-
dies white ball head coach, Daren
Sammy, says he is settled on the
majority of the squad for the T20
World Cup in June, and has un-
derscored the value of personnel,
preparation and purpose if the
Caribbean side are to win the ICC
showpiece.
The two-time former T20
World Cup-winning captain said
since taking over almost a year
ago, he had focused on the im-
portance of roles and finding
players to fit those roles, and this
had allowed selectors to signif-
icantly narrow down the larger
group.
And with the T20 World Cup
now only eight weeks away,
Sammy said the personnel was all
but settled with only fine-tuning
left to be done.
“Personnel, preparation, pur-
pose—those are the three P’s that
I use,” Sammy told a media con-
ference here Monday.
“We’ve selected squads and ex-
posed about 22 players over the
last year in preparation for this
main event that is coming, and
fine-tuning and giving clear guid-
ance as to what roles are required
in the different positions, to help
us to be successful.
He continued, “So you
would’ve seen … different guys
getting different opportunities
over a consistent period of time
in different roles, and it has
brought us down to probably the
final 15, 16, 20 players, and it’s
about fine-tuning now.
“I’m probably quite sure as to
what my World Cup team will be.
It’s based on the measures that
we’ve taken and the strategic
roles we have given players.”
Under Sammy, West Indies
won T20 World Cup titles in 2012
and 2016, and also reached the
final four of the 2014 edition in
Bangladesh, but have endured
shambolic campaigns since.
In the 2021 tournament staged
in Oman and United Arab Emir-
ates, a side led by the now-retired
Kieron Pollard and including
veterans like Chris Gayle and
Dwayne Bravo, lost four of their
five games to miss out on qualifi-
cation for the second round.
More disaster ensued the fol-
lowing year in Australia when a
Nicholas Pooran-led squad lost
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Monday’s media conference.
two of their three qualifying
games and failed to reach the
main draw of the tournament.
An overhaul of the team
management and playing per-
sonnel—including a change of
captain—saw West Indies winning
every series they played last year,
and Sammy said they were ad-
justments which had to be made
in order for the side to rebuild.
“We noticed that the ability in
the middle overs to play spin was
a factor for us, and you saw the
introduction of Shai Hope into
T20 cricket and Nicholas Pooran
moving from number five there-
abouts to number three—he’s
probably one of our best players
of spin,” Sammy continued.
“Where before 2023 we were
averaging six or so runs per over
between overs number seven to
15 whereas international teams
were going at seven, close to
eight, we have now changed that
to seven.
“Still we need improvement
but the small measures that we’re
taking and the preciseness with
which we’re working has enabled
us to take little strides.
“We saw the reintroduction of
(Andre) Russell who’s doing re-
ally well in the IPL now—that’s
part of his preparation as well.
“We’ve seen (Shimron) Het-
myer come back into the squad
although he’s not delivered how
I want him to perform. You’ve
seen personnel like Sherfane
Rutherford coming back into the
West Indies team.”
West Indies will feature in
Group C of the June 1-29 tourna-
ment which the Caribbean will
co-host with United States, and
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Uganda in the preliminary stage.
Their group campaign will be
spread across Guyana, St Lucia
and Trinidad, and Sammy said
much of the planning took into
consideration the various venues.
“A lot goes into our thinking
when we select different teams
and with the different venues that
we have … if you see the different
teams we play, it’s right in line
with the strength of our team—
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“The biggest thing for us has
been preparation and it shows
that when we prepare well, we’ve
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Jack-Kisal’s Eczacıbaşı beaten in finals opener

Former T&T women’s volleyballer,
Sinead Jack-Kisal
Former T&T women’s volleyballer, Sinead
Jack-Kisal and Eczacıbaşı Dynavit surren-
dered home-court advantage in the Vodafone
Turkish Women’s Sultanlar Ligi Volleyball
best-of-three finals after losing the first of the
best-of-three finals on Tuesday.
Playing at their Burhan Felek Vestel Voley-
bol Salonu in İstanbul, Jack-Kisal and Ec-
zacıbaşı Dynavit went under to defending
champions Fenerbache Opet 22-25, 27-25, 23-
25, 25-27 ahead of the second leg on Saturday,
April 13 with the third match if needed set for
Monday, April 15.
For Fenerbache Opet, Cuban-born Turkey
international Melissa Vargas led all scorers
with 23 points and she was well supported by
Cristina De Souza with 17, Arina Fedorovtseva
with 14, and Eda Erden’s 10.
On the other side of the net, Serbian Tijana
Boskovic had the hot hands for Eczacıbaşı
Dynavit with 21 points while Hande Baladin
added 16, Jovana Stevanovic 11, Irina Voronk-
ova nine, and Jack-Kisal eight in the loss.
Last week in the semifinals, Eczacıbaşı Dy-
navit beat Vakifbank 2-0 via a first-leg 25-11,
23-25, 25-21, 25-15 results, and 25-23, 25-20,
25-20, and in the other semifinal Fenerbache
Opet defeated Turk Hava Yollari 25-23, 17-25,
25-23, 25-14 and 25-18, 25-20, 25-16.
Fenerbache Opet has defeated Eczacıbaşı
Dynavit in all three other meetings this sea-
son, 3-2 twice in the league and a 3-1 triumph
in the recent AXA Sigorta Kadinlar Volleyball
Cup final at the Ankara Sports Hall, Ankara,
25-23, 16-25, 25-17, 25-20.
Eczacıbaşı Dynavit ended the regular sea-
son in the third spot with a 23-3 record and
68 points, five adrift of table-toppers Fener-
bache (24-2) while Vakifbank was second with
69 points, a similar record of 24-2 as the table
toppers with Turk Hava Yollari, in the fourth
spot with 54 points, and a 19-7 record.
By ending the regular season at the top of
the table, Fenerbahçe Opet also gained the
right to directly participate in the CEV Cham-
pions League next season, after losing out in
last month’s semifinals along with Eczacıbaşı
Dynavit.
Last month, Jack-Kisal and her club came up
short against Italians A Carraro Imoco Coneg-
liano in the second-leg semifinal of the CEV
Women’s Champions League.
Conegliano who rallied from 0-2 down in
the best-of-five sets first-leg at 26-28, 20-25,
25-14, 25-22, 18-16 secured their spot in the
final against fellow Italian outfit Allianz Vero
Volley Milano after a 25-17, 25-15, 24-26, 25-16
second-leg win.

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(75 minutes). Each question is worth 1 mark.
Comprehension
Answer All Questions.
SECTION 1 Read the passage carefully then answer the questions
Spelling TASK 4 - Non-Fiction (19 to 25) based on it. Please use complete
and proper sentences for your answers.
In each line of the passage below there is one word that is
19. Autism is a lifelong developmental difference that impacts social skills,
TASK 1 incorrectly spelt. Underline the mis-spelt word and write its
communication and other behaviours. 1 mark
correct spelling in the box provided for each line.
20. Needham felt their experiences were similar, as they both
1. separated struggled to fit in at school. 2 marks

2. disappoint 21. Needham believes people with autism have strengths because of their
diagnosis. 2 marks
3. audience
22. Needham wants to create a supportive place where neurodiverse people
4. participant can share the advantages of being different. 2 marks
5. swimsuit
23. The main idea is Helen Needham believes that neurodiversity has advantages
6. intelligence 12 marks and advocates for people with neurological differences because of her experience
growing up with undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder. 2 marks

Punctuation and Capitalisation 24. The word adapt means change the usual way of doing something to be
more helpful. 2 marks
There is one punctuation or capitalization error in each line
in the passage below. Insert the missing punctuation mark 25. Answers will vary but should be based in the text.
TASK 2 (or correct the incorrect punctuation mark written) or capital Answers may include that people with neurodiversity don’t always have the tools to
letter in its correct place, in each line. understand how their brain works. They also have a hard time finding supportive
environments. Through her work, Needham hopes that people will start to see that
neurodiverse brains also have advantages. Her view may help people with
7. “Check….. neurodiverse brains feel more supported. It may also help others understand the
advantages of neurodiversity better, which may lead to there being more support.
8. all by myself.” 2 marks

9. I even cried a lot.

Read the poem on Test Page 7
10. There was nothing I could do. TASK 5 - Poetry and answer questions 26-32.
11. It wasn’t
12. In fact, 26. The poet’s mother was angry because her son was focused on watching
television and not on his school work. 2 marks
6 marks
27. The mood of the poem is a humorous one. 2 marks
Grammar 28. The word buddy means friend. 2 marks

There is one grammar error in each line in the passage below. 29. The room was described as a zoo, as it had snacks all over the ground just like in
TASK 3 Draw a circle around the error and write the correct form of
a zoo. 2 marks
the word in the box provided. 30. I would describe the poet as witty. 2 marks

31. The boy’s father was more addicted to the television. 2 marks
13. nor 32. The parents can gain control by having rules and consequences where watching
television is concerned, or they can use watching television as a reward for doing
14. for good in his school work. 2 marks
15. from
16. eventually Look at the advertisement on
TASK 6 - Graphic Test Page 8 and answer questions 33-36.
17. were
18. to
33. The house is located in Grand Gardens. 2 marks

12 marks 34. Persuasive words used are: reasonably priced, exquisite, imported floor
tiles from Italy, European cupboards. 2 marks

35. This advertisement can be viewed in a newspaper, Instagram, Facebook

or on a bulletin board in a grocery. 2 marks

36. Two pieces of information that have been omitted are: the contact number,
where is Grand Gardens, social media links. 2 marks
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Bidaisee called up
IAN WASON
Sport Correspondent
Powergen duo of Cephas Cooper
and Navin Bidaisee have been
brought into the T&T Red Force
for the Cricket West Indies Cham-
pionships sixth round match
against the Combined Campuses
and Colleges (CCC) at the Sir
Frank Worrell Field, University
of the West Indies Sports and
Physical Education Centre in St
Augustine starting 10 o’clock this
morning.
Cooper, who scored 51 and 54
against Merryboys and Queen’s
Park Cricket Club (QPCC), re-
spectively, over the weekend in
the T&T Premier Division I, was
initially dropped to make way for
Jyd Goolie who recovered from in-
jury but is now back in the team
for the injured Tion Webster, who
was injured during the Dream XI
T10 Blast in Shaw Park, Scarbor-
ough last week.
The 24-year-old Bidaisee who
played four List A matches for
CCC in 2022, replaces legspinner
Yannic Cariah who pulled out of
the team for personal reasons.
Bidaisee scored 74 twice against
Merryboys and Queen’s Park on
the weekend and is bringing a
measure of form into the squad.
Cephas Cooper, a right-hand
batsman and right arm Offbreak
bowler. PICTURE HANNAH PETERSICC
The Red Force currently sits
sixth on the eight-team table with
51 points and head coach David
Furlonge admits the mood in the
camp is upbeat despite the forced
changes to the team.
“It (change) is affecting us be-
cause, as I said, it (change) hap-
pened over the weekend. The
team was able to get together and
we practiced together. The only
one who didn’t practice yester-
day was Navin Bidaisee because
he just came into the team today,”
said Furlonge.
Despite not being in a position
They have to get the average up.
We have part-time goals, we have
full-time goals and we have team
goals that we want to achieve by
the end of the next two games.”
All matches start at 10 am, ex-
cept the clash at Sabina Park,
Jamaica. The Jamaicans and Guy-
ana match bowls off at 11 am (TT
Time).
Trinidad and Tobago
14-man squad
Joshua Da Silva (captain), Bryan
Charles (vice-captain), Khary
Pierre, Vikash Mohan, Kjorn Ottley,
Amir Jangoo, Jason Mohammed,
Navin Bidaisee, a left-hand batsman Cephas Cooper, Anderson Phillip,
and right hand leg break bowler. Shannon Gabriel, Terrance Hinds,
to win the tournament the Red Jyd Goolie and Navin BidaiseeI
Force are 21.6 points behind sec- Championship Fixtures:
At UWI St Augustine, Trinidad
ond-placed Windward Islands
T&T Red Force vs Combined
Volcanoes who are on 71.6 points,
Colleges and Campuses
but still have a lot to play for.
“If we win the last two games,
At Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad
possibly we can come to the first
Barbados Pride vs Leeward Islands
three or two. But whatever posi- Hurricanes
tion we finish on, we will look to
finish the tournament on a high At Coolidge Cricket Ground,
and win our last two games,” said Antigua
Furlonge, who added that players West Indies Academy vs
also have personal goals to play Windward Islands Volcanoes
for, as they aim to finish on a high.
At Sabina Park, Jamaica
“They (Red Force players) have
Jamaica Scorpion vs Guyana
a certain amount of runs to score
Harpy Eagles
in the next couple of innings.
sights on
finishing
technical
centre during
new term
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS
Re-elected president of the
Barbados Football
Association (BFA), Randy
Harris said finishing the
national technical centre
will be his mission in what
will possibly be his final
term at the helm of the sport
in the island.
The 64-year-old, the pres-
ident of the Caribbean Foot-
ball Union (CFU) and one of
three vice-presidents of Con-
federation of Central Amer-
ican & Caribbean Football
(CONCACAF), regained the
top position during the an-
nual general meeting of the
BFA on Sunday.
Harris has held the post
for the past 12 years, and he
prevailed over challenger
and former national goal-
keeper Omari Eastmond
37-30 for another four-year
term.
“I started this presidency
to ensure that Barbados has
its own facility,” he told re-
porters after the election
at the BFA’s headquarters,

D/Force kicks off First Citizens Cup defence in last-16
Reigning T&T Football Association
(TTFA) Premier League champi-
ons, Defence Force will kick off
the defence of their knockout
title, the First Citizens Knockout
Cup in the round-of-16 on April
27 against the winners of the first-
round clash between Cunupia
Eagles of Tier II, and Terminix La
Horquetta Rangers.
This was determined during
the draw that involved all 11 par-
ticipating teams in the TTFA Tier
I and 15 clubs in Tier II when the
draw was conducted by Amiel Mo-
hammed, general secretary of the
TTFA and Devorn Jorsling, a for-
mer national and Defence Force
striker, and current head coach
of Tier II club Harlem Strikers at
the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mu-
curapo, yesterday.
In his address, Mohammed said
he was pleased to welcome First
Citizens back into the top levels
of local football as a major spon-
sor to the sum of $200,000 with
$150,000 going towards the prize
money for the finalists of the com-
petition.
For the draw, the top three
teams on the standings in both
the Tier I and Tier II Divisions as
of Monday, April 8, 2024, were
given byes into the round-of-16
with Miscellaneous Police FC, AC
Port-of-Spain, and Defence Force
the beneficiaries in Tier I, and the
trio of Guaya United, MIC Maura
First Citizens Knockout Cup
April 20
Round-of-32
#1 - Defence Force FC (Tier II) vs
Police FC (Tier II)
#2 - Cunupia Eagles (Tier II) vs La
Horquetta Rangers
#3 - Caledonia AIA vs QPCC FC
#4 - Cunupia Eagles (Tier I) vs 1976 FC
Phoenix
#5 - Club Sando (Tier II) vs Central FC
#6 - UTT Patriots vs Prison Service FC
#7 - San Fernando Giants vs Bethel FC
#8 - Point Fortin Civic vs Central
Soccer World
#9 - Petit Valley/Diego Martin Utd vs
Misc. Laventille Utd
#10 - Club Sando (Tier I) vs RSSR FC
Round-of-16
April 27
Defence Force (Tier I) vs Cunupia
Eagles (Tier II)/La Horquetta Rangers
winner
Amiel Mohammed, the general secretary of T&T Football Association, Club Sando (Tier I)/RSSR FC winner vs
(TTFA), right, and Harlem Strikers coach former Defence Force striker Police FC (Tier 1)
Devorn Jorsling conducted the draw for the tournament at the VIP Box at San Fernando Giants/Bethel FC
the Hasely Crawford Studium in Mucurapo, yesterday.
winner vs Harlem Strikers
PICTURE KERWIN PIERRE Cunupia Eagles (Tier I)/1976 FC
ReUnited and Harlem Strikers, Last season, Defence Force Phoenix winner vs Caledonia AIA/
from Tier II. completed the double in the T&T- QPCC FC winner
AC Port-of-Spain vs Defence Force FC
Among the mouth-watering PFL when they won the Knockout
round-of-32 match-ups set for Cup, after battling past Terminix (Tier II)/Police FC (Tier II) winner
Guaya United vs Matura ReUnited
April 20 are a meeting between La Horquetta Rangers in a hot-
Point Fortin Civic/Central Soccer
Tier II rivals, Defence Force and ly-contested final 5-3 at the Diego World winner vs UTT Patriots/Prison
Police FC, Caledonia AIA (Tier Martin Sports Complex, Diego Service FC winner
I) against Tier II’s Queen’s Park Martin. The quarterfinals are
Cricket Club, and the University carded for May 4 and 5 while the Quarterfinals: May 4 and 5
of T&T Patriots versus Prison Ser- dates for the semifinals and final Semifinals and Final: Dates to be
vice FC. are yet to be finalised. determined
Wildey Turf.
“Football will never im-
prove if we don’t have
proper facilities, anybody
will tell you that, so my mis-
sion, and I think this will be
my last term, is to make sure
that our technical centre is
completed.”
Harris has come under in-
creasing scrutiny in recent
years because of the lack
of success from men’s and
women’s national teams at
the senior and junior levels
in regional competitions.
“Obviously, I put myself
in the race because I want
to complete my mission of
developing, first of all the
facility, and then looking at
getting serious about pro-
grammes, mostly junior pro-
grammes because we have
to look to the future of foot-
ball in Barbados,” he said.
“I want to thank the mem-
bers for having confidence
in me again, and I just want
to say to the challenger that
he put up a good fight, and
I think he has something to
give to football and I hope
that this loss wouldn’t cause
him to feel that he is not wel-
comed to assist.”
Barbados is currently
177th in the world in the
FIFA men’s rankings, and
160th in the women’s rank-
ings.
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FURLONGE
RECALLS
The 2024 ICC Men’s World Cup
will be co-hosted by the
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the United States
from June 1 to 29, 2024.

CEPHAS
APPLAUSE

T&T and West Indies leg spinner

YANNIC CARIAH showed up
with an all-round performance
with bat and ball that helped
Queen’s Park Cricket Club to a
four-wicket win over Powergen
at the Queen’s Park Oval in
Port-of-Spain. Cariah claimed
five for 37 and then added 49
runs.

PLAIN TALK

“As we speak today, we’re 80

days away from the final in
Barbados. We’re also seven days
away from the partial handover
of Kensington Oval.”
—Ambassador NOEL LYNCH,
chairman of the National
Organising Committee
Manchester City’s Josko Gvardiol
fights for the ball with Real Madrid’s
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Language Arts
(75 minutes). Each question is worth 1 mark.
Answer All Questions.
SECTION 1
In each line of the passage below there is one word that is
TASK 1 incorrectly spelt. Underline the mis-spelt word and write its
correct spelling in the box provided for each line.
Spelling
The contestants were seperated just before the parade of the
nations. Ms. Rwanda’s costume did not dissappoint as it left the
audeince astonished. All the beautiful women looked glamorous
as they strutted across the stage. Each partisipent represented their
country with pride and will compete in the swimsiut competition
tomorrow. Next, the ladies will test their entelligance and knowledge.
Punctuation and Capitalisation
There is one punctuation or capitalization error in each line
in the passage below. Insert the missing punctuation mark
TASK 2 (or correct the incorrect punctuation mark written) or capital
letter in its correct place, in each line.
Check it out, Mom!” I was so proud of what I’d learned. “I can play
this song all by myself” My mother told me that she couldn’t afford a
piano. I cried a little or maybe i even cried a lot. Then we went home.
There was nothing I could do There would be no piano on that day.
It wasnt that my mother didn’t want to give me a piano.
She just couldn’t. in fact, we wouldn’t have the money for the next 10 years.
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There is one grammar error in each line in the passage below.
TASK 3 Draw a circle around the error and write the correct form of
the word in the box provided.
13.
Neither my father or his niece was able to explain their
14.
accomplishment. They struggled to obtain a supplier with their
1.
15.
equipment but couldn’t locate one for whom to purchase the items.
2.
16.
However, they eventual located a supplier in the Couva district.
3.
17.
Their new equipment, in addition to their new uniforms was
4.
18.
just too much for the other teams according from the reports.
5.
12 marks
SECTION 2
6. SECTION 2 - Comprehension
Read the passage below carefully then answer the
TASK 4 - Non-Fiction questions (19 to 25) based on it. Please use complete
12 marks and proper sentences for your answers. 13 marks
HELEN NEEDHAM: ADVOCATE FOR AUTISM
Helen Needham is an advocate for people with neurological differences, including those
with autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, and ADHD. And she knows the challenges and
benefits of being neurodiverse first-hand; she was diagnosed with autism when she was
41 years old. Autism spectrum disorder is a lifelong developmental difference that
impacts social skills, communication, and other behaviours.
Needham had experienced the effects of her autism long before her diagnosis. While in
school, she excelled academically. But she had difficulty making friends and being social.
She would feel anxiety in larger groups, and she didn’t feel like she fit in. For many years,
7.
she lost confidence in herself.
When her son was a toddler, Needham began realising he was having similar issues to
what she experienced. Teachers felt that they could not provide her son with support. He
8. was struggling to fit in and would have outbursts during class. A doctor diagnosed her
son with autism. Needham realised, with the help of a doctor, that she was also autistic.
At age 41, she had new tools to understand how her brain worked. Her autism diagnosis
made her feel empowered. She did not need to change who she was. She could embrace
9.
her differences!
Today, Needham spends her days advocating for other people with neurodiverse brains.
She illustrated her philosophy in a TEDx Talk. In this lecture, she talked about how
10. autism may bring about social issues, but it also gives a person hyperfocus, attention to
detail, and a different set of problem-solving skills. She wants people to value these skills.
One of the biggest challenges facing people with autism spectrum disorder is not being
11. able to find supportive environments where they can thrive. For instance, many schools
and companies do not have support for neurodiverse people. Needham is working to
provide a support system to neurodiverse individuals. She founded a network called
Me.Decoded, where neurodiverse people can share their stories about how being
12. different can be an advantage. It’s a kind of support network for people whose brains are
wired differently.
Needham has high hopes for the future. She hopes that more people can get diagnosed
with neurological differences early so that schools can adapt to what these students
6 marks need. She also hopes companies will hire neurodiverse people because they have a lot to
offer. And she is constantly working to help society value the unique skills and abilities
neurodiverse people bring to the world.
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________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. How can Needham’s view that neurodiversity has advantages to help
others? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. 2 marks
20. How did Needham compare her experiences to her son’s? 2 marks
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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21. Read the following sentences from the text.
“Her autism diagnosis made her feel empowered. She did not need to change
who she was. She could embrace her differences! Today, Needham spends her ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
days advocating for other people with neurodiverse brains. She illustrated her
philosophy in a TEDx Talk. In this lecture, she talked about how autism may
bring about social issues, but it also gives a person hyperfocus, attention to
detail, and a different set of problem-solving skills. She wants people to value
these skills.”
What conclusion can you draw from this evidence? 2 marks TASK - Poetry Read the poem and answer the questions that follow.
13 marks

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Turn Off the TV!
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ My father gets quite mad at me;
my mother gets upset—
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ when they catch me watching
our new television set.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ My father yells, “Turn that thing off!”

Mom says, “It’s time to study.”
22. Why does Needham feel there is a need for Me.Decoded? 2 marks I’d rather watch my favorite TV show
with my best buddy.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I sneak down after homework
and turn the set on low.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ But when she sees me watching it,
my mother yells out, “No!”
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dad says, “If you don’t turn it off,
I’ll hang it from a tree!”
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I rather doubt he’ll do it,
’cause he watches more than me.
23. What is the main idea of this text? 2 marks
He watches sports all weekend,
and weekday evenings too,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ while munching chips and pretzels—
the room looks like a zoo.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ So if he ever got the nerve
to hang it from a tree,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ he’d spend a lot of time up there—
watching it with me.
by Bruce Lansky
________________________________________________________________________________________________________

24. Read the following sentences from the text.

“Needham has high hopes for the future. She hopes that more people 26. Why was the poet’s mother angry in the above poem? 1 mark
get diagnosed with neurological differences early so that schools can
adapt to what these students need. She also hopes companies will hire ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
neurodiverse people because they have a lot to offer.”
As used in this excerpt, what does the word “adapt” most closely mean?
2 marks ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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27. What is the mood of the poem? 2 marks
TASK - Look at the advertisement below on this page and
Graphic answer questions 33 to 36.
Text
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28. What word in the poem means friend? 2 marks

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29. Why was the room described as a zoo? 2 marks

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30. How would you describe the poet? 2 marks

Many Houses Real Estate
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33. What is the location of the house for sale? 2 marks
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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______________________________________________________________________________________________________
34. State two words in the advertisement that are persuasive. 2 marks
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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31. Who was more addicted to the television? 2 marks
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 35. Other than the Internet, where do you think this advertisement can be
viewed? 2 marks
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32. How do you think the parents can best manage the situation? 2 marks
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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36. What piece of information has been omitted from the advertisement?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 marks

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Most religions have tenets that must be fol-
lowed for a person to be considered a member of
that particular faith. For Muslims, there are five
fundamental practices that all members must ful-
The
of
fil throughout their lifetime. These practices are
referred to as pillars because they form the foun-
dation of Muslim life. The five pillars of Islam are
Shahada, Salah, Zakat, Sawm, and Hajj.

Why are the five pillars of

Islam important? This year, Hajj is expected to take rian calendar. performed in 628 CE, by the Prophet
place between June 14 and June 19 in the The Hajj pilgrimage is performed over Muhammad and the Muslims with him.
For Muslims, each of the five pillars works in
Gregorian Calendar. five to six days, from the 8th to the 12th It is believed that he was instructed to
tandem with one another to bring the essence
The Islamic calendar operates on the or 13th of Dhul Hijjah. When the new re-establish the traditions started by
of Islam as a religion of peace and submission to
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Allah into the lifestyle of every Muslim.
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Under Islamic law, Muslims donate a fixed por-
tion of their income to community members in
need. For every adult Muslim who owns wealth
over a certain amount, known as the Nisab, he or
she must pay 2.5% of that wealth as Zakat. Eligi-
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as soon as one lunar (Islamic) year has passed
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Greetings from ASJA
Eid ul Fitr Greetings from
Imam Ahamad Hosein,
the Acting President General of
the Anjuman Sunnat-Ul Jamaat
Association Inc Of T&T
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Assalaamu Alaikum wa Rahmat-
ullah.
Greetings and best wishes
Imam Ahamad Hosein,
acting president of ASJA to you and your family on this
very auspicious occasion of Eid
ul Fitr. May Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala, God Almighty, Bless and
Protect us from evil and guide
us to the path of righteousness.
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala,
the creator of the Heavens and
the earth has allowed us to
see and participate in another
month of Ramadan.
We give praise and thanks to
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala for
affording us the opportunity
to take part in this festival of
Fast-Breaking.
Today the Muslims from all
across the world are rejoicing
over this happy and joyous oc-
casion. We must understand
that this sacred month of Ram-
adan has come to us with every
type of blessings and left us,
never to return. Hopefully we
took the opportunity to accept
the blessings that Allah Subhan-
ahu wa Ta’ala presented to us
during Ramadan.
We also bid farewell to the
month of the coming down of
the Qur’an, the month of extra
Ibadah and of togetherness.
While we are celebrating this
day, I urge you to take some
time and reflect on our broth-
ers and sisters from around the
world who are experiencing
some kind of hardship, espe-
cially those in Palestine who are
not as fortunate as we are. We
pray that Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala will eradicate their gen-
ocidal pressures and give them
comfort through our continued
supplications for their relief, in-
shah Allah.
One of the general features of
Ramadan that stands out all the
time is the response of the large
number of brothers and sisters
frequenting the Masjids during
Ramadan.
We pray that Allah Subhan-
ahu wa Ta’ala will increase their
Iman, to continue attending the
masjid in obedience to Allah.
We also pray for all our broth-
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ers and sisters who did not fast
because of health issues.
We ask Allah to bless all those
who have fasted to continue
with the same taqwah (piety)
that they practiced during Ram-
adan, so that our society will be
safe and trouble free.
We pray for peace and secu-
rity among all the various reli-
gious organisations in our plural
society. Let us practice religious
tolerance among each other’s
beliefs and practices and live in
harmony with each other.
Let tolerance begin with us
and let us live harmoniously
with our neighbours. If we do
not live like this brothers and
sisters, then we have not learnt
God-Consciousness during the
month of Ramadan.
May Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala bless us all, as I expect
a favourable response from
everyone, Inshah Allah.
Eid Mubarak to everyone.
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Going beyond
the material life
Message from
Maulana Dr Waffie Mohammed
Principal, Markaz al Ihsaan
(The MAI Institute)
We are at the end of the blessed
month of Ramadan. We pray to
Allah to make it easy for all the be-
lievers to keep the fast, and benefit
from the blessings that Allah has
made available in the short time
during this blessed month.
We need to keep in mind one very
important thing. Allah tells us in the
Qur’an that fasting is prescribed for
you as it was prescribed for those
before you. That is, it is not only for
Muslims fasting was prescribed, but
it is for everybody. Why?
We must understand that we rep-
resent our Lord here on the earth.
And we are here for just a short span
of time. But the earth will continue,
so that, as long as we are here, don’t
make the earth your be-all and end-
all for everything, but understand
that you are using it to get you a bet-
ter place in the hereafter.
Death is not the end of life, but it
is the beginning of a new phase for
every human being. And what Satan
has done is he makes some people
forget that they will be leaving all
the materials things behind, and
going in the grave with nothing. So
that they spend all their time busy
with material things, and then only
to realise that when death comes,
none of these things will be of any
importance and value.
The message of Islam is to send
something before of the material
things of life so that it will benefit
you as you go along the journey in
the next phase and onwards. And
that is fasting on one hand and zakat
and charity on the other.
Fasting helps us to develop re-
straint, and abandon something of
the world for the sake of Allah. We
feel hungry and thirsty, but we per-
severe, because we are fasting and
following the command of Allah.
Zakaat and charity help us to
sacrifice some of what we have in
this world for the sake of Allah and
teaches us an important lesson.
Don’t hoard all the material things
and keep it as though that is your
personal possession and only you
have the right of it, and no others
should benefit from it.
Take care, and Allah will bless you
in this life, as well as in the onward
journey.
If you abide by the teachings that
5
the Holy Prophet (peace be on him)
give with regards to the distribu-
tion of your material assets of life,
and you will be taking with you the
blessing that come from your gener-
osity on one hand, and your giving
of what Allah has bestowed on you
on the other.
May Allah make it easy for every
one of us to benefit from this life
to represent him properly here on
earth, and to be blessed with the
blessings that come with fasting,
and all the requirements that go
along with it, as we go along the
journey.
May Allah forgive us, have mercy
on us, and make the fasting easy for
us, and blessed, so that we too can
benefit from it in this life and on- Maulana Dr Waffie Mohammed
wards insha Allah.
As the Holy month of Ramadan comes to an end, we wish to extend our heartiest greetings of
Eid Mubarak to all Muslims across our nation. Wishing you God’s choicest blessing as we move
forward with positivity as we continue our work for the benefit of mankind.
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• Build Islamic sisterhood and promote the advancement of women in Trinidad and Tobago.
• Disseminate knowledge and assist in improving the quality of life in our country.
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Ramadan benefits your

Faheem Mohammed, MAI Institute.
physical and mental health
Message from
Faheem Mohammed,
Director & Teacher, MAI Institute
Almighty Allah tells us in the
Quran 2:184 You should fast, it is
better for you.
We are told that fasting holds
the promise of limitless rewards.
Today we are discovering in the
science of intermittent fasting
that some of these rewards are
immediate and for our personal
benefit.
Physically fasting helps to sta-
bilise our blood sugar, our blood
pressure, and even weight. It
helps with cellular repair, brain
and heart health. The shock to
the physical system of not eating
and drinking for the day puts our
bodies on reset.
Mentally it helps with cognition
and learning, stress reduction,
mental resilience and clarity, neu-
roplasticity, and even helps to re-
duce onset of neurodegenerative
diseases. The mindset we gain
from fasting helps us to evaluate
our priorities and stresses.
Morally, it forces us to be mind-
ful of our behaviours – what we
think, what we say, what we do.
How we treat others and respond
to provocation. We don’t want to
spoil the fast by engaging in im-
proper conduct.
Spiritually, we obey the com-
mand of Allah, make sacrifices
for His sake, and through these
He brings us even closer to Him.
We become more God-conscious
and are assured of the promise of
limitless rewards.
So we are being commanded
to do something that entails sac-
rifice, but is beneficial for us
physically, mentally, morally,
spiritually.
Allah confirms this in the Quran
2:185, Allah intends ease for you
and not hardship.
I pray we see each day as the
gift that it is and make full use
of every opportunity during
the month and afterwards to be
good, do good, think good, con-
trol baser instincts, and become
stronger physically, mentally,
morally and spiritually. In so
doing we can hope to live the best
life, for both worlds.
Eid Mubarak from
Markaz al Ihsaan
The MAI Institute

Showing love to
Almighty Allah
Message from
Mufti Gulam Ahmed Chishti,
Teacher, MAI Institute and Imam,
Manahambre Mosque

Surah Baqarah verse 165 says...

“Those who believe love Allah the
most.” This love of the believers
for Almighty Allah is described in
the Quran as ashaddu hubban -- the
most immense love.
How will we know that we love
Allah with that level of love? The
holy month of Ramadan provides us
the opportunity to feel, improve, in-
crease and demonstrate this love for
our creator. We as believers become
a portrait of Allah’s love through-
out the holy month – when we stop
doing many things we like to do in
our normal life for His pleasure. In
fact the practice of fasting is a way to
say: Oh Almighty Allah we love You
Mufti Gulam Ahmed Chishti
the most.
As the month of Ramadan be-
gins, we start to sacrifice our nightly ful Lord that we love Him the most.
rest by standing in Taraweeh salaat Our body language keeps expressing
which is a prayer of long duration. day and night; Oh our Lord we love
Then we get up early in the morn- You so much that we can sacrifice
ing, sacrificing our sleep and our our desires, our sweet dreams, our
sweet dreams, to obey the com- tastes and physical needs for your
mand of our Lord. Only passion of sake.
love can make this happen. Dear brothers and sisters, after
During the daylight hours, we stop working hard throughout the holy
eating delicious foods and block month of Ramadan to earn the
ourselves from sipping cold water spiritual wealth of Allah’s love we
and sweet drinks even though we should keep it protected and alive
feel hungry or thirsty because we until we meet Him.
love Allah and we want Him to be And remember to ask yourself that
pleased with us. if I can restrain myself from Halal for
Giving charity and sharing food Allah’s love than why should not I
also certifies that our love for Allah get over the haram?
has priority over love for the mate-
rial world. Eid Mubarak to you and yours,
Through all these acts of worship, from Mufti Chishti and Markaz al Ih-
we crave to prove to Our Most Merci- saan.
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A time of self-discipline
and self-abnegation
Eid ul Fitr Message from the religious
head of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-
I-Islam Inc Trinidad and Tobago
Jesus, son of Mary prayed: O Allah, our
Maulana Mustapha K Hydal
Nurturer. Give us from heaven a table
spread with food to be an ‘Eid for us now
and beyond and as a sign from You.
(The Qur’an Chapter 5 verse 114)
Eid means a recurring happiness. Fitr
means the natural self of uprightness.
Eid ul Fitr is an annual celebration of
our accomplishment of one month of
fasting in Ramadaan. Eid recognises our
progress in self discipline and self abne-
gation. After the fast is the feast as de-
scribed in the prayer of Jesus.
Ramadaan is the anniversary of the
revelation of the Qur’an. The entire
month is devoted to fasting and the reci-
tation and contemplation of the Qur’an.
There are two parts of Ramadaan. The
first is to abstain from things that we de-
sire. The second called I‘tikaaf is spiritual
distancing where the focus is on oneself
rather than on others.
Fasting provides everyone the oppor-
tunity to develop will power as well as
won’t power. Our fasting shows how we
can survive with so little. Eid comes to
everyone who learns that happiness is
not how much he or she has but how lit-
tle he or she needs.
Allah is the only living entity that exists
without food, water and sex. We protect
the Divine attributes within us when we
deny ourselves these three things – eat-
ing, drinking and spousal intimacy. We
glorify Allah when we rectify our con-
duct; when we shun bad habits and con-
trol our temper.
The pure sinless human soul is our
fitrah. It is not a parasite of the body. It
needs its own nourishment and diet. As
there are diets and exercise to keep the
body healthy, some of the diets and ex-
ercise for the soul are fasting and prayer.
With the deterioration of moral values
people lose their dignity and integrity.
Religion is gobbled up by worldly materi-
alism and human beings yearn for some
method to bring humankind together in
peace and harmony.
Islam provides a perfect system to de-
velop the human values of respect, har-
mony, goodness, love etc. The Qur’an
teaches that perfection of the soul re-
quires revealing it’s taqwaa (risk manage-
ment) in order to guard against anything
that prevents the emerging and develop-
ing of the Divine attributes within our
personalities.
One method is Siyaam or Fasting.
Siyaam is to control oneself through
abstinence. Human beings are guided by
instinct (gut feeling) and intuition (God
feeling). By controlling our feelings in
7
our gut or digestive system we enhance
our feelings for God by increasing our
intuition and piety. We then measure
our achievements as human beings by
how much of God’s attributes we de-
velop within our soul. Fasting turns our
nutritional losses into personal spiritual
gains.
The human being cannot find God
without God’s assistance. Left to itself
the human spirit dies in the gluttony of
its passions. The flesh must not kill the
spirit and it will not, if everyone goes to
God in prayer as many times as they go
to the table for food.
Eid ul Fitr gives us the hindsight to
know where we’ve been; the foresight to
know where we’re going and the insight
to know where and who we are. Uttering
Eid Mubaarak to one another tells us:
A cheerful heart will bliss impart, and
ever ease much sorrow.
So, start at once to do your part, don’t
wait until tomorrow.
“Those who discipline themselves by em-
ploying taqwaa (risk management) have
an excellent resort, Gardens of Eden —
doors are opened for them to experience
fine dining as they call for many fruits and
drink.”
The Qur’an Chapter 38 verses 49 to
51.
8 Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Diamond Village Masjid
T
he Diamond Village Masjid
was established in 1935, a
small wooden structure
serving the southern communi-
ties of Diamond Village, Picton
Estate, Wellington Estate, Mon-
key Town and Esperance Vil-
lage. Today, as they prepare to
celebrate 89 years of service, the
mosque continues to be a beacon
of faith for its members.
The land on which the first
mosque was built was donated
by the grandfather of Haji Fyzool
Khan (past president of the mas-
jid), Haroon Khan, around 1930.
The Diamond Village mosque today. Photo on Wilipedia by Jordyn Peters. Haroon Khan was a native of Pun-
jab, India who came to Trinidad
and settled in the area.
According to the new president
of the mosque, Sayeed Moham-
med, the Imam at the time was
A recent gathering at the mosque.
Time for a game of cricket at Diamond Village mosque. Haji Fyzool Khan and his children.
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Mohammed Shah (Dada).
“He was fearless and kept the
Muslims together for a number
of years. After his demise Islam
declined a bit. Mr Oli Mohammed
formed a group that held Mou-
lood Shareef functions going from
house to house and keeping Islam
alive. During that period, Senator
the Honourable Haji Ralph Khan
delivered Eid Khutbas (sermons)
and haji Oli Mohammed did the
Eid ul Adha.”
As the membership of the
mosque increased to approxi-
mately 156 members, the wooden
structure was demolished and
replaced with one made of con-
crete. The present masjid was
constructed in 1992.
The masjid, once standing
alone in the area, is now flanked
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—serving the community for 89 years

by Brontee Masjid to the east; Hermitage
and Debe Masjids to the to the west; San
Fernando Jamaa Masjid, Macoon Street and
Victoria Village Masjids to the north; and
Barrackpore Islamic Centre to the south.
For the past 41 years the president of the
mosque has been Haji Fyzool Khan who
will pass on the mantle to Sayeed Moham-
med this past year. According to Moham-
med, Khan has served his mosque, his
people and his community with true love
and dedication over the past 41 years.
Khan has served at all levels of the
mosque’s leadership including becoming a
committee member at age 15, going on to
serve as secretary, treasurer, trustee and ul-
timately president. He has served on youth
and sports committees for the community
and has represented the Muslim commu-
nity at various national functions.
Mohammed says: “President Haji Fyzool
has contributed immensely to the commu-
nity as a father figure to the mosque. He has
shown great calm and wisdom in handling PAST IMAMS:
delicate situations without offending any-
one, and in keeping our members united.” Sayed Mohammed Shah (Dada)
The Imam of the masjid is 22-year-old Gool Aziz
Maulana Hafiz Maqsood who has already Khairool Baksh
been serving for over three years. The Mohammed Hassan
congregation is very proud of the young Mynudeen Hassan
scholar who Mohammed describes as “very Maulana Sheraz Mohammed
knowledgeable and with a great ability to Zahir Jahoor
inspire and guide the jamaat”. Maulana Ibrahim Drayton-Loney
Maulana Hafiz Maqsood (Present)
The mosque has seen a lot of people pass
through its doors in the past 89 years and
is proud of those who have contributed to PAST PRESIDENTS:
serving the community over the years.
“Many families have done invaluable ser- BA Khan
vice to the Muslim community in the area,” Kabeera Mohammed
Mohammed says. “Today we understand Suliman Khan
and appreciate the legacy they have left us. Ali Mohammed
As we remember them, we say, “ina lilahi Fyzool Khan
wa inna ilaihi rajioon” – To Allah we belong Sayeed Mohammed (Present)
and to Him is our eventual return.”

Breaking of the fast at the Diamond Village mosque in 2023. Haji Fyzool Khan and wife Rasedan Khan.

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Understanding Exhibit on Palestine

Ramadan PAGE 12
raises awareness about
humanitarian crisis
An exhibit on Palestine is cur-
rently taking place at the Gulf City
Mall Atrium. The exhibit, part of
Eid ul-Fitr observations organ-
ised by the Caribbean Dawah As-
sociation (CDA), opened on April
6 and will close on April 14.
“Nestled inside the Dome of
the Rock, Masjid al Aqsa replica
of Jerusalem, are infographics
on the origins and the historical
oppression of the people of Pal-
estine,” CDA notes. “It seeks to
educate the people of Trinidad
and Tobago about the atrocities
and injustices dealt to the Pales-
tinians by Zionists and Israel. It
should not be mistaken as hate
or discrimination towards Jew-
ish people in any way. As Mus-
lims we condemn the killing of
innocent people, regardless of
religion, race, colour or coun-
try.”
Palestine is located between
the Jordan River and the Medi-
terranean Sea and, according to
the CDA, within the last century,
having been given more than
half the Palestinian territory in
a UN partition, the Israeli state
has occupied more Palestinian
land, built illegal settlements,
and imposed restrictions on Pal-
estinians in almost all aspects
of their lives—including access PICTURE COURTESY CARIBBEAN DAWAH ASSOCIATION
to food, water, fuel, electricity, electricity, and fuel to two mil- edge to realise something wrong
trade, media, transport, and lion people while carpet bomb- is happening.
governance. ing buildings, homes, hospitals, “Evidently, this is a human-
On October 07, 2023 the sit- schools, churches, mosques, ref- itarian crisis in which most of
uation worsened when Hamas ugee centres, killing thousands the world is choosing to ignore.
launched an attack on the bor- of people not only in Gaza but As such, the CDA opted for this
ders of Gaza into Israel breach- also in the West Bank. display in the Gulf City Mall
ing the perimeter of what is “There are some people who Atrium, as an attempt at educat-
known as “the largest open air think this is too complex for us ing attendees about Palestine. It
prison in the World”, resulting in T&T,” CDA says. “This is not is our team’s hope that with this
in the death of 1,200 people, a complicated matter at all; knowledge, persons equipped to
some of whom were killed by you do not have to know much boycott, pressure, and pray will
Israeli friendly fire, and the cap- about history to realise what is do so accordingly.”
ture of 240 hostages. The Israeli going on. If you saw someone in-
policy response to this attack nocent being beaten to death on
has been to restrict food, water, the street it doesn’t take knowl- • Continues on page 11
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• From page 10

UN Secretary General, Antonio

Guterres has said, “It is important to
also recognise the attacks by Hamas
did not happen in a vacuum. The Pal-
estinian people have been subjected
to 56 years of suffocating occupa-
tion.”
“People in Gaza are dying not only
from bombs and bullets, but from
lack of food and clean water, and
hospitals without power & medicine.
This must stop. I will not relent in my
call for an immediate humanitarian
ceasefire and the immediate and un-
conditional release of all hostages.”
Even as he has condemned the
Hamas attack, Guterres said last
week that nothing can justify “the
collective punishment of the Pales-
tinian people”.
It is against this background that
Caribbean Dawah Association Break the Fast, at the Palestine Exhibition at Gulf City Mall, San Fernando. PICTURES RISHI RAGOONATH the CDA decided to host this impor-
tant exhibit to raise the awareness
among the people of T&T.
The CDA is a registered non-profit
organisation in T&T that is focused
on educational and social outreach
programmes throughout Trinidad
and Tobago.
“As Muslims, working with com-
munities for their physical and social
enhancement, is an obligation,” the
organisation says. “The CDA strives
for excellence in all its activities by
maintaining high integrity and sin-
cerity, as these are fundamental
characteristics of Islam.”

The following are some of the

subsections of the CDA and its ac-
tivities:
• Street Dawah involves meeting
monthly with different communi-
ties across Trinidad and Tobago to
discuss the fundamentals of Islam,
debunk myths, and to clarify mis-
conceptions.
• The Muslim Housing Committee
is funded solely by Zakaat (obliga-
tory charity) donated by Muslims.
In the past year, this Committee has
assisted 21 Muslim families with im-
proved living conditions whether
through a new house, repairs or a
renovation.
• Launched approximately one
year ago, a weekly soup kitchen at
the San Fernando Centre for Dis-
placed Persons provides meals to the

homeless and those in

need in San Fernando.
Soon after its startup,
that operation inspired
a Masjid in Freeport to
establish another soup
kitchen. Both soup
kitchens are serviced
by very passionate and
committed volunteers.
• During Ramadan it
is strongly advised to
increase in charitable
acts, and CDA facilitates
this through food ham-
per drives. This year,
the team visited Arima,
Carlsen Field and Taba-
quite. Recipients were
provided with food
hampers, market bags,
eggs, dishwashing liq-
uid, chicken, clothing,
toys, and household
items. All items are
sponsored or donated
by persons across T&T.
 12
T
he celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr
today, April 10, brings the period
of fasting in the Muslim community,
known as Ramadan to an end.
For many, Ramadan signifies fast-
ing in the Islamic community but
they may wonder why it is so im-
portant to Muslims. Ramadan is the
ninth month of the Islamic lunar
calendar. The start of the month tra-
ditionally depends on the sighting
of the crescent moon; this year, the
first day was March 11.
Fasting is one of the Five Pillars
of Islam, along with the profession
of faith, prayer, almsgiving, and pil-
grimage.
There are various meanings and
lessons in observing the fast. For the
most part, it is regarded as an act
of worship to attain God-conscious
piety and one of submission to God.
It also emphasises the lessons of
self-restraint, cultivating gratitude,
growing closer to God, and feeding
the poor and hungry.
The daily fast in Ramadan includes
abstaining from all food and drink;
not even a sip of water is allowed
from dawn to sunset before breaking
the fast in a meal known as “iftar” in
Arabic.
Those fasting are expected to also
refrain from bad deeds, such as gos-
siping, and increasing good deeds.
Muslims typically stream into
mosques for congregational prayers
and dedicate more time to religious
contemplation and the reading of
the Quran, the Muslim holy book.
Charity is another significant prac-
tice during Ramadan. Among other
ways of giving, many seek to pro-
vide iftar for the needy, distributing
Ramadan boxes filled with pantry
staples, handing out warm meals
alongside such things as dates and
juice or helping hold free communal
meals.
Muslims eat a pre-dawn meal,
called “suhoor,” to hydrate and nur-
ture their bodies ahead of the daily
fast.
Muslims are ethnically and ra-
cially diverse and not all Ramadan
traditions are rooted in religion.
Some customs may transcend bor-
ders, while others can differ across
cultures. Many social rituals centre
on gathering and socialising after the
daily fast.
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Understanding Ramadan
lamic songs.
In India, home to more than
200 million Muslims making
up a large minority group in
the country, stalls lining many
Ramadan practices streets sell such things as dates,
around the world sweets and freshly cooked
food. At night, some New Delhi
Some Muslims decorate their neighbourhoods become lively
homes and put out Ramadan-themed as Muslims head to mosques to
tableware and centrepieces while attend prayers.
others may visit markets and Ram- Some Indian Muslims also
adan bazaars. In Egypt, the Arab visit holy shrines dedicated to
world’s most populous country, Sufi saints, which are decorated
Ramadan is considered somewhat of with lights and colourful flow-
a festive time. ers.
Colourful lanterns, in different In the United States, home
shapes and sizes, dangle from chil- to a diverse, small but growing
dren’s hands and adorn homes or the Muslim population, gathering
entrances of buildings and stores. at mosques and Islamic centres
Ramadan songs may be played to when possible for iftar meals
welcome the month. Ramadan tents, and prayers provides many
featuring food and entertainment, Muslim families with a sense of
pop up to cater to gatherings. community. Some Muslims also
Ramadan’s soundscape in Egypt Muslims across the world are observing the holy fasting month of organise or attend interfaith
has traditionally included the pre- Ramadan, when devout refrain from eating, drinking and smoking is iftar meals.
dawn banging on drums by a “mesa- practised from dawn to dusk. PICTURE AP Some big US retailers have
harati” who roams neighbourhoods, started catering to Ramadan
calling out to the faithful, sometimes Hundreds of residents in Tan- with a symbolic spiritual cleans- shoppers, selling such things as
by name, to awake them for the su- gerang, a city just outside the ing. Ramadan-themed decor.
hoor meal. capital of Jakarta, flock to the After evening prayers, many
However, in some regions, some Cisadane River to wash their boys and girls across Sumatra is- (With information from
Muslims worry that the month is hair with rice straw shampoo land parade through the streets. https://www.pbs.org/)
being commercialised and that an and welcome the fasting month They carry torches and play Is-
emphasis on decorations, TV shows,
outings or lavish iftar banquets, es-
pecially in the social media era, can
detract from Ramadan’s religious
essence.
Others feel that a balance can be
struck and that, done in moderation,
such rituals are part of the month’s
festive spirit of devotion. In Indone-
sia, the most populous Muslim-ma-
jority country, Ramadan rituals vary
across regions, with some influenced
by local cultures or other faith tradi-
tions.
Thousands of villagers who live
on the slopes of Mount Merapi in
Central Java welcome Ramadan with
Nyadran, a Javanese ritual influ-
enced by Hinduism and Buddhism
that includes visiting, cleaning and
decorating ancestors’ graves.
People in Indonesia’s deeply con-
servative Aceh province slaughter
animals during Meugang festivities.
The meat is cooked and shared in a
communal feast with family, friends,
the poor and orphans.
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Sweet treats and

other foodstuffs
For example, in some
countries, Eid ul-Fitr is

T
oday, April 10, Muslims around the world sometimes referred to as the
will start their day with prayer and later in Sugar Feast, mostly because
the day celebrate with a festive meal. While in some countries a large
this is the traditional way that Eid ul-Fitr is cele- part of the meal that is eaten
brated, since there are about two billion Muslims at the festival is desserts.
across the globe, it is no surprise that there are
many other ways they celebrate this holy festival.

Let’s take a look at how some countries
around the world celebrate Eid ul-Fitr.
Turkey
A large three-day holiday is given to cel-
ebrate Eid ul-Fitr in Turkey and it is almost
full of colour, festivals and food. The cel-
ebration is also known as Ramazan Bay-
rami (Ramadan festival) or Seker Bayrami
(sugar festival) and throughout the fes-
tivities, children’s pockets are filled with
sweets, baklava and Turkish delights.
Another tradition that is observed
across Turkey is the honouring of elders.
Kissing an elderly family member or
friend’s right hand and placing it on your
forehead while saying Bayram greetings is
the utmost form of respect.
Iraq and Saudi Arabia
The eating of dates is a very important
part of both Ramadan and Eid, as they are
a popular snack eaten at the pre-dawn
meal before the fast (called the Suhoor).
In these two countries though, they are of
particular significance. Many people will
bake Kleichas, which are rose-flavoured
biscuits that contain a filling of nuts and
dates. Both Iraq and Saudi Arabia consider
them to be their national cookie.
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Most local Emiratis celebrate Eid by eat-
ing authentic cuisine and spending time
with family. Many families hang an array
of rainbow-coloured rugs and banners
Young Kosovo Muslims participate in prayer during a celebration of Eid ul-Fitr at the Sulltan
Mehmet Fatih mosque, in Pristina.
outside their houses, a tradition that has
been passed down through the genera-
tions.
Parks and arenas are also adorned with
festival flags for those who do not have a
family but still want to celebrate this eu-
phoric festival as a community. Another
tradition that has been made popular
worldwide that stems from the UAE is the
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decoration of the hands of women and
girls with henna, signifying healing and
beauty, as well as celebration. This tradi-
tion is also popular here at home.
Iceland
Ramadan in Iceland is like nowhere else
in the world, and the Eid celebrations are
just as unique. The country’s midnight sun
phenomenon means that during Rama-
dan, many Muslims fast for up to an amaz-
ing 22 hours a day even though they do
have the choice to break their fast based
on the timings of sunrise and sunset from
the nearest country, or of Saudi Arabia.
However, many stick to when the sun
breaks above the Icelandic horizon. The
long fasting hours mean that when Eid ul
Fitr comes along, the celebrations are ex-
traordinary.
The joyous merrymaking takes place in
one of the few mosques in Reykjavik and
guests come laden with food inspired by
Indonesian, Egyptian and Eritrean cui-
sines to celebrate this holy day.
New Zealand
Eid is celebrated in New Zealand with
morning prayers in mosques or outdoor
locations, followed by community gather-
ings and feasts where families exchange
gifts and share traditional foods. In more
recent times, public Eid festivals have be-
come more popular in major cities such as
Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.
These festivals feature cultural perfor-
mances, food stalls, and activities for chil-
dren.
In Auckland, the festivities begin with
morning prayers and cleansing, followed
by a fun-filled event at Eden Park featur-
ing carnival activities such as mechanical
bulls, human foosball, and food vendors
selling delicious treats from around the
region.

Popular Eid Greetings from around the World

(viahttps://www.islamicfinder.org/)

1. Eid Mubarak! Wish you all a very happy and peaceful Eid.
2. Happy Eid Mubarak! May the festival of breaking the fast put all the magic of love & happiness together.
3. May the year ahead be fruitful for your home, your family and especially for you.
4. May the blessings of Allah fill your life with happiness and open all the doors of success now and always. Eid Mubarak!
5. Eid Mubarak! May this special day bring peace, happiness and prosperity to everyone.
6. Happy Eid! May this Eid bring joy, wealth and health to you.
7. Eid Mubarak! Let all your obstacles vanish in just a fraction of a second.
8. May this Eid be the best one yet for all of us.
9. Eid Mubarak! Wishing you and your family all the blessings of Allah on this day of Eid.
10. Eid Mubarak! May Allah shower his mercy on all of us during this pious festival.
11. Eid Mubarak! May Allah’s blessings be with you today, tomorrow and always.
12. Happy Eid! Wishing you and your family a very happy, prosperous and blissful Eid.
13. May the magic of this Eid bring lots of happiness in your life.
14. Eid Mubarak! May the magic of this Eid fill your heart with wonders and joy.
15. May Allah flood your life with happiness and peace of mind on this occasion.
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celebrations and
feasting of Eid ul-Fitr.
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country will travel around
from home to home, shar-
ing greetings and dining
on rich and delicious
foods. Most Trinidadians
think of curried goat as the
traditional dish for Eid but
a wide variety of enticing
dishes are enjoyed on this
day. We share a combina-
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Add 1 tablespoon curry powder, chopped onion,
• 3 pounds goat meat escallion, garlic, ginger, thyme, scotch bonnet pepper,
• 2 tablespoons White Vinegar black pepper and salt; rub the seasonings into the
• 2 tablespoons curry powder meat, cover and put to marinate for two hours.
• 1 medium onion, chopped Heat vegetable oil in a heavy bottom skillet over
• 2 stalks escallion, chopped medium heat and add the remaining one tablespoon
• 4 cloves garlic, chopped curry powder. Add the marinated meat and allow
• 1 teaspoon ginger, chopped to sear. Turn the meat and add 4 cups boiling water.
• 2 teaspoons thyme, chopped Cover and allow to simmer for about 1 hour 20 minutes
• 1/2 whole scotch bonnet pepper, chopped or until the meat is tender.
• 1 teaspoons black pepper Add the diced potato and cook for 5 minutes. Fold in
• 1 teaspoon salt the sliced carrot and pimento berries and cook for five
• 1/4 cup Vegetable Oil minutes.
• 4 cups boiling water
• 1 large Irish potato, diced Method Note: Sear—to brown meat quickly by
• 1 medium carrot, sliced subjecting it to very high heat either in a skillet, under
• 4 whole pimento berries, crushed a broiler or in a very hot oven. The object of searing is
to seal in the meat’s juices.
Trim meat, cut into bite-size pieces and wash in a (Courtesy Grace Foods)

BEEF GOSHT, PAKISTANI STYLE dry up the Masala -- this takes about 15 minutes, you
don’t need to do much for the first ten or so.
• 1 tsp cumin seeds When the masala dries and the mixture starts to stick
• 2 lbs Beef Cubes to the bottom then cook for a few minutes until the
• 3 Onions Diced mixture darkens. If it starts to stick add a little oil.
• 4-5 Tomatoes Chopped Now add the yogurt, mix well, cook for two minutes.
• 1 tbsp Ginger Paste Add the Garam Masala, taste and adjust seasoning.
Top with the garnishes and serve with your favourite
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• ½ tsp Turmeric Powder
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it and then add to the masala when you would add
the beef cubes OR slow cook for 70 minutes instead of
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Manual release = opening the steam valve as soon as
Garnishes: your timer is done, this leads to a lot of steam releasing
• ½ cup cilantro so I suggest
• 3-6 sliced green chilies putting a kitchen
• julienned ginger (optional) towel on top
• juice of a quarter lemon of the pressure
valve to manage
Put the Instant Pot on Saute mode (high heat) and the steam
SEW ~ RITE VARIETY STORE heat about ¼ cup of oil. Once the oil is hot add the
cumin seeds, let them sizzle. Then add the onions and
Natural release
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SAMOSA PIE
• 2 baking potatoes,
chopped into 2cm pieces
• 1 small or 1⁄2 large
cauliflower
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 garlic cloves
• Thumb-size piece fresh
ginger
• 1 fresh green chilli,
chopped (deseeded, if
you like)
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• 2 tsp ground turmeric
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 350ml vegetable stock
• 175g frozen peas
• Small bunch fresh
coriander, roughly
chopped
• Juice 1 lime
• Unsweetened coconut yogurt to
serve
For the topping:
• 6 filo pastry sheets
• Vegetable oil to brush
• Nigella seeds to sprinkle
Heat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/
gas 6. Tip the potatoes into a large
microwaveable bowl, cover and
microwave on high for 4-6 minutes.
Roughly chop the cauliflower into
bite-size chunks. Add to the bowl with
the potatoes and microwave for 6
minutes more.
Meanwhile, make the topping (see
Make Ahead). Take a sheet of pastry
and brush with vegetable oil, then
sprinkle with nigella seeds. Scrunch it
up into a rough shape (the 6 shapes
together should cover the top of
your frying pan) and put it on the
baking tray. Repeat with the rest of
the pastry sheets and bake for 6-8
minutes until golden, keeping an eye
on them – they can turn from golden
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to overcooked very quickly!
For the filling, add the 1 tbsp veg
oil to the frying pan and put it over a
high heat. Grate the garlic and ginger
directly into the pan and add the chilli
along with a pinch of salt.
Add the curry powder, turmeric and
fennel seeds, then tip in the cooked
cauliflower and potato chunks. Stir to
coat in the spices, add the stock and
season well. Cover the pan and cook
for 2-3 minutes.
Take off the lid and use a fork or
potato masher to lightly smush the
mixture. Add the peas to the pan and
cook for 2 minutes, then remove from
the heat. Add the coriander and stir it
through the mixture. Squeeze in the
lime juice, then stir it through.
To assemble, top the frying pan
with the filo scrunches and bring it to
the table. Serve straight from the pan
with a dollop of coconut yogurt.
MAKE AHEAD: Make the curry
filling up to a day ahead, then cover
and chill before completing the recipe
to serve. The topping is best made on
the day.
(Delicious Magazine)
LAMB PILAU
(From Bangladesh)
For the meat
• 1kg diced lamb (shoulder or leg)
• 2 large onions, sliced
• 5 garlic cloves, crushed
• 50g ginger, crushed or grated
• 4 bay leaves
• 4 cinnamon sticks
• 4 cardamom pods
• 3 heaped tsp mild curry powder
• 1½ heaped tsp ground coriander
• 1½ heaped tsp geera powder
(ground cumin)
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 4 tbsp ghee
For the pilau
• 700g basmati rice
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 4 tbsp ghee, plus extra to serve
(optional)
• 100g piece ginger, peeled and cut
into thick matchsticks
• 2 large onions, sliced
• 4 bay leaves
• 4 cinnamon sticks
• 4 cardamom
• 5 cloves
• 20–25 whole black peppercorns
• 10 green chillies
STEP 1: For the pilau, wash the
rice under running cold water until
the water runs clear. Soak in enough
cold water to cover the rice and set
aside.
STEP 2: Put the lamb in a
pressure cooker (or standard pan if
you are not using a pressure cooker).
Add the onions, garlic, ginger, bay,
cinnamon sticks, cardamom and 2
tsp salt. Mix thoroughly, cover the
pressure cooker and secure the lid,
and cook for 20-25 mins on low
once the pressure has been reached
(no need to add water). Or if you’re
using a pan on the hob, cook the
meat over a low heat for 1-1½ hrs,
adding a splash of water before and
during cooking, if needed. If you’re
using a pressure cooker, while the
meat cooks, you can prepare the
ingredients for the pilau. If you’re
cooking it on the hob, wait until the
meat is almost cooked before you
start.
STEP 3: For the pilau, heat the
vegetable oil in another large
saucepan and add the 4 tbsp of
ghee. Once the ghee has fully
melted and the oil is hot, add the
ginger and brown over a medium-
high heat, stirring continuously for
10 mins. Stir in the onions and fry,
uncovered, over a medium-high
heat, stirring occasionally, until
golden.
STEP 4: Remove the lid from
the lamb and check the meat,
allowing all the steam to escape
before removing the lid if using a
pressure cooker. You should see the
fat bubbling around the edges of
the pan to indicate the meat has
cooked enough. Transfer to a large
saucepan, if needed, put the pan on
the hob and add the curry powder,
coriander, geera (cumin), turmeric
and the 4 tbsp ghee.
STEP 5: Mix the spices and ghee,
cover and allow the meat to cook
for a further 15-20 mins, stirring
now and then. In a pressure cooker,
the liquid doesn’t evaporate and
the spices will not roast well, so this
needs to be done on the hob.
STEP 6: Once the onions for
the pilau are golden brown, add
the whole spices. Fry for a couple
of mins before adding the soaked
and drained rice. Add 1 tsp of salt,
and fry over a medium heat for
8-10 mins, stirring to prevent the
rice sticking. Add the whole green
chillies.
STEP 7: Check the meat and test
for tenderness, if you’re happy with
it, add it to the fried rice; or turn off
15
the rice and keep cooking the meat
until tender, then heat up the rice
and add the meat.
STEP 8: Fry the meat with the rice
for several mins over a medium heat
stirring frequently, then turn the
heat up to high. Add some boiling
water to the pan you cooked the
meat in to extract any fat/flavour,
then add this to the pilau. You
should hear the water sizzle as it hits
the pan, if you don’t hear this, you
haven’t heated the pan up enough
(this is important for a fluffy pilau).
STEP 9: Keeping the heat on
high, top up the pilau with enough
boiling water from your kettle and
stir with a wooden spoon to ensure
water reaches the bottom of the
pan. Season the water to taste – it
should taste salty. Add enough
boiling water to just cover the rice
and meat – you will need roughly
1 litre.
STEP 10: Cover the pan and keep
boiling on high for 5 mins, then
turn the heat down to medium
and simmer for a further 5-7 mins.
Uncover and check to see if all the
water has been absorbed, if not,
help disperse the water to the
bottom of the pan by lifting the
rice from the edges of the pan with
a wooden spoon and stirring the
water into the rice.
STEP 11: Finally, turn the heat
down to low, cover the pilau with
some foil and place the lid over the
top. The foil traps the steam in and
allows the moisture to drip back
into the pilau as it cooks so it should
not require any extra water. Leave
to cook for a further 12-15 mins or
until the rice is soft when pressed
between your fingers. Dot some
extra ghee over the top if you like,
and cover with a lid to melt, then
serve.
(Courtesy BBCGoodFood)
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SAMOSA PIE
• 2 baking potatoes,
chopped into 2cm pieces
• 1 small or 1⁄2 large
cauliflower
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 garlic cloves
• Thumb-size piece fresh
ginger
• 1 fresh green chilli,
chopped (deseeded, if
you like)
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• 2 tsp ground turmeric
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 350ml vegetable stock
• 175g frozen peas
• Small bunch fresh
coriander, roughly
chopped
• Juice 1 lime
• Unsweetened coconut yogurt to
serve
For the topping:
• 6 filo pastry sheets
• Vegetable oil to brush
• Nigella seeds to sprinkle
Heat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/
gas 6. Tip the potatoes into a large
microwaveable bowl, cover and
microwave on high for 4-6 minutes.
Roughly chop the cauliflower into
bite-size chunks. Add to the bowl with
the potatoes and microwave for 6
minutes more.
Meanwhile, make the topping (see
Make Ahead). Take a sheet of pastry
and brush with vegetable oil, then
sprinkle with nigella seeds. Scrunch it
up into a rough shape (the 6 shapes
together should cover the top of
your frying pan) and put it on the
baking tray. Repeat with the rest of
the pastry sheets and bake for 6-8
minutes until golden, keeping an eye
on them – they can turn from golden
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to overcooked very quickly!
For the filling, add the 1 tbsp veg
oil to the frying pan and put it over a
high heat. Grate the garlic and ginger
directly into the pan and add the chilli
along with a pinch of salt.
Add the curry powder, turmeric and
fennel seeds, then tip in the cooked
cauliflower and potato chunks. Stir to
coat in the spices, add the stock and
season well. Cover the pan and cook
for 2-3 minutes.
Take off the lid and use a fork or
potato masher to lightly smush the
mixture. Add the peas to the pan and
cook for 2 minutes, then remove from
the heat. Add the coriander and stir it
through the mixture. Squeeze in the
lime juice, then stir it through.
To assemble, top the frying pan
with the filo scrunches and bring it to
the table. Serve straight from the pan
with a dollop of coconut yogurt.
MAKE AHEAD: Make the curry
filling up to a day ahead, then cover
and chill before completing the recipe
to serve. The topping is best made on
the day.
(Delicious Magazine)
LAMB PILAU
(From Bangladesh)
For the meat
• 1kg diced lamb (shoulder or leg)
• 2 large onions, sliced
• 5 garlic cloves, crushed
• 50g ginger, crushed or grated
• 4 bay leaves
• 4 cinnamon sticks
• 4 cardamom pods
• 3 heaped tsp mild curry powder
• 1½ heaped tsp ground coriander
• 1½ heaped tsp geera powder
(ground cumin)
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 4 tbsp ghee
For the pilau
• 700g basmati rice
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 4 tbsp ghee, plus extra to serve
(optional)
• 100g piece ginger, peeled and cut
into thick matchsticks
• 2 large onions, sliced
• 4 bay leaves
• 4 cinnamon sticks
• 4 cardamom
• 5 cloves
• 20–25 whole black peppercorns
• 10 green chillies
STEP 1: For the pilau, wash the
rice under running cold water until
the water runs clear. Soak in enough
cold water to cover the rice and set
aside.
STEP 2: Put the lamb in a
pressure cooker (or standard pan if
you are not using a pressure cooker).
Add the onions, garlic, ginger, bay,
cinnamon sticks, cardamom and 2
tsp salt. Mix thoroughly, cover the
pressure cooker and secure the lid,
and cook for 20-25 mins on low
once the pressure has been reached
(no need to add water). Or if you’re
using a pan on the hob, cook the
meat over a low heat for 1-1½ hrs,
adding a splash of water before and
during cooking, if needed. If you’re
using a pressure cooker, while the
meat cooks, you can prepare the
ingredients for the pilau. If you’re
cooking it on the hob, wait until the
meat is almost cooked before you
start.
STEP 3: For the pilau, heat the
vegetable oil in another large
saucepan and add the 4 tbsp of
ghee. Once the ghee has fully
melted and the oil is hot, add the
ginger and brown over a medium-
high heat, stirring continuously for
10 mins. Stir in the onions and fry,
uncovered, over a medium-high
heat, stirring occasionally, until
golden.
STEP 4: Remove the lid from
the lamb and check the meat,
allowing all the steam to escape
before removing the lid if using a
pressure cooker. You should see the
fat bubbling around the edges of
the pan to indicate the meat has
cooked enough. Transfer to a large
saucepan, if needed, put the pan on
the hob and add the curry powder,
coriander, geera (cumin), turmeric
and the 4 tbsp ghee.
STEP 5: Mix the spices and ghee,
cover and allow the meat to cook
for a further 15-20 mins, stirring
now and then. In a pressure cooker,
the liquid doesn’t evaporate and
the spices will not roast well, so this
needs to be done on the hob.
STEP 6: Once the onions for
the pilau are golden brown, add
the whole spices. Fry for a couple
of mins before adding the soaked
and drained rice. Add 1 tsp of salt,
and fry over a medium heat for
8-10 mins, stirring to prevent the
rice sticking. Add the whole green
chillies.
STEP 7: Check the meat and test
for tenderness, if you’re happy with
it, add it to the fried rice; or turn off
15
the rice and keep cooking the meat
until tender, then heat up the rice
and add the meat.
STEP 8: Fry the meat with the rice
for several mins over a medium heat
stirring frequently, then turn the
heat up to high. Add some boiling
water to the pan you cooked the
meat in to extract any fat/flavour,
then add this to the pilau. You
should hear the water sizzle as it hits
the pan, if you don’t hear this, you
haven’t heated the pan up enough
(this is important for a fluffy pilau).
STEP 9: Keeping the heat on
high, top up the pilau with enough
boiling water from your kettle and
stir with a wooden spoon to ensure
water reaches the bottom of the
pan. Season the water to taste – it
should taste salty. Add enough
boiling water to just cover the rice
and meat – you will need roughly
1 litre.
STEP 10: Cover the pan and keep
boiling on high for 5 mins, then
turn the heat down to medium
and simmer for a further 5-7 mins.
Uncover and check to see if all the
water has been absorbed, if not,
help disperse the water to the
bottom of the pan by lifting the
rice from the edges of the pan with
a wooden spoon and stirring the
water into the rice.
STEP 11: Finally, turn the heat
down to low, cover the pilau with
some foil and place the lid over the
top. The foil traps the steam in and
allows the moisture to drip back
into the pilau as it cooks so it should
not require any extra water. Leave
to cook for a further 12-15 mins or
until the rice is soft when pressed
between your fingers. Dot some
extra ghee over the top if you like,
and cover with a lid to melt, then
serve.
(Courtesy BBCGoodFood)
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SAWINE/VERMICELLI PUDDING CARROT HALWA SPRING ROLLS coloured fudge.

Spread out on a baking
Ingredients Vanilla Essence) • 100g ghee or clarified butter tray and cool a little,
• 1/2 Cup Raisins (Or Sultanas) • 5 cups Full Cream Evaporated Milk • 500g carrots, grated then chill for about
• 3 Cups Water • 1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk • 3 green cardamom pods, seeds removed and ground in a 30 minutes until
• 8 Ounces Vermicelli (395g) pestle and mortar completely cold.
• 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon Powder • 1/2 Teaspoon Salt • 100g caster sugar Brush a piece of filo
• 1 Teaspoon Cardamom Powder • 1/4 Cup Slivered Almonds • 2 tbsp raisins with melted butter. Put a
(Elychee) • 1/4 Cup Maraschino Cherries • 250ml evaporated milk sixth of the carrot mixture
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract (or • 1/4 Cup Pistachios • 3 filo pastry sheets, cut in half widthways into squares towards one corner of the filo.
Instructions • 40g unsalted butter, melted Fold the corner over the mixture, then keep rolling the filo
1. In a small bowl place raisins/sultanas in 1 cup water to soak. Set aside. • Icing sugar to dust diagonally almost to the end of the strip. Fold in both ends,
2. Add vermicelli to iron pot on low heat. Toss constantly until vermicelli then roll up the last corner and seal with melted butter – it
starts to turn brown. Heat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas 6. Melt the ghee should look like a spring roll. Put on a baking sheet, seam-
3. Add cinnamon and cardamom to vermicelli and continue toasting until or clarified butter in a large frying pan, then add the grated side down. Repeat to make 6 rolls. Brush the rolls with the
spices become aromatic and vermicelli turns brown. Stir constantly. carrots and ground cardamom seeds and fry gently for 10 remaining melted butter, then bake for 20-25 minutes until
4. Add the remaining 2 cups of water and vanilla extract/essence and allow minutes or until the juice from the carrots has evaporated. golden and crisp. Serve straightaway, dusted with icing
everything to simmer for 8 mins until most water is absorbed. Sprinkle in the sugar and raisins, then cook for another 5 sugar.
5. Add Full Cream Evaporated Milk, Sweetened Condensed Milk and salt and minutes or until the sugar melts. TIPS: You could cut the filo into smaller pieces for canapé
allow to simmer for 10 mins. Add the evaporated milk and cook for about 20 minutes, versions. The finished rolls will keep for 24 hours in a sealed
6. Add strained raisins/s. stirring often, until the mixture takes on the look of orange- container. Warm through before serving.
Serve warm or cold. ENJOY! (Delicious)

FAT KURMA AKA TRINI GULAB JAMOON

-- By Jenna G
Yield: 15-18

INGREDIENTS:
• 1 1/2 cups powdered milk
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 4 tbsp butter or margarine
• 2/3 cup condensed milk
• 1/4 cup evaporated milk
• 1/2 tsp ginger powder
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground elychee
• 7-8 almonds
• 7-8 seedless dates
OTHER INGREDIENTS:
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• oil for frying
• oil for rubbing on palms for later steps
NOTE: Extra evaporated milk might be needed so be
sure to have some readily available just in case.

DIRECTIONS:
Combine powdered milk, flour, ginger powder,
elychee and cinnamon. Mix well to ensure all dry
ingredients are properly incorporated.
Add butter. Using your fingers break the butter into
small pieces and properly mix it into the flour/powdered
milk mixture.
Add condensed milk followed by the evaporated
milk and combine to form a soft dough. No kneading is
required. Cover with a damp cloth and set aside for 5-10
minutes. If the dough is dry after resting, add a little of
the evaporated milk to it. It should ideally be moist and
soft.
While the dough is resting, slice the dates and place
almonds in them. Set them aside.
Break dough into small pieces and form the fat kurma
or gulab jamoon shape. You can roll them into any size
but be sure that they are smooth on the outside. If there
are cracks, it can result in breaking when frying. For this
step, I rub some coconut oil on my palms which helps
with the shaping process.
For the stuffed gulab jamoons, place the dough in
your hand in a circular shape (does not have to be thin…
just flatten it out a bit), add the stuffed date and then
form into the gulab jamoon shape.
Once all are properly shaped, fry them over low/
medium heat (more on the low side) until golden brown.
Do not over-crowd the pot. Keep turning them to ensure
an even colour.
Place them on some paper towels to drain the excess
oil and to cool. Once cooled, place on a tray or bowl.
In the meantime, add the sugar to water in a pot to
make the sugar syrup or the pag. Boil for 10 minutes
approximately over low/medium heat or until the syrup
starts ‘threading’. This basically is when you lift the spoon
from the mixture and it forms a thin thread.
Add the pag to the fat kurma/gulab jamoon and start
turning them. Keep turning until the sugar begins to
crystallize and turns white on the outside of the gulab
jamoon.
TIME TO ENJOY!
NOTES: Placing the fat kurma/gulab jamoon on a tray
is usually much easier for me to work with when I add
the pag. These sweets tend to be soft and can break very
easily so on the tray I roll them around and there is more
space to work with.
Be sure to monitor your oil. Do not let it get too hot as
this can result in the inside being uncooked.