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TWO men were murdered on Monday morning in separate instances in Maloney and Caroni, taking the murder toll for the year to 375.

At this time last year, there were 236 murders.

In the most recent of the two, 33-year-old Keith Balramsingh of Jonathan Trace, Cunupia, died after he was shot when he went to move his vehicle.

Police said Balramsingh was at Kamachie’s Bar, along the South Trunk Road, Kelly Village, around 2 am, when he was asked to move his vehicle, a grey Kia Sportage, which was blocking another vehicle in the carpark.

Police said while in the driver’s seat, Balramsingh’s killers opened fire hitting him in the upper body. He was found slumped over on the front passenger seat and taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex where he was pronounced dead at 2.20 am.

About an hour before Balramsingh was murdered, Maloney PH taxi driver Damien “Brainy” Danclair was gunned down while liming.

Police said at about 1.20am Danclair, 39, of Building Seven, Maloney Gardens, was in the carpark along with others, when he was shot. Residents reported hearing gunshots and later found Danclair on the ground bleeding.

He was taken to the Arima District Hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.

On Newsday’s Facebook page on Monday, a friend of Danclair wrote that his murder was heart-breaking.

“This is so heartbreaking. Brainy you were loved and will always be in our hearts. Such a selfless soul, with the most contagious smile and laugh. The heavens weep.”

Police said Danclair was not known to be involved in any criminal activities and like Balramsingh, they had no immediate motive for his killing.

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Acting Chief Education Officer, Dr Kasan Troupe, has assured that shadow teachers contracted by the Education Ministry for 10 months will continue to be compensated as they offer one-on-one support to select students.

Troupe was responding to concerns that this category of teachers was in high demand due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and other issues relative to their payments and benefits.

Speaking at an Education Ministry press conference on Monday, Troupe provided clarity on the definition of a shadow teacher.

“Just to clarify, shadow teachers are what we call educational paraprofessionals, and so, these are individuals who are high school graduates, may have been exposed to some post-secondary education, (or) have a natural proclivity to working with children, and so they indicate to us that interest,” she explained.

These individuals are then trained and deployed to work with students who have been referred to the Education Ministry after being assessed by a psycho-educational clinician.

“They (the clinicians) send us a report to say this student, for example, will need support for going to the bathroom, he needs support to eat, or will need support to do tasks in the classroom,” Troupe informed.

Shadow teachers, she said, can also be persons referred to the Education Ministry by parents.

These individuals are caregivers who are working with children at home, and then are trained after being referred to the ministry.

“They (shadow teachers) are compensated under a contractual arrangement for 10 months throughout the system from September to June, and we compensate them according to that facility that we have provided for our children,” Troupe outlined.

“… And so the benefits under that contract will be accorded to those persons as they come into this paraprofessional experience, to support our students who need individualised support,” she stated.

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Heavy rains over the weekend resulted in several areas across Tobago experiencing street flooding, landslides and fallen trees.

While he was unable to give a number, Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) director Allan Stewart on Monday told Newsday his team had responded to several incident reports.

“We had a couple reports between Saturday and today – a fallen tree in Union Village and Les Coteaux, a landslide blocking the Mt Dillon Hill, also report in Golden Lane, Mt Thomas, Mary’s Hill. We also had some potential flooding in the Golden Lane area.”

No injuries were reported.

Since Friday the TT Met Office has been forecasting showers and the medium chance of thundershowers. This was updated on Monday to; partly cloudy and hazy with showers occurring in few areas. It assessed that there was also a 40-60 per cent chance of isolated heavy showers and thunderstorms.

Stewart said it was natural that as a result of the downpour that slopes were very unstable.

“We have the potential of these slippages taking place – fallen trees, collapsed houses is possible during this period because of the amounts of water in the soil.”

He is advising people to keep a “grab and go bag” or emergency kit ready, and improve their family emergency plans.

“Also the various sectors – public-sector emergency plans, schools, business places – so that they have the necessary contingency plans in place.”

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Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre, describing gun trafficking as a ‘massive problem’, has stressed the need to work with the United States to address it.

“We don’t manufacture guns and most of these guns it is said come from the US. It’s a transnational situation. We have got to work with the US to deal with it,” Pierre told reporters.

The Prime Minister, responsible for National Security is just back from Agri-Investment Forum and Expo II  which ended on Sunday in Trinidad and Tobago.

He observed that the twin Island republic had recorded 371 murders and disclosed that the country’s Police Commissioner had appeared on television speaking about the connection with guns coming from the United States.

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On the other hand, Saint Lucia has recorded 43 homicides this year, many of them gun-related.

Last week the United States announced a crackdown on illegal gun trafficking to Haiti and the Caribbean.

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami reported a substantial spike in the number of weapons, along with a big increase in the caliber and type of firearms, being illegally trafficked.

Some weapons included .50 caliber sniper rifles, 308 rifles, and a belt-fed machine gun.

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Un ‘youtuber’ que filma videos de edificios abandonados halló en una antigua iglesia de la ciudad estadounidense de Milwaukee un cadáver “en su mayor parte esqueletizado”. Las autoridades trabajan para identificar el cuerpo, que no coincide con el registro de personas desaparecidas.

Medios locales publicaron que el cadáver, que por su vestimenta sería de un hombre, fue encontrado el 10 de agosto cuando Matthew Nunez recorría un cuarto del segundo piso, que parecía ser una habitación, de la que alguna vez fue la Iglesia Bautista Misionera Génesis, ubicada en el barrio de Harambee, Según dijeron, el inmueble está en un “estado extremo de deterioro”.

De inmediato, el ‘youtuber’ llamó a la Policía local, que inspeccionó el edificio y comprobó la presencia del cuerpo sin vida, que tenía la cabeza, los pies y la mano izquierda esqueletizados. Esa mano, además, estaba cubierta por un guante negro.

Según la oficina forense local, el cadáver no presentaba lesiones visibles y vestía una chaqueta de color oscuro con forro naranja, una camisa con un logotipo de Pfizer y pantalones negros de Adidas. Además, fue divulgada una foto de los accesorios que tenía para que alguien pudiera identificarlo.

Por otra parte, los especialistas que estudiaron el cuerpo aún no revelaron cuánto tiempo llevaba fallecido.

El ‘youtuber’ también entregó a la Policía un teléfono que halló en el edificio, aunque luego se comprobó que pertenecía a una persona que está con vida.

De acuerdo con el testimonio de una vecina, la iglesia está abandonada desde hace unos 15 años. “Es triste ver que este tipo de tragedias ocurren en estos edificios”, dijo y reflexionó: “La familia de alguien ahora posiblemente puede hacer el cierre, también puede comenzar a llorar”.

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Foto: La Iglesia Bautista Misionera Génesis, donde fue hallado el cadáver, en Milwaukee, EE.UU.Google Maps

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