Nadia Baboolal-Barrington, wife of former soldier Bryan Barrington who is detained in connection with a reported assassination plot against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three Cabinet ministers, is praying fervently for his release so they can spend their first Christmas together with their one-month-old daughter, Ruhonia.
She says Barrington wanted to be there for his little girl, especially since he never spent much time with his first child, now 14. Baboolal-Barrington denies reports that her husband was "dishonourably discharged from the army". She said since Barrington left the Defence Force he has changed his life around and had started a barbeque business at Buen Intento Road, Princes Town.
"He lives for our little baby daughter. He would comb her hair and he say he will blow dry her hair until she becomes 30 years old," Baboolal-Barrington said. Baboolal-Barrington says she has not been able to speak with her husband since his detention by law enforcement officers last week Tuesday. She said when he was taken into custody police officers told him they needed his help to investigate an incident.
"They never told him they carrying him down in custody. One of the police didn't want to put on handcuffs on him but the other said to handcuff him," Baboolal-Barrington recalled.She explained that Barrington is very prayerful and is a devout Muslim.She claims before they became involved, he was a Roman Catholic but he got a calling from the Creator and later converted to Islam.
Baboolal-Barrington insists that her husband did not have any connection with the other detainees.Her mother, Marjorie John-Williams said she has lost the Christmas spirit since the arrest. "This is wickedness. Right now all the neighbours shoo-shooing about us. This is an embarrassment to the family but God don't sleep," she said. John-Williams described her son-in-law as a hardworking man who is committed to his wife and children.
Barrington's father, calypsonian Kaiso Nobbie (Nobbie Barrington), remains puzzled by his son's arrest. "When the state of emergency began I told him to stay away from the police. He said he did not have anything to hide," Nobbie said. He said one day before his son was arrested, he went to the National Infrastructure Development Company to get a loan to expand his barbeque business.
Barrington, is a trained marksman and his wife said he left the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force after his acquittal of the November 12, 2000, murder of Junior Ombie Fredericks.