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Monday, July 21, 2025

T&T becoming like Mexico, says MSJ

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The ex­e­cu­tion of Dana See­ta­hal, SC is a fur­ther re­flec­tion of the abyss the coun­try has de­scend­ed in­to, where pub­lic fig­ures are now in dan­ger of be­ing as­sas­si­nat­ed.That was the opin­ion of the Move­ment of So­cial Jus­tice, a for­mer arm of the coali­tion gov­ern­ment, in a press state­ment is­sued hours af­ter See­ta­hal was gunned down on Sun­day.The re­lease said the mur­der "is not a ran­dom act of vi­o­lence, but a tar­get­ed as­sas­si­na­tion of a very vis­i­ble pub­lic fig­ure."

While as­sas­si­na­tions were not new in T&T, MSJ not­ed that when gangs as­sas­si­nate each oth­er's mem­bers, the po­lice la­bel them as "gang-re­lat­ed" and for the most part no one had been brought to jus­tice.Re­call­ing the killing of an­oth­er at­tor­ney, Dr Wes­ley De­bideen, nine months ago at the Grand Bazaar shop­ping plaza, the Move­ment said his mur­der re­mained un­solved.The state­ment added: "The ex­e­cu­tion of an in­di­vid­ual of Ms See­ta­hal's pro­file is a clear at­tack on the in­sti­tu­tions of the State and pub­lic fig­ures. We are now in a new sit­u­a­tion where pub­lic of­fi­cials are, like in Colom­bia and Mex­i­co, sub­ject to the dan­ger of as­sas­si­na­tion.

"The ex­tent to which the coun­try can wrest it­self from cer­tain bar­barism de­pends on the ex­tent to which the TTPS is able to bring the per­pe­tra­tors to jus­tice in the short­est pos­si­ble time.

"His­to­ry is not on their side and no doubt this fig­ured high­ly in the plan­ning of those who ex­e­cut­ed the act."The move­ment called on all sec­tors to be­gin dis­cussing their col­lec­tive roles in ad­dress­ing crime.


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