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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Call for end to violence against women:

Motor clubs, Moko Jumbies dominate streets

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Sascha Wilson
1605 days ago
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Navara Club of T&T members held a motorcade from South Park, San Fernando, to the Red House in Port- of- Spain, to highlight the need to end violence against women and crime in general.

Navara Club of T&T members held a motorcade from South Park, San Fernando, to the Red House in Port- of- Spain, to highlight the need to end violence against women and crime in general.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

As voic­es unite through­out the coun­try for an end to vi­o­lence, par­tic­u­lar­ly against women, two mo­tor ve­hi­cle clubs held mo­tor­cades from North to South.

Sport­ing most­ly pink ban­ners and posters on their ve­hi­cles, they sound­ed their horns and shone their head­lights as they sup­port­ed the call for change.

Fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of the body of 23-year-old An­drea Bharatt on Feb­ru­ary 4, na­tion­wide can­dle­light vig­ils, ral­lies and protests have been held through the length and breadth of T&T.

Di­nesh Ra­moutar, vice pres­i­dent of the Nis­san Navara Club of T&T, said, “We de­cid­ed to take a stand against crime, not on­ly vi­o­lence against women but crime on the whole.”

He said they were not go­ing to wait for an­oth­er law to be passed or an amend­ment to the leg­is­la­tion.

“We want to bring aware­ness to put things in place to pro­tect our chil­dren, our moth­ers or daugh­ters, our young ones. We don’t want to wait un­til it reach­es our doorsteps then to take ac­tion or to lose a loved one and then to go through this. We have tak­en the ini­tia­tive to raise aware­ness to pro­tect our loved ones and put things in place,” he said.

He said ar­rang­ing trans­port to and from work is a sim­ple pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure.

Not­ing that the club has a Face­book mem­ber­ship of 7,000, Ra­moutar said they in­tend to or­gan­ise oth­er aware­ness cam­paigns in var­i­ous forms just “to keep our loved ones alive.”

Ac­com­pa­nied by a mu­sic truck, close to 100 trucks par­tic­i­pat­ed in the South Truck­ers As­so­ci­a­tion ral­ly from Debe to Port-of-Spain.

As­so­ci­a­tion mem­ber Dave Sookoo said the ral­ly was held to show re­spect to all the women who were vic­tims of “cru­el and heart­less” crim­i­nals.

He said they in­tend­ed to stage big­ger ral­lies in the com­ing days and weeks.

An­oth­er event dom­i­nat­ing the streets was a his­tor­i­cal Moko Jumbie walkathon from San Fer­nan­do to the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in re­lay to Port-of Spain.

They kicked off their re­lay-style walkathon just af­ter 7 am with a Car­ni­val-like event in front of City Hall on Har­ris Prom­e­nade.

Wit­nessed by just a hand­ful of peo­ple ow­ing to the COVID-19 pro­to­cols, there was live en­ter­tain­ment, a mu­sic truck, and Car­ni­val cos­tumes.

Mak­ing 13 stops be­fore ar­riv­ing at Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, they jour­neyed along the South­ern Main Road, on­to the East­ern Main Road, and then to the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

Kaisokah founder Ju­nia Bis­nath said, “Forty nine years ago we put off Car­ni­val be­cause of po­lio and now we have this pan­dem­ic fac­ing the world.”

He said the event was held in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the world and al­so to give thanks to the front­line work­ers. —Sascha Wil­son


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