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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Hinds: National Security to provide support to hospitals after deadly shooting

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Chester Sambrano
306 days ago
20240905
Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds

Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds

Shirley Bahadur

Fitzger­ald Hinds, Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty is strong­ly con­demn­ing the re­cent trag­ic death of Ja­mal Watts and is call­ing for unit­ed com­mu­ni­ty ef­forts, to com­bat gun vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Watts was gunned down at the St James Med­ical Fa­cil­i­ty yes­ter­day.

In a state­ment this morn­ing Min­is­ter Hinds not­ed with grave con­cern what he called a re­cent un­found­ed and li­belous ac­cu­sa­tion, via a cir­cu­lat­ed so­cial me­dia post, in re­spect of this mat­ter.

He clar­i­fied that he has no con­nec­tion with Mr. Watts’ em­ploy­ment at the North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA).

“ De­spite this er­ro­neous claim, the Min­is­ter records his re­spect for the em­ploy­ment and law­ful earn­ings of the de­ceased, par­tic­u­lar­ly the choice of the de­ceased to have en­gaged in law­ful work, rather than suc­cumb to crim­i­nal con­duct and the earn­ings there­from.”

The Min­is­ter said this killing took place on the com­pound of a pub­lic hos­pi­tal, trau­ma­tiz­ing the work­ers of that in­sti­tu­tion in the same way as oc­curred on June 3, 2024 at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The Min­is­ter as­sured that mea­sures will con­tin­ue to be im­ple­ment­ed to safe­guard em­ploy­ees, pa­tients and vis­i­tors in our health in­sti­tu­tions.

“ In this re­gard, the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty will col­lab­o­rate with the Min­istry of Health, to pro­vide sup­port, in­clud­ing ac­tiv­i­ty de­signed to bring re­lief to all at these in­sti­tu­tions.”

He said this trag­ic event un­der­scores the ur­gent need for a con­tin­ued co­or­di­nat­ed re­sponse to the per­va­sive is­sue of gun vi­o­lence. “ The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has rec­og­nized vi­o­lence as a pub­lic health emer­gency, and re­mains com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice and oth­er law en­force­ment agen­cies, in their ef­forts to com­bat crime.

The Gov­ern­men­tal al­so sup­ports a wide range of civ­il so­ci­ety and com­mu­ni­ty based ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clu­sive of a wide range of op­por­tu­ni­ties for the train­ing and de­vel­op­ment of the na­tion’s youth.” Min­is­ter Hinds said all of this with a clear un­der­stand­ing, that tack­ling crime re­quires more than just law en­force­ment; it ne­ces­si­tates ac­tive in­volve­ment from all seg­ments of the so­ci­ety.

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