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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Man proposes to girlfriend in heart of city

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Joel Julien
2314 days ago
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Josiah Hinds hugs his girlfriend Isha Khan yesterday after proposing outside the Independence Square Branch of KFC after feigning a traffic arrest with the help of officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.

Josiah Hinds hugs his girlfriend Isha Khan yesterday after proposing outside the Independence Square Branch of KFC after feigning a traffic arrest with the help of officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.

Joel Julien

Josi­ah Hinds went all out when he pro­posed to his girl­friend Isha Khan yes­ter­day, as he en­list­ed the as­sis­tance of two po­lice of­fi­cers, pho­tog­ra­phers and even a CD ven­dor, as he got down on one knee in the mid­dle of the street in one of the busiest parts of Port-of-Spain to pop the ques­tion.

The dra­mat­ic pro­pos­al took place at 5.22 pm out­side the In­de­pen­dence Square branch of KFC.

The sit­u­a­tion all be­gan when Hinds and Khan were dri­ving along In­de­pen­dence Square be­fore they made a turn in a souther­ly di­rec­tion along Broad­way.

As Hinds made the bend he was stopped by a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle. The of­fi­cers ques­tioned him and asked him to pro­duce his li­cence and in­sur­ance. They even­tu­al­ly asked him to ex­it the ve­hi­cle.

“I want­ed to know what he did be­cause I know that is not an il­le­gal dri­ve,” Khan told the T&T Guardian af­ter­wards.

With Hinds look­ing as though he would be tak­en in­to cus­tody, the of­fi­cers then ap­proached the car and asked Khan to al­so ex­it the ve­hi­cle.

“I did not know what was go­ing on,” she said.

When Khan ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle and was on the way to the po­lice ve­hi­cle walk­ing to­ward Hinds, he got down on one knee.

Khan was in shock.

She be­gan to cry.

Hinds had planned every­thing.

The two po­lice of­fi­cers, PCs Lewis and Serville, were in on the plan.

Shawn St Louis, a near­by CD ven­dor who looked to be just part of the reg­u­lar Fri­day evening crowd in the city, was al­so in on the act. He be­gan to play Sara Bareilles’ song I Choose You when Hinds got down on his knee.

“This is the song he asked me to play,” St Louis said.

Hid­den be­hind a street­light by the near­by taxi­s­tand were a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and video­g­ra­ph­er Hinds had hired to cap­ture the mo­ment.

Mem­bers of both their fam­i­lies were al­so min­gling among the reg­u­lar Port-of-Spain crowd.

Every­one cheered as Khan said yes.

“He re­al­ly came good, I had no idea,” Khan said.

Hinds said the rea­son he chose this method of pro­pos­al was be­cause he want­ed to show the world his love for Khan.

“I’ve been through a lot in life and I found the one that I re­al­ly, tru­ly love and so it doesn’t make any sense hid­ing it. Best you do it open­ly,” Hinds said.

Hinds said he had been plan­ning the pro­pos­al since the cou­ple met four years ago.

“You have any broth­ers?” a ran­dom woman im­pressed by the pro­pos­al asked Hinds af­ter Khan had said yes.


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