Carisa Lee

carisa.lee@cnc3.co.tt

Re­porter

Three teenagers are miss­ing from the Rain­bow Res­cue, a home for so­cial­ly dis­placed boys in Mar­aval.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, teenagers Aiden Chance, 13, Zion Matthews, 14, and Navin­dra Ma­habir, 15, es­caped from the home on Sad­dle Road around 4 pm on Sat­ur­day. A re­port was made to the St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion at around 8.50 pm.

Chance was last seen wear­ing a green and blue jer­sey and a pair of red, short pants. He is of African de­scent and dark brown in com­plex­ion with short hair. Matthews who is al­so if African de­scent was last seen wear­ing a green jer­sey and a pair of blue pants. He is five feet, six inch­es tall, dark brown in com­plex­ion and of slim build with short hair. Ma­habir was last seen wear­ing an or­ange jer­sey and a pair of green, short pants. He is of East In­di­an de­scent, light brown in com­plex­ion and of slim build with short, black hair.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the where­abouts of the three boys is asked to call the St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion at 622-4565 or 800-TIPS, con­tact the po­lice at 555, 999, 911, or call any po­lice sta­tion.

Guardian Me­dia called the home for more in­for­ma­tion on their es­cape but was told to call back on Mon­day.

Rain­bow Res­cue is a non-gov­ern­ment or­gan­i­sa­tion (NGO) in­cor­po­rat­ed on No­vem­ber 16, 1999, un­der the Com­pa­nies Act, 1995 of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

It was formed out of a deep con­cern for the in­creas­ing num­ber of chil­dren forced to sur­vive on the city streets due to pover­ty, break­down in fam­i­ly life and/or so­cial ser­vices.

Min­is­ter re­spon­si­ble for Gen­der and Child Af­fairs Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy was al­so con­tact­ed for an up­date on the wards’ where­abouts and ef­forts be­ing made to find them but there was no re­sponse up to press time.

Back in 2021, two of five teenagers who es­caped from the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty were mur­dered in Laven­tille. They were iden­ti­fied as An­to­nio Fran­cois, 15 and Semi­on Daniel, 15.