By Prior Beharry
EXACTLY two weeks after the body of court clerk Andrea Bharatt was found, an organistion is being formed to pressure the Government into making changes to help fight crime in Trinidad and Tobago.
The meeting took place at the Park Street, Port-of-Spain officers of the Citizens Union of Trinidad and Tobago (CUTT) on Thursday and included head of CUTT Phillip Alexander, businessman and talk show host Inshan Ishmael, television host Stephan Reis and Avonelle Hector Joseph of Is There Not A Cause.
Alexander said that talk show host Ian Alleyne was invited but could not have attended.
Ishmael said he did not want the death of Bharatt to go in vain since a movement has started that could help T&T.
On the day of Bharatt’s funeral on February 12, there was a mass gathering of mourners at Woodfood Square in Port-of-Spain. This came after candlelight vigils were held across the country to hounour the life of Bharatt and other women who were murdered in T&T over the years.
Alexander, Ishmael and Alleyne, three people usually at loggerheads, shared the same stage and called for a better T&T.
On Thursday, Alexander said the organisation does not yet have a name.
Asked if it would turn into a political party, he said that was a premature question at this point in time.
Reis said that measures such as non-lethal weapons for women must be put in place since another woman was almost murdered when she was taken to the Heights of Aripo, in the same vicinity where Bharatt’s body was found, over the weekend. He said this happened too soon after the incident with Bharatt.
Alexander said a public relations officer would have been appointed during Thursday’s meeting.
He said eventually a document will be presented to the Government that will have proposals coming out of what the citizens were calling for in the wake of Bharatt’s death.
