Head of the In­sti­tute for Gen­der and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies, Dr. Sue-Ann Bar­ratt, is re­new­ing calls for swift jus­tice for gen­der-based vi­o­lence vic­tims, cit­ing pub­lic frus­tra­tion with the lack of ac­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies lec­tur­er, while T&T has laws to pro­tect vic­tims, with­out swift jus­tice and re­li­able en­force­ment, those laws are fail­ing the very peo­ple they were meant to safe­guard.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew on Wednes­day, Dr. Bar­ratt made her com­ments in wake of an­oth­er vi­o­lent at­tack– where a 20-year-old Rio Claro woman was hos­pi­talised af­ter be­ing doused with muri­at­ic acid on Mon­day by a male of­fend­er.