TENSIONS HIGH IN BEETHAM

Five days af­ter an ar­son at­tack razed the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vice of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (TSTT) scrap yard in Laven­tille, res­i­dents of Beetham Gar­dens have ac­cused the po­lice and sol­diers of “tor­ment­ing” them over the last sev­er­al days.

Un­will­ing to be named when Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day, sev­er­al young men said, “Sol­diers com­ing on dey own now... mask up and with­out the po­lice.

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“They rush­ing we when they see we... dey cyar be do­ing dat. A man wake up and come out he house yes­ter­day morn­ing (Wednes­day) and stand up dey do­ing nut­ting... jus so they take him and gone. He ain’t do nut­ting!”