PM backs Hunters team amid video backlash; warns teens about acting like adults

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has come out in de­fence of the Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team, led by Sham­sudeen Ayube and is warn­ing teenagers who choose to be­have like adults that they can­not ex­pect to fall back on their sta­tus as chil­dren when the law in­ter­venes.

The Prime Min­is­ter yes­ter­day weighed in on the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing a vi­ral video of a 13-year-old girl who was re­port­ed miss­ing and sub­se­quent­ly found by Ayube’s team.

How­ev­er, she ac­knowl­edg­ing that lessons must be learnt fol­low­ing con­cerns raised by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and mem­bers of the pub­lic about the pub­li­ca­tion of a video iden­ti­fy­ing the mi­nor.