Club owners, bar owners and anyone thinking of having a curfew party can breathe a sigh of relief now after Public Information Officer of the Police Service ASP Joanne Archie has said that the police are not clamping down on curfew parties.
During the police service daily press briefing on Monday September 19, Archie sought to clear the air on an article which stated that the police were shutting down curfew parties.
Archie advised of “the danger of having a large crowd literally locked inside a building and the dangers that could occur in the event of some untoward situation”. She added that at no point did the TTPS have intentions of stopping any curfew parties and in addition there has been no attempt by the TTPS to restrict the constitutional rights of citizens.
Another article stated Archie as saying: “The emergency regulations speak about outdoors and we will go with what is said there in that regulation. We will want to advise bar owners and persons who hold these pubs to desist. As you rightly said, in the case of an emergency and (should) something happen, to get access maybe to some emergency assistance, you will be venturing onto the street and thereby will be breaching the curfew and will be subject to arrest...you alluded to the fact that bar owners are having people assemble indoors in crowds, in large groups, so we will want them to desist from that practice within the curfew hours.”
During Monday’s press briefing, Archie told members of the media: “While on the topic of the SoE, last Thursday the Express led with the story that the TTPS is clamping down on owners of clubs, bars and people holding curfew parties...The caution we gave to the public last week was for their safety and security. We did not at any time indicate our intention to stop club or bar owners from holding events in their premises. Our concern as police officers was and continues to be the safety of Trinidad and Tobago. For anyone, media or otherwise, to imply as such is preposterous and ridiculous to say the least. How can you report that a person in their private residence or any building during curfew hours runs out of the building in an emergency will be subjected to arrest if they attempt to seek medical attention?”
Many questioned what power members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) had to stop curfew parties. ASP Archie did not seek to make any clarification .
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Curfew death
A curfew party ended tragically early morning on Monday September 19, when Mahindra Maharaj fell to his death from the balcony of a luxury multi-million dollar condominium in Moka, Maraval.
Maharaj, 30, was liming with friends at the upscale, gated community known as The Hamlet, at St Andrew’s Wind, St Andrew’s Golf Course Road, Moka.
He had a swim in the plunge pool of the condominium, at about 1.30 am, and went to sit on the ledge of the balcony when he got out of the water. He slipped on the tiles and fell over the balcony, plummeting more than 150 feet to the ground.
Maharaj, the son of Bindra Maharaj who owns BK Hardware in Arima, was taken to the Port-of- Spain General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Maharaj was also the nephew of the former president of the Supermarkets Association, Balliram Maharaj.
An autopsy conducted at the hospital mortuary yesterday revealed Maharaj bled to death when his vena cava vein, which carries de-oxygenated blood from the lower half of the body into the right atrium of the heart, ruptured when his body hit the ground.
Bindra said his son had told him on Sunday that he was going to a meeting with officials from the YUMA Carnival band.
“I did not know where he went. I do not know about his whereabouts generally. I was shocked when I heard the news,” Bindra said of his son, the first of his three children.
“All I was told was that he was at the apartment in Moka in a swimming pool and that he slipped on tiles and fell over several feet from off a balcony. I do not know how often he frequented there, or what. All he said he was going to a meeting about the Carnival band YUMA. I do not really know much about that either.”
Bindra said his son lived with him at their own palatial home at Calvary Hill, Arima. The Maharaj family is well known in the eastern borough.
“I really do not know what he was doing at Moka at that hour. He was an adult so I never really knew about his whereabouts and can’t say much but his death has hit me very hard,” said Bindra.
Due to the state of emergency and the 11 pm to 4 am curfew that is in effect in several communities in Trinidad, including Maraval and Arima, Maharaj would have had to remain overnight Sunday at the condominium with his friends.
The owner of the condominium was not able to be contacted for comment about the incident.
The average cost of a unit at The Hamlet is $6.5 million.
Maharaj’s death is being investigated by Cpl John of the Maraval Police Station .
Maharaj, 30, was liming with friends at the upscale, gated community known as The Hamlet, at St Andrew’s Wind, St Andrew’s Golf Course Road, Moka.
He had a swim in the plunge pool of the condominium, at about 1.30 am, and went to sit on the ledge of the balcony when he got out of the water. He slipped on the tiles and fell over the balcony, plummeting more than 150 feet to the ground.
Maharaj, the son of Bindra Maharaj who owns BK Hardware in Arima, was taken to the Port-of- Spain General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Maharaj was also the nephew of the former president of the Supermarkets Association, Balliram Maharaj.
An autopsy conducted at the hospital mortuary yesterday revealed Maharaj bled to death when his vena cava vein, which carries de-oxygenated blood from the lower half of the body into the right atrium of the heart, ruptured when his body hit the ground.
Bindra said his son had told him on Sunday that he was going to a meeting with officials from the YUMA Carnival band.
“I did not know where he went. I do not know about his whereabouts generally. I was shocked when I heard the news,” Bindra said of his son, the first of his three children.
“All I was told was that he was at the apartment in Moka in a swimming pool and that he slipped on tiles and fell over several feet from off a balcony. I do not know how often he frequented there, or what. All he said he was going to a meeting about the Carnival band YUMA. I do not really know much about that either.”
Bindra said his son lived with him at their own palatial home at Calvary Hill, Arima. The Maharaj family is well known in the eastern borough.
“I really do not know what he was doing at Moka at that hour. He was an adult so I never really knew about his whereabouts and can’t say much but his death has hit me very hard,” said Bindra.
Due to the state of emergency and the 11 pm to 4 am curfew that is in effect in several communities in Trinidad, including Maraval and Arima, Maharaj would have had to remain overnight Sunday at the condominium with his friends.
The owner of the condominium was not able to be contacted for comment about the incident.
The average cost of a unit at The Hamlet is $6.5 million.
Maharaj’s death is being investigated by Cpl John of the Maraval Police Station .
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