{"id":9335,"date":"2016-02-11T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9335"},"modified":"2016-02-12T21:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T01:08:31","slug":"mayor-beware-dangerous-sub-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9335","title":{"rendered":"Mayor: Beware dangerous \u2018sub-cultures\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sean Douglas
\nFebruary 11 2016 – newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n

Carnival<\/a>PORT-OF-SPAIN Mayor Raymond Tim Kee yesterday called on women, especially tourists visiting for Carnival, to maintain their dignity and protect themselves against dangerous local sub-cultures, as he reacted with shock over the discovery of a mas woman\u2019s body, still clad in bikini and beads, yesterday under a large tree at the Queen\u2019s Park Savannah.
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\nThe Mayor opined that the discovery of the light-skinned woman \u2014 possibly an Asian tourist \u2014 was the result of a murder and is an embarrassment to the entire country. Tim Kee was speaking at a news briefing yesterday at City Hall where the results of Downtown Carnival competitions were announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore Carnival, I did make a comment about vulgarity and lewdness in conduct,\u201d Tim Kee related.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke of some of the things that I see women do, assisted by men of course. But women have a responsibility to ensure they are not abused. I call it \u2018abuse\u2019. My argument was that you could enjoy Carnival without going through that routine.\u201d He said revellers can enjoy themselves otherwise, by maintaining a certain dignity. \u201cWhen I saw that news this morning, I know that tourists will come here and may not be aware of all the risks of doing certain things or behaving in a certain manner.\u201d He mulled the circumstances of the woman\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWas there any evidence of resistance? Was it alcohol-controlled and therefore (were) involuntary actions engaged in? \u201cI could well imagine (when she is identified) what will be said by the country from which she came, about one of their people coming here to participate in our Carnival and end up dead. It is not an accident from any vehicle…no truck bounced anybody. It is a matter that she was jumping up in a costume.<\/p>\n

So, let your imagination flow.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy comment is that this is rather embarrassing for us in the City and it\u2019s embarrassing for Carnival,\u201d he declared. \u201cI feel that many more advisories should go out to the public, especially for people (tourists) coming here who don\u2019t really understand a lot of the culture.\u201d Aside from the country\u2019s main culture, he said tourists must be warned of certain, \u201cother subcultures<\/p>\n

Source: www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,223841.html<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n