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Gender experts: Violence costs women their jobs, productivity, financial security
Sunday 21 February 2021
A costumed woman holds signs demanding a national plan on gender-based violence during a march by Women in Carnival around Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain last Monday. PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE -
A few days after the decomposing body of murdered law-clerk Andrea Bharatt was found down a precipice in the Heights of Aripo, a woman was held up and robbed by two men on the Aripo junction – an area that hours before had been teeming with police officers and soldiers. The woman, a Cepep worker who lives in Valencia, went to the junction to wait for transportation to go to Aripo village where she was assigned to work. After the attack, the traumatised woman was unable to report to work on that day.
Wednesday 16 December 2020
Candice Riley, mother of Ashanti Riley is consoled by a relative during her funeral at the Mt D or SDA Church on Monday. - AYANNA KINSALE
Two days after murder victim Ashanti Riley, 18, was laid to rest, her mother Candice Riley and her family prepare themselves for life without her.
In a brief interview with Newsday on Wednesday, Candice said the family is not coping well.
“It’s so hard right now, because now is the healing process. Now we have to live life without Ashanti. So it’s really hard.”
She said the family has received support from their community, with people reaching out to offer counselling. Candice said her employer has also arranged a counsellor for anyone in the family who needs one.