There’s too much frustration, too much ‘beef’ and way too much alcohol going around these days. A drink spilled a toe stepped on by mistake a glance at the wrong girl, a recollection of some perceived slight, all of these insignificant events have led to injury and death. So many of them have been killed in car crashes and now every day one reads of more deaths during limes and fetes. What is terrifying is that this seems to have become a normal part of life for young people.
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Like the mess in San Fernando, today’s incident seems to have been a random event as the young man who’s now in hospital was also unknown to the people who attacked him. The young man has threatened to look for them in clubs in Port of Spain so is clearly fixing for a rematch. This incident has been reported to the police but I’m not taking bets on whether it will go much further. (It helps, of course, that he’s well connected in South, because the bouncers from the club, instead of breaking up the fight that ensued outside when the young man and his people jumped out of the Lexus and rushed the group, instead joined in and attacked the young people they did not know).
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This young man is apparently a known pest, both in North and South, but appears to have loads of money at his disposal (How else would a 20-year-old have a choice of whether to drive a Hummer or a Lexus?), and that seems to give him licence to do whatever he wants and start fights for entertainment whenever he feels like it. This was after the young man had shoved one of them, thrown a drink on another and his friends started slapping another inside the club there was an altercation and everyone was evicted from the club (though the young man and friends were allowed back in). A few weeks ago my children and their friends were attacked by a young man and his bodyguards outside Prive nightclub in San Fernando. A close friend of my sons got stabbed after a cooler fete a few hours ago and is now being operated on to fix a collapsed lung and who knows what other injuries.