Gang war between two ‘El Do’ schools

[Naminirt]

Gang war between two ‘El Do’ schools

.. Student stabbed with broken bottle
Akile Simon

Published: 18 Nov 2009

Students of the El Dorado West Secondary School leave the compound after classes were dismissed, yesterday. PHOTO: AKILE SIMON


Akile Simon
Head of the Northern Division Snr Supt Joseph Edwards says police are doing all in their power to curb gang violence which has escalated between some students of the El Dorado West and East Secondary schools.
Joseph’s comments came after a student of the West school, which is referred to as The Gaza, was stabbed with a broken bottle, while awaiting transportation to attend classes yesterday morning. The East school is called The Gully. Police said the incident took place at Caura Junction in El Dorado. During a telephone interview yesterday, Edwards confirmed the fracas, saying there were incidents among students of both schools, on a daily basis. He described the latest incident as an ongoing feud among troublemakers at both schools. “We have been working with the PTA, principals, parents and all other stakeholders in order to identify the troublemakers,” he said. “Students are not willing to come forward and give information on the troublemakers.” Both schools accommodate some 3,000 students. Shortly after 10 am, some of the pupils of both schools squared off in reprisal for the stabbing.
Boulders and other objects were tossed on opposing sides of the fence, which separates both schools. No one was injured. After the incident, officials at the West suspended classes for the rest of the day. As word on the fracas spread, several parents rushed to the schools to pick up their children. Sources said the incident stemmed from a fight between two female students from separate schools, over a PH taxi driver, who operated between the school and Caura Junction. Speaking with the T&T Guardian after their classes were dismissed, some students from the Gaza declared they did not want peace, but war, to the end. Attempts to contact the principals at both schools on the incident proved futile as several calls to the school’s phones went unanswered. Several calls to the cellphones of Education Minister Ester Le Gendre and Communications Manager at the Education Ministry, Rory Subiah, also went unanswered.

[Gamma]

what di a$$?!!!!

[Mosiah]

i know! I had to read it again!

Question: why di girls looking so...rotund?

[Willi]

Di madniss spread!!!

[Don1]

Gang war between two ‘El Do’ schools

.. Student stabbed with broken bottle
Akile Simon

Published: 18 Nov 2009

Students of the El Dorado West Secondary School leave the compound after classes were dismissed, yesterday. PHOTO: AKILE SIMON


Akile Simon
Head of the Northern Division Snr Supt Joseph Edwards says police are doing all in their power to curb gang violence which has escalated between some students of the El Dorado West and East Secondary schools.
Joseph’s comments came after a student of the West school, which is referred to as The Gaza, was stabbed with a broken bottle, while awaiting transportation to attend classes yesterday morning. The East school is called The Gully. Police said the incident took place at Caura Junction in El Dorado. During a telephone interview yesterday, Edwards confirmed the fracas, saying there were incidents among students of both schools, on a daily basis. He described the latest incident as an ongoing feud among troublemakers at both schools. “We have been working with the PTA, principals, parents and all other stakeholders in order to identify the troublemakers,” he said. “Students are not willing to come forward and give information on the troublemakers.” Both schools accommodate some 3,000 students. Shortly after 10 am, some of the pupils of both schools squared off in reprisal for the stabbing.
Boulders and other objects were tossed on opposing sides of the fence, which separates both schools. No one was injured. After the incident, officials at the West suspended classes for the rest of the day. As word on the fracas spread, several parents rushed to the schools to pick up their children. Sources said the incident stemmed from a fight between two female students from separate schools, over a PH taxi driver, who operated between the school and Caura Junction. Speaking with the T&T Guardian after their classes were dismissed, some students from the Gaza declared they did not want peace, but war, to the end. Attempts to contact the principals at both schools on the incident proved futile as several calls to the school’s phones went unanswered. Several calls to the cellphones of Education Minister Ester Le Gendre and Communications Manager at the Education Ministry, Rory Subiah, also went unanswered.

The infection is spreading

[Gamma]

is di uniform...so this begs this question does this have anything to do with movado and vbyz kartel and the gully/gaza feud?

anyway, can we double check this please, remember who post it!!!!

[Naminirt]

yup mi see it reach here now in a way

[Willi]

Wait,

How you not crowing that The Gleaner editorial tief yuh hobbyhorse???

Run, dont walk, to the Gleaner site and read today's editorial.

LoL

[Mosiah]

willi, is long time dem a push dat argument since Don1's campaign! Don1 has been consistent and loud about it from longer time!

[Lionpaw]

one thing i know for sure. u wont see jamaican students fighting over soca artistes. once again proves, to the dismay of nyamdirt, that reggae control the caribbean.

[Willi]

Steeeps

Arrow mi seh!

Sparrow fi go fly weh!

How dat soun'? LoL

[Mosiah]

heh heh! mind yuh start someting!

[Peter R]

KFC man, is KFC cause of all that rotundness; uniform only enhance the look
... unuh realize how much some elements inna T&T tek on dis Gaza /Gully stupidness. Whatever rivalry existed before, whether friendly or otherwise, has only been exacerbated by this "G" foolishness.

[Peter R]

Dancehall to be precise... is part of the youth culture of the Caribbean, and beyond...

[Peter R]

Mo, is nutten new, historically, rivalry between steel bands in T&T , included violent clashes as part of the scene. Back then steel bands were frowned upon by the gentry because of the violence associated with them. Over time, the violence associated with steel band rivalry has disappeared... thankfully. Most Trinis over 40 heartily embrace the steel pan as intrinsic to T&T culture and accept it wholeheartedly as as part of the patrimony. See below...

T.A.S.P.O.

The acronym TASPO stands for the Trinidad All Steel(1) Percussion Orchestra - a band which was formed in 1951 as a direct result of the violence that was rampant among the steelbands in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Opportunity knocked in the guise of the 1951 summer Festival of Britain, an exposition of arts, crafts, exhibitions and cultural events from all over the United Kingdom, including its colonial possessions. It brought forth the suggestion from Sir Hubert Rance, Trinidad’s English governor at the time, that a steelband represent the island colony. This suggestion was enthusiastically supported by influential organisations and individuals who had been campaigning in favour of the bands. It was felt that an appearance at the Festival of Britain would help in the steelbands’ struggle for respectability.
TASPO was the first major undertaking of a steelband association which was formed in 1950 on the recommendation of the 1949 government-appointed Steel Band Committee. The association’s president was Sydney Gollop. Other members included Port-of-Spain solicitor Lennox Pierre, Carlyle Kerr, union leader Nathaniel Crichlow and Oscar Pile - all outstanding activists of the steelband movement.
Lieutenant Nathaniel Joseph Griffith - born in Barbados - who had been playing with the Trinidad Police Band and was a qualified musician, was co-opted and consented to teach music, a move that certainly contributed to the high number of bands that joined the association.
The Trinidad and Tobago Steel Band Association (TTSBA) as it was called, was the first officially recognised governing body for steel bands, but was not the first attempt to bring warring steelbands together in an association of some kind. TTSBA was, in fact, the direct follow-on from an initiative begun by Harold Blake in 1948. Then, in the face of dire assurances that nothing would bring members of rival pan-sides together, he personally sought out 21 bandleaders, who duly registered their bands in the first steelband association and actually met as a group - “300 boys”, Blake proudly remembers, at the Teachers’ Training College in Port-of-Spain.
One notes a similar rationale behind TASPO’s membership: that having as band members one representative each from ten steelbands, the experience of playing together would encourage and promote some measure of friendship among these individuals and so diffuse the potential for explosive violence ever-present among steelbands of the day.

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  © 1995 Dr Felix Blake: Pg 159 - 162; THE TRINIDAD & TOBAGO STEEL PAN: History and Evolution

[Blake: Presented without permission; permission being sought.]