Orange Valley woman latest kidnap victim

[citizen]

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news2.html

Friday 1st February, 2008
BY ADRIAN BOODAN

AN ORANGE Valley woman is the country’s latest kidnap victim.

Police say Zalina Mohammed, 32, was snatched by two gun-toting men, who entered her Central Trinidad business place around 8.30 am, yesterday.

No ransom demand had been made up to late evening.

Police responded quickly to distress calls made by the woman’s relatives and cordoned off the area looking for clues related to her disappearance.

Mohammed operates a liquor mart owned by her common-law husband, on Main Road, Orange Valley.

The woman, police said, has no children.

She lives with her common-law husband Kenneth Amrow, her mother and two siblings.

Yesterday, family members described the missing woman as ‘quiet’.

They were also critical of what they said was Government’s failure to curb escalating crime, saying it appeared as though the Government was not interested in attending to the social ills of the country.

National Security Minister Martin Joseph also came in for heavy verbal blows from the woman’s family.

Villagers said Orange Valley was becoming a hideout for criminal elements.

They claimed these elements were migrating from Port-of-Spain, and pointed to a Laventille youth as being one of the men charged with the murder of six-year-old Sean Luke.

Luke was killed in a canefield close to his Orange Field home.

One frightened villager said two weeks ago, three strangers were seen lurking around a nearby sports pavilion, and appeared as if they were “checking out the houses in the area.”

Residents of Orange Valley are calling for an increased police presence in light of what they say is was an increase in criminal activity in the area.
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Shades of Vindra, or just another day in paradise?
Where art thou, Mr. Joseph?

Once again, a business woman of Indian extraction has been kidnapped.

[vaio]

sigh......it never ends.

[Chicabonita]

The Express says that they asked a $1 million dollar ransom. Where the heck this poor woman's family are going to get that amount? :cry:

[KFCSpicy]

None of us knows what going on with these business men and women so why speculate? It is sad that people are gonna be kidnapped so that some lazy greedy bunch of people could live their lives in luxury but such is life and it won't end as there is nothing to stop a group of men/women coming together and plotting and carrying out their plans...No police no government action and no eye witnesses coming forward.

So... whey yuh go do? Continue to sigh and speculate is all and be ever so grateful that is not one of us.

[deathwinger]

None of us knows what going on with these business men and women so why speculate? It is sad that people are gonna be kidnapped so that some lazy greedy bunch of people could live their lives in luxury but such is life and it won't end as there is nothing to stop a group of men/women coming together and plotting and carrying out their plans...No police no government action and no eye witnesses coming forward.

So... whey yuh go do? Continue to sigh and speculate is all and be ever so grateful that is not one of us.

Nope. Start to get your own defenses.

Funny, I thought the kidnapping was almost finished with. At least at election time. Sigh. Approximately 300,000 people in this country are so sad if they couldn't put 2 and 2 together. But then again, I doubt 200,000 of them could. :lol:

[citizen]

What is really sad about this post is that it has failed miserably in its attempt to stimulate a response and generate disgust for the crime and hate for the criminals. I suspect that this is so because we have become immune to such crimes as we have lost hope in our police force.

[snowbird]

Very nice Mr. Panday and all those other insensitive Politicians, continue to go to the people house and see if you could get any more political mileage from their crisis :twisted:

You who also calling on the Government to pay this ransom, why allyuh doh pick up a collection from allya rich friends.
Bas, that 10 million would more than pay this ransom :roll:

[deathwinger]

Why is the CONGRESS OF THE PEEEEOPLE not going to these who have helped them try to aTTAIN governance in these great NATIONS of TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO?

Why is it the UNC goes and its political mileage. Maybe since they are the TRUE opposition party right now, they can actually do something to help the people's voices be heard and not blow hot air ideology and make people waste their votes. :twisted:

[snowbird]

Why is the CONGRESS OF THE PEEEEOPLE not going to these who have helped them try to aTTAIN governance in these great NATIONS of TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO?

Why is it the UNC goes and its political mileage. Maybe since they are the TRUE opposition party right now, they can actually do something to help the people's voices be heard and not blow hot air ideology and make people waste their votes. :twisted:

When my nephew was kidnapped a couple of years ago, I don't remember any of them from the UNC showing up to offer thier support; no, at the time Bas was too busy fighting Winston and airing all of the party's dirty laundry in public :twisted:

[kemist]

this scenario is more frightening than usual and allows for more speculation than usual.
The more seasoned kidnappers would not abduct some1 close to the weekend to have the hassle of keeping their victim for too long. They have to consider banking hours and time for negotiation. Taking someone the thursday before carnival weekend shows the lack of a well thought out plan, which could indicate these are newly bred kidnappers or perhaps petty criminals trying to make money before carnival. Either way it shows that the conditions in our environment are just right for the breeding of criminal activity.
Normally, one would have hope in thinking that it would be easier to catch amateurs; that newly formed criminal gangs would not have 'connections' in high places. But on the flipside, they are more prone to taking drastic measures when things get rough.

My thoughts and prayers are with this woman and her family.

[raider]

'When my nephew was kidnapped a couple of years ago, I don't remember any of them from the UNC showing up to offer thier support; no, at the time Bas was too busy fighting Winston and airing all of the party's dirty laundry in public '

Snowbird,

did you show up to offer your support?

[gaia]

did you show up to offer your support?

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Did You????

[raider]

no.....wasn't my nephew.

[serenity]

KIDNAP victim Zalina Mohammed has been released. Police said Mohammed was released after part of a $1million ransom was reportedly paid to her abductors.

[KFCSpicy]

Well done!

Never pay kidnappers cause you are never sure of the outcome with them. What's stopping them from doing it next month when they feel for more money? Or even the month after that? :?

To each their own and I am well aware that it's easy to say and not go through but they took a chance and it paid off.

Good on them all.

[snowbird]

'When my nephew was kidnapped a couple of years ago, I don't remember any of them from the UNC showing up to offer thier support; no, at the time Bas was too busy fighting Winston and airing all of the party's dirty laundry in public '

Snowbird,

did you show up to offer your support?

Sorry, I missed this comment.

No I didn't fly down to T&T; our family found a more constructive way to support each other during this terrible, terrible 17 days; we did a round the clock prayer vigil with friends and relatives all over the world (there were about five hundered of us right here in Canada praying non-stop); we started the vigil the moment we learned of his kidnapping, and vowed to continue our prayers 'non-stop' until he was found..... dead or alive.
Seriously, this is where my faith was tested, because honestly after about the first week, I felt I was praying for the repose of his soul; I remember the night before he was found I even began to doubt my faith in the existance of a 'Greater Being', I remembered driving home at about midnight, still praying but saying to God......" look, if you are there, you really have to give me a sign yes, because honestly, I don't know what to belived". The next day at mid-day we learned that he had escaped his captors....... needless to say, in my thanks giving to God, I asked that next time he wanted to prove his existence to me, that he not use one of our loved ones as his instrument, I told him a simple rainbow over my house would safice :lol:
Hope he has a sense of humor

By the way, when kidnapped victims or their famalies say...... you have no idea what it is like, trust me, you have no idea.

[raider]

just as i thought.......do as i say....

you can't even bother to show up to help your family through this ordeal,
yet you expect panday to.

[snowbird]

^^^ :roll: You obviously do not understand the 'link' of prayer.

Supposing it made sense for me to show 'outsiders' I cared by flying home, should I also have 'shown up' with an entourage of media like Bas did when he went to 'support' this family in their time of need.

And Oh, I do realize that during kidnapping crisis Bas was truly pained for 'his people'; I am sure he too was at home praying everyday for the safe return of loved ones.
I do recall that during the election campaign one insensitive Politician had the audacity, gall, and bad taste to warn people that "if they do not vote for his party, and he lost the election, if their loved ones got kidnapped..... don't come crying to him. Thank God that was Bas..... oh wait, that was Bas, the same man who is now milking photo ops. and getting his 15 minutes out of people's pain. :twisted:

[raider]

i just find it strange that you use this a politician's non visit for your own agenda, yet you are not to be held to the same standard. and it's your own family to boot.

do as i say not as i do...