Fyzabad MP hosts peace walk for Int’l Youth Day

The theme was “Youth Building Peace”.

The walk was punctuated by stops where individuals and representatives of various groups brought messages to the participants. In his address to the youths Bodoe said, “We recognise that the youth are the future and in effect it is about protecting the future of Trinidad and Tobago.” Bodoe also went to say, “The valiant effort of young Fyzabad resident David Sancaro, who lost his life trying to protect a woman from abuse, must not go unnoticed.” On July 16, Sancaro was run over by a vehicle after he intervened in a quarrel to stop a man from beating a woman in South Oropouche.

Bodoe called on participants in the peace walk to “engage, support and partner with young people within Fyzabad and Trinidad and Tobago and seek solutions to rampant crime, high unemployment, violence against and by young people and frustration caused by difficult economic circumstances.”