Murdered Christine laid to rest

Pastor Kwame Jordan was addressing mourners at the funeral service of murdered security officer, Christine Roxanne Joseph, at Guide’s Funeral Home, Coffee Street, San Fernando. Joseph, 21, was murdered by her estranged boyfriend, Keyon Roberts, 29, who stabbed her repeatedly and later committed suicide by setting himself ablaze in an outdoor bathroom.

He died as a result of third degree burns to 90 percent of his body.

The incident occurred at Parforce Road Extension, Gasparillo on January 23. “To date Trinidad has recorded 54 murders and today is the 30th, so in 30 days there are 54 murders that we know of and everyone is looking at the Government for the answers,” he told mourners.

“I am not PNM or UNC, I am a Trinidadian.

When UNC was there we had the same murders and the PNM is here we have the same murders and yet we are still looking for answers from government.

The government don’t have the answers, but we blame government come and go. We want to blame them for the situation we having in our country.” He told mourners that the situation we are now experiencing as a nation started in the homes.

Parents, he said, are leaving their children unattended and there are no longer father figures in the homes so the young men don’t know what it is to be a man or how to treat a woman.

Jordan said society has become so broken down with no moral values and now we live in a place where anything goes. He said that not even the police could curb the crime or solve murders because they themselves are afraid.

“Apparently criminals have better guns than them.” Eulogising Joseph, relative Deanna Forbes described her as loving and kind. She said Joseph’s smile was always contagious. “She loved herself and she was known as the ‘selfie boss’.

She was one of the most loving and ambitious women you would have ever met.” Joseph was laid to lest at the Caratal Public Cemetery.