So­ca star Ian "Bun­ji Gar­lin" Al­varez yes­ter­day sent out a "De­fend the Women" chal­lenge to all men in T&T.

In a three minute thir­ty-five sec­ond video sent via so­cial me­dia in ap­par­ent re­sponse to the lat­est killing of Ja­mil­ia DeReve­naux, Al­varez said T&T's women are un­der pres­sure and be­ing forced to en­dure se­ri­ous prob­lems.

Gar­lin said most men hide be­hind so­cial me­dia plat­forms, such as In­sta­gram, Face­book and Twit­ter, to "bad up women" but in­stead those same men need to man up and de­fend them.

"We need to teach some of them males to be men too. Let us de­fend the women. No­body say it is go­ing to be easy, it is sup­posed to be easy be­cause it's our women, we have to de­fend them. If you go­ing out the road and you see a man rough­ing up a woman in the pub­lic...sol­dier ral­ly and get help, be­cause that woman could die right there," Al­varez said.

He added that every time "these char­ac­ters" (re­fer­ring to men who abuse women) es­cape "they are mov­ing clos­er to your aunts, niece, moth­er and all fe­males in your fam­i­ly...don't wait for this to hit home then for all to re­act and it too late. Let us de­fend all women now."

Al­varez's video was post­ed hours af­ter DeReve­naux was killed just out­side her work­place at Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day night. (RD)