The daughter of calypso icon Leroy "Black Stalin" Caliste escaped kidnappers by jumping out of a moving car in Pleasantville, off San Fernando, on Sunday night. Keina Caliste, 32, was the first person to be kidnapped for the new year. She was grabbed around 10.40 pm as she arrived home from steelpan practice at TCL Skiffle Bunch panyard on Coffee Street, San Fernando. Yesterday, her mother Patsy said Keina was very traumatised and was resting at their Turton Street, Cross Crossing, San Fernando, home. "We had to give her tablets to calm down. She doesn't even know herself."
Relating what her daughter told her, Patsy said Keina had just arrived home in her silver Nissan Almera car. She was opening the gate when a car pulled up behind her. Two men, one of whom was armed with a gun, alighted, grabbed her, and bundled her into the back seat of her own car and sped off. "They drove her all around San Fernando and they took all her things like her bank card, her identification card, money. Everything she had on her. "As they were approaching Skinner Park, she ask them to take the car and put her out. They said no; they not ready yet," her mother said. Upon reaching close to the Licensing Office, she said Keina opened the door and jumped out. She ran to a house where she was assisted by a woman. They then called the police.
