Ani­ka Gumbs-San­di­ford

"As we speak, Calder Hart is mak­ing moves to leave. That man is un­der se­ri­ous pres­sure and he is pack­ing up and get­ting ready to leave the coun­try. He's get­ting clos­er to the end of his or­deal. His job is com­ing to an end with all the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing him. But he is go­ing to take a break and come back again when every­thing cools down." Those were the words of psy­chic Win­ston Ra­goo on Fri­day around 1.30 pm as he spoke about the im­pli­ca­tions for Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (Ude­cott) chair­man Calder Hart dur­ing an in­ter­view with the Sun­day Guardian. Ra­goo, known for his pre­cise vi­sions, was on the ball as just one day lat­er ru­mours and a sub­se­quent let­ter from Ude­cott stat­ed Hart had re­signed as its chair­man, and al­so as chair­man of the oth­er state boards which he head­ed.

One month af­ter he told come­di­enne Mairoon Ali that she was go­ing to die, shock­waves went through T&T with her sud­den death. Ra­goo had felt the neg­a­tive en­er­gy dur­ing an in­ter­view with Ali on her morn­ing talk show in No­vem­ber, warn­ing her to ur­gent­ly vis­it a doc­tor or she will be dead be­fore the end of 2009. With­out a doubt, the words of the 40 year-old psy­chic came to pass on that fate­ful day on De­cem­ber 21. "That con­ver­sa­tion is still on tape be­cause I gave her the warn­ing dur­ing an in­ter­view on her talk show. I told her she was sick with in­ter­nal prob­lems and she need­ed to go by a doc­tor or she will pay with her life.

De­scribed as "spir­i­tu­al­ly gift­ed" by those whose lives he has touched, Ra­goo has been bom­bard­ed with peo­ple from all over the world since com­ing on the scene last Oc­to­ber. His Face­book page is filled with tes­ti­mo­ni­als from fans as far as Poland, Toron­to, New Or­leans, and the en­tire Caribbean all giv­ing au­then­tic­i­ty to his gift. Calls to his three cel­lu­lar phones are non-stop by peo­ple as old as 85, promi­nent mem­bers of so­ci­ety such as at­tor­neys and doc­tors, all want­i­ng an op­por­tu­ni­ty to meet and com­mu­ni­cate with him. "My vi­sion is a spir­i­tu­al mes­sage I get from God. I en­joy help­ing peo­ple put their lives on the right track. What I do is take the neg­a­tive and make it pos­i­tive.

"Some­times peo­ple just want a chance to change their lives and I help them do this phys­i­cal­ly and men­tal­ly. Some­times peo­ple are so touched with what I do that many of them leave in tears, but I just want to as­sist peo­ple." While there is a con­sul­ta­tion fee at­tached, Ra­goo, who owns his own busi­ness has been forced to re­turn mon­ey to sev­er­al over­sees callers. "Mon­ey is not every­thing. I help peo­ple be­cause I con­sid­er my­self to be gift­ed. Callers from over­sees send mon­ey via West­ern Union for me but I of­ten re­turn it many times. I am hap­py by just help­ing peo­ple. I am dead on with what I do and say to peo­ple. I can al­so dis­cov­er the past life of your moth­er, fa­ther, sis­ter and broth­er which can be used to guide you. I love to help peo­ple through God," he said.

PM is a good man

While Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning has found him­self in the cen­tre of con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the con­struc­tion of The Light of the Light­house of the Lord Je­sus Christ Church, Ra­goo is stand­ing in de­fence of him. Com­mend­ing the Prime Min­is­ter for be­ing deeply spir­i­tu­al­ly root­ed, Ra­goo said he wish­es to meet face to face with the leader of T&T. "I would shake his hand if I get the op­por­tu­ni­ty to meet him. What he is do­ing for this coun­try is pos­i­tive and he is chang­ing the lives of peo­ple. It does not mat­ter who builds a church; a church is good. The peo­ple in the Heights of Gua­napo and oth­ers are go­ing to ben­e­fit. The prime min­is­ter is on the right track; if he had built a new prison in the coun­try peo­ple would have been up­set too."

He ad­vised politi­cians to stop beat­ing down Man­ning and re­frain from dwelling on too much neg­a­tive. "This en­tire church is­sue is a bla­tant at­tack on the Prime Min­is­ter. Peo­ple need to back off... Peo­ple in this coun­try should be hap­py if more church­es are con­struct­ed be­cause it em­pow­ers lives spir­i­tu­al­ly."

Bi­og­ra­phy:

1. 1970-Pe­tit Val­ley Boys' R C

2. 1977-Diego Mar­tin Ju­nior Sec­ondary

3. 1979-Mu­cu­rapo Se­nior Com­pre­hen­sive learnt

4. 1980-Au­to me­chan­ic by trade/taxi dri­ver

5. 1990-Busi­ness own­er