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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Hunters’ group vows to continue assisting T&T in searches

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
1137 days ago
20220201
Hunters sit at the side of the road at the Heights of Aripo after kidnap victim Andrea Bharatt was found on February 4, 2021.

Hunters sit at the side of the road at the Heights of Aripo after kidnap victim Andrea Bharatt was found on February 4, 2021.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

A hunters’ search and res­cue team which was called in­to ac­tion to as­sist in find­ing then-miss­ing per­son An­drea Bharatt, is one year lat­er con­tin­u­ing their work in search­ing for miss­ing peo­ple.

The group will be cel­e­brat­ing its first an­niver­sary to­day.

One year ago, hunters gath­ered at 7 am at the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion, fol­low­ing a re­quest by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice to as­sist in the search for Bharatt.

The hunters, quick­ly as­signed Val­lence Ramb­harat as their cap­tain, to lead the team.

Fol­low­ing this search, the hunters de­cid­ed to con­tin­ue on as Hunters Search and Res­cue Team and just mere days af­ter, the Team was called in­to ac­tion, to work with law en­force­ment, in an Op­er­a­tion dubbed “Aripo Sweep,” to thor­ough­ly search the Heights of Aripo.

Dur­ing the past year, the team con­duct­ed 40 mis­sions—38 in Trinidad and two in To­ba­go.

Us­ing the mot­to, “Clo­sure Mat­ters” the team said their mis­sion re­mains to re­spond quick­ly to fam­i­lies whose loved ones go miss­ing.

The team cur­rent­ly com­pris­es 25 mem­bers, 22 in Trinidad and three in To­ba­go. There are 21 males and four fe­males and they say train­ing and plan­ning are at the fore­front of their ac­tiv­i­ties.

The team re­mains large­ly self-fund­ed and has vowed to con­tin­ue to pro­vide ser­vices free of charge to the cit­i­zens of T&T.


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