An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to Mon­day’s shoot­ing of a teacher from the Mamoral RC Pri­ma­ry School, min­utes af­ter he left the in­sti­tu­tion for the day.

Pre­lim­i­nary in­for­ma­tion sug­gest­ed it may have been an in­ex­pe­ri­enced hunter who was re­spon­si­ble. 

The Stan­dard Three teacher, who lives at Mc Bean, Cou­va, was re­port­ed­ly dri­ving a blue Suzu­ki Vi­tara south along the Main Road, Mamoral, at 3.10 pm when gun­shots rang out.

The 48-year-old re­alised he had been shot in both hands and alert­ed a fe­male col­league who had been dri­ving be­hind.

His col­league took the in­jured man to the Ch­agua­nas Health Cen­tre, where he was treat­ed be­fore be­ing trans­ferred to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope.

The vic­tim was said to be in a sta­ble con­di­tion up to yes­ter­day.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Catholic Ed­u­ca­tion Board of Man­age­ment (CEBM), Sharon Man­groo, yes­ter­day con­firmed the teacher was in a sta­ble con­di­tion and re­cu­per­at­ing.

She said, “We wish him a speedy and com­plete re­cov­ery.”

In­di­cat­ing the CEBM was await­ing the find­ings of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion be­fore mak­ing any pro­nounce­ments, Man­groo said they too had been told the in­ci­dent may have been ac­ci­den­tal.

If this was in­deed true, Man­groo ques­tioned, “The con­cern is what safe­guards are in place to pro­tect peo­ple from in­ex­pe­ri­enced hunters?”