Stephon Nicholas

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

A shoot­ing op­po­site the port in Scar­bor­ough on Tues­day night has left one man hos­pi­talised.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the vic­tim was lim­ing at the cor­ner of Dutch Fort Road and Mil­ford Road when a gun­man ap­proached and opened fire.

The man sus­tained a gun­shot wound to his leg and was tak­en to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he re­mains ward­ed in sta­ble con­di­tion.

The in­ci­dent marks the sec­ond shoot­ing in the is­land’s cap­i­tal in less than two months, fol­low­ing the mur­der of Sean Parisi­enne in a carpark on May 1.

Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the area where the shoot­ing took place yes­ter­day and spoke to a man lim­ing near the cor­ner.

Speak­ing on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty, the man linked the ATM rob­bery in Ply­mouth to the shoot­ing, say­ing it was a sign of frus­tra­tion among the peo­ple.

He said there is a lev­el of fear among the pub­lic and not­ed there was very lit­tle foot traf­fic in the area than usu­al.

“The place hard, so more of that go hap­pen. More killing go take place and it wouldn’t stop.

“To­ba­go was nev­er like this. This place go­ing and get more ter­ri­ble. Is more blood­shed to share,” he said.

The man blamed the Gov­ern­ment, claim­ing peo­ple were strug­gling be­cause of out­stand­ing back­pay.

“Kam­la, make haste and pay back­pay...Peo­ple wait­ing for mon­ey since 2013.

“Peo­ple can’t take it any­more. Look they break the ATM. Peo­ple un­der pres­sure.”

He said if more mon­ey is cir­cu­lat­ing then crime would de­cline.

Po­lice say in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the in­ci­dent.