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Pictured Above: Asaiah Josiah, who tragically drowned on Tuesday while visiting his grandparents’ home. Seven-year-old Asaiah Josiah, who was the nephew of NAMDEVCO Deputy CEO Rayber Bowen, drowned in a pool behind his grandparents’ home in Tableland on Tuesday afternoon (29th March 2022). Asaiah’s mother, Ayanna Josiah, 41, of Rienzi Housing Development, Couva, was visiting her parents’ home at Church Road, Warrell Road, Roberts Village, when the tragedy occurred. Asaiah was the first of Josiah’s three (3) children. According to reports, Asaiah, a Standard 1 student, went to the back of the house to play around 1:30pm on Tuesday. When his mother checked on him ten (10) minutes later, however, she discovered him at the bottom of the family’s swimming pool. She raised an alarm and he was pulled out of the pool, but efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful. Moruga/Tableland MP, Michelle Benjamin, who spoke with one of the child’s relatives following the incident, told Guardian Media that the bad roads allegedly delayed the arrival of the ambulance to the scene and now it will never be known if the child’s life could have been saved. Upon the eventual arrival of the EHS ambulance, medical technicians performed Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). On the way to the Princes Town Health Facility, however, the child was unresponsive in the ambulance. When the medical technicians got to the Health Facility, Police said Doctors there worked feverishly on him but he was pronounced dead around 4:30 pm. Expressing her condolences to the family, MP Benjamin said based on what the relative told her, the deplorable road conditions delayed the ambulance’s arrival to the home. The MP noted that since she has entered Office, she has been lobbying for the roads to be repaired in her constituency. “When it comes to the road inside Warwell, it is in a deplorable state and that would have hindered the ambulance from reaching the family in a timely manner and right now they will always be living with that doubt that an additional minute, or had the ambulance arrived faster, who knows, the child may have been saved,” she said. She pointed out that just before the entrance to the family’s home, there were two (2) massive landslides. “So when it comes to accessing homes there is a problem because of the state of the roadway, some is earthen, some is pitch, and it is not potholes, it has craters, so the ambulance service had to drive at snail’s pace,” Benjamin said. Terrible road conditions in the area are continuing to cost lives. Just last month, a fire tender responding to a house fire at St Julien’s Trace, Princes Town, had to turn around and use an alternative route to get to the scene due to the deplorable state of the road. By the time they arrived on the scene, the entire house was already engulfed in flames and the occupants, Doodooman Sankar, 79 and his wife Ramdaye Sankar, 84, had already perished. Last March, two-year-old Romelu Amani Drakes drowned in an uncovered pool at his school in Couva, where he was attending for speech therapy. The owner of the school has since been charged with the unlawful killing of Drakes and the matter is pending in Court. This is a developing story - refresh this page for updates. [Source: T&T Guardian]
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