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Trade union leader Michael Annisette says he has forgiven the men who murdered his son Micah in Sangre Chiquito last Friday.
Micah Annisette, 31, of Malabar, Arima, was shot dead along Shirvan Drive around 4 pm on Friday. The trade union leader said his son was a husband, a father of two young children, and also a twin.
“Very young life. I think the first one is about four years there. The next one could be around a year or a half or thereabouts... It’s unfortunate. It’s a young life,” said the Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union President General.
Annisette is also General Secretary of NATUC.
During an interview with Guardian Media yesterday, Annisette remembered his son as a bright young man who could have been anything he chose to be, but admitted there were things his son did that he did not like.
“He was not perfect. I’m not going to be like other parents and just say he was a perfect person. No, he was not a perfect person, but he had his good and he had his bad. It’s like a scale,” he explained.
Video footage showed a white Toyota Axio, with the driver and three occupants, being approached by gunmen in an oncoming vehicle. The driver reversed onto a compound, and an occupant attempted to run to safety.
However, Micah was killed, and the two others injured were identified as Akeil King, 23, also of Malabar, and Sherwin Ross, 44, of North Manzanilla.
The SWWTU President General said he has accepted his son’s killing and has already forgiven his attackers.
“That is something that you can’t explain, you can’t understand, but it’s part of a journey in this physical world. I have learned in this world to accept things that you have no control over. I still give grace to everybody who committed the acts. They are human beings,” he said.
However, he hoped they would come to the realisation that life is important.
The trade union leader said he will continue to speak to his children about all the perils in life.
“All of my children, I talk to them, but you cannot make their minds, you cannot tell them what to do. That is a decision that they have to learn. And the experience is what they have to go through in order to understand. It’s unfortunate,” he shared.
The union leader added that crime has affected everyone in the country.
Annisette said that an autopsy is expected to be conducted today, after which funeral arrangements will be made.
Guardian Media understands that no arrests have been made as police continue their investigations.
