Days after being doused with an unknown substance that resulted in significant burns about his body, an 18-year-old student of the GuySuCo Training School at Port Mourant is speaking out about his horrifying and near death experience at the government training institution.
Speaking at his home with Human Rights Activist and Leader of Assembly for Liberty and Prosperity (ALP), Simona Broomes, the 18-year-old Trimol Noble detailed how he was burnt in his sleep after months of being bullied and assaulted while living in at the GuySuCo Training School.
Noble said he retired to bed at around 10:30pm last Friday, but was awakened by a burning sensation to his skin.
“I woke up back after I started feeling this burning in my face. After I started feeling this burning, I jumped up. I said wait them boys throw water on me again. So when I get up I go straight to the light, I put on the light, the floor was wet, the mattress, I was on soaking wet, and my skin from head to toe, soaking wet,” the young man recalled.
In shock, Noble said he made his way to the Dining Hall, and later the tarmac, in search of help, and it was not until someone turned on the lights on the tarmac, that he realized his upper body including his face was burnt.
According to the young man, he eventually made contact with one of the institute’s administrators, who was advised by an off duty medic to apply petroleum to the burns.
In that condition, Noble was reportedly sent back to the dorms to sleep, and it was not until Saturday morning, that he was sent to the dispensary.
The young man’s grandmother said the family was never contacted by the school.
“She said anybody call you? I said no. She said girl, your grandson get bad burn in his sleep about 12 o clock Friday night, and nobody ain’t call you. I said no one called me, nobody aint tell me anything,” the grandmother said.
Noble joined the GuySuCo Training School one year ago. He had hoped to enroll into the Electrical Programme, but was told that he is too young, and was therefore placed in the Sugar Boiler Training Programme.
He said at first everything went well, until he signed up to dance with one of the female trainees for the Diwali celebration later that year.
According to Noble, he was taunted and called a number of derogatory names and the situation worsened.
However, in April the young man was assigned to a psychiatrist at the New Amsterdam Hospital but even as he sought medical and psychological help to cope, he endured another attack.
“I was going through some things on TikTok and while I was in the washroom, somebody came with a bucket of water and dashed it over the wall – soaked me from head to toe,” he said.
Noble said he filed a complaint but nothing was done by those in charge. He said just days before Easter, he was again attacked this time while he was asleep in his bed.
The family is now calling for a thorough investigation into the incident and for justice to be served.
The issue was first raised by the Leader of the Opposition, Azruddin Mohamed, who on Thursday, called for the relevant authorities to conduct a thorough, transparent, and impartial investigation into the troubling incident.
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