Attorney affiliated with PNM arrested
An attorney affiliated with the People’s National Movement (PNM) has been held amid reports of malicious damage and assault by beating. The Sunday Guardian understands that just after 1 pm at the...
View ArticleMan shot to death, wife injured at home
A Moruga man was shot dead and his wife injured at their home on Friday night. Dead is Clinton Odell, 42, of Church Road, Sixth Company, Indian Walk. Police said around 11.15 pm, Kurt Mc Leod, 42, was...
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Letter writer dies two weeks after bandit’s attack
Petit Valley resident and customary newspaper letter writer Dallas Kidman died yesterday morning, two weeks after he was beaten unconscious by a bandit who stole a small quantity of cash and other...
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Man, 24, beaten at school, on assault charges
A man who was beaten and held when he went to the Gasparillo Secondary School allegedly armed with a gun appeared in court yesterday charged with gun possession and assault of two schoolboys. Jerome...
View ArticleDoubles vendor shot and robbed
Moments after buying a doubles on Sunday morning, a gunman turned around and shot vendor Roland Forde. Police said Forde, 48, had surgery on his left leg to remove the bullet which left him helpless as...
View Article$.4 million bail for two on drug charges
Two cousins charged with trafficking in cocaine have been released on $.4 million bail. Johnson Jackman, 35, an electrician, of Diamond Village, San Fernando, and Robert Billy, 23, an assistant...
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Jury hears how main witness helped cops
The trial of 12 men accused of murdering central businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman resumed yesterday with the jury hearing evidence of how the State’s main witness assisted police in solving the...
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Questions over mental state of main witness
The State’s main witness in the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder trial was sent for a psychiatric evaluation while he was assisting investigators in the murder investigation. This was revealed yesterday...
View ArticleWarrant for ex-cop in road death case
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a former police officer by an Arima magistrate after he failed to appear in court yesterday. The retired corporal, Indar Hosein, was one of two remaining...
View ArticleMan wanted in US signs off on his extradition
Local prison conditions appeared to be too harsh for a United States citizen who agreed to sign off on his extradition after spending little over a week in remand. Shazam Meighoo, who is wanted for the...
View ArticleGirl, 16, held for doubles-vendor shooting
A 16-year-old girl is among three people arrested for Sunday’s shooting of doubles vendor Ronald Forde in San Fernando. Police said the trio, also wanted for other robberies in the area, were held with...
View ArticleGroom-to-be executed in La Brea
A 45-year-old father of three who was engaged to be married next month was yesterday gunned down near his La Brea home. Police said Derrick St John, a pipe-fitter, was asleep at his Leon Street home...
View Article3 in court for murder of Cepep contractor
Three men appeared in court, yesterday, charged with the murder of a Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (Cepep) contractor. Ian Stanley, Quincy Felix and Sherman Hinds,...
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Man charged after being ‘robbed’
An employee of a gambling firm was yesterday granted $100,000 bail for allegedly stealing more than $125,000 from the business and then making a false report that he had been robbed. Pretum Chablal, of...
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No bail again for accused gunman
The failure of the police to provide an updated criminal background trace on the man allegedly held with a gun at Gasparillo Secondary School resulted in his remaining behind bars. Jerome Mahabir, 24,...
View ArticleTriple murder accused sent back to St Ann’s
Triple murder accused Azmon Alexander was sent back to the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital yesterday when he re-appeared before Senior Magistrate Indrani Cedeno. Alexander, 29, was sent for an evaluation...
View ArticleNo id yet on body in drain
Two weeks have passed and no one has come forward to claim the partially burnt body of a man who was found in a drain at Ravine Sable, Longdenville. And as a result, Central Division police said they...
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Kees and two friends mugged after show
Soca superstar Kees Dieffenthaller escaped harm when he and two friends were robbed on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook, after a performance at Aria Lounge early Saturday. According to details of a police...
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Case adjourned to January 6
Hearings of the trial of 12 men accused of murdering former Xtra Foods chief executive officer Vindra Naipaul-Coolman have been adjourned to next year. Although hearings in the Port-of-Spain Second...
View ArticleMentally ill man murdered
Homicide detectives have made no headway into the murder of a mentally ill man who was shot dead in Cunupia on Monday. According to a report, a passerby walking through Ramlal Street, Warrenville,...
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