After main witness recants testimony: State changes strategy
Prosecutors in the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder trial have abruptly stopped the testimony of its main witness and have embarked on a route to have his statement admitted. Lead prosecutor Israel Khan,...
View ArticleCoast Guard seize ganja, gun, arrest 3
Coast Guard officers yesterday arrested three men and seized a quantity of marijuana after a high speed boat chase off Icacos, Cedros. The men, together with 65 packages of marijuana weighing 35.54...
View ArticleMurder toll now 66 as man gunned down in PoS
It was déjà vu for Charmaine Blackman after her second son named Michael Brown was killed in the east Port-of-Spain area by gunmen. Speaking with the media at the Forensic Science Centre St James...
View ArticleDrug addict found dead
T&T recorded its 67th murder yesterday following the discovery of Andre Patrick’s body along the Caura Royal Road, Tacarigua, not to far away from his home. According to police reports, at around 8...
View ArticleFreeport killing linked to gangster’s murder
Police say the shooting death of a 35-year-old Freeport man, who was killed as he slept with his girlfriend, was a reprisal killing for the murder of gang leader Hayden “Ludo” Nero. Garvin Andrews and...
View ArticleSick juror forces adjournment
A sick juror has yet again caused the adjournment of hearings of the trial of 12 men accused of murdering central businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman. The State’s main witness Keon Gloster was due to...
View ArticleCops to quiz woman in $.6m cocaine bust
Investigations are continuing into an incident on Wednesday after customs officers at the TTPost office in Piarco discovered 1.52 kilos of cocaine in four picture frames being exported to Nigeria....
View Article3 held in Tobago for $29,000 robbery
Three men will appear before a Scarborough magistrate today charged with shop-breaking and larceny. The T&T Guardian understands that the men, aged 24 to 26, from Buccoo and Canaan, Tobago were...
View ArticleCops seek relative in Felicity murder
Chaguanas police are searching for a close male relative of a man who was murdered at his Felicity home yesterday. Channilal Mangroo, 54, was found dead with multiple wounds about his body near a...
View ArticleVendor’s wife: ‘Find my husband’s killer’
The wife of murdered street vendor Godwin “Bake” Goolie is appealing to the police to find her husband’s killer. “We have heard nothing from the police yet. I have no idea why someone would do this. I...
View ArticleGrande man gunned down
Police are investigating the murder of 20-year-old Korie Joseph, who was found dead along North Road Eastern Settlement, Sangre Grande, on Wednesday night. Police said he was killed sometime around...
View ArticleMan chopped to death during fight over woman
A 62-year-old man was killed during an argument with a 58-year-old relative at their La Horquetta home yesterday. Stephen Vialva’s relative is now under police guard at hospital after being taken there...
View ArticleBakery owner beaten, robbed of $20,000
A 35-year-old Freeport bakery owner was held up yesterday and robbed at gunpoint. The incident occurred shortly after midday at her San Francisco Lane Settlement home, which also houses her...
View ArticleCops probe murder in Grande
A shooting in Sangre Grande has left one man dead and his female friend in hospital. According to police reports, Dale Gabriel, 28, died early Saturday morning after a masked gunman attacked the pair...
View ArticleMen accused of robbing magistrate denied bail
Two men charged with robbing Senior Magistrate Ejenny Espinet of her Tucson SUV last Thursday were denied bail yesterday when they appeared before an Arima magistrate. Samuel Ferreira, 23, of Toussaint...
View ArticleSuspended cop held with truck full of stolen UWI material
A suspended police constable was arrested yesterday, after being found driving a truckload of stolen building material. According to reports, around 2 am yesterday, PC Moses and a party of officers...
View ArticleTwo more murders take toll to 177
A celebration of birth took a drastic turn for the worse on Saturday night. Nigel Maloney, 37, was gunned down while at a christening party at North Eastern Settlement around 9.45 pm. Police said...
View ArticleHOLDER, IONA
HOLDER, IONA of Brathwaite Street Belmont died on 13th October 2015. She was the wife of Wilfred Edmund Holder (deceased). Mother of Errol Holder, Kenwyn (William) Holder, Garth (Roy) Holder, Esmee Mc...
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