Author: Gregory Mc Burnie
POLICE arrested three people in Sea Lots after they found a gun in a drawer next to a Bible. The arrests were part of state of emergency (SoE) exercises in Port of Spain, Morvant, Couva and Freeport on January 5 and 6. In a media release on January 6, police said officers from the Morvant […]
POLICE have dismissed conspiracy claims that the assassination of special prosecutor Randall Hector was linked to his previous role with the Strategic Services Agency (SSA). Hector, 43, was shot dead in front of his wife and children, minutes after leaving the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Stanmore Avenue in Port of Spain on December 31. He […]
POLITICAL leader of the National Transformation Alliance (NTA) Gary Griffith offered rare words of praise for Dr Rowley after his announcement that he will resign as Prime Minister before the end of the legal limit of his current term. Griffith has been one of Rowley’s fiercest critics after his stint as police commissioner (CoP) ended […]
POLICE arrested two minors and seized a gun, ammunition and marijuana in three separate SoE exercises in St James, Maraval and Arima on January 2. In the first incident, police led by Snr Supt Thom, Supts Nicholls and Jankie, ASP Mohammed, Insp Durga and Insp Joseph searched houses at Perigod Road, Long Circular and Mango […]
A Cocorite man was attacked and robbed by three men while walking in St James on December 30. The 23-year-old victim was walking along Patna Street around 4 pm when a man called out to him. The victim began walking faster, but was hit in the back of the head when he reached the corner […]
POLICE arrested two men who were found with guns in Diego Martin and Arima during late-night and early-morning exercises on December 30 and 31. In the first incident, officers from the Western Division Gang and Intelligence Unit and West End CID, led by acting Snr Supt Williams and ASP Lynch, went to Adams Road in […]
The Prime Minister says his government will not support any plans by the US to place troops in Trinidad and Tobago in the event of a conflict in Venezuela. He emphasised this repeatedly at a post-cabinet media briefing on December 12, at which he berated the Newsday for its article titled “Government signs agreement as […]
POLICE have identified one of two bodies found 24 hours apart in Caura and El Dorado as Jaquan Alleyne, 25. Around 8.30 am on December 3, a group of Cepep employees were doing roadside work at Caura Royal Road when they saw Alleyne’s body at the bottom of a ten-foot precipice at the side of […]
A 29-year-old Oropune man has survived after he was shot outside his Piarco workplace several times. The man, a labourer at Brandon’s Auto, was leaving work at around 8.30 pm on December 2, when he heard gunshots and ran inside. The victim has gunshot injuries to his lower and upper left leg, left buttocks, rear […]
NAPARIMA MP Rodney Charles has labelled the Prime Minister’s meeting with members of the US congress on November 30 as “a glamorous photo-op” which he says will have little impact on US-Caricom relations. Dr Rowley and other regional leaders met with a bipartisan US Congressional delegation in Barbados. The delegation was led by US Democratic […]