Author: Jada Loutoo

A man from Morne Diablo in South Trinidad, accused of robbing, abducting and falsely imprisoning a man during a carjacking in 2010, has been acquitted by a High Court judge. Clinton Roger Martin was found not guilty by Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds who delivered her verdict in his judge-only trial on September 30. Martin was accused […]

A tribunal of the Office of Procurement Regulation (OPR) has suspended the award of a multi-million contract for the Ministry of Works and Transport’s Valsayn Avenue Bridge project to Maraj Hill General Contractors Company Ltd. On September 25, a panel comprising Sparkle Selman, David Charlerie and Joy Joseph-Lara ordered the suspension of the project until […]

A HIGH COURT judge has granted an injunction which effectively prevents the publication of proceedings involving ex-PNM senator Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing and her estranged husband Daren Lee Sing. Justice Allison Ramkerrysingh issued the order on September 27. The injunction was granted ex-parte to Lezama-Lee Sing, who applied for it on Friday, against her husband. It […]

AN ex-prison officer convicted earlier this week of smuggling marijuana into the prison has been spared a jail term. Visham Maharaj, 56, was fined $13,000 by Magistrate Avion Gill. He will serve two years simple imprisonment in default. Maharaj was before Gill charged with two counts of possession of 386.3 grammes of marijuana which he […]

A HIGH COURT judge has ordered the Minister of National Security to reconsider a Pakistani woman’s permanent residency application made more than a decade ago. Justice Devindra Rampersad also ordered the Chief Immigration Officer to reconsider the woman and her husband’s appeal of a 2020 deportation order against them. After granting several declarations in favour […]

The State has agreed to compensate an ex-prisoner who suffered burns after slipping on wet tiles at the Port of Spain prison in 2019. Steffon Samuel, who worked in the prison’s kitchen, will receive $85,500 in damages. The State will also pay his legal costs. He was represented by attorneys Joseph Sookoo and Abigail Roach […]

THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has discontinued an illegal entry charge against Yasmany Garcia Rodriguez, more commonly known by his social-media username Cuban Boy, because of a lack of evidence. Rodriguez appeared before Magistrate Kerianne Byer on September 25, when the notice of discontinuance, signed by acting DPP Sabrina Dougdeen-Jaglal on […]

THREE officers have been cleared of a 17-year-old robbery charge against them. Cpl Bobby Noyan and PCs Vijay Balkissoon and Marlon Thomas were discharged by acting Chief Magistrate Christine Charles on the charge that alleged they robbed a Couva man of $300 on November 23, 2006. It was alleged the three intercepted the man’s car […]

CENTRAL Division police arrested three larceny suspects and recovered $85,000 of stolen items on September 23, a release from the police service said. The release said officers of the Couva Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Couva charge room held an anti-crime exercise in the district and arrested three men from the Carli Bay area […]

GOVERNMENT senator Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing has “categorically and emphatically,” said she is not “ capable of such a horrendous act” alluded to by the public after an interim court order was made public on September 24. Her attorneys have since issued a pre-action protocol letter to social media blogger Rhoda Bharath for her publication of […]