Author: Laurel V Williams

ONE man is dead and another wounded after a shooting in Esperanza Village, Couva, on the night of January 28. The dead man has been identified only as Stephan, from Couva. The police said the 22-year-old wounded man survived by hiding and pretending to be dead after being shot. The police were told the shooting […]

An unidentified man has been killed in a police-involved shooting in Claxton Bay on the night of January 23, making it the latest in a series of similar incidents in the past few days. The police also recovered an AR-15 rifle. Reports are that around 9 pm on January 23, Central Division Task Force (CDTF) […]

DESPITE the quick response from residents and firefighters to a house fire, the flames were too intense for them to rescue a pensioner on the morning of January 23 in Gasparillo. After the fire was extinguished, Hollister Hamilton, 79, was declared dead at the scene at Thompson Street Extension. He was wheelchair-bound and had an […]

On January 19, his last day in office, US President Joe Biden has granted five pardons, including one to Trinidad-born immigrant-rights activist Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir and another posthumously to Jamaican political activist Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who died in 1940. A media statement from the White House on January 19, titled Statement from President Joe Biden […]

The country has recorded its second double homicide for the year after the overnight shooting deaths of a teenager and a 53-year-old man in Belmont. Initial reports say Steven Chunesingh, 19, and Thomas Jones died at the scene on Collins Road around midnight on Sunday. Residents heard gunshots and later found one victim outside a […]

A SERIES of strategic operations in the Southern Division on January 17 has led to the arrest of 13 people for various offences, including kidnappings and robberies. A police statement on January 18 said the exercises were part of a co-ordinated initiative under the state of emergency (SoE) operations, targeting priority offenders. It was aimed […]

Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) president Martin Lum Kin says videos circulating on social media showing an encounter between a teacher and a student from Moruga Secondary School do not represent the entire incident and can be misconstrued. The teacher and student Newsday understands are recuperating at home after a violent altercation broke […]

OWING to ongoing repairs at St John’s Anglican Primary School, San Fernando, classes have been temporarily relocated to a church. Newsday learned that leading up to the reopening of the school term, parents were told repairs were still ongoing, and the school was deemed unfit for use. About 135 students are affected. Parents say the […]

TWO additional religious organisations have condemned recent acts of hate, violence and desecration, urging swift action from the authorities. Separate media statements on January 7 from the Anjuman Sunnat ul Jamaat Association Inc (ASJA) and the Ifa/Orisa Council of Trinidad and Tobago (IOCTT) strongly condemned the contents of several online videos which target various religious […]

MORE than five years after a man allegedly forced his way into a house and raped a child who was getting ready for school, police from the Special Victims Department of the South Western Division have arrested him. The officers arrested the 42-year-old industrial firefighter in the South Oropouche district on January 7. The offence […]