Author: Laurel V Williams

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 […]

QUESTION: Is Stuart Young a good choice to be PM/PNM leader? What are your views on how he was chosen? Joemin James, Princes Town: I think he could lead the party the right way. As long as he is open-minded to the public, he would be okay. Kayleb Joseph, Claxton Bay: He still has a […]

AN elderly woman, who was beaten by a close male relative over the weekend in Chaguanas, has died in hospital. The police confirmed that Gangadaye Manichan, 81, of Endeavour, died on January 6 at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope. The relative appeared before a master in the High Court on January […]

HOMICIDE Bureau of Investigations police have been instructed to charge a 38-year-old man with the murder of a Marabella resident in November 2024. On January 6, after reviewing a file, the deputy director of public prosecutions, Sabrina Dougdeen-Jaglal, advised Region Three homicide investigators to charge Nickel Joseph of Sunset Drive Plaisance Park in Pointe-a-Pierre. The […]

The sister of Christine Chadee, the 32-year-old mother fighting for her life in the hospital after a violent attack on December 27, expressed sadness after the death of the suspected attacker, Arnold Ganesh. She recalled the moment she learned of his passing: “I started to cry when I heard he passed. It was sad. I […]