Author: Laurel V Williams

A 21-YEAR-OLD security guard from Point Fortin was robbed at gunpoint on October 21 by two men pretending to be interested in getting a job. The police said the incident happened around 7 pm when the victim, who is employed with Innovative Security Services Ltd, had just finished work. He was walking along the Southern […]

A MANHUNT is underway for the people who shot and wounded a 30-year-old policewoman outside her home in Caroni early on October 22. WPC Quianna Mahabir was at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mount Hope, up to midday. She was reportedly hit on the head in the driver’s seat of her car. A […]

THE file into the circumstances surrounding the death of form four student, Jayden Lalchan, 15, has not yet been sent to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) as of the afternoon of October 21. Southern Division police did not divulge details, saying the investigation was sensitive and active. However, they confirmed that […]

Penal police are searching for a gunman who shot a 34-year-old resident in the chest at a construction site on October 16. The police said the shooting happened around 10.50 am at Sunrees Branch Road. The victim was on site when a gunman, dressed in an orange coverall and black ski mask, approached and shot […]

Las Lomas murder victim Isabella Megan Teelucksingh would have turned 16 on October 7, and her family is planning a vigil to mark the occasion. “It would have been her sweet 16. She will always be 15 to us, and the family is trying to adapt and cope with the loss. We want to keep […]

WITH Linx services unavailable as of September 16 at the Board of Inland Revenue – to make property-tax payments, among others – bandits are targeting homeowners who are withdrawing cash for that purpose. Acting Supt Edmund Cumberbatch of the South Western Division made this comment on September 19, adding that the police have increased security […]

POLICE from the Southern and South Western Divisions are searching for three men who abducted and robbed a 42-year-old man in La Romaine on September 17. The man was released within minutes, and the company van he was using was later found intact in La Brea. The police said around 5.50 am on September 17, […]

TWO weeks after a rat infestation at the Palmyra Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) Hindu School shut down classes, permission has been given for the school’s physical reopening. A media release on September 17 from SDMS secretary general Vijay Maharaj said the Office of the County Medical Officer of Health, County Victoria, had given permission […]

A Venezuelan man, believed to be the prime suspect in a murder in Cunupia, has been detained in his home country. Commissioner Jackson “Sagaz” London announced the arrest at a press conference in Tucupita over the weekend. The suspect, known by his alias “Goyo,” was held at his home on Miranda Street in the Delta […]

A 14-year-old girl and her one-year-old baby from Point Fortin have been reported missing, and the police are calling on the public for help in finding them. Linel Noel and her son, Kayleb Noel, were last seen on September 9 at the family’s home at Warden Road in Fanny Village. Newsday learnt that Noel argued […]