Author: Laurel V Williams

SOUTHERN Division police arrested a 30-year-old man from St Mary’s Village in Moruga on August 22 for having a gun and ammunition. The suspect, from White Trace, is one of two people held in an anti-crime exercise between 10 am and 1 pm to address recent violent crimes in the area. A police statement on […]

THE 35-year-old man charged with the murder of retired principal James Gajadhar from Rio Claro, has been sent to the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital for an evaluation. On August 23, Dorian Lewis appeared before master Shabaana Shah in the South B High Court. She denied bail and remanded him into custody. A police statement said […]

PENAL police who responded to a report of a house fire on the evening of August 22 found the badly decomposed body of the 55-year-old owner. Farmer Telfer Agard, of Lammie Trace in Morne Diablo, would have turned 56 in December. The wooden shack, which did not have electricity, and its contents were completely destroyed. […]

A Master in the High Court has granted $60,000 surety bail to a 21-year-old man charged with six counts of robbery. Jameel Mills, of Calcutta No 3, Mc Bean Village in Couva, faced master Shabiki Cazabon on August 15, charged with five counts of robbery with aggravation and one count of robbery with violence. As […]

CENTRAL Division police arrested 13 people, including ten Venezuelans, in an anti-crime exercise on August 8. A media statement on August 9 said officers searched several drug hotspots in the Couva and Freeport districts between 3 pm and 8 pm. While searching an abandoned building at Soobran Street, Dow Village in California, they found the […]

THE Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) has rejected reports alleging that it is asking its returning officers to declare their political allegiance. The EBC made this comment in a statement on August 7, hours after the Prime Minister raised questions about this matter. The commission said its chairman, Mark Ramkerrysingh, addressed a question about the […]

Ahead of the general election constitutionally due next year, media practitioners and aspiring media workers on August 6 got some tips on enhancing election coverage at a workshop in Westmoorings. The event, Enhancing Ethical and Effective Election Coverage, was hosted courtesy a collaboration between the Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC), the British High Commission […]

Ste Madeleine police are searching for two men who robbed a man at gunpoint at his workplace over the weekend. The police said the victim, 32, was working at a tyre shop in St Charles Village, Princes Town, around 6 pm on August 3 when two men accosted him and announced a robbery. One pointed […]