Author: Rishard Khan

STUDENTS of the St Dominic RC Primary School often have to share washrooms with strangers, and the heads of the school’s Parent Teacher Council and the TT Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA) are flagging this as a major safety risk, amidst other issues plaguing the school’s population. Since 2017, students have been split between the Penal […]

For just over seven months, the Eagle Eye project has been working to help deter and detect crime, and stakeholders are focusing on expanding the network nationally. Although based primarily in North East and Eastern Trinidad, the joint project between the Greater Tunapuna Chamber of Industry and Commerce (GTCIC), the Tunapuna Police Station Community Council […]

The Bridal Road bridge in Cunupia is on schedule to reopen on September 16, according to Chaguanas East MP Vandana Mohit. Providing an update to Newsday, Mohit said she was informed there were some delays in repair works around 1 am on Sunday, but the work remained on schedule for completion. After being closed for […]

Police are investigating the circumstances which led to a 36-year-old man being chopped to death in Esperance Village, San Fernando on September 14. Police said they received a report of a suspected homicide around 6.40 am at Jim Street, Esperance Village. Around 7.30 am, PC Dehu and WPC Wharwood of the San Fernando police station […]

DESPITE recent showers, three of the four Water and Sewerage Authority’s (WASA) reservoirs remain significantly lower than they should be for the period (its long-term average or LTA). Acting WASA CEO Kelvin Romain told Newsday the reservoirs were not filling at the expected rate owing to low rainfall totals since the dry season. The Hillsborough […]

A MAN wanted in connection with outstanding homicide enquiries was killed in an early-morning shootout with South Western Division police in Point Fortin on August 26. Reports said five officers were on patrol and making enquiries in Point Fortin when, around 1.20 am, they spotted Kelon Branker, 24, of Vance River, Guapo, near a bar. […]

RELATIVES of Kaylee Poonan, 17, bid her farewell during her funeral on August 24, but leading her final rites, Pundit Atma Maharaj warned people against ascribing blame to anyone over her death. “An accident is just an accident, meaning that we can blame anyone. We can say what we want to say, (but) none of […]

PENAL Debe Regional Corporation chairman Gowtam Maharaj says the relevant authorities are working to clean up an oil spill in the South Oropouche River, but is warning the public to exercise caution near the waterway until it is completed. Maharaj told Newsday the spill was discovered in the river on August 23 near Ramrattan Maraj […]

A COUPLE had to seek medical treatment after they were beaten by 12 attackers who invaded their Penal home on the evening of August 24. Police said PC Rampersad and PC Nelson responded to a call at the couple’s Carlito Trace, Quarry Road, Morne Diablo, Rock Road home. The 25-year-old woman told the officers she […]

With the autopsies concluded, best friends Ryan Ramnanan and Sachen Teeluckdharry will be cremated alongside one another on Thursday after they died in a car accident on Sunday morning. Ramnanan’s mother, Soma, who described the friends as inseparable, had hoped for a joint send-off when Newsday spoke with her on August 5. She believed this […]