Author: Sean Douglas

MURDERED attorney Randall Hector expressed his abhorrence for the spate of violence crime now taking place in TT, in an address he gave from the podium of the SDA church at Stanmore Avenue, Port of Spain, moments before being slain by gunmen mere feet away from the church he had just left with his family. […]

ATTORNEY Israel Khan, head of the Criminal Bar Association, said the Government should have let the police move stealthily against criminals before publicly declaring a state of emergency (SoE), but had instead tipped off the miscreants who could now easily hide their illegal firearms. He spoke to Newsday on December 31, the day after the […]

THE Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) has expressed its support for the Government’s state of emergency (SoE) enacted to curb the upsurge in violent crime. The SoE empowers the police (and defence force) to carry out searches without warrants, to detain suspects for 48 hours in the first instance and to restrict […]

ROMAN Catholic Archbishop of Port of Spain Jason Gordon urged everyone to forgive family members who offended them in the past, as a way to improve all of their lives and the condition of TT. He urged this be done for the jubilee year of 2025, the launch of which he celebrated by a holy […]

OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar mourned the passing of former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, 92, who died on December 26. “As a former Prime Minister and current Leader of the Opposition, I extend my heartfelt condolences to the government and people of India on the passing of the Honourable. Manmohan Singh former Prime Minister of […]

THE Prime Minister said he was “very disappointed” at the country’s rate of violent crime, as the year’s murders were reportedly at 615 people as of December 27. In a post on Facebook in the early hours of that day, Dr Rowley called for more action by the police, judges and the family members of […]

THE Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is urging firework users to be careful of causing property damage and to be considerate of vulnerable people and animals. The commission urged people who use fireworks to celebrate the holiday season safely, in a statement on December 27. “Fireworks and fire lanterns (also known as sky lanterns) […]

MEMBERS of the three-person team named to investigate the tragic death of Minister in the Ministry of Education Lisa Morris-Julian and her two children have worked through the weekend and more, as they seek to meet a two-week deadline set by Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds. The D’Abadie/O’Meara MP and former Arima mayor died […]

COUNCILLORS and aldermen of the Arima Borough Council on December 19 led mourners in signing a condolence book to honour deceased MP Lisa Morris-Julian opened that morning at the council headquarters at O’Meara in Arima. About 70 people had signed up until midday. Morris-Julian, 48, and two of her children Xianne, 25, and six-year-old Jesiah […]

WHILE 102 individuals have been identified as victims of human trafficking in Trinidad and Tobago, one person has been convicted on this heinous criminal activity, learnt a forum to mark Human Rights Day held on December 10 at the Brix Hotel, Cascadia. It was hosted by the UNHCR and the Counter Trafficking Unit (CTU) of […]