By Camille Clarke
June 20, 2008
guardian.co.tt
Two teenage girls were rescued by the police after they were beaten, thrown into a cesspit and left to die yesterday, at Leslie Trace in Morvant.
The girls, SherryAnn Joseph, 18, and Shamila Hinds, 17, are being treated at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope.
Continue reading Teenage girls beaten; thrown into cesspit
By Richard Charan
Friday, June 13th 2008
MASKED men broke into the home of a young school teacher and shot her in the back when she tried to save herself.
And despite her blood and her tears, she was abducted, taken to an abandoned house and raped, sodomised and beaten.
Continue reading Masked men rape, shoot school teacher
3 officers accused of beating man to get pin number for ‘withdrawal’
Peter Christopher and Anna Ramdass
Wednesday, June 11th 2008
trinidadexpress.com
THE CAMERA of an automatic teller machine has caught three cops playing robbers.
Three police officers attached to the Tunapuna Police Station are now set to be charged with the robbery of a businessman and will face a Tunapuna magistrate following the completion of identification parades tomorrow.
Continue reading Cops in ATM Theft
Councillor to appear in court for indecent assault
A People’s National Movement (PNM) official is expected to appear in the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court today charged with three counts of indecent assault.
The suspect, who had been detained by police at the Sangre Grande Police Station since Sunday, is alleged to have assaulted a female soldier assigned to the United States Air Force, during a tour of the Toco area on June 3.
The officer had reported the incident to the US Embassy, which later took the allegations to the Sangre Grande Police Station.
Continue reading PNM councillor in court on sex charge
By Nalinee Seelal
Monday, June 9 2008
newsday.co.tt
A 25-year-old man and his baby son succumbed to their injuries after being shot several times while seated in a taxi at Picton Road, Laventille, on Saturday night.
Anthony Jones died at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital at about 11 pm, while his five-month-old son Zion, succumbed to gunshot injuries about 3 am yesterday at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.
Continue reading Dad, baby shot dead
By Raffique Shah
Sunday, June 8th 2008
WITH 27 years of writing columns under my belt-I once wrote two columns a week, but never scaled Keith Smith’s one-a-day heights-how well I recall sitting before a typewriter and pondering for hours: what topic shall I choose today? At this sordid point in our nation’s history, that question has reversed itself: what do I not write about? Which is a hell-of-a-dilemma: it’s a sign of the times we live in. So much to write about, so little space.
Continue reading Relieve rapists of their tongues
Teen arrested too
South Bureau
Tuesday, June 3rd 2008
Fifty-four-year-old Ricky Ali appeared in court yesterday, charged with the rape of an eight-year-old girl.
A neighbour, a 16-year-old schoolboy, was also charged with raping the girl on a separate date.
Both were refused bail when they appeared before Magistrate Ramraj Harripersad in the Mayaro Magistrates’ Court.
Continue reading Man, 54, charged with raping girl, 8
By Raffique Shah
June 01, 2008
For many decades Scandinavian countries-Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland-have ranked highest in the world in economic and social indices. Far from being endowed with an abundance of natural resources, these countries wisely used what little they had (except Norway, which became oil-rich in the 1970s) to develop societies that are at the upper spectrum of global rankings in just about every field. They rank among the top ten countries in income distribution (rich-poor gap), per capita gross national income (GNI), and several other globally accepted indicators of successful countries.
Continue reading Failed leadership, not a failed state
Sunil Ali (Photo Credit: newsday.co.tt)
Sunil Ali, the man charged with the murder of eight year old Hope Arismandez, has committed suicide in his cell at Remand Yard Prison, Port of Spain.
Continue reading Hope’s Killer Commits Suicide
By Rhondor Dowlat
Wednesday, May 28 2008
newsday.co.tt
EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Hope Arismandez is dead.
The little girl’s battered and bruised body was found in a canefield in the village of Petersfield, on the outskirts of Felicity, late last evening.
Hope was raped, buggered and stabbed to death. Her semi-nude body was left on a dirt road in the canefield, which runs parallel to Pierre Road, Charlieville.
Homicide detectives disclosed that there was a stab-wound to the anus and a knife was recovered from the canefield.
Continue reading Hope is Dead