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No bail for accused in Tobago murder attempt
Posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Murium heads back home
...but husband remains at Mt Hope

AFTER being severely chopped by a man wielding a machete, 59-year-old British citizen, Murium Greene, is on her way back home.

No bail for accused in Tobago murder attempt

Anger erupts in Argyle
Family, residents claim police arrested wrong person...

Protestors: Free Clint
Even as Clint Alexis appeared before a Scarborough magistrate on charges of attempting to murder British couple Peter and Murium Greene, scores of relatives and residents of his village in Argyle, Tobago, staged a heated protest over his innocence.

East under water

Central village fears being cut off

East flood out
RESIDENTS and businessmen from several areas in East Trinidad particularly St Augustine, Tunapuna, Macoya and Curepe spent most of yesterday cleaning mud and water from their homes and businesses after several hours of rainfall caused major flooding in these areas.

Woman dies of snake bite after floods hit Rio Claro
As residents of Rio Claro and Mayaro fought rising floods waters last night came news of the death of a villager, bitten by one of the most venomous snakes in the country.

Gypsy visits flood-ravaged families

Warner to the rescue
...MP gives $309,000 to rehire retrenched Chaguanas workers

Jack shells out $.3M
CHAGUANAS West MP Jack Warner is many things to many people. But for the 54 contract workers of the Chaguanas Borough Corporation, who were sent home recently after the corporation ran out of money to pay them, he is nothing short of a fairy godfather.

Bas should donate London $$
Jack hits back:

Chamber joins Philbert in call for 'zero tolerance'
Following an investigation into the discovery of a cache of weapons and narcotics at the St Joseph Police Station, Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert hopes to remove the criminal elements responsible for the illegal items.

Time for an executive president
PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning, at a political meeting in Pt Fortin last night, said the time has come for a review of the role and functions of the President, as he made a new pitch for an executive president as outlined in the working document on constitutional reform.

Probe into gun find at St Joseph Police Station
Forty police officers ranging in rank from Inspector to Constable will take up duty at various police stations along the East-west Corridor today after being transferred from the St Joseph Police Station.

St Joseph shocker
WE were shocked by the recent discovery of drugs and firearms in the ceiling of the St Joseph Police Station. It's absolutely scandalous. Reports are that officers of the Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU) unearthed cocaine, marijuana and six firearms including a home-made shotgun and a Beretta pistol.

Murder accused: I paid cops to escape

Cop paid to allow escape
A MAN yesterday told a Princes Town magistrate, before whom he appeared charged with escaping lawful custody, that he paid a policeman to be allowed to escape and that this officer now wants him dead.

'Salty' gunned down
A 25-YEAR-OLD Chaguanas man was gunned down, during the early morning hours yesterday, while liming at a bar located a stone's throw away from the Chaguanas Police Station and Chaguanas Magistrates' Court.

...'Lured to his death'

Man to appear in court for sexually assaulting guard

Clear and present danger
Even as statistics from his own office show steady economic contraction, Central Bank governor Ewart Williams has asserted that Trinidad and Tobago is not in a recession. Instead, the governor has preferred to describe the country as experiencing a "deep slowdown'' and even gone so far to say that the internationally accepted definition of a recession-two consecutive quarters of falling GDP-may not be applicable to the T&T economy. This position is not untenable, but there are two problems with Mr Williams making such a case now.



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