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BULLY COPS
Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2014

BULLY COPS
A FIRESTORM of condemnation has been levelled at two police officers - from within their own ranks and from the general public - after they brutally assaulted a disabled man who sat in a wheelchair

Mixed views after viral video shows officers beating disabled man

COPS A DISGRACE
Caught on camera abusing disabled man in wheelchair

Griffith on disabled abuse case: Guilty parties much face the law

Police welfare body calls for swift action
THE two police officers who were caught on camera abusing a wheelchair-bound man should be immediately suspended.

Bodies found in Indonesian waters where plane disappeared
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) - Bloated bodies and debris seen floating in Indonesian waters Tuesday painfully ended the mystery of AirAsia Flight 8501

Stranded diplomats rescued on hike
The nine hikers rescued, after being stranded over the weekend at Paria Bay along Trinidad's North Coast, are members of the diplomatic corps, officials said yesterday

...GPS coming for tour guides

Las Cuevas fishermen appeal to PM for help
...to assist them "expeditiously" in buying new boats, engines and nets to replace those lost or damaged by rough seas over the weekend.

Drug suspects lost at sea, or hiding on land
Police officers are uncertain as to whether two men who on Sunday ditched a pirogue loaded with marijuana by diving into the sea are alive or have drowned.

Govt cuts $410M MP fund
THE People's Partnership (PP) Government will not be proceeding to implement the $410 million Constituency Development Fund (CDF) next year.

Ministry probes 'Merry Christmas' posters on highway
THE Ministry of Works and Infrastructure is investigating whether the billboards bearing "Merry Christmas" posters of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar were legally constructed.

Roget: Warning shot
Petrotrin retirees protest again

De La Rue chose mas image for new TT $50 bill
The designer of the new TT$50 note, Stephen Pond, says the images used, including the picture of the female masquerader in an award-winning costume, represented the "essence" of the country

Panorama 2015 starts January 16

Prakash: Hanging necessary
MINISTER of Legal Affairs Prakash Ramadhar - who was once a defence attorney for infamous criminal Dole Chadee who was hanged in 1996 – yesterday said he has changed his view of capital punishment over the years

Rajaee Ali getting special treatment
Prison officers fed up:

Mini-mart owner granted bail for cocaine
A 59-year-old mini-mart owner charged with possession of 10 grammes of cocaine two days before Christmas was yesterday granted $80,000 surety bail.

Baby dead, mother critical after accident
Despite his mother's efforts to shield his tiny body with her own, three-year-old Ravendra Gattoo was killed instantly

Lambeau man charged with pensioner's murder
Kasey Bruce, 29, of Lambeau Tobago, appeared before a Scarborough Magistrates' Court yesterday, charged with the murder of 65-year-old Sylvert Edwards, of Carnbee Tobago.

'Think like a lady' and grant bail to his pregnant associate
A 24-year-old murder accused yesterday pleaded with Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar

No St Ann's for defendant
...Magistrate does not trust hospital's security

Alexander faces escape charges
Almost a year after he escaped from the Mayaro Magistrate's Court, Azmon Alexander re-appeared in the court yesterday handcuffed and heavily guarded by armed policemen



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