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NOT THE FIRST TIME
Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2016
NOT THE FIRST TIME
THROUGH tears of shame, two sisters aged nine and 14, yesterday told police that when they were rescued on Tuesday by police, as a man was sexually assaulting inside his heavily tinted van, this was not the first time he had sexually abused them.
Appeal for parents to be vigilant
Govt hints at change to Marriage Act
At present, TT has the Hindu Marriage Act; the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act; the Orisha Marriage Act and the Marriage Act, which governs the age persons can get married from the various main religious faiths and via common law.
It is legal rape
Head of the country's Roman Catholic faithful, Archbishop of Portof- Spain Joseph Harris, yesterday described child marriages as legalised statutory rape.
Faith bodies blast IRO boss' child marriage claim
No consensus, says Archbishop
Senator: Can homeless get Food Cards?
Labour laws cannot prevent job losses says ILO rep
Inevitable feature of economies
Former steel workers access $13M UTC savings plan
China wants TT backing on South China Sea
AS PART of its ongoing international blitz to lobby countries to back it, China yesterday called on Trinidad and Tobago to "stand with righteousness" and support its claim to territories in the South China Sea.
Confused fines for speeding
WHILE police yesterday indicated that there was an increase in the maximum penalty from $4,000 to $6,000 that a court can impose on a driver for speeding, Works and Transport Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said this is not the case.
SWRHA CEO Gosine gets the axe
South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) chief executive officer Anil Gosine has been fired.
Hospital being blamed for infant's death
The family of four-year-old Keimel Jacob, who died five weeks after fire claimed his home and the life of his baby sister, is demanding an investigation into his death at San Fernando General Hospital.
Couva Chamber calls for State of Emergency
Rape suspect found hanging
A 25-YEAR-OLD man who police said was a suspect in the rape of a 45-year-old female taxi driver, was found hanging from a tree near his Oropune Gardens, Piarco home
Cops seek to ID woman found with head bashed in
Police up to late last night were trying to identify the body of a middle-aged woman who was found yesterday with her head bashed in an agricultural road in Debe.
Tobago teen raped by step-dad
A 15-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl of Scarborough in Tobago has reported to Scarborough police that she was a victim of rape by her stepfather on April 23.
Human skull found in Lopinot
A HUMAN skull which was found in a bamboo patch and placed in the yard of a Lopinot resident was yesterday handed over to officers of the Northern Division.
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