Girl, 12, critical after rape
A 12-year-old schoolgirl is fighting for her life at the San Fernando General Hospital after she was allegedly tied up and sexually assaulted by two masked men at her Rio Claro home yesterday morning. Police report the men also stuffed a melongene into her body and left her for dead.
Genes and licks linked to murders
Psychologists weigh in on growing violence
“He is most likely not a psychopath, based on the initial report. This is a crime of passion. It is situational. It is not a personality characteristic,” said psychologist Courtney Boxill.
“A psychopath is somebody who commits heinous crimes and his conscience does not bother him, and further more he does not care about the punishment that he may face in the future.”
Santa Cruz Murder
Rural haven becomes deathbed
Scalping suspect surrenders
A man who allegedly chopped and scalped the boyfriend of his former common law wife surrendered to the police at the St Clair office of attorney Jagdeo Singh last night.
Daughter stabbed to death
…Morvant mom wants justice
Chopping suspect caught
Teen remains warded at hospital
Four days after a man allegedly chopped a 15-year-old girl and beat her nine-year-old brother, a 47-year-old suspect has been arrested by police…
Relatives worry as killers still at large
85-year-old San Juan woman found dead
Pistol and ammo missing from Police Headquarters
Gun Missing
Cops’ homes raided for firearm and ammo stolen from Police Headquarters
Cops hunt cops
Search warrants have been executed on the homes of several police officers in relation to the disappearance of a .38 revolver and 25 rounds of ammunition from the Police Administration Building, in Port-of-Spain on Saturday.
Car-stealing suspect shot dead by cops
Finally, people in Trinidad and Tobago are beginning to link corporal punishment (licks) in the home and school, to the violent society we have created. For years, informed people have been saying this, myself included, while Professor Deosaran advocated a return to licks, and others call for the return of the CAT for criminals.
I have made the point before, that wherever children and adults are physically beaten in an attempt to change behaviour, is a society where slavery was rampant. They publicly flog in Pakistan and India as well as Singapore. They learned it from the British as we did. I hope the low point that our society has reached in terms of crime, will give rise to more serious thought as to how to combat crime, and how to raise kind caring children into non-violent adults. If a child lives with hate he learns to hate. If he lives with hitting, he waits until he is old enough, big enough, to hit back. This research is old.