Take brutality complaints to PCA
Sea Lots residents are being advised to report any incidents of police brutality they may have experienced during Monday’s raid to the Police Complaints Authority (PCA).Residents claimed that the...
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Prison Riot in Golden Grove
Members of the Prison Service are trying to contain a riot going on in the remand yard of the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca. T&T Guardian spoke to a prison officer, who confirmed that at about 6 am...
View ArticleAssociation on attack: Slow pace of cases can cause stress
Secretary of the Prisons Officers Association, Gerard Gordon, yesterday said the slow pace of cases being heard and determined contributed to the volatile environment among remand prisoners. “This...
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Griffith: Police dropped the ball
Head of Special Branch Senior Supt Gary Gould said yesterday the investigator probing the discovery of marijuana at the prime minister’s property in 2013 would deal with whatever issue arose regarding...
View ArticleActing CoP on ganja at PM’s home: One month to complete probe
Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams has expressed concern that the matter involving the alleged discovery of five grammes of a plant-like material, believed to be marijuana, at the Philipine...
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Jack claims ganja find at PM’s home not first: ‘Tell the country who...
Independent Liberal Party leader Jack Warner has given Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar two weeks to reveal to the nation who “Christian” is before he does it himself. He made the challenge to...
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Dooks calls it a day from politics
Congress of the People founder and St Augustine MP Winston Dookeran yesterday bowed out of electoral politics, praising Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar but was critical of the COP, the party he...
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COP to fight 13 seats—Ramadhar
Leader of the Congress of the People (COP) Prakash Ramadhar says his party has no intention of diminishing its presence in the Government. Responding to questions about seat allocations for the...
View ArticleLawyer: Is Hart coming?
A letter has been sent to the attorney representing former executive chairman of the Urban Development Corporation of T&T (Udecott), Calder Hart, at the ongoing commission of enquiry into the Las...
View ArticleDrugs, guns seized after high-speed chase
Three children were among six people injured when a car being chased by police crashed into two vehicles in Siparia yesterday. Siparia CID officers seized 34 packets of high-grade marijuana and a...
View ArticleRowley wants Richardson out NOC
People’s National Movement leader Dr Keith Rowley has called on former Deputy Police Commissioner Mervyn Richardson to resign from his position at the National Operations Centre (NOC), following...
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Executed at cemetery entrance
Police are probing a phone call made to murder victim Simeon Gibbs Waldron less than an hour before he was executed at the Rambert Village Cemetery, San Fernando on Wednesday night. Waldron, 22, a...
View ArticleCops hunt teen who stabbed schoolmate
A male student of the Mason Hall Secondary School was warded at the Scarborough General Hospital in a satisfactory condition last night after he was allegedly stabbed yesterday by a schoolmate on the...
View ArticleWitness: Calder Hart chose consultants
Former Urban Development Corporation of T&T (Udecott) CEO, Winston Agard, yesterday testified while some contracts for consulting services awarded by the corporation went through a formal process,...
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Caricom help needed to set up drug courts
In an attempt to rehabilitate minor, non-violent substance abusers across the region, Chief Justice Ivor Archie is looking to Caricom to support a Caribbean Drug Treatment Court Association. This is to...
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Executed at cemetery entrance
Police are probing a phone call made to murder victim Simeon Gibbs Waldron less than an hour before he was executed at the Rambert Village Cemetery, San Fernando, on Wednesday night.Waldron, 22, a...
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Hinds on alleged drug find: Was it black sage, green tea or ganja?
Piggott’s Corner in Belmont was hot Wednesday night. So hot that rain flies which flew into camera spotlights fried.Unfortunately with less than an enticing aroma than the smell of chicken ‘n chips...
View ArticleRowley tells Kamla: Say publicly that you don’t smoke
Former deputy police commissioner Mervyn Richardson who is accused of withholding information regarding a purported marijuana find at the Philippine home of the Prime Minister on April 12, 2013, says...
View ArticleSWRHA chairman: Delay in payment causes medical waste back-up
Chairman of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) Dr Lackram Bodoe said a back-up of medical waste at the San Fernando General Hospital had to do with a delay in payment to a contractor and...
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Kamla not culpable
Attorney Subhas Panday has taken aim at the deputy political leader of the UNC Dr Roodal Moonilal, accusing him and others in the Cabinet of “setting-up” Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar “to make...
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