Category Archives: Crime in T&T

Abortion, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Media, Politics

Challenge abortion laws

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By Miranda La Rose
Saturday, May 7 2016 – newsday.co.tt

AbortionIT WOULD be interesting, if on the issue of abortion, local lawyers were bold enough to challenge existing prohibitions against this to see if this ban may actually infringe upon an individual’s right to life and right to liberty, High Court Judge, Justice Frank Seepersad says.

Seepersad, who delivered the main address on Thursday at a conference on ‘Making of the Indian Constitution’, at the School of Education, University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, noted the laws in the famous United States case of Roe versus Wade (1973) had been challenged on the right to abortion, and the Supreme Court considered that abortion was a fundamental right.
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Abortion, Crime in T&T, Gender, General T&T, Health, Law, Media, PNM, Politics, Sex

Call for new look at abortion laws

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By Geisha Kowlessar
May 05, 2016 – guardian.co.tt

AbortionAmid increased calls to legalise abortions which have been sanctioned by former health minister Dr Fuad Khan and advisory director of the Family Planning Association Dr Jacqueline Sharpe, Roman Catholic priest Father Clyde Harvey, however, said T&T must build a society where life was respected even in the most difficult of circumstances, including abnormalities.
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Crime in T&T, Drug Trade, Editorial, General T&T, Law, Media, PNM, Politics, Violence

Deal with it, Dr Rowley

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Newsday Editorial
Wednesday, May 4 2016 – newsday.co.tt

MarijuanaRONALD RAMDASS, 50, had been here before. As he stood in the dock of the San Fernando Magistrates Court, he weighed his legal options. The magistrate, Brahmanand Dubay, read out the charge: possession of marijuana. It was a charge with which Ramdass was all too familiar. According to court officials, he had more than 20 convictions for larceny and drug offences.
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Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Police, Violence

All ah we dead

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By Raffique Shah
April 29, 2016

Raffique ShahI had planned not to address crime in my columns, to waste valuable newspaper space on an issue that, while it grows grimmer by the day, is seemingly intractable.

When last I tackled it, I admitted to have become inured to the barbarism into which the nation has descended. Decapitation, mutilation, suffocation and now on-the-spot cremation no longer shock me.
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Abortion, General T&T, Health, Media, Politics, Sex Crimes

Abortion a matter of public interest

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Newsday Editorial
Monday, April 25 2016 – newsday.co.tt

AbortionWHEN things get tough, Governments always turn to the usual scapegoats. The remarks of Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh are a classic case of shooting the messenger.

But this tack damages democracy as much as it undermines the credibility of the Government.
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Abortion, General T&T, Health, Media, Sex, Sex Crimes

Doctor under investigation for abortion

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By Azard Ali
April 18, 2016 – newsday.co.tt

AbortionA CENTRAL Trinidad doctor is being investigated by police for performing an abortion on a 16-year-old girl. Detectives from the Chaguanas CID said the doctor is facing imminent arrest as Section 56 of the Offences Against the Persons Act, states a person is guilty of an indictable offence if he or she uses an instrument to procure the miscarriage of any woman.
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Crime in T&T, General T&T, Police, Violence

DEAL WITH MURDERS

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By Nalinee Seelal
March 03, 2016 – newsday.co.tt

TIM KEE MUST GO!ACTING Commissioner of Police (CoP) Stephen Williams has called on divisional heads to deal with the rising incidence of murders which up to press time yesterday, stood at 86 so far for the year. The top cop’s call to his divisional commanders came after he and executive members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) held a meeting on Tuesday with Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon at Police Administration Building in Portof- Spain.

Newsday was told by senior police sources that Commissioner Williams yesterday mandated all divisional commanders, Police Secton heads and task force units to put together a ‘priority offenders list’ and target persons, who according to intel, have been engaging in continuous criminal activities.
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Crime in T&T, General T&T, Media, Murder, Violence

BULLETS FOR SCHOOLBOYS

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By Nalinee Seelal
February 25 2016 – newsday.co.tt

TIM KEE MUST GO!TWO teenaged schoolboys were shot dead in a lonely, bushy track off St John’s Road in St Augustine on Tuesday afternoon in an incident police investigators say was linked to a drug deal which had gone sour.

The victims have been identified as Daniel Hall, 16, of Tunapuna and Stephan Singh, 17, of Enterprise, Chaguanas. Hall was a Form Four student of the Aranjuez North Secondary School and school officials confirmed that he had attended classes on Tuesday prior to being murdered. Singh sources said, attended the St Augustine Secondary School.
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Crime in T&T, Domestic Violence, General T&T, Police, Violence

Acid attack: mom warns women to leave abusive relationships

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By Carolyn Kissoon
February 24, 2016 – trinidadexpress.com

Rachael ChadeeTHE mother of Rachael Cha­dee, who was doused with acid by an ex-lover, has appealed to young women in abusive relationships to walk away.

Leela Chadee, who was also attacked by the man, said too many women return to relationship like this, hoping the person would change.
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