Teen arrested too
South Bureau
Tuesday, June 3rd 2008
Fifty-four-year-old Ricky Ali appeared in court yesterday, charged with the rape of an eight-year-old girl.
A neighbour, a 16-year-old schoolboy, was also charged with raping the girl on a separate date.
Both were refused bail when they appeared before Magistrate Ramraj Harripersad in the Mayaro Magistrates’ Court.
Continue reading Man, 54, charged with raping girl, 8
By Raffique Shah
June 01, 2008
For many decades Scandinavian countries-Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland-have ranked highest in the world in economic and social indices. Far from being endowed with an abundance of natural resources, these countries wisely used what little they had (except Norway, which became oil-rich in the 1970s) to develop societies that are at the upper spectrum of global rankings in just about every field. They rank among the top ten countries in income distribution (rich-poor gap), per capita gross national income (GNI), and several other globally accepted indicators of successful countries.
Continue reading Failed leadership, not a failed state
Sunil Ali (Photo Credit: newsday.co.tt)
Sunil Ali, the man charged with the murder of eight year old Hope Arismandez, has committed suicide in his cell at Remand Yard Prison, Port of Spain.
Continue reading Hope’s Killer Commits Suicide
By Rhondor Dowlat
Wednesday, May 28 2008
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EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Hope Arismandez is dead.
The little girl’s battered and bruised body was found in a canefield in the village of Petersfield, on the outskirts of Felicity, late last evening.
Hope was raped, buggered and stabbed to death. Her semi-nude body was left on a dirt road in the canefield, which runs parallel to Pierre Road, Charlieville.
Homicide detectives disclosed that there was a stab-wound to the anus and a knife was recovered from the canefield.
Continue reading Hope is Dead
By Raffique Shah
May 25, 2008
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; for him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power, and pelf, the wretch, concentered all in self”
TWO Trinidadians and four Venezuelans were yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for trafficking cocaine in what the trial judge said was the “largest amount to ever pass through the courts of Trinidad and Tobago.”
Justice Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, presiding in the Port-of-Spain Third Criminal Court, took her time, more than an hour, as she sent the six guilty people to serve lengthy prison sentences for trafficking 1,749 kilos of cocaine at Monos Island on August 23, 2005.
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‘Escape of big fish alarming’
JUSTICE Alice Yorke Soo-Hon yesterday questioned why the main house at Passy Bay, Monos Island, was not searched following the August 25, 2005 drug bust which netted $700 million in cocaine.
Continue reading Monos Island drug trial: Six to serve life in jail
$80,000 bail for woman charged with having sex with teen boy
By Nikita Braxton
Tuesday, May 6th 2008
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog
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A woman, charged with having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old boy without his consent, was yesterday granted $80,000 bail and ordered to stay 100 feet away from the young man.
Reshmi Dipnarine, 21, of Calcutta Settlement, Freeport, appeared before Magistrate Melvin Daniel in the San Fernando Second Court charged with two counts of the offence, which allegedly occurred at Teak Avenue, Claxton Bay, on March 30 and April 4, 2008.
Continue reading Woman 21 charged for raping boy 17
Six murders in 24 hours
SIX people were killed between Wednesday night and yesterday morning at Carlsen Field, Bournes Road in St James, Carenage and Barataria.
Devon “Banka” Kerr, 26, was killed at Bournes Road.
He had his daughter in his hand and saved her by throwing her in bushes as he was being shot.
Continue reading The killing continues….
By Andre Bagoo
Thursday, April 10 2008
T&T Newsday
OPPOSITION LEADER Basdeo Panday’s legal problems just got a little worse. More than one year after having his political life revitalised by the quashing of a criminal conviction against him, the Privy Council yesterday paved the way for him to face a retrial on three charges of failing to declare a joint London bank account to the Integrity Commission.
The three charges are the same charges he was freed of last year, on the basis of “apparent bias”.
Continue reading Try Bas Again
I told you so, says Fr Rochard
By Nalinee Seelal
Tuesday, April 8 2008
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Roman Catholic priest Fr Garfield Rochard who took a controversial decision late last year to stop a man who had witnessed a murder from entering the compound of the Church of the Assumption, Maraval, yesterday said the man’s murder over the weekend was expected.
The man Harold Joseph, 50, was gunned down outside Marmon’s Bar in Petit Valley on Saturday.
Continue reading Priest defends decision to keep murder witness out of churchyard