POLICE sources disclosed that they are awaiting instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard in order to bring to court, two men arrested in connection with the murder of 17-year-old Amanda Paponette. It was expected that the two were to be charged last night and if this was the case, the two men are expected to be take(...)

A 21-YEAR-OLD Belmont man died at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital on Wednesday night less than an hour after he was shot while sitting on some steps in Belmont. At about 9 pm on Wednesday, Jerome “Dole” Gobin, of St Francois Valley Road, Belmont, was sitting at the corner of Belle Eau Road and Belmont Circular Road, Belmont, when a gunman walked(...)

A TEACHER, security officer, construction worker and a labourer were arrested for robbing and chopping off the hand of a Sangre Grande taxi driver on Wednesday night. Police reported that at about 11.30 pm, the 28-year-old taxi driver was plying his taxi on Foster Road in Sangre Grande.

POLICE yesterday described as “rare and dangerous” the discovery of four rounds of 50-calibre ammunition in an abandoned house in the Western Division. They said the 50-calibre rounds are used for war.

A SAN FERNANDO man has been detained in connection with the murder of Ste Madeleine resident Sean Baptiste, 25, while investigators have stepped up the search for gunmen who shot and killed Baptiste’s friend and neighbour Kevin Ellis, 25, on Monday night.

FYZABAD police are searching for a teenager who is suspected to have sexually assaulted a four-year-old boy on Wednesday evening.

THE uncle of murdered Daniel Guerra was called as the prosecution’s 20th witness yesterday in the murder inquiry in which PC Darwin Ghouralal is charged with the February 2011 killing.

A MAN described as a “seasoned” house breaker was yesterday jailed for 35 years by a Sangre Grande Magistrate.

JAMAAT al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr did not get support for his failed coup on July 27, 1990, from the Summit of the People’s Organisation — an umbrella grouping of trade unions and peoples’ organisations of which his sect was a member — because the group’s members would not have accepted a violent overthrow of

The Managing Director of Caribbean Heart Care (CHC) Dr Kamal Rampersad believes health institutions should be required to publish their data for public scrutiny.