A 57-YEAR-OLD man will reappear in court today charged with illegally importing and failing to declare $660,000 in United States currency to Customs officials.

THREE persons, including a woman, are expected to appear in the Scarborough Magistrates’ Court today charged for the murder of Point Fortin man Sherwin Richards, 46, whose body was discovered along the Orange Hill Road, near Scarborough on May 5.

EMPLOYEES of the Port-of-Spain City Corporation yesterday made a startling discovery of what appeared to be a human foot in the Maraval River, shortly after seven o’clock in the morning.

NEXT Tuesday is when the State is expected to begin calling witnesses to testify in the preliminary inquiry into the murders of three friends in Barrackpore for which seven police officers have been charged.

CENTRAL Division police were last night investigating the drowning of a man during a fishing outing. According to a police report, at about 12.53 pm yesterday, Kumar Bachew, 53, of Lime Head Road in Chase Village was liming with a male relative and another man at a river in Felicity, Central Trinidad.

Grieving relatives of Barrackpore pensioner Batia Ramsumair are blaming a close female relative for her death on Sunday — Mother’s Day.

WORKS and Infrastructure Minister, Jack Warner, has received the nod of the local appeals court to take to the London Privy Council his challenge against a decision to send a multi-million dollar lawsuit against him, back to the trial judge for consideration.

DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has to appoint a State attorney to prosecute the case in which Candice Johnson is charged with unlawfully killing her two-year-old daughter, Aliyah, last month.

A 29-year-old Santa Flora woman remains in critical but stable condition at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) after being stabbed 11 times by a woman, police said yesterday.

Former Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday has no case to answer, attorney David Aaronberg QC told Magistrate Marcia Murray when the case involving Panday and his failure to declare his London bank account continued in the Port-of-Spain First Magistrate’s Court.

Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) has pleaded not guilty to three charges slapped against them, following the airing of a rape tape last year.