18-year-old killed in Enterprise

An 18-year-old man was killed last night after he was shot by unknown assailants outside his mother's minimart in Enterprise.

Looptt was told that at about 9pm last night, Denzil Guy, of Michael Terrace, Enterprise, was outside his home where he helped his mother, Sherry Ann Samuel, run a minimart. 

Suddenly two men wearing black clothing and hoodies over their heads approached the teenager. They shouted words at him and both men drew firearms that they had in their hands and fired in the direction of Guy.

The 18-year-old was struck multiple times about the body, and attempted to flee the scene. However, he collapsed a short distance away.

The assailants then made good their escape on foot by running east along Michael Terrace.

SCHOOL GIRLS DRUGGED

Just over two weeks ago a group of students damaged a teacher's vehicle with a scratch bomb blowing away the rear windshield .In this latest report three students were hospitalised yesterday, after ingesting a muffin brought by one student, allegedly laced with marijuana.

Bandit Shot and Killed in Roti Shop

A baby boy is tonight warded at hospital nursing gunshot wounds after he and his mother were caught in the middle of a shootout in Port-of-Spain, while in Barataria, Telecom Security officers were involved in a shootout of their own on Tenth Avenue Barataria. When the smoke cleared, one bandit lay dead on the roadway.

Trini Involved in Beheading

For the last few days the American media have been carrying stories about beheaded journalist, James Foley, who was murdered by Islamic State of Iraq & Al-Sham (ISIS). The ongoing Syria war has also seen several citizens beheaded by the same terrorist group. TV 6 in an exclusive investigative story a few months ago  entitled "Jihadists Among Us", reported that  Trinidadians might have quite possibly formed part of the Anti-Assad movement in Syria

Laventille man ambushed, shot dead

POLICE are continuing investigations into Tuesday night’s shooting death of a 20-year-old man, who was ambushed by three men when he left his home to go to Quarry Street, Laventille to get a phone card.
At 7.50 p.m., the police received a report about shots being fired at Quarry Street. A team of officers, led by Cpl Mohammed of the Port of Spain Division Task Force, sped to the scene, where they found the body of Triston Caesar.
According to his relatives, he worked at a fast food restaurant on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook and lived with them at their Lastique Street, East Dry River home.
Police said they were told that three men walked up to Caesar, stuffed a bandanna into his mouth and shot him several times about the body. He died on the scene.
Officers from the Crime Scene Unit as well as the Homicide Bureau conducted investigations.
His body was removed to the Port of Spain Mortuary and then yesterday morning to the Forensic Science Centre in St James.
Reporters spoke to his step-father Clyde Babb, who denied that the young man may have done something which led to his death.

BOY 12 "FORCED TO DRINK DISINFECTANT BY CLASSMATES" *

A 12-year-old boy attending a prominent primary school in San Fernando was forced to drink disinfectant and had pieces of newspaper stuffed into his mouth by classmates.
The child’s mother, Patrice Hills, said she was horrified by the incident and demanded a thorough investigation.
A report has been filed at San Fernando Police Station
The incident occurred at around 8.15 a.m. on Monday.
According to Hills, her son was blindfolded by three pupils in his classroom, held down and the chemical poured into his mouth. The boys then stuffed pieces of newspaper into his mouth.
Hills said her traumatized son reported the incident to the school principal and teacher, who made an attempt to contact her but the call went unanswered. She said her son complained of severe chest and stomach pains.

WHERE MOMMY AND DADDY

ARTIE RAMKHELEWAN, the three-year-old girl who survived having her throat slit by her own father on Sunday, yesterday kept asking nurses attending to her at the San Fernando General Hospital, for her mother and father.

“She kept asking, ‘where my mommy and daddy?’ to the nurses who were monitoring her,” said a source at the hospital.

The source added that Artie is still in a serious but stable condition and because of the severity of her injuries, she would remain at hospital for a few more days. Apart from having her throat slit, little Artie was stabbed in the chest and arms. She is being monitored closely around the clock by doctors and nurses.

The girl was found in the backseat of the family car at Penal, bleeding and lying next to the cold body of her 26-year-old mother Aarika Bhim. Artie’s father Premnath Ramkhelawan, 25, committed suicide by hanging himself. His body was found at the back of the family Laltoo Trace, Penal home.

The mother, father and their young daughter were last seen alive at the wedding of a relative in Julien’s Village, Princes Town on Sunday night. Investigators believe that Ramkhelawan first stabbed to death his common-law year wife of five years before stabbing his daughter and slitting her throat.

BLOODY MURDER IN PENAL

A two-year-old girl who was stabbed multiple times and her throat slit was still wrapped in her murdered mother's arms when help arrived yesterday.

The mother and daughter were stabbed repeatedly, their throats slit, and left to die in the back seat of a car parked in a bushy track near their home at Laltoo Trace, Penal.

The child was discovered by her grandfather, Puranand Bhim. She was taken to the Siparia Health Centre and transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital in serious condition

TWO YEAR OLD SHOOT AT HOME

A two-year-old is now dead after she was killed at her Patna Village, Diego Martin, home this morning.

Reports are that Keira Singh was killed when gunmen stormed her parent's home around 1 am.
Keira, her father Keiron Paul, 25,and her mother were asleep at the time.
The toddler's father was reportedly the intended target but when the gunmen opened fire on the sleeping family, little Keira was hit in the stomach instead.

POLICE EXERCISE NET $.4M IN COCAINE

Police exercises in the Western Division at the weekend led to the seizure of more than $400,00 in cocaine. The officers went to Union Road, Four Roads, where they conducted several Stop and Search exercises. While searching the forested areas along the roadway, police dogs from the Canine Unit began reacting in a manner indicating narcotics were in the vicinity.

A search was conducted and a short distance into a forested area, the officers found and seized 1.5566kg of cocaine and 225g of marijuana which were wrapped in plastic bags.

TRINIDAD WOMAN STRANGLED IN BARBADOS

TRINIDADIAN Marcelle Ragbir-Smith, 75, mysteriously disappeared on Monday October 12, from Farm Road, St George in Barbados where she was last seen between 5.30 pm and 6.30 pm driving a silver Toyota Yaris car. Her body was found three weeks later, with an autopsy confirming not only her identity, but that she had been murdered strangled. A suspect has been arrested and charged for her killing.

When Ragbir-Smith first went missing, her three adult children who all reside abroad, immediately swung into action and two of them Tanya and Roger flew to Barbados assisting the police force there in leaving no stone unturned in the search for their beloved mother. Tanya, who arrived from London where she resides, told Barbados Today, “It’s been very hard because we don’t live in the country so myself and my brother have just arrived here so we’re just trying to focus on what we can do to get information to locate her. She’s my mother, she’s happy, she’s wonderful.

She’s missing and we want to find her,” A breakthrough in the case came when on October 18 Loop News reported that “Marcelle Smith’s car was found today. The silver Toyota Yaris with registration number P2346, was located in the Charleston Park/Charleston Garden area, in Culloden St Michael, even though she was not found.”On October 22, still full of hope, the family appealed through Loop News for the safe return of their loved one and issued a statement saying: “She is a strong, formidable woman. Our father is unwell and he is fully dependent on her. She has been missing since last Monday night.

Gunmen on weekend shooting spree

SEVERAL children playing in the open yard of their homes at Queen Street, Coffee Beach, La Brea on Saturday morning, miraculously escaped death when four masked gunmen entered the area and began shooting indiscriminately.

The children had to scamper to safety when the shooting began.

Newsday was told that the men who came in search of an elderly man also firebombed three vehicles which were parked in a yard.

Newsday further learnt that the indiscriminate shooting only stopped when some residents, dodging bullets called out to the men pleading with them to stop it. The trigger-happy men who came by boat and landed on Coffee Beach hastily made their escape in the same vessel, but not before injuring residents Gregory Williams and Keon Jackson.

Jackson, the brother of San Fernando attorney Jason Jackson who reports said only recently moved into the area, was shot through the left leg. He was expected to be discharged yesterday from the San Fernando General Hospital. Williams was shot in the leg and hand and remains warded in stable condition at the southen city’s general hospital. Newsday was told that while trying to evade bullets, one of the men was shot and wounded while diving into a boat which was moored near a house.

Player shot while celebrating Seconday School Football League

A 17-year-old student, who was out celebrating his team’s Secondary Schools’ Football League victory over St Benedict’s College, was wounded when a bar patron ran into the road and fired shots wildly into the air yesterday morning.

Police said Nate Brooks, a form five student of Presentation College, San Fernando, is warded in a stable condition at the San Fernando General Hospital after undergoing treatment to his abdomen.

According to reports, Brooks, who plays for Presentation, was in the Backseat of his neighbour Adesh Adhar’s car when around 3.30 am, they pulled up at Marshall’s Bar at the corner of Sutton and Cipero Street, San Fernando.

Adhar, 25, went into the bar and on his way back he heard gunshots behind him and realised he had been shot on the forearm. Adhar told police he saw a man firing indiscriminately in the road and he rushed to his vehicle and sped off. He later realised that Brooks was shot in the stomach and he drove to the hospital where they were both treated.

FOUR MEN HELD WITH FIREARM

FOUR men are due to appear before an Arima magistrate on Monday, after police officers of the Northern Division found them with a firearm on Thursday night.

Police officers of the Northern Division conducted anti- crime exercises in the Malabar and Pinto districts between the hours of 8pm on Thursday and 8 am yesterday.

Police arrested 20 persons during the exercise. Six of them were detained for inquiries into investigations, five were arrested for possession of narcotics; four were held on outstanding warrants, and an illegal immigrant was also detained.


In a conversation with Supt Abraham, Newsday was told that the Northern Division has recovered 97 firearms for the year, and would continue to aggressively search for firearms, as police activity will intensify for the Christmas season.

MAN SHOT IN BOTH LEGS AND THROAT SLIT

ADIM MAYHEW died an agonising and gruesome death.

The 30-year-old man of Thomas Street, Port-of-Spain was found by his father Franklyn on Thursday night along Basilon Street in the capital — barely alive — shot in both legs and with his throat slit from ear to ear.

The grieving man yesterday told Newsday that had persons acted when his son was attacked, he might have survived. However he died shortly after being brought to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.

Speaking with reporters at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday, Mayhew said he was returning home from a trip to Tobago when he was told that his son was lying in a drain on Basilon Street.

“A woman told me he was in the drain bleeding away,” Mayhew said. “I asked if she was joking and she said ‘no...go and see’.

I just turned around and went down the road. I saw him lying on the ground, alive, but gasping for breath. When I came closer, I saw a big chop wound or a slit to his throat and my boy’s throat was sliced open. The wound was gaping,” he cried.

Using his previous experience as an employee in the Accident and Emergency Department of the city hospital, Mayhew tried his best to staunch the bleeding from the slit in his son’s throat while at the same time trying to contact the emergency services.

Man killed outside Copa nightclub in POS

A 27-year-old man was murdered outside a night club in Port of Spain while two other men were injured this morning.

According to reports, around 4am, Tareek Keron George, Daniel Dottin and David Adams were leaving Copacabana Night Club on Dundonald Street when four gunmen approached the group and opened fire.

George died on the scene whilst Adams and Dottin were taken to hospital where they were treated for gunshot wounds about the body.

Police arrest ‘well known’ drug dealer with $2M weed

Police arrest ‘well known’ drug dealer with $2M weed

Police yesterday hailed the arrest of a 40-year-old well-known San Fernando drug dealer who according to reports was held during an anti-crime exercise in which police seized 35 kilograms of high grade marijuana with a street value of about $2 million.

The suspect with two known addresses — Turney Street, Mon Repos and Marabella was arrested along with a 32-year-old “PH” driver of St John’s Road, Oropouche, a pipefitter, 44, of Rig Road, Claxton Bay, and a 44-yearold female bartender of Moody Stewart Street, Mon Repos.

At about 11.30 am on Monday, police reported that in an exercise co-ordinated and supervised by Snr Supt Irwin Hackshaw and Insp Don Gajadhar and including Sgts Teeluck, Ramroop, Ramlogan, PCs Ali, Moses, Goddard, Rampersad, Gordon and WPC Valdez intercepted a black Nissan Almera car at Turney Street, Mon Repos. Police found hidden in the car 26 kilograms of high grade marijuana with a street value of $1.56 million. It is believed the suspect transported drugs for the drug dealer whose home was subsequently raided and a further nine kilograms of marijuana with a street value of $540,000 found.

COPS PROBE 2 MORE MUDERS

TWO murders in separate incidents in south and central Trinidad have pushed the murder toll to 359. The victims, Cyrus Cooper, 30, of Lengua Road, Princes Town and Jameel “Bones” Boyce, 27, of School Lane, Enterprise in Chaguanas were both shot dead. The killings occurred on Friday night and midday yesterday.

According to police reports the first killing occurred at about 11.15 pm on Friday. Reports are that Cooper was driving his vehicle a short distance from his home when a grey Nissan Tiida car pulled alongside him. Two occupants alighted from the vehicle and started shooting at Cooper. As a result, Coopers’ vehicle veered off the roadway and crashed into a bushy area.

The gunmen got out of their car and fired several more shots into Cooper as he lay inside his crashed car. The killers then got back into their vehicle and drove off. Cooper was rushed to the Princes Town District Health Facility where he was pronounced dead on arrival, having been shot multiple times. When Sunday Newsday visited the family home, relatives were in a state of shock yesterday.

A relative told Newsday she believes Cooper’s killing was linked to the 2012 killing of his brother Marcus Cooper of Mandingo Road, Indian Walk who was shot dead on New Year’s night.

Fearful’ suspect SURRENDERS...HOW MANY WOMEN ARE VICTIMS OF THIS KIND OF ABUSE??

THE man seen in a video on social media, kicking and hitting a woman in a bar surrendered yesterday to the Arouca police, accompanied by the same woman who was seen being beaten in the video. The video which was taken from CCTV footage is 49 seconds long and was posted on Facebook late Thursday night, and up to press time had more than 660,000 views, and was shared more than 24,000 times .

The video shows the woman sitting with a man in a bar located along the Arima Old Road, Arouca at about 3 pm on Thursday, when a dreadlocked man walked in and threw her off the chair. He was seen bending down, talking to her before he hit her several times about the body. The man also had a metal object in his hand which he used to hit the woman. He also kicked the woman in her head. The man she was talking to prior to the incident, quickly walked out of the bar. Many condemned him for leaving the woman .

Gun drama outside MP Charles’ office

THERE was drama on Thursday night outside the office of the Opposition Naparima Member of Parliament (MP) Rodney Charles when one of the guests at a Divali function, Charles was hosting, was held up at gunpoint and robbed of his $300,000 white Ford Ranger van. The vehicle was found a short while later abandoned in Claxton Bay and has since been impounded at the Chaguanas Police Station as investigations continue. No one has been held.

A police report stated that at about 10.30 pm on Thursday, 55-year-old motor sales representative Nazrudeen Mohammed of Barrackpore, was returning to his vehicle which was parked opposite the MP’s office when he was approached by two gunmen who announced a hold-up and proceeded to rob him of the van before escaping in it.