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.