Despite the filing of a no case submission form yesterday on behalf of murder-accused, Shawn Coa aka ‘Devil’, a Port of Spain Magistrate ruled that there was sufficient evidence in the matter for him to stand trial. Coa’s attorney, Criston J Williams filed the form yesterday citing irregularities in the testimony of witnesses and inconsistencies…
SENIOR Magistrate Indrani Cedeno has dismissed an application that was made by a defence attorney in the Dana Seetahal murder inquiry for her to step down from further presiding over the matter on the ground of apparent bias. Cedeno delivered her ruling on the application at the Hall of Justice in Port of Spain yesterday,…
Derek Achong A 21-year-old Venezuelan woman, who was charged with firearm and ammunition possession after her friend was killed in an alleged shootout with police in March, has been freed. Magistrate Rehanna Hosein dismissed the charges against Monika Jerez-Gonzalez during a hearing in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Hosein’s decision was based on complaints from…
TWO of the ten men charged with the murder of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal are asking for the magistrate presiding over the proceedings to step down from the case. The application for Senior Magistrate Indrani Cedeno to recuse herself from the case on the ground of apparent bias was made by attorney Criston J Williams…
THE magistrate being asked to step down from presiding over the Dana Seetahal murder inquiry, says threats relayed to her via text messages from the prosecution, were not significant nor were they related to the case. Senior magistrate Indrani Cedeno yesterday sought to correct the record on communication between herself and the prosecution in November…
One of the accused in the preliminary inquiry for the conspiracy to murder charge against former LifeSport co-ordinator Rajaee Ali and others has to provide a medical certificate from his doctor, clearing him to return to court. Brent LaCroix was said to have contracted tuberculosis and has been absent from hearings before Senior Magistrate Ejenny…
FORMER soldier and promising Pro League footballer Ross Russell Jr was freed of murder yesterday after spending two years in prison. Russell was discharged by acting deputy Chief Magistrate Nanette Forde-John after the Director of Public Prosecutions issued a notice of discontinuance of the charge. The notice was issued after a no-case submission was advanced…
A DIRECTOR of KallCo and a senior manager at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate yesterday, on corruption charges. KallCo director Michael Arjune, of Boissiere, Maraval, and Wendell Diaz, head of procurement and logistics at WASA, appeared before First Court magistrate Kerri Honore-Narine, each on a single charge….
by DEREK ACHONG Six men from Diego Martin, whose protracted preliminary inquiry for murdering a Cepep worker had to be restarted due to the short-lived judicial appointment of former chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar, have been freed. Akili Charles, Chicki Portello, Anton Cambridge, Kareem Gomez, Levi Joseph and Israel “Arnold” Lara were discharged by Ayers-Caesar’s successor…
SIX men who were part of a group of remanded prisoners who rioted in 2017, when they were told their cases would have to restart because of the judicial appointment of former chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar, have been freed, after spending almost a decade in prison. The six – Akili Charles, Chicki Portello, Anton Cambridge,…
