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,…
KRYSTIANA Sankar, the former stepdaughter of National Security Minister Stuart Young, and three others have been committed to stand trial for trafficking $3.8 million in cocaine and marijuana back in December. Magistrate Rehanna Hosein earlier today committed the four to stand trial. She also varied their bail. Sankar was granted $1.3 million in bail and…
ON THE cusp of its 30th anniversary, Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr has apologised for the traumatic effects the 1990 attempted coup had on the country. Bakr is challenging a decision to pursue a criminal complaint against him after he refused to answer a summons to testify before the commission of enquiry…
A member of the United States (US) Navy and a female friend from east Port-of-Spain have been granted a total of $850,000 in bail for firearm possession. Emmanuel Dennis, 28, of Brooklyn, New York, and his 21-year-old friend, from Mosley Place, East Dry River, were granted $600,000 and $250,000 in bail when they appeared before…
