Ishmael Salaam, 24, reappeared before a San Fernando magistrate on Tuesday charged with two counts of murder and other charges relating to the deadly shooting heist outside Pennywise Plaza at La Bel Air Road in La Romaine on September 19. The magistrate remanded him into custody to reappear in court on December 6. Salaam’s attorney,…
The soldier from Fyzabad charged in connection with the deadly heist outside Pennywise Plaza in La Romaine on September 19 has been denied bail. On Monday, Ishmael Salaam, 24, made his first court appearance before senior magistrate Armina Deonarinesingh, who remanded him into custody to reappear on Tuesday. In September, the police charged four men…
A Trinidadian lawyer is blaming institutional failures for the death of a state witness who was shot and killed in Diego Martin, on Sunday night. “My position is basically, his death is ultimately an institutional failure in Trinidad and Tobago,” attorney Criston Williams said on a radio program on Monday. “Why do I call it…
The Trinidad and Tobago lawyer who had previously represented a state witness who was shot and killed in Diego Martin, Sunday night, says his death is the result of “institutional failure”. Attorney Criston Williams says his client, 29-year-old Jehlano Romney, was the main witness in the case in which police constable Clarence Gilkes was killed…
Senior Reporter derek.achong@guardian.co.tt Six police officers accused of murdering three friends in Moruga in 2011, will have to remain on remand as their trial begins today. Delivering a judgment yesterday, the Court of Appeal dismissed a consolidated appeal brought by the six officers and another man, Keros Martin, who is accused of an unrelated…
TT men’s footballer Ross Russell Jr says prayer, faith in God and a strong support system have helped to reignite his career after he was wrongfully incarcerated for two years.Russell Jr, 31, the son of former national goalkeeper Ross Russell, was released from prison on August 20, 2018, after the Director of Public Prosecutions issued…
TWO men from the Heights of Guanapo have appeared before an Arima magistrate charged with the murders of four members of the Peterkin family, last month, and the shooting of five relatives. On Monday, Jalini Rivers, 22, and Jodel Noel, 24, appeared virtually before Magistrate Natalie Hamilton-Diop on a series of charges relating to a…
Senior Reporter shaliza.hassanali@guardian.co.tt The Attorney General’s office has briefed attorneys, which include Gilbert Peterson SC, to advise on the case of the return of ISIS convict, Sabirah Khalidah Waheed. And yesterday, the office of the Chief State Solicitor wrote to Waheed’s attorney Criston J Williams asking him to hold his hand in pursuing legal…
ONE of the men held in connection with last week’s robbery of Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh in St Joseph has been released. Attorneys for two of several men held for questioning intervened over the weekend after their clients had been in custody for almost five days and were not yet charged. At 7 p.m….
THE attorney for one of the men charged in the 2014 murder of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal is calling on the Commissioner of Police to provide evidence that would be used against his client as well as answers to alternative theories surrounding the murder. In a letter dated December 24, Quantum Legal attorney Aaron Lewis…
