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Point Fortin residents shocked over woman’s murder
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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Sandra Despot –
RESIDENTS of Point Fortin are in shock after a 56-year-old woman was found murdered at her home on Saturday evening.
Reports said Sandra Despot was found dead, covered in a bedsheet at her Hollywood Junction, Fanny Village home around 6.30 pm.
Her hands were reportedly tied in front of her and her body had marks of violence. She was only wearing underwear.
Her common law husband told police he left his wife at home around 6.30 am and upon returning home in the evening, found her dead in the living room.
Police said one of the bedrooms in the house appeared to have been ransacked.
Councillor for Hollywood and deputy Point Fortin mayor Leslie Chang Fong told Newsday it is a tragic incident but also a shocking one as “A crime of that nature is not a common occurrence down here.
“It has stunned everybody and I can assure you that all of the residents – not just in the electoral district of Hollywood – but in Point Fortin are also shocked and stunned.”
He said Despot’s home is just footsteps away from his office.
“I could easily walk across and, before I reach the alphabet letter E, be by her doorstep.
“She has always been a quiet, smiling, pleasant lady…one who just goes about her business.”
He said the Hollywood community is small so most people know each other.
Point Fortin Mayor Saleema McCree Thomas said she cannot say it was a murder until the police complete investigations, but she said waking up to the news was “heartwrenching.
“I would have said on many occasions that Point Fortin has minimal criminal activities and this happening in our borough would have shaken up a lot of our residents.
“It’s so unfortunate that with all these criminal elements that are taking place, it has hit us home so closely.”
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Top cop condemns policeman’s shooting –MANHUNT IN TOBAGO
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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Kyle Lashley –
A MANHUNT involving teams of police and soldiers was underway in Tobago on Sunday for the killers of Special Reserve Policeman Kyle Lashley who was gunned down on Saturday evening.
This was confirmed by acting Commissioner of Police McDonald Jacob who has vowed to use all resources available to arrest the killers in the swiftest possible time. Lashley is Tobago’s tenth murder victim for this year.
According to police, 26-year-old Lashley, who worked at the Crown Point Police Station, was with friends at around 7.10 pm, at Providence Road, Les Coteaux when a black Kia Cerato stopped alongside them and two gunmen exited.
One of the men reportedly snatched Lashley’s gold chain and then fired several shots at him. The men got back into the car which sped off.
Officers of the Moriah Police Station responded and took Lashley to the Scarborough General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
In a press release on Sunday, Jacob said, “all resources of the TTPS and national security will be brought to bear in the investigations into the killing of the young officer and the island will be scoured until the perpetrators are brought to justice.”
Jacob said a contingent of officers from the Inter-Agency Task Force as well as the Defence Force are in Tobago to help.
He extended condolences on behalf of the TTPS to Lashley’s family and co-workers.
Newsday visited Les Coteaux on Sunday but everyone in the community refused to speak. In Bamboo Hill, Les Coteaux where Lashley lived, his relatives and neighbours remained tight-lipped. A man who was walking along the road hurried away when approached by this reporter. At a shop near to where Lashley was killed, no one wanted to speak.
Police Social and Welfare Association (PSWA) head Insp Gideon Dickson said the crime situation was very troubling.
“We are concerned with the state of murders at this point in time. We would continue to work alongside with the CoP, in terms of assisting with strategies to help curb what is taking place,” Dickson said.
He had a message for Lashley’s killers.
“Please note the police service would not sit idly by and let justice not have its way.”
Dickson said the reality is that Tobago is a small-knit community and he is certain someone would have seen something.
“So we are calling on the public to come forward. If the person who would have perpetrated the act is aware that it was a police officer, it shows there has been a change in the attitude and they have no regard for whether you are law enforcement or not. The public can help us bring these people to justice according to law.”
Chief Secretary Farley Augustine described the latest murder on the island as, “a grave concern to me, this administration and Tobago as a whole.”
He said crime-prevention discussions were held recently between himself and Minority Leader Kelvon Morris, and a date was set for resumption of talks and planning for a whole-of-Tobago approach to dealing with crime.
“While all the facts surrounding this latest crime isn’t at my disposal, it will certainly be something we will discuss at Tobago’s Security Council meeting this coming Friday.
“I also note, that there is a significant jump in violent crimes across the entire country. This should push communities to act. Solving crime has to go beyond purchasing more cars for the police or better fire-power. There must be a whole-of-community approach,” Augustine said.
He promised a roll-out of strategies to tackle crime, even though the THA has no legal remit for national security.
Assemblyman for the area Zorisha Hackett said, “I didn’t sleep well last night. My heart hurts because I need to save my district.”
Tobago Business Chamber chairman Martin George expressed “great concern and consternation at the rising spate of murders in Tobago.”
He added, “We are now almost at the rate of one per month. We of the Tobago Business Chamber are willing to work with the THA and TTPS to ensure a comprehensive, concrete plan is in place to secure all Tobagonians.”
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Memorial Day parade returns
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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Prime Minister Keith Rowley lays a wreath at the cenotaph in Memorial Park. – Photo by Roger Jacob
LIMITED to wreath-laying for the past two years owing to the covid19 pandemic, the 2022 Memorial Day event saw the return of the military parade.
Members of the public gathered around Memorial Park on Frederick Street in Port of Spain as those who served and fell in World Wars I and II were remembered and honoured.
The event kicked off with the military parade which featured members of the TT Regiment, Coast Guard, Air Guard, Defence Force, police service, fire service, prison service, cadet force and Red Cross.
Officers and the Memorial Day Parade 2022
They began marching from the Queen’s Park Savannah and ended at the park.
President Paula-Mae Weekes was the first to lay a ceremonial wreath at the cenotaph, followed by the Prime Minister, Chief Justice Ivor Archie and National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds.
Officials of the armed and unarmed forces also laid wreaths, along with mayors and diplomats.
Hinds greeted and took photos with members of the public after the ceremony.
National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds poses for photos with some children near Memorial Park on Sunday. – Photo by Roger Jacob
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Floodwaters sweep Claxton Bay man to his death
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DROWNED: Driver’s Permit of Ramnath Minwah. –
THE screams of Ramnath Minwah’s wife and children shattered the quiet community of St John’s Trace in Claxton Bay around 6.30 pm on Saturday, when they saw him fall into a swollen river and get swept away by the strong currents.
Minwah’s family and neighbours rushed to rescue him, but it was not until almost an hour later, that the man who spent his life as a boat captain, was found unresponsive, his arms wrapped around a tree.
Fire services, police officers and ambulance attendants who arrived on the scene, later retrieved the body from the floodwaters.
Distraught relatives said Minwah was a strong swimmer, but age and illness as well as strong currents conspired to pull him under and to his death.
“If he was not old and sick, the waters would never have taken him. He was a top swimmer back in the day. He was a seaman, the captain of a boat. He worked all around the world,” said Dolly Minwah, his wife of over five decades.
She said that shortly after 6 pm, Minwah, 76, a father of six, grandfather of 16 and great-grandfather of four, left home to purchase cigarettes.
“He went by his nephew, one house away from ours and the nephew went and bought the cigarettes for him.”
On returning with the cigarettes, she said, Minwah’s nephew observed that the river on the opposite side of their home was swollen. He told his uncle to stay until the water receded.
“My husband said he wanted to come home before the waters got higher,” she said.
“As he left his nephew’s home, a car was parked in the middle of the road and my husband just stepped to his left to go around it and in so doing, slipped and fell into the river.
“My daughters and granddaughter saw him fall in and started bawling. Everybody came out immediately and started to search.”
Granddaughter Janelle Pirmal, 22, witnessed the moment her grandfather fell into river.
A screengrab taken from a video shows a flood-swollen river near the front gate of the Minwah family home in St John’s Trace, Claxton Bay where Ramnath Minwah was swept away to his death on Saturday evening. –
“We tried to save him, but it was pitch dark. There was nothing for him to hold on to and he was swept away. People used torches, head lights, car lights to search.”
Holding her head with one hand and wiping away tears with the other, Dolly said this could have been avoided if the help they had been clamouring for was heeded.
“When we came to live here this was a drain, there was no river. We bought this property, I ent no squatter. I have a deed for this property.” She said over the years, soil erosion narrowed the road and widened the drain until it became a river.
“It is not the first time someone fell into that river. For years I have been going to the councillor and the MP to complain about the erosion. Everytime it rains, the water took more and more of the road.
“I spoke to MP David Lee, chairman of the Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation, Henry Awong and councillor Nadia. They all came, saw the situation but nothing was done. They said it would be too costly to repair.
“So, is the cost to stop the erosion and fix the problem worth more than the life of my husband,” she asked.
Dolly said that frustrated by the floods, only a day before the tragedy, she recalled telling her husband she felt like packing up and leaving the community.
This is the second tragic incident in which someone had been swept away and drowned due to flooding.
On Wednesday October 5, Lopinot farmer Theresa Lynch was swept away in the flood-swollen Surrey River, Lopinot as she and her brother were trying to make their way to their garden. Her body was found in the Caroni River near Trincity two days later.
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Ebanks-Wilks to create space of music & arts for WB seniors on Nov 23 Loop Cayman Islands
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MP Katherine Ebanks-Wilks appeared on Radio Cayman’s ‘Talk Today’ show recently with host, Sterling Dwayne Ebanks, where she shared information about a seniors’ Thanksgiving lunch that she will be hosting on November 23 at the West Bay Heritage Park from 11am to 2pm.
As to what seniors and their families can expect at the event, MP Ebanks-Wilks shared that “During that time, we’ll be having live music and then, after lunch we’ll be having some games and then a time of art display… and crafts which will be for sale to the general public.”
And then later on in the evening, we’re gonna have a space [called] ‘arts in the park’ which will be focusing on live music. So, if you have musicians out there that just wanna have a jam session, there’s gonna be Jam night, karaoke, floetry.
She explained further.
Regarding the closing time for the evening portion of the event, MP Ebanks-Wilks said that they “will probably try to tie things up between 8 and 9pm since it is a week night.”
Clarifying whether the event was only limited to seniors, MP Ebanks-Wilks said:
We’re also inviting those who are in the community that may not fall in the category of being a senior, but you’re an artist of some sort, please come out, bring your art work, put it on display and maybe someone will appreciate your art and want to purchase it.
MP Ebanks-Wilks also emphasized the value of people simply coming out and showing their support at the event, summing up her thoughts that “Having a good turn out and having the support for our artists will be really beneficial to them and as to the community as a whole.”
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Biden-Xi summit: What Biden wants, what Xi wants Loop Jamaica
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — There won’t be concessions from the U.S. side. No real deliverables, which is government-speak for specific achievements. Don’t expect a cheery joint statement, either.
During President Joe Biden’s highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, the leaders will be circling each other to game out how to manage a relationship that the U.S. has determined poses the biggest economic and military threat.
At the same time, U.S. officials have repeatedly stressed that they see the two countries’ interactions as one of competition — and that they want to avoid conflict.
Here’s a look at what each side is hoping to achieve out of the leaders’ first in-person encounter as presidents, to be held on the island of Bali in Indonesia:
Essentially, Biden and other U.S. officials are trying to understand where Xi really stands.
In a news conference shortly before leaving Washington, Biden said he wanted to “lay out … what each of our red lines are, understand what he believes to be in the critical national interests of China, what I know to be the critical interests of the United States.”
That mission has become all the more imperative since the conclusion of the Community Party congress in Beijing, during which Xi secured a norm-breaking third term as leader, empowering him even further.
It’s a goal that will be much more readily achieved in person, White House officials say, despite Biden and Xi’s five video or phone calls during the U.S. president’s term.
Biden told reporters on Sunday that he’s “always had straightforward discussions” with Xi, and that has prevented either of them from “miscalculations” of their intentions.
“I know him well, he knows me,” Biden said. “We’ve just got to figure out where the red lines are and what are the most important things to each of us, going into the next two years.”
The U.S. president will want to send a message to Xi on White House concerns about China’s economic practices. Taiwan is sure to come up, and Biden will want to emphasize to Xi that the U.S. will stand ready to defend the self-governing island should it come under attack by China. Biden also will seek to make clear his concerns about Beijing’s human rights practices, as he has in their previous interactions.
Biden will also use the meeting to press for a more aggressive posture from Xi on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Chinese leader has largely refrained from public criticism of Vladimir Putin’s actions while declining to actively aid Moscow by supplying arms.
“We believe that, of course, every country in the world should do more to prevail upon Russia, especially those who have relationships with Russia, to end this war and leave Ukraine,” said U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Finally, U.S. officials say they’re eager to see where the two superpowers could actually collaborate. Though there are numerous areas in which Biden and Xi won’t see eye to eye, the White House has listed several issues where they conceivably could, including health, counternarcotics and climate change.
Xi has yet to give a wish list for talks with Biden, but Beijing wants U.S. action on trade and Taiwan.
Perhaps most importantly, the Group of 20 gathering in Bali and the meeting with Biden give China’s most powerful leader in decades a stage to promote his country’s image as a global player and himself as a history-making figure who is restoring its rightful role as an economic and political force.
China pursues “increasingly assertive foreign and security policies aimed at changing the international status quo,” Kevin Rudd, a former Australian prime minister who is president of the Asia Society, wrote in Foreign Affairs. That has strained relations with Washington, Europe and China’s Asian neighbors, but Xi is unfazed and looks set to be more ambitious abroad.
The meeting is “an important event of China’s head-of-state diplomacy toward the Asia Pacific,” said a foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian. He said Xi will “deliver an important speech” on economic growth.
Zhao called on the Biden administration to “stop politicizing” trade and embrace Beijing’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, the self-ruled island democracy that split with the mainland in 1949 and never has been part of the People’s Republic of China.
Beijing wants Washington to lift tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump in 2019 and to pull back on increasing restrictions on Chinese access to processor chips and other U.S. technology. Biden has left most of those in place and added curbs on access to technology that American officials say can be used in weapons development.
“The United States needs to stop politicizing, weaponizing and ideologizing trade issues,” Zhao said.
Xi’s government has stepped up efforts to intimidate the elected government of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen by flying fighter planes near the island and firing missiles into the sea.
Beijing broke off talks with Washington on security, climate cooperation and other issues after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August in a show of support for its government.
“The United States needs to stop obscuring, hollowing out and distorting the ‘one-China principle,’” said Zhao, referring to Beijing’s stance that Taiwan is obligated to join the mainland under Communist Party leadership.
Another goal for Xi: Don’t get COVID-19.
The G-20 will be only Xi’s second foreign trip in 2 1/2 years while his government enforces a severe “Zero COVID” strategy that shut down cities and kept most visitors out of China.
Xi broke that moratorium by attending a September summit with Putin and Central Asian leaders. But he skipped a dinner and photo session where Putin and others wore no masks.
By SEUNG MIN KIM and JOE MCDONALD, Associated Press
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MP Tancoo: TT likethe Wild, Wild West
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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Oropouche West MP Davendranath Tancoo. FILE PHOTO –
SAYING nowhere, not even in one’s own home, is safe anymore from criminals and gunmen, Oropouche West MP Davendranath Tancoo has likened TT to the Wild, Wild West of yesteryear, where the only power lay in the barrel of a gun.
With at least five murders recorded on the weekend, including that of a policeman in Tobago, and the murder toll reaching 530, Tancoo also wondered what it would take the Government to finally come out of its slumber and take meaningful action on crime and violence.
“Yesterday (Saturday), on the doorstep of Starbucks in Sun Plaza, Monroe Road, a man was murdered in full view of families who went to buy coffee, or who went to buy bread in the Quikshoppe or chicken and chips in Royal Castle or to fill gas on the same compound.
“Yesterday at Movie Towne, families had to run in fear as violence broke out and a man was shot. We have become the wild, wild west,” Tancoo said at the UNC’s weekly Sunday press briefing. He was joined by Senator Wade Mark.
“Everyday we see videos in real time of criminals assaulting, robbing and murdering citizens.”
Painting a picture of the trauma citizens of all ages are enduring because of the crime wave, Tancoo called on people.
“Imagine your infant son or daughter going to school and when they are supposed to be learning to count, read and write and draw, the first thing they have to learn to do is how to duck and hide from bullets.”
He said it was a sad indictment on the country when everywhere one goes, one is at risk of being murdered.
“You are not safe in school, in the grocery or in the parlour, in the mall, in the Chinese restaurant, by the doubles man or coconut vendor. You are not safe even in your own home,” he said.
Tancoo said today’s criminals do not care about race or gender or age.
“Nobody is safe anywhere in this country. Embassies are warning their citizens about travelling to this country because crime is so bad.” Last week the US State Dept in its latest country advisory on TT, asked all Americans to reconsider visiting TT.
He also criticised Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George for blanking Barataria/San Juan MP Saddam Hosein’s call for the House of Representatives to debate crime as a matter of urgent public importance.
“There should have been no objection, because everybody is affected by this crime tsunami burying this country in blood.” Tancoo said he was certain even the Speaker knew someone directly affected by the crime scourge.
Commenting on the Prime Minister posting Facebook photos of himself with retired WI cricket legend Viv Richards on the golf course, Tancoo said he does not begrudge Dr Rowley having fun.
“But when you put yourself up to be elected to office, to represent and serve people, for God’s sake serve the people nah man. If you have been elected to be Prime Minister, for God’s sake be the Prime Minister. Grow up! There is a crisis, lead or get out of the way.
“Corruption is now endemic under this PNM Government, like it was under every previous PNM government. Crime is worse than ever before. Then there is flooding, infrastructural neglect, poverty, unemployment…this government is failing at every turn,” he declared.
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Teenager dies after giving birth to stillborn twin
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A young woman died today shortly after giving birth to her first twin at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
According to a brief statement from the GPHC, the babies were stillborn.
The now-dead 19-year-old female was from the East Bank of Demerara, Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica).
This is the second maternal death reported by the City Hospital today.
This morning, the GPHC reported that a 40-year-old pregnant woman from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) also died today at the Ocean View Hospital, which houses the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
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