Derek Achong

The unblemished record of a month without reports of violent crime in Laventille was blotted yesterday when a 28-year-old man was brutally murdered in a hail of gunfire.

Lawyers have asked a judge to recuse himself from a case challenging the building of the Debe to Mon Desir highway.

In a landmark judgment, the Court of Appeal yesterday stated convicted criminals should have the time spent awaiting trial in remand discounted from their substantive sentence.

If the presence of police and army personnel in Laventille is reduced, daily murders in east Port-of-Spain will resume.

Finance Minister Winston Dookeran’s 2012 budget presentation on Monday has been met with mixed reviews by trade union leaders.

A 25-year-old man, who posed as a vagrant before he robbed and killed a limer at a popular Port-of-Spain nightclub in 2004, pleaded guilty yesterday to manslaughter.

A police constable accused of assaulting a man during Independence Day celebrations in Claxton Bay has been detained by the Professional Standards Bureau of the Police Service.

Almost three weeks after the proclamation of the controversial Section 34 of the Adminstration of Justice (Indictable Offences) Act, 26 people have applied to the High Court to have charges against th