Ak­ile Si­mon

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed a 27-year-old Ja­maican in an apart­ment in El So­cor­ro, San Juan, af­ter they re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that he was want­ed by Ja­maican au­thor­i­ties for at­tempt­ed mur­der.

Dwight Clin­ton Wal­lace, of Bob Mar­ley Boule­vard in Kingston, Ja­maica, was held around 6.45 am on Sat­ur­day by of­fi­cers of North-East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force at Ram­char­ran Dri­ve, El So­cor­ro Road Ex­ten­sion, San Juan. Wal­lace, how­ev­er, de­nied that he was a fugi­tive.

He told the law­men that a jeal­ous ex-lover threat­ened to get him out of T&T by any means nec­es­sary, and was the per­son who al­leged that he (Wal­lace) was want­ed in Ja­maica. "I was nev­er ar­rest­ed by po­lice and charged be­fore, not even for a traf­fic of­fence." When ques­tioned by po­lice about his sta­tus in the coun­try, Wal­lace ad­mit­ted that he over­stayed his time.

"Trinidad is a very nice place. The peo­ple are very friend­ly and gen­er­ous, so I de­cid­ed to stay, well, longer than I should have.

"I pre­fer here than Ja­maica." The ho­tel su­per­vi­sor said he felt much safer in Trinidad, where he en­joyed him­self at var­i­ous night­clubs, as op­posed to Ja­maica, where were a lot of dri­ve-by shoot­ings. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Wal­lace came in­to the coun­try for va­ca­tion on No­vem­ber 8, 2008, and was ex­pect­ed to de­part one month lat­er. Wal­lace was ex­pect­ed to be hand­ed over to of­fi­cers of the Im­mi­gra­tion De­part­ment.