A 59-year-old handy­man died in a sus­pect­ed drown­ing at Mara­cas Bay on Tues­day evening.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Lakhan Ram­s­ingh of LP 4 North Coast Road, Mara­cas.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 7 pm, Ram­s­ingh was drink­ing al­co­hol and chat­ting with his friend, Joseph Kan­galee, in the Mara­cas Bay fish­ing vil­lage.

Kan­galee left to at­tend to a pot on the fire and, up­on his re­turn, he re­alised Ram­s­ingh was miss­ing.

He and oth­ers searched the area and found Ram­s­ingh float­ing in the murky wa­ters of the Mara­cas Bay es­tu­ary.

Ram­s­ingh was still alive when he was pulled from the wa­ter and tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

Skele­tal re­mains found in Ari­ma ceme­tery

Skele­tal re­mains and oth­er items were dis­cov­ered in a cof­fin at the San­ta Rosa Ro­man Catholic ceme­tery in Ari­ma on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said the ceme­tery su­per­vi­sor found an open cof­fin con­tain­ing what ap­peared to be a hu­man skull. He re­port­ed the mat­ter to church sec­re­tary Tiffany Galin­do, who then con­tact­ed po­lice.

Of­fi­cers went to the north­west­ern side of the ceme­tery, where they found a small cof­fin with a skull, cloth­ing, Hin­du pic­tures, mur­tis, oils, and can­dles.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the scene was processed, and CCTV footage from the area is be­ing re­viewed.

Cou­ple tied up, robbed at Rousil­lac bar

A cou­ple was tied up and robbed when gun­men stormed their Rousil­lac bar ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said around 12.15 am, the cou­ple was clos­ing their es­tab­lish­ment on Mon De­sir Road when two armed men forced their way in.

The vic­tims were forced to lie on the ground with their hands tied be­hind their backs. The as­sailants stole a gold be­ra val­ued at $6,000, $1,800 from the cash reg­is­ter, three Sam­sung cell­phones to­geth­er val­ued at $15,000, a wal­let with per­son­al items, and a brown Nis­san Ti­i­da val­ued at $40,000.

The cou­ple man­aged to free them­selves short­ly af­ter and alert­ed po­lice from a neigh­bour’s phone. Of­fi­cers lat­er re­cov­ered the stolen car near the Grant’s Road fly­over.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said en­quiries are on­go­ing.

- Ke­jan Haynes