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The residents of St Mary’s Village who protested the deaths of Abigail Johnson, Alana Duncan and Kerron “Fingers” Eccles at the hands of six police officers in 2011 say they

Trinidad and Tobago did not buy ‘cat in bag’ when we hired Mr Gary Griffith. We knew full well what to expect. In October 2015, then Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon reported on his

Squad car mystery: Ex-deputy police commissioner, contractor can help probe Some of the derelict police vehicles stored at the Cumuto impound lot. - PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB Senior police investigators believe a former acting commissioner of police, now retired, and a director of a south-based contracting company might be able to provide useful information to investigators trying to find out how a decommissioned police car ended up back in use escorting heavy machinery. The squad car was removed f...

Trinidad and Tobago High Court rules police raid on newspaper violated constitutional right of press freedom Front page of the “Daily Express” paper, 7 May 2014, Trinidad Express Newspapers/Facebook The Trinidad and Tobago High Court found that a 2020 police raid on the headquarters of the "Daily Express" was unconstitutional and infringed on the outlet’s right to press freedom. This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 18 Fe...

State appeals Express raid ruling Justice Frank Seepersad. FILE PHOTO - THE STATE has appealed a judge’s ruling that a police raid of Express House in March 2020 was illegal and unconstitutional. The appeal was filed on Tuesday by the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Police, and Supt Wendell Lucas of the Financial Investigations Bureau. There are 26 areas of facts and law challenged by the State in its appeal and 36 grounds of appeal which dealt mainly with the judge’s findings on the...

Judge rules police raid on media house unconstitutional Wednesday 13 January 2021 THE police raid on a media house in March last year has been deemed unconstitutional by the court. Justice Frank Seepersad held on Wednesday that the two search warrants obtained by the police for the media house in search of information which could lead them to a journalist’s source were “plainly irregular,” unlawful and unconstitutional, as they disproportionally infringed on the media house’s rights to ...

Judge to rule in January on Express House raid Friday 11 December 2020 A HIGH COURT judge will rule in January on the constitutionality of a police raid on a media house in March. At the end of submissions at the virtual trial on Friday, Justice Frank Seepersad set January 13 for his ruling on the constitutional claim filed by One Caribbean Media Group Ltd, the Trinidad Express Newspapers and editor-in-chief Omatie Lyder against the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Police and Supt Wendell ...