Raphael Morgan News Today

NOT GUILTY verdicts have been returned in favour of a Tobago man who was on trial accused of kidnapping, falsely imprisoning and raping his common-law wife 15 years ago.

TWO brothers from Debe in south Trinidad, who admitted to causing the death of another brother in 2005, have been ordered by a High Court judge to be released immediately. Brothers Latchmi Persad Ramnarine, also called Scare, and Samraj Ramnarine, also called Clydie, were before Justice Hayden St Clair-Douglas in the San Fernando High Court.

A HIGH COURT judge has warned that youth will not always attract a lighter sentence as she imposed a three-year suspended sentence on an Arima man who pleaded guilty to a 2011 shooting incident which left one man dead and another with a bullet in his arm.

The listing of the 23 for resentencing comes after a committee – comprising Justices Ricky Rahim, sitting in the civil division, and Geoffrey Henderson, in the criminal division – sought to determine which former death-row prisoners who had their sentences commuted to life were entitled to be resentenced.

CHAIRMAN of the Legal Aid and Advisory Authority, Senior Counsel Gilbert Peterson says the Public Defenders’ Department has proven its worth in the last three years and now wants the department, which started off as a pilot project, to have the legislative support to become permanent. The Legal Aid and Advisory Authority is the supervisory

On Tuesday, Justices of Appeal Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, Gregory Smith and Mira Dean-Armorer revoked the $1.2 million bail granted to the Belmont man who made history when a High Court master, in 2022, granted him bail on the charge of murder.

A 32-year-old man was urged to avoid bad company on Wednesday before he was immediately released from prison for his role in a 2005 murder.

A convicted rapist already serving prison time has had four more years added to his sentence for a 2007 assault on a 17-year-old girl in Diego Martin.