Ornella Greaves -
Police Complaints Authority director David West says the investigation into the fatal shooting of Beetham resident Ornella Greaves on June 30, 2020, was still ongoing. The PCA began its investigation on July 2.
Greaves, 30, was shot during a confrontation between police and protesters at Beetham Gardens. She was part of the protests that followed the police shooting of Joel Jacob, Israel Clinton and Noel Diamond in Morvant on June 27. She was later found to be pregnant. The PCA investigates all police-involved shootings and this particular investigation is ongoing, West told Newsday in a Whatsapp statement on Tuesday.
West was responding to a statement by National Security Minister Stuart Young in the Senate on Tuesday. Young was answering Senator Wade Mark, who had asked for an update into the investigation by the police and the PCA into Greaves’ death.
Judge stops another Venezuelan deportation
Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams. -
A judge has stopped the repatriation of a Venezuelan woman three days after a deportation order was issued for her.
The woman was part of a group of mainly women and children who returned to Trinidad two days after they were escorted out of TT waters by the Coast Guard in November.
On Monday, Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams ordered the State not to take steps to remove the women from the jurisdiction until she hears and determines the woman’s claims for constitutional redress.
The judge also deemed the matter to be fit and requiring the court’s urgent attention.
Crime economist: End gun violence in Tobago
File photo: Anslem Richards
Crime economist Anslem Richards is calling on the Prime Minister, National Security Minister Stuart Young and Police Commissioner Gary Griffith to devise strategies to stop the gun violence in Tobago.
“We have to make sure we have the appropriate resources necessary to stop the development in Tobago,” he told Newsday on Wednesday. “We cannot leave this to fester any deeper in our society. It has to be treated as a priority for the law enforcement community.”
Richards was responding to Monday night’s shooting near Egypt Junction, Bethel, which claimed the life of Ryan Thornhill. Three other men were seriously injured and are being treated at the Scarborough General Hospital.
CoP: Police operating despite $182 million debt
Police Commissioner Gary Griffith.
COMMISSIONER of Police (CoP) Gary Griffith said on Monday, the police service continues to function at optimal levels despite owing suppliers $182 million.
He said Finance Minister Colm Imbert and National Security Minister Stuart Young are doing all they can to help deal with that debt.
Griffith also said Cabinet recently approved new police uniforms which will facilitate the use of body cameras and equipment in keeping with the police s new minimum use of force approach (involving pepper spray and Tasers, before the use of firearms).
Once the police receive the funding they need, Griffith vowed to make it mandatory for officers in all of the frontline units to have body cameras.
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