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Utilda Joseph, 96, was found dead at her Quarry Village, Siparia, home by a neighbour. - Damien Jones The funeral of Utilda “Miss Tilda” Joseph, the 96-year-old woman murdered at her Siparia home over the weekend, is scheduled for Saturday. The viewing of the body takes place at the Universe RC Church in Quarry Village at 10.30 am, followed by the service from 11 am. Relatives said the body would later be taken to the Siparia cemetery for burial. An autopsy at the Forensic Sciences Centre in St James found she had been strangled. Joseph, who would have turned 97 next month, lived alone a...

[UPDATED] Community shocked as ex-fireman killed outside Chaguanas bar Mervyn Prescott - The shooting death of ex-fireman Mervyn Prescott on Monday night outside a bar in Charlieville, Chaguanas, sparked outrage by residents and relatives, saying the killer took the life of an innocent man. "Why can’t people live in peace?" his bereaved wife Maria Bruce, 72, said on Tuesday. Prescott, a father of two, turned 76 in February. Bruce spoke briefly to Newsday at the family’s home at Savannah Heights in Charlieville. The mother of two said people are killing people anywhere. "You are in your h...

Murdered runaway teen tested positive for covid19 SHOT DEAD: Antonio Francois. - AYANNA KINSALE ONE of the two teens who ran away from a Children’s Authority safe house, only to be murdered later, tested positive for the covid19 virus, his mother told Newsday. When Newsday contacted Nicole Brathwaite about the funeral arrangements for her son Antonio Francois, she said that as a result of the covid19 positive test there are concerns about the intended burial of her last child and only son. “They told me he was positive but I did not see any documentation and they did not put that on the d...

- The seven-year-old boy who witnessed the killing of his mother, 35-year-old Adeina Adana Alleyne, on Tuesday evening, desperately tried to save her life. The petite child tried to pull away his father, Dwight “Quan” Waldron, 34, who was chopping and stabbing Alleyne. The child was no match for his father, a security officer. Relatives told Newsday the boy then ran outside and alerted residents. The family’s spokesman Leon Phillip said, “He keeps repeating what he saw. He says Daddy was chopping Mummy. He said he was very frightened. “Today, he was in good spirits. He was playing...

Man shot dead in Santa Cruz A 24-YEAR-OLD Santa Cruz man has been murdered. Police said they received reports of gunshots being fired at Donald Avenue, Sam Boucaud Road in Santa Cruz at around 9 pm on Wednesday. Santa Cruz police visited the scene and found Justin Weekes dead on the ground, with a gunshot wound to his head. The district medical officer later ordered the body removed to the Forensic Sciences Centre in St James for autopsy. This is the seventh murder committed this week. Over that period, one man was shot dead in Tobago on Monday, five people were shot and killed in unrelated i...