“I felt shocked, sur­prised and elat­ed, the fact that I had just topped SEA To­ba­go,” she said calm­ly, seat­ed be­tween her proud par­ents, Dex­ter Dun­can and Leslie No­ray-Dun­can, in the fam­i­ly’s Sig­nal Hill home.

Two days af­ter he was re­port­ed miss­ing, Scot Ram­baran was found dead in­side the ve­hi­cle in Cen­teno yes­ter­day.

George made the com­ment yes­ter­day dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence at his Dun­don­ald Street, Port-of-Spain of­fices, a day af­ter he was grant­ed $150,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court on charges of in­de­cent as­sault and griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault.

A 39-year-old fish­er­man was gunned down ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing, soon af­ter re­turn­ing from a night at sea, spark­ing re­newed con­cerns about the safe­ty and con­di­tions at the Car­li Bay fish­ing fa­cil­i­ties.Po­lice said Calvin Sankar, of Ceme­tery Street, was am­bushed and shot around 3.20 am in front of the fish­ing de­pot. He died at the scene. Sankar, who lived alone and had no chil­dren, was well-known in the lo­cal fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty.Car­li Bay Fish­ing As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Im­ti­az Khan yes­ter­day voiced out­rage over the state of the fish­ing fa­cil­i­ties and the lack of se­cu­ri­ty in the area. He de­scribed the in­fra­struc­ture as “de­plorable” and poor­ly lit — a con­di­tion he be­lieves con­tributed to the mur­der.Khan re­vealed that un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion, the Fish­eries Di­vi­sion had con­duct­ed an es­ti­mate for in­stalling light­ing tow­ers, but the project was aban­doned due to cost con­cerns.“We’ve lost an­oth­er life. How many more do we have to lose be­fore any­thing is done to make things bet­ter?” Khan asked.Khan claimed sev­er­al vi­o­lent in­ci­dents have oc­curred at the fish­ing fa­cil­i­ty since 2018, yet au­thor­i­ties have failed to im­ple­ment mean­ing­ful se­cu­ri­ty im­prove­ments. He added that the as­so­ci­a­tion had met with the then-min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty in 2021, but he’s hop­ing to en­gage with the heads of se­cu­ri­ty un­der the new Gov­ern­ment.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the death of 63-year-old Mathu­ra Ram­lo­gan, who was crushed by a truck near his Pe­nal home on Sat­ur­day, as he tried to help a pass­ing mo­torist.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has de­clared its full sup­port for new­ly ap­point­ed act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Jee­van Joseph, fol­low­ing sharp crit­i­cism from for­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les.

A man who was re­leased from prison back in De­cem­ber, and whom it was be­lieved had re­cent­ly is­sued threats to gang mem­bers at Mara­cas Bay over drug turf, was gunned down on Wednes­day.

Al­though res­i­dents of Blue Spruce Street, Pine Ridge Heights, Lopinot, were yes­ter­day mourn­ing the mur­der of a busi­ness­man at his home, they claimed not to be scared al­though the main sus­pect lives in the area.

For­mer Ca­lyp­so Monarch Du­ane O’Con­nor has suf­fered a sec­ond de­feat in his le­gal bat­tle over fac­ing a dis­ci­pli­nary charge for seek­ing to con­test the lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tions in 2019. 

Dou­bles ven­dor Latisha Nor­eiga is ex­plor­ing her le­gal op­tions af­ter city po­lice re­moved her stall from the Bri­an Lara Prom­e­nade on Wednes­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced that Gov­ern­ment will seek to raise the le­gal drink­ing age in T&T from 18 to 21. Leg­is­la­tion is ex­pect­ed to be in­tro­duced fol­low­ing the re­sump­tion of Par­lia­ment in Sep­tem­ber.

Al­most two months af­ter a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in­volv­ing the daugh­ter of a South busi­ness­man, a Mara­bel­la man has been charged.