The Court of Ap­peal has or­dered the Board of In­land Rev­enue (BIR) to re­fund US$481,724.21 in over­paid tax­es to two for­eign com­pa­nies, af­ter find­ing that the tax au­thor­i­ty had been un­just­ly en­riched.

Head of the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion Se­nior Coun­sel Is­rael Khan says the claims made by de­fence at­tor­ney Criston Williams must first be ver­i­fied be­fore the as­so­ci­a­tion can prop­er­ly com­ment.

Rel­a­tives of busi­ness­man Homar­dath Sookdeo con­firmed his iden­ti­ty yes­ter­day af­ter his body was found in some bush­es off Tyri­co Bay on Sun­day.

The par­ents of Sta­cy Sama­roo, whose body was found float­ing in the sea in To­ba­go last Tues­day, are still await­ing word on when the au­top­sy will be per­formed in the sis­ter isle.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a sus­pect­ed homi­cide af­ter a 70-year-old home­less man was found dead at the St Joseph Sec­ondary School on Sun­day.

Po­lice are try­ing to lo­cate a 17-year-old moth­er and her one-year-old ba­by, who went miss­ing from a Home for Women and Chil­dren in South Oropouche last Thurs­day.

An Ari­ma man was killed yes­ter­day morn­ing on his way to court for an at­tempt­ed mur­der charge.

The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) has de­nied spend­ing more than $400,000 on a cor­po­rate re­treat in To­ba­go, re­spond­ing to a Sun­day Guardian in­ves­ti­ga­tion which re­vealed that the com­pa­ny had been in­voiced $436,081.78 for the event held in Jan­u­ary.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with se­nior of­fi­cials of Unit­ed States South­ern Com­mand on Mon­day as part of ef­forts to strength­en co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States in the fight against nar­co-traf­fick­ing and re­gion­al crime.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing as­sis­tance from the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing Rahim Fran­cois.

Po­lice said the vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as An­tho­ny Daniel of Up­per Thoma­sine Street, Laven­tille.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a sus­pect­ed homi­cide af­ter a 70-year-old home­less man was found dead at the aban­doned St Joseph Sec­ondary School on Sun­day.