A fam­i­ly from St John Road, Broth­er’s Road, Rio Claro, re­turned from church on Fri­day morn­ing to find 22-year-old Isa­iah Bi­nasarie dead.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the Mal­oney Po­lice Sta­tion re­ceived a re­port of gun­shots on Sap­phire Av­enue around 7.05 am.

“I feel re­lief.” Those were the words of An­drew Per­sad af­ter learn­ing that the man who mur­dered his 15-year-old autis­tic daugh­ter, Ma­li­ni Per­sad, had tak­en his own life in a po­lice cell.

Hope turned to heart­break for the fam­i­ly of 30-year-old nurse O’delle Lal­man-Bap­tiste, who was kid­napped dur­ing a road­side rob­bery in Carlsen Field, Ch­agua­nas, on Fri­day. She was lat­er found dead, her throat slit and her body bear­ing mul­ti­ple stab wounds.

The Guardian Me­dia elec­tion poll pub­lished in to­day’s Sun­day Guardian was con­duct­ed be­tween April 10 and 13. Apart from the re­sults pub­lished to­day, the num­bers be­hind the num­bers make some in­ter­est­ing read­ing.

A con­fronta­tion dur­ing po­lit­i­cal can­vass­ing in Spey­side turned in­to a po­lice mat­ter on Fri­day af­ter To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) can­di­date for To­ba­go East, David Thomas, re­port­ed be­ing as­sault­ed in­side a house.

Two po­lit­i­cal can­di­dates are fac­ing scruti­ny af­ter al­le­ga­tions sur­faced that they have been cam­paign­ing along­side in­di­vid­u­als with crim­i­nal back­grounds.

The Gov­ern­ment’s launch of a ded­i­cat­ed SME For­eign Ex­change Win­dow through the Ex­port–Im­port Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has been hailed by lo­cal busi­ness lead­ers and PNM can­di­dates as a pos­i­tive step to­ward bol­ster­ing small and medi­um‑sized en­ter­pris­es.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the Mal­oney Po­lice Sta­tion re­ceived a re­port of gun­shots on Sap­phire Av­enue, at around 7.05 am

A fam­i­ly from St John Road, Broth­er’s Road, Rio Claro re­turned from church on Fri­day morn­ing to find 22-year-old Isa­iah Bi­nasarie dead.

The body of O’delle Lal­man-Bap­tiste, the wife of a Point Fortin car deal­er, was found with stab wounds and her throat slit hours af­ter she was kid­napped dur­ing a rob­bery at Carlsen Field, Ch­agua­nas, late Fri­day night.

Armed rob­bers kid­napped O'delle Lal­man-Bap­tiste, the wife of a Point Fortin car deal­er, dur­ing a rob­bery at Carlsen Field, Ch­agua­nas late Fri­day night.