Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, and two oth­ers lost their lives in a house fire ear­ly this morn­ing.

In a hor­ri­fy­ing home in­va­sion, thieves stormed Am­i­na Mo­hammed’s Cou­va home bare-hand­ed, smashed a kitchen win­dow, and stabbed her to death with her own knife, even af­ter they ob­tained $10,000 in cash and jew­ellery dur­ing a Sat­ur­day night rob­bery.

As news spread of the bru­tal killing of Am­i­na Mo­hammed, Cou­va res­i­dents ex­pressed shock and fear about the state of crime in T&T.

This was how griev­ing Sea Lots res­i­dents yes­ter­day de­scribed the trag­ic drown­ing of two-year-old AJ Charles in a swim­ming pool in the area.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says it rais­es eye­brows that the Prime Min­is­ter’s friend, busi­ness­man Al­lan Warn­er, is one of the lo­cal con­trac­tors sup­ply­ing con­crete for the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ex­pan­sion project in To­ba­go.

Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed (GML) copped four Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and Broad­cast­ing In­dus­try (TBI) awards dur­ing the sec­ond edi­tion of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (TATT) awards held on Sat­ur­day evening at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain.

New­ly re-ap­point­ed Di­rec­tor of the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty David West de­clined to com­ment yes­ter­day on crit­i­cism lev­elled against him by Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) has moved to dis­pel spec­u­la­tion re­gard­ing its in­volve­ment in a for­mal coali­tion with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and oth­er po­lit­i­cal groups. 

The Val­sayn res­i­dence of kid­napped pen­sion­er Za­hir Khan re­mained locked up yes­ter­day, with on­ly a watch­man in­ter­fac­ing with the pub­lic from be­hind two locked gates even as po­lice of­fi­cers car­ried out ex­ten­sive is­land-wide search­es for the vic­tim.

While Sat­ur­day’s rob­bery at Flagstaff Hill Res­i­dences, Long Cir­cu­lar Road, St James, left peo­ple in the pri­vate de­vel­op­ment feel­ing un­easy—at least one res­i­dent doesn’t be­lieve the rest of the oc­cu­pants in the gat­ed com­pound are in dan­ger.

Hours be­fore pen­sion­er Am­i­na Mo­hammed was killed by armed men dur­ing a dead­ly home in­va­sion on Sat­ur­day night in Cou­va, a Mar­aval man was killed in a sim­i­lar man­ner.

Po­lice said Kendell Corke, 37, of Par­adise Lane had stopped out­side his house around 2 am yes­ter­day and was just about to ex­it the ve­hi­cle when he was shot in the head and body.