Res­i­dents of Robin­son Lane, Laven­tille, tried in vain to save 84-year-old Elise Mor­ris from a dev­as­tat­ing house fire that en­gulfed her home Thurs­day night. Mor­ris, who used a wheel­chair, was trapped on the top floor when flames erupt­ed around 8.26 pm, ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Charles Ja­son Gor­don has said that any loss of life to vi­o­lence is un­ac­cept­able, re­flect­ing on re­cent mur­ders in­clud­ing the deaths of 11-month-old Jay­den Sut­ton and his fa­ther, Joseph Sut­ton, in Dun­don­ald Hill, St James, ear­li­er this week.

Sev­en­ty-five-year-old Leela Ma­habir has wit­nessed many bless­ings in her life, which she at­trib­ut­es to the di­vine work­ings of Si­pa­ree Mai, al­so known as La Div­ina Pas­to­ra. Since child­hood, she has jour­neyed to Siparia on Good Fri­day to pay homage to the de­ity at the La Div­ina Pas­to­ra Church dur­ing the an­nu­al Si­pa­ree Mai Fes­ti­val.

“Let Je­sus be in your DNA.” That was the mes­sage de­liv­ered by Fa­ther Matthew d’Here­aux yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a Sta­tions of the Cross pro­ces­sion, which con­clud­ed at Har­ris Prom­e­nade.

Econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James said he is not sur­prised that the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) still owes ser­vice providers from the last two elec­tions.

St Fran­cis of As­sisi Ro­man Catholic Parish in San­gre Grande marked Good Fri­day with its an­nu­al Sta­tions of the Cross pro­ces­sion, draw­ing parish­ioners of all ages to re­flect on the events lead­ing to Christ’s cru­ci­fix­ion.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the killing of a 42-year-old man at his home along the East­ern Main Road, Va­len­cia Stretch, San­gre Grande, in the ear­ly hours of Good Fri­day.

Po­lice said Elise Mor­ris, who used a wheel­chair, was on the up­per floor of her home at Robin­son Lane, Suc­cess Vil­lage, at 8.26 pm when the house caught fire.

Po­lice have now iden­ti­fied the six in­di­vid­u­als, among them a woman, who were de­tained fol­low­ing a March 17 raid at a house along Mar­shall Trace, Munroe Road, Cunu­pia, link­ing them to an or­gan­ised crim­i­nal group in­volved in hu­man traf­fick­ing and pros­ti­tu­tion.

While res­i­dents of Dun­don­ald Hill, St James, con­tin­ue to grieve the mur­der of 11-month-old Jay­den Sut­ton, they say they con­tin­ue to live as best as they can, al­though the fear that blood­shed will con­tin­ue de­spite an on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) lingers.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors are try­ing to con­firm the iden­ti­ty of a woman whose body was found along the North Coast Road on Wednes­day night.

Rakesh Jag­ger­nauth ap­peared in court yes­ter­day, charged with the mur­der of Ce­dros crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit.