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Relatives of Chavelle Mitcham are plunged into mourning. 

Miss Mitchum and her unborn baby lost their lives in a crash, on the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway yesterday

Reports say at around 7:45 Miss Mitcham’s Suzuki Swift crashed into  a utility pole, while she was on her way to work in the East.

Miss Mitcham was a pharmacy technician who lived at Sobo Circular Road Chinese Village.

She was said to be five months pregnant.

Reports are saying the woman attempted to avoid a collision by pulling away from another vehicle.

Her vehicle flipped several times before crashing into the pole, it then landed on its hood.

Miss Mitcham was a Pharmacy Technician who lived at Sobo Circular Road Chinese Village

She was removed from the wreckage and taken to the Couva district health facility where she was pronounced dead.

The road traffic death tally so far this year is being put at, 23 compared to 31 for the same period in 2022.

An accident off the North Coast road was a close call for the driver and occupants of an SUV.

The accident occurred yesterday.

The driver says she lost brakes but her quick thinking made her bank the vehicle, possibly saving her life and those of two children and three other adults.

All the occupants of the SUV are from Sangre Grande and they were going to Paragrant Bay.

Assistant Chief Fire Officer Earl Sampson was on the scene.

The driver’s brother was travelling in another vehicle and he saw what occurred.

Curtis Horsford says he heard the screams of the children in the SUV.

Acfo Sampson said emergency tenders were dispatched.

Officer Sampson said thankfully no one was seriously injured.

Police have identified the two men killed during a battle between gunmen along a major thoroughfare as Shamba Chandler and Carlsbury Lewis

The men were killed on the Churchill Roosevelt highway near the Piarco intersection on Sunday night

According to police, the gun battle between the occupants of a Nissan Almera and a Mazda 6, began near Oropoune Gardens at around 8pm. 

The occupants from both vehicles shot at each other while the cars were in motion.

Reports are that during the exchange of gunfire the Almera, which was being pursued, crashed at the Piarco lights.

As the first car came to a halt, the men from the mazda-6, alighted and fired shots at the two occupants inside the Almera killing them on the spot

Police recovered some 20 spent shells at the scene

Police say Mr. Lewis was known to them.

Lawmen have described him as a thief, hustler and known driver for criminals.

Investigators have also described Mr. Chandler as someone involved in multiple shootings and criminal activities.

The assailants remain at large. 

The state of Trinidad and Tobago is awarded almost $1 billion by the Miami courts, in government’s successful Piarco civil asset forfeiture case.

This is confirmed in the final judgment now issued in the Miami-Dade Circuit Court by Judge Reemberto Diaz.

The defendants in the matter–businessman Steve Ferguson, former Minister Brian Kuei Tung and US businessman Raul Gutierrez Jr.

The jury concluded that all three were liable on racketeering claims  and must now pay US$32,385,988 in damages suffered by Trinidad and Tobago

But this increased the damages awarded to the state and it is now multiplied by three.

A reported communication issue may have led to the postponement of a seminar aimed at discussing the return Trinidad and Tobago nationals trapped in war zones in the Middle East.

The seminar was to be held last Thursday at the University Of Southern Caribbean in Maracas St. Joseph.

Among those carded to participate were former speaker of the House of Representatives Nizam Mohammed and former Police Commissioner Gary Griffith.

Seventh day Adventist Pastor Clive Dottin was to be the moderator

He had no definitive word on what led to the postponement.

The seminar was being hosted by the USC.

Pastor Dottin finds the postponement unfortunate and hopes it comes off eventually.

He feels the issue of bringing nationals home from Syria is a serious one.

Government has already put together a committee to make arrangements, for the return of close to one hundred nationals home.

Mr. Mohammed heads that committee.

Residents of Ali Drive in Aranguez are in high praise for the police service today. 

The timely response of the TTPS led to the death of a suspected bandit and the arrest of five alleged accomplices.

Reports say the six men stormed a family’s home on Ramlal Street Aranguez on Sunday night.

One shaken family relative spoke with TV6 news yesterday.

She said the attack happened as the family was about to have their dinner.  

Giving a detailed account of the ordeal, the woman concluded that the neighborhood What’s App group chat saved her family’s life.  

Senior Supt Mervyn Edwards in charge of the North Eastern Division yesterday confirmed.

Senior Supt Edwards confirmed his officers encountered the men at around 9 pm, when their getaway car crashed.

A loaded glock pistol was seized at the scene

Senior Supt Edwards noted that new strategies are in place and criminals will be apprehended.

Police say the unidentified injured suspect was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, where he died while undergoing treatment.

And officers of the Cunupia station have held two men believed to be suspects in another home invasion.

The officers say they were conducting patrols along Warren Road last Sunday afternoon, when they responded to a report that a group of men robbed elderly people at a house nearby.

During their response they saw a group of men running along the roadway.

They said the suspects fired shots at them and they returned fire, one of the suspects was wounded.

Another man was later discovered hiding under a parked vehicle.

A highway chase leads to a double murder.

So far, police have only identified one of the deceased, he is Shamba Chandler.

According to police, the gun battle began near Oropune Gardens at around 8pm.

Police say the occupants from two vehicles shot at each other while driving on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway. 

Reports are that during the exchange one of the vehicles, an Almera crashed at the Piarco lights.

As the first car came to a halt, the men from the other car, a Mazda-6 car got out and fired shots at the two occupants inside the Nissan Almera. Killing them on the spot.

Police are yet to release the name of the other deceased.  

The assailants remain at large. 

On this Holy Thursday at the start of the Easter weekend, fish sales are said to be slow.

According to interim President of the Felicity Charlieville Fishing Association Soomraj Balram, it is due in part to overfishing and piracy.

He says, uncontrolled fishing practices are having a negative impact on stock.

Mr. Balram also tells of another threat to the trade…pirates.

Mr. Balram believes different celebrations among the various groups in the society, may have also contributed to the slow sales of the traditional Good Friday items.

Mr. Balram says, there are two more days to go for lent so fishermen will just wait to see what happens.

He was speaking with News Centre Five yesterday.

Police are now investigating the shooting deaths of two men and the wounding of a pregnant 16-year-old girl.

The incident occurred at freeman road, in St Augustine yesterday afternoon.

It is reported that 21-year-old Daniel Riley and his girlfriend, said to be eight months pregnant, was at a vegetable stall in the area.

A group of men approached Mr. Riley and shot him.

His teenage girlfriend was also hit.

Mr. Riley’s mother, Helen and his 16 year old brother were nearby when they heard the explosions.

Checks later revealed Mr. Riley, his girlfriend and another man were hit.

Dead are the unidentified man and Mr. Riley

The pregnant girl is now hospitalized. Up to last night she was listed in a critical condition.