TUESDAY 9TH JULY 2019

MURDER TOLL: 269
SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR: 294

1,318 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN LAVENTILLE ALONE IN THE PAST 10 YEARS AND A HALF SAID LAVENTILLE WEST MP FITZGERALD HINDS DURING A FUNCTION AT THE BASKET BALL COURT AT ST BARB’S IN LAVENTILLE EARLIER TODAY: HINDS MADE THE DISCLOSURE DURING A PUBLIC MEETING IN WHICH HE SAID STATISTICS FROM THE POLICE CRIME AND PROBLEM ANALYSIS UNIT SHOWED THAT FROM 2008 TO TODAY 1,318 "BROTHERS AND SISTERS" IN LAVENTILLE HAVE BEEN MURDERED.
HE ADDED THAT 1,232, OR 93.47 PER CENT, WERE KILLED WITH GUNS WHILE 43 WITH THE USE OF SHARP INSTRUMENTS AND 26 WITH BLUNT FORCE. IN 2008, HINDS SAID, 192 PERSONS WERE MURDERED IN LAVENTILLE ALONE. IN THAT YEAR, THE COUNTRY RECORDED A RECOD HIGH OF 550.

A 2-YEAR-OLD TODDLER HAS SUCCUM BED TO INJURIES SHE SUSTAINED WHEN SHE WAS CRUSHED BY A VEHICLE OUTSIDE HER ARIMA HOME OVER THE WEEKEND: 2-YEAR-OLD BABY GIRL AMARA REASON LOST HER BATTLE WITH LIFE WHILE WARDED AT THE MT. HOPE HOSPITAL EARLIER TODAY SEVERAL DAYS AFTER SHE WAS CRITICALLY INJURED AND DECLARED BRAIN DEAD AFTER SHE SUSTAINED MASSIVE HEAD AND BRAIN INJURIES WHEN SHE WAS CRUSHED BY A NISSAN FRONTIER NEAR HER ARIMA HOME ON SATURDAY 6TH JULY.
BABY AMARA WAS ON LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES AT THE ICU OF THE CHILDREN’S PAEDIATRIC HOSPITAL AND DIED AROUND 3:30AM TODAY FROM MASSIVE HEAD AND BRAIN INJURY. SHE HAD BEEN DECLARED BRAIN DEAD BY DOCTORS BUT HER RELATIVES WERE PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE AND HOPED SHE WOULD HAVE PULLED THROUGH.
POLICE AROUND 10:15AM, A NISSAN FRONTIER, DRIVEN BY 29-YEAR-OLD PATRICK BAPTISTE WHO IS FROM THE AREA, WAS PROCEEDING SOUTH ALONG LA RETREAT ROAD WHEN IT CAME INTO CONTACT WITH BABY AMARA WHO SUSTAINED BLEEDING TO THE BRAIN, A BROKEN COLLAR BONE, TWO FRACTURES TO HER VERTEBRAL COLUMN, 2 LACERATIONS TO HER LIVER AND MULTIPLE ABRASIONS ABOUT THE BODY.

MEANWHILE: 10-MONTH-OLD JAVIER CASTILLO, A VENEZUELAN TODDLER, REMAINS WARDED IN CRITICAL CONDITION AT THE SAN FERNANDO GENERAL HOSPITAL AFTER HE SUSTAINED MULTIPLE HEAD INJURIES WHEN HE FELL FROM A BALCONY WHILE PLAYING WITH HIS 5-YEAR-OLD BROTHER AT THEIR NEW GRANT MORUGA HOME ON SUNDAY 7TH JULY.

THE MAN FOUND DEAD OUTSIDE THE ERIN POLICE STATION ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON WAS MURDERED, AN AUTOPSY AT THE FORENSIC SCIENCE CENTRE IN ST JAMES REVEALED: 54-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH ADAMS AKA “HARDY” A DRUG ABUSER OF ST FRANCIS VILLAGE, ERIN, DIED FROM MULTIPLE STAB INJURIES ABOUT THE BODY JUST OUTSIDE THE ERIN POLICE STATION AT ERIN JUNCTION ON SUNDAY 7TH JULY, A POST MORTEM ON HIS BODY HAS REVEALED. POLICE HAD INITIALLY SUSPECT THAT HARDY, WHO WAS FOUND DEAD AROUND 4:15PM NEAR THE ERIN POLICE STATION, MAY HAVE DIED FROM A DRUG OVER DOSE AFTER NO VISIBLE MARKS OF VIOLENCE HAD BEEN SEEN ON HIS BODY EVEN THOUGH BLOOD WAS OOZING FROM HIS NOSE.
HOWEVER, THE DMO, WHO EXAMINED HIS BODY ON SUNDAY ORDERED AN AUTOPSY IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE EXACT CAUSE OF DEATH. POLICE SAID THEY GOT INFORMATION THAT HARDY HAD BEEN THROWING OBJECTS AT PASSING VEHICLES AT ERIN JUNCTION AND MAY HAVE BEEN ATTACKED AS A RESULT OF HIS ACTIONS. CPL BRIDGEMOHAN OF THE REGION III HOMICIDE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS IS PROBING THE INCIDENT.

ONE BANDIT IS DEAD AND ANOTHER UNDER POLICE GUARD AT HOSPITAL AFTER A BOTCHED ROBBERY AT A COUVA JEWELRY STORE EARLIER TODAY: A SECURITY GUARD SHOT AND KILLED ONE BANDIT AND WOUNDED HIS ACCOMPLICE DURING AN ARMED ROBBERY ATTEMPT AT SAVI’S JEWELERY STORE IN COUVA ON TUESDAY 9TH JULY. THE DEAD MAN HAD NOT BEEN IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIED BY POLICE WHILE THE INJURED SUSPECT IS 23-YEAR-OLD MARK ANTONIO GIBBS AKA MARKIE OF GILL TRACE LAMONT STREET LONGDENVILLE CHAGUANAS.
AROUND 10.30 AM, TWO BANDITS ENTERED SAVI'S JEWELLERY STORE ALONG THE SOUTHERN MAIN ROAD IN COUVA AND HELD UP THE CLERKS. BEFORE THEY HAD THE CHANCE TO TAKE ANYTHING, A SECURITY GUARD CONFRONTED THEM AND SHOTS WERE FIRED.
ONE OF THE BANDITS DIED AT THE SCENE WHILE THE OTHER WAS TAKEN TO THE COUVA HEALTH FACILITY BY PARAMEDICS UNDER POLICE GUARD AND A FIREARM WAS FOUND AT THE SCENE.

ON ASH WEDNESDAY: 16-YEAR-OLD KEVON SIMMONS OF CON-CERNED CITIZENS STREET, CALIFORNIA, COUVA AND 23-YEAR-OLD CURTIS JAMES AKA “DUMB DUMB” OF RAILWAY ROAD, COUVA, WERE SHOT DEAD BY POLICE INSIDE TIANA’S JEWELLERY STORE ALONG THE COUVA MAIN ROAD AROUND 5:30AM ON WEDNESDAY MARCH 6TH DURING AN ALLEGED SHOOTOUT WITH OFFICERS.