MONDAY 6TH AUGUST 2018

MURDER TOLL: 331
SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR: 291

LAST VICTIM: 62-YEAR-OLD MONICA RUIZ MURDERED AND ROBBED AT HER ARIMA HOME ON SATURDAY 4TH AUGUST, 2018

EDMUND DILLON FIRED AS NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER, REPLACED BY STUART YOUNG: WITH 331 MURDERS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR THUS FAR AND CLOSE TO 1,500 PEOPLE BEING MURDERED UNDER HIS RULE, NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER EDMUND DILLON HAS BEEN FIRED FROM THE NATIONAL SECURITY PORTFOLIO BY PRIME MINISTER DR. KEITH ROWLEY AND REPLACED BY STUART YOUNG. DILLON HAS BEEN ASSIGNED MINISTER OF HOUSING, A PORTFOLIO ONCE HELD BY ROWLEY.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME VIA A RELEASE ISSUED BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER LATE ON SUNDAY WHICH FORMED PARTY OF A MINI CABINET RESHUFFLE WHICH ALSO SAW MINISTER IN THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION MAXIE CUFFIE BEING AXED FROM HIS POSITION AND DEMOTED TO A PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY IN THAT MINISTRY.

GARY GRIFFITH APPOINTED COMMISSIONER OF POLICE LAST FRIDAY: NEWLY APPOINTED COMMISSIONER OF POLICE RETIRED ARMY CAPTAIN GARY GRIFFITH HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN APPOINTED COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ON FRIDAY AFTER HE RECEIVED HIS LETTER OF APPOINTMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION BLISS SEEPERSAD BUT THE INFORMATION ON GRIFFITH’S OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT WAS KEPT A SECRET AND ONLY DISCLOSED TO THE PUBLIC EARLIER TODAY BY THE POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION VIA A PRESS RELEASE.
THE RELEASE STATED GRIFFITH’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT WOULD BE WORKED OUT BY THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL SECURITY. GRIFFITH WAS APPROVED BY THE PARLIAMENT ON MONDAY JULY 30TH TO BECOME THE COUNTRY’S NEXT COMMISSIONER.

MURDER IN VALENCIA EARLIER TODAY AS A GARDNER IS SHOT DEAD: A DISPUTE OVER A PARCEL OF LAND OFF SWAN QUARRY ROAD IN VALENCIA EARLIER TODAY HAS RESULTED IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 35- YEAR-OLD KEVIN HERNANDEZ WHILE TENDING TO CROPS AT SWAN QUARRY ROAD, VALENCIA AROUND 10AM TODAY.
HERNANDEZ AND HIS FRIEND SURESH RAMSINGH AND WERE TENDING TO CROPS WHEN THEY WERE SPOTTED BY THE SUSPECT WHO BEGAN CURSING AT THE TWO MEN AND AN ARGUMENT ENSUED FOLLOWING WHICH THE SUSPECT LEFT AND LATER RETURNED WITH A GUN IN WHICH HE OPENED FIRE ON RAMSINGH AND HERNANDEZ. RAMSINGH FLED THE SCENE WHILE HERNANDEZ WAS SHOT IN THE FACE AND TAKEN TO THE SANGRE GRANDE HOSPITAL BY POLICE WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL.

ARIMA PENSIONER ROBBED MURDERED AT HER HOME ON SATURDAY BY BANDITS: 62-YEAR-OLD ARIMA GRANDMOTHER MONICA RUIZ WAS FOUND DEAD INSIDE HER THOMASOS TERRACE ARIMA HOME WHICH IS POPULAR KNOWN AS “D CONGO” ON SATURDAY BY HER RELATIVES WHO WENT TO CHECK ON HER JUST BEFORE MIDDAY.
POLICE SUSPECT RUIZ MAY HAVE SUFFOCATED AS INTRUDERS HAD BOUND AND GAGGED HER AND STOLE SEVERAL HOUSEHOLD ITEMS SUCH AS FAR TWIN TUB WASHING MACHINE WHICH WASN’T EVEN WORKING, A STOVE AND A REFRIGERATOR. THE DISCOVERY WAS MADE BY ONE OF HER SISTER’S WHO WENT TO GIVE HER A MIDDAY MEAL BUT NOTICED SOMETHING WAS WRONG WHEN SHE SAW A BACK DOOR BROKEN INTO AND SEVERAL ITEMS MISSING.
THE MOTHER OF FOUR HAD TROUBLE MOVING AROUND AND WOULD NEED THE ASSISTANCE OF OTHERS TO DO SO AND IT IS BELIEVED SHE HER HOME WAS INVADED SOMETIME BETWEEN FRIDAY NIGHT AND DURING THE EARLY HOURS ON SATURDAY MORNING.

“CALCUTTA” SHOT DEAD DURING A SHOOTING INCIDENT AT PHASE 7 IN LA HORQUETTA ON SATURDAY: 30-YEAR-OLD KEVIN SCOTT AKA “CALCUTTA” OF 7114 YOLANDE POMPEY AVENUE PHASE 7 LA HORQUETTA WAS GUNNED DOWN ON SATURDAY JUST AFTER 10AM DURING A SHOOTING INCIDENT A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY FROM HIS HOME WHERE HE DIED ON A LAWN ON LA HORQUETTA BOULEVARD.
SCOTT WAS SEATED ON A CHAIR IN COMPANY WITH SEVERAL OTHER PERSONS SON THE MEDIAN AT YOLANDE POMPEY AVE AND LA HORQUETTA BOULEVARD WHEN A WHITE TOYOTA FIELDER DROVE BY AND A MALE OCCUPANT SEATED IN THE RIGHT REAR ALIGHTED WEARING A WHITE HOODIE AND OPENED FIRE ON THE VICTIM WHO RAN WEST ACROSS THE ROADWAY AND COLLAPSED AND DIED.

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