Month: October 2010

Tobago Development Minister Vernella Alleyne-Toppin is scheduled to act as this country’s Prime Minister for two days starting today. Alleyne-Toppin will create history today as the first female from Tobago to ever hold the position. Alleyne-Toppin will act as Prime Minister during Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s two-day trip to London as chairperson of the Commonwealth.

More robberies continue adding to further fear and frustration as the society tries to come to grasp with the series of gang style murders over recent weeks. Police are hunting for three suspects who carried out a midnight robbery in Mon Repos on the East Coast and in the process shot Steven Ramahlo in the leg. According to statements by the injured man’s wife, Police are trying to piece together a nexus between what they claim to be a similarity in the attack with the one in Cornelia Ida, Thursday last. Two brothers were shot in that robbery.

Four bullets are still lodged in the abdomen of young Bridgemohan Khemlall, who is a patient at the high dependency unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital. TrakkerNews today visited the lad who seemed stable but in a bit of pain as he tried to talk to us from his hospital bed. The 24 year old, said that the doctors told him that his condition was stable although the bullets were still lodged. He told us that they assured him that nothing was seriously damaged and that the bullets are not in a difficult position to extract.