CRIME WATCH LIVE IN TOBAGO- MONDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER 2019
MURDER TOLL: 393
SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR: 393
IAN ALLEYNE WAS LIVE IN SCARBOROUGH, TOBAGO WHERE HE VISTED PERONS THAT WAS AFFECTED BY FLOODS AFTER TROPICAL STORM KAREN.
HEAVY RAINS CAUSED BY TROPICAL STORM KAREN, BATTERED THE SISTER ISLE TOBAGO AND SEVERAL COMMUNITIES IN TRINIDAD CAUSING SEVERAL RIVERS TO BURST THEIR BANKS FLOODING HOMES AND CAUSING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGE AND LOSS ON SUNDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER:
AT 3PM YESTERDAY, THE MET OFFICE DISCONTINUED ITS WARNING FOR TROPICAL STORM KAREN BUT THE NATION WAS PLACED ON A RED ALERT FOR RIVERINE FLOODING BECAUSE OF THE MAJOR RAINFALL THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY WHICH LED TO THE SUBSEQUENT CLOSURE OF ALL PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS TODAY.
THE MET OFFICE HAD INSTITUTED A RIVERINE FLOOD WARNING RED ALERT FOR TRINIDAD. A RIVERINE FLOODING IS A SIGNIFICANT THREAT FOR AREAS NEAR MAJOR RIVER COURSES AND TRIBUTARIES.
RIVER LEVELS, THE MET OFFICE SAID, ARE NEAR THRESHOLD AND FURTHER RAIN IS EXPECTED. IT SAID THAT PROPERTIES IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING MAY BECOME INUNDATED AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ADVISED TO MAKE PREPARATIONS.
THE MET OFFICE SAID THAT A TROPICAL STORM WARNING WAS IN EFFECT FOR GRENADA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES AND ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES; WHILE A TROPICAL STORM WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE US VIRGIN ISLANDS, PUERTO RICO THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS.
ONE MONTH’S RAIN IN ONE DAY- THAT WAS THE EXTEND OF THE RAIN DUMPED ON TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO AS HURRICANE KAREN MADE ITS WAY THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN SEA, SEVERAL MILES OFF THE COAST OF TOBAGO ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND.
TOBAGO WAS HIT THE HARDEST AS HEAVY SHOWERS POUNDED THE ISLAND ON SUNDAY CAUSING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGE AND LOSS:
• THERE WERE AT LEAST 60 POWER OUTAGES ON THE ISLAND AS TREES FELL TAKING DOWN UTILITY POLES AND LIES ACROSS THE ISLAND.
• DOWN TOWN SCARBOROUGH WAS SEVERELY FLOODED INCLUDING THE PORT, SCOTIA BANK, T&TEC’S COMPOUND AND THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DIVISION’S SCARBOROUGH OFFICE.
• SEVERAL COSTAL AREAS ON THE ISLAND INCLUDING MT IRVINE BAY, ROCKY VALE, MASON HALL, PLYMOUTH AND LOW LANDS COMMUNITIES ALSO FELT THE WRATH OF HURRICANE KAREN’S PASSAGE.
• AT LEAST ONE JETTY ON THE ISLAND COLLAPSED AND THERE WERE REPORTS THAT SEVERAL SMALL BOATS HAD SUNK AFTER BEING BATTERED BY ROUGH SEAS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL FOR HOURS.
BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS: RICHARD CHIN ATTONG OF BELMONT CIRCULAR ROAD, BELMONT AND AN EMPLOYEE WITH MECALFAB AT QUEEN STREET PORT OF SPAIN, WHO WAS KIDNAPPED BY TWO ME N WHO BUNDLED HIM INTO HIS NISSAN NAVARA PICK UP NEAR HIS HOME AROUND 6AM ON MONDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER, HAS BEEN POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS THE MAN’S WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND OFF SADDLE ROAD IN SANTA CRUZ ON FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER.
ATTONG WAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED BY RELATIVES EARLIER TODAY AT THE FORENSIC SCIENCES CENTRE AND AN AUTOPSY IS EXPECTED TO BE CONDUCTED ON HIS BODY ON WEDNESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER.
A WELL KNOWN BANDIT AND A SUSPECT INVOLVED IN MULTIPLE HOMICIDES IDENTIFIED AS TESFA WRIGHT WAS SHOT DEAD AT PHASE 4 IN LA HORQUETTA ON MONDAY SEPT 23RD AFTER HE TRIED TO ROB AND OFF-DUTY POLICE OFFICER. WRIGHT, HAD BEEN ARRESTED BY HOMICIDE DETECTIVES PREVIOUSLY IN CONNECTION WITH 3 MURDERS BUT WAS RELEASED BECAUSE OF A LACK OF EVIDENCE. A 9MM PISTOL WAS FOUND AT THE SCENE.
ENTERPRISE STREET, ENTERPRISE CHAGUANAS: A MAN WAS FOUND MURDERED AND WRAPPED IN A BED SHEET AT HIS CHAGUANAS HOME EARLIER TODAY: 42-YEAR-OLD BRYAN MOHAN WAS FOUND MURDERED AT HIS ENTERPRISE STREET ENTERPRISE CHAGUANAS HOME ON MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23RD HOURS AFTER HE WAS KILLED AND WRAPPED IN SEVERAL BED SHEETS.
CIRCLE DRIVE, LADY HAILES AVENUE EMBACADERE SAN FERNANDO: MAXI TAXI DRIVER SHOT DEAD AND HIS VEHICLE BURNT EARLY ON SATURDAY: MAXI TAXI DRIVER CLYDE RICHARD DENNIS OF MACAULAY ROAD, CLAXTON BAY WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH AND HIS MAXI TAXI ON FIRE AT CIRCLE DRIVE EMBACADERE ON SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED SHORTLY AFTER 4AM BEFORE AN ARGUMENT WAS HEARD FOLLOWED BY A LOUD EXPLOSION. RESIDENTS IN THE AREA PAID NO MIND TO THE GUNSHOT SINCE SUCH IS A REGULAR OCCURRENCE. HOWEVER, SECONDS LATER THEY HEARD A CRASHING SOUND AND LATER SAW DENNIS’ MAXI TAXI REGISTRATION HAX 6797 A 12-SEATER MAXI, ON FIRE AFTER IT CRASHED ON THE WALL OF THE ROODAL CEMETERY.
FIRE OFFICERS WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE AND WHILE EXTINGUISHING THE BLAZE THE OFFICERS SAW DENNIS’ BODY LYING ON A GRASSY AREA TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE CEMETERY. SNR SUPT WAYNE MOHAMMED AND ASP THEODORE-PERSAD OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION WERE AMONG THE OFFICERS WHO VISITED THE SCENE.
WATERLOO ROAD, BOUNDARY ROAD, AROUCA: A MAN WAS SHOT DEAD AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE IN AROUCA ON FRIDAY NIGHT: 32-YEAR-OLD JOVAUGHN PAMPONETTE AKA “LOGGER”, DID NOT ESCAPE THE LAST ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE, AS HE WAS GUNNED DOWN IN AROUCA ON FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER.
AROUND 8.15 PM, A GUNMAN WALKED UP TO PAMPONETTE, WHO WAS AT BOUNDARY ROAD, AROUCA, AND SHOT HIM. THE GUNMAN