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Tobago police are interviewing several people in connection with the robbery at the Silver Dollar casino, Shirvan Plaza, on Monday, in which thieves made off with more than $92,000 in cash.
A senior police officer told Newsday on Wednesday surveillance footage of the men entering Shirvan Plaza from the back of the building is also being reviewed.
'The footage is not of the very best but they are trying,' the officer said.
Police reported that around 11.55 pm, three men, one of whom had a gun and another, a knife, entered the casino, on the first floor of the plaza and demanded money from one of the employees.
They later stole an estimated $92,000 in cash from a vault.
The men then ran out of the building with the cash.
Newsday was told that several managers and other employees are still traumatised by the incident.
Jeffrey Azar, owner of Shirvan Plaza, is said to be out of the country and could not be reached for comment.
Officers of the Shirvan CID are investigating.
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President Joe Biden announced a program to provide student debt relief to millions of borrowers of federal loans.
In an Instagram reel earlier this month, Love & Hip Hop star and entrepreneur Yandy Smith-Harris seems to suggest that there is another man in her life other than her husband, Mendeecees Harris. https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChBJ1_YgYD8/ “This is important because I feel like this is gonna end up on the blogs anyway,” Smith-Harris says in the reel.“I […]
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Atlanta’s first Black-owned bank is still standing…for now Through graffiti and cracked glass it’s hard to read the signage above the door at 229 Auburn Avenue. The gray clouds and rain on a Friday afternoon in mid-August don’t help either. The original location of the Atlanta State Savings Bank, the first chartered, Black-owned bank in […]
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This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. P.J. Moton-Poole has worked in public health for 16 years, serving communities through educating and increasing access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment. “I have always desired to be a luminous connector, using everything I have learned up to this point to continue to light a path forward and build a better road for those who come behind me, particularly those who belong to the same communities that I belong to or come from,” he says. “As a Black queer man living with HIV, I bring a unique perspective to this role [because I’ve] lived many of the struggles faced by the communities we serve at ViiV [Healthcare] .” The communities he helps in his role as Senior Manager of U.S. External Affairs are the ones most disproportionately impacted by HIV — Black and Latinx communities, people living in southern states, women, youth and men who have sex with men. Moton-Poole manages grants and programs that assist community...
MANAGEMENT at the Port of Spain City Corporation spent Wednesday morning in meetings to decide how to address security concerns after the murder of Delano Pierre.
Police said Pierre, 46, of Jubilee Street, Gonzales was gunned down at about 2 pm as he was driving out of the corporation’s divisional headquarters at the corner of Quarry and Observatory Streets, Port of Spain. He died in the corporation’s Hyundai truck after two men shot him at least seven times and ran off.
A relative of Pierre said his family had moved out of Gonzales years ago and settled in Maloney. About 20 years ago, with increasing violence in Maloney, he decided to return to his home town and settled there.
The father of three was killed for that decision as police said he was not involved in criminal activities but was killed because he lived in Gonzales.
On Wednesday, Port of Spain mayor Joel Martinez said he met with the corporation’s CEO and others after some of the 400 employees at the compound stayed away from work because of the killing.
“Some of the employees felt a bit uncomfortable coming to work and that is understandable. The situation right now is very fluid and we will be meeting again tomorrow on the issue.”
Martinez said Pierre was a “nice guy” who was well loved by his colleagues.
Pierre is the second corporation employee murdered while at work simply because of where they lived.
On October 13 last year, Nizam Ali Cadette, 32, was at Laventille Road at about 7.35 am when two men ran out of Lovell Place and shot him. Cadette, a sanitation worker of Bath Street died at the Port of Spain General Hospital.
He was killed because of gang war where residents of Bath Street were not allowed to venture into Leau Place, Quarry Street, Rose Hill and Lovell Place. Residents of those areas were also barred from entering Bath Street.
After Cadette’s killing, the corporation sanctioned police officers assigned to the Municipal Police to accompany some of its sanitation contractors.
Speaking with Newsday on Wednesday, councillor Clint Baptiste, who represents the area Cadette was killed and was part of the meeting to address the security concerns then, said security lasted for just about a month.
He said when the violence subsided, the need for security waned. With Pierre’s killing, the corporation will be meeting with heads of the city police to mitigate fears.
Baptiste said, while the violence subsided, one sanitation contractor asked to be switched with another contractor from collecting garbage in the Laventille area.
Martinez said the corporation workers were grieving, having lost five co-workers between October last year and Tuesday, all owing to gun violence.
The post PoS City Corp meets to discuss security concerns after worker killed appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
By Samuel Williams Jr., Special to the AFRO D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) officials are taking no chances with potential COVID-19 outbreaks as they prepare to open. DCPS used the summer […]
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Compton-based, Pucker Up Lemonade Company handcrafts over sixty different flavors of lemonade, iced tea, and infused waters that you’ll get to try at this year’s 2022 Taste of Soul Festival coming on October 15th.
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'Where we have been situated and who we have been over time has always been an organization committed to the love and liberation of Black people.'
A White Florida sheriff’s deputy, who was filmed pulling a gun on a pregnant Black mother in the presence of her three children following a traffic stop, has tendered his resignation. According to NBC News, the traffic stop was recorded by one of Ebony Washington’s children. Another child was also heard crying during the encounter....
