The quiet community of Cascade has once again been thrown into shock, after an elderly couple were found chopped to death in their home yesterday. According to police reports, the bodies of 70-year-old Clive and 69-year-old Denise Commissiong, of Hillside Avenue, were discovered by their daughter around midday yesterday.

Scores of relatives turned up on Friday for the sentencing of three Americans who admitted to participating in a complex international criminal conspiracy to defraud the Government of Trinidad and Tobago during the construction of the Piarco Airport project.

The spiraling crime is violently eroding some of the positive gains the country has made, according to president of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Ian Welch.

Forget sex. It can wait. That was the message from soca singer Destra Garcia to a group of high school students yesterday during the Digicel Lyrics and Song exchange at the National Library, Abercromby Street, Port of Spain.

The cold-blooded murders of Woman Police Constable Elizabeth Sutherland, her husband Ivan and daughter Anika was a warning to all police officers involved in various matters against a known gang leader and his relatives.

Jamaican billionaire investor and AIC chairman Michael Lee Chin hinted that his group may be willing to acquire RBTT Financial Holdings if the right opportunity presented itself.

United States prosecutors are building an even more serious case against local businessman Steve Ferguson, who has allegedly attempted to interfere with his prosecution on charges related to the Piarco Airport development project.

American justice came swift for three foreigners who participated in an international criminal conspiracy during the Piarco Airport development project.

No steps are to be taken yet to extradite two local businessmen who are wanted by the United States to face a total of 84 criminal charges arising out of the Piarco Airport development project, a High Court judge yesterday declared.

The State has dropped the main charges against two local businessmen accused of fraud during the Piarco Airport construction project, tying up loose ends to allow their extradition to the United States.