Drug dealers have killed a 16-year-old Princes Town youth, slicing off two of his fingers and chopping him four times to the back of his head.

A High Court judge yesterday poured scorn on a man who repeatedly raped a nine-year-old relative, sending him to jail for 15 years.

The sale of the Government?s stake in the Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT) seems a likely possibility, as the State reconsiders its role in the national telecom carrier.

The checkered pasts of a man and his nephew caught up with them yesterday when they were both shot dead by a party of patrolling police officers who reportedly had information that they were about to commit a robbery.

In yet another address to the nation, one of several in the 19 months of his current administration on the as-yet-unmanageable crime menace plaguing the country, Prime Minister Patrick Manning last week purported to present yet another plan of attack.

A man who attempted to pass through a hole in a fence which prevents people from crossing the Western Main Road near the vicinity of the Bayshore Towers, Cocorite was hit by a car on Saturday morning and died at the Port of Spain General yesterday.

Four killings in less than 12 hours, extending from Valencia in the east to Cocorite in the west, kept police officers busy over the Emancipation Day holiday yesterday.

Fourteen years after 114 members of the Yasin Abu Bakr-led Jamaat al Muslimeen attempted a violent overthrow of the then NAR Government, this country still doesn't know the identities of those involved in acts of complicity before, during and after the bloody events of July 1990 or even the exact number of people killed in those six days of Muslimeen terror.

Three policemen have been served with warning notices, as a result of the ongoing investigation into the release of two Barbadian fishermen in February.

An ambush on freed murder accused Garvin "Beam" Sookram on Wednesday night ended with the slaying of two men he was liming with, police believe.