SORT officers still detained for probe into deaths of Bharatt murder suspects
Andrew Morris -
POLICE say they will meet with the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions soon as they have completed interviews with four Special Operations Response Team (SORT) members in relation to the deaths of two murder suspects.
Investigators told Newsday that the officers were re-interviewed between Thursday and Friday and other officers are expected to be spoken to.
Up to 6 pm on Friday, the officers were still detained.
Rumours began spreading late Friday evening that instructions were given to charge the four but investigators dismissed that saying they will speak with the Director of Public Prosecutions office next week for advice on the way forward. Investigators also dismissed rumours that head of SORT Insp Mark Hernandez, who is awaiting Parliament’s nod for one of two remaining deputy commissioner of police (DCP) post, is refusing to co-operate.
4 SORT officers in custody, 20 questioned in deaths of Andrea Bharatt murder suspects
2 Hrs Ago
A soldier waits to join the police search for kidnap victim Andrea Bharatt in Sangre Grande. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB -
FOUR officers assigned to the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) are in police custody as part of an ongoing investigation into the deaths of murder suspects Andrew Morris and Joel Balcon.
The two men died days after they were held by SORT for questioning in the murder of 23-year-old court clerk Andrea Bharatt in February.
The four officers were detained on Thursday and are being held at the Maloney station.
SHARE
When Mariana Agiu reflected on her time as a hospital critical care nurse at the height of the pandemic’s first wave she had a startling realisation: almost everyone in the room was a woman.
“I understand the reasons why….most of us in this profession are women, from the cleaners, the healthcare systems, nurses, even [half] the doctors are female,” explains Ms Agiu to
The National. “It was always there, it’s just that we never thought about it.”
She described her experience on a Covid ward as “very draining”.
“Every day I would work hard thinking, I need to be there, I need to help. We are not enough. There are too many sick people,” she says.
04 February 2021
People’s willingness to get vaccinated against the coronavirus is rising, according to a new report on global attitudes towards vaccines.
More than half of those surveyed (54%) would take a vaccine if it was offered to them next week. This is an increase from November when the same survey, which ran across 15 countries and included 13,500 people each time, showed that just 4 in 10 (41%) would be willing to get vaccinated at the time.
However the survey from Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI), in collaboration with YouGov, has highlighted major differences in attitudes towards vaccines across the world.
By DAVID RASBACH | The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.) | Published: December 30, 2020 BELLINGHAM, Wash. (Tribune News Service) U.S. Customs and Border Protection documents released Tuesday show officers were directed to detain all people of Iranian decent, including U.S. citizens, attempting to enter the U.S. last January at several ports of entry, including the Peace Arch Border Crossing in Blaine. The documents, including the directive, were made public Tuesday, Dec. 29, by the Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Washington and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in a release following an order by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to make them public. A link to the directive was included in the release.