TRINIDAD and Tobago’s sedition law is again in focus, as the Privy Council has been asked to determine if it imposes disproportionate and unjustified restrictions on freedom of speech.
CHIEF MAGISTRATE Maria Busby Earle-Caddle is expected in June, to rule on the latest legal challenge by former FIFA vice president and government minister Jack Warner in his battle against extradition to the United States to face a multiplicity of corruption-related charges.
A couple, held in one of the largest sex-ring sting operations by police in Westmoorings in 2019, has been freed of multiple counts of keeping a brothel and aiding and abetting prostitution. Soleith Samir Torres, alias Queen, 23, of Venezuela and her China-born, Guyana-raised boyfriend Jinfu Zhu, were before Port of Spain magistrate Adia Mohammed
THE Judiciary has sought to provide the public with the reasons for a court discharging four men of human-trafficking charges in March. In a release, the Judiciary released the ruling of the Chief Magistrate in the case involving Jose Raphael Sorzano Perez, with dual citizenship in TT and Venezuela; Keron Pascal; Shaquille Noel and Judah
A HIGH Court judge will on June 28 rule on if the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) should be included in a constitutional claim filed by former attorney general Anand Ramlogan relating to the criminal prosecution of him for alleged witness tampering.