SORT officer found dead should have been in quarantine
File photo: SORT head Supt Roger Alexander. Photo by Ayanna Kinsale
Sgt Lyndon Jacob of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), who was found dead near his Mayo garden on Wednesday morning, was supposed to be in quarantine.
SORT head Supt Roger Alexander revealed this during TV6’s Beyond the Tape programme on Wednesday evening.
Jacob was found in the road at Hillview Heights, Sankarlal Drive, Whiteland.
A nearby resident told Newsday Jacob’s wife had been outside screaming and crying for help.
The resident said she sent her son to see what was happening.
SORT officer found dead near Mayo garden - Lincoln Holder
A SORT (Special Operations Response Team) officer was found dead near his Mayo garden on Wednesday afternoon.
Police from the Gasparillo Police Station said Sgt Lyndon Jacob was found in the road at Hillview Heights, Sankarlal Drive, Whiteland.
Jacob was from Tabaquite.
When Newsday visited the area, one resident who preferred not to be named said Jacob’s wife had been outside screaming and crying for assistance.
The resident said she sent her son to see what was happening.
“He just throw on a jersey and run down by the garden. I knew he would reach faster than me, so I asked him to go.
Sorting out SORT
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File photo: Members of the Special Operations Response Team at the scence where three people were shot dead by officers assigned to the unit in Santa Cruz in April 2020. -
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith announced the appointment of Supt Roger Alexander as the new head of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) on Wednesday.
Supt Alexander is a popular police presence on television. At SORT he replaces Insp Mark Hernandez, who is facing charges of misbehaviour in public office following allegations of encouraging the beating of a suspect in custody for questioning about the kidnapping and murder of Andrea Bharatt.
Law Assn: Rowley wrong on cops entering private property
Law Association president Sophia Chote, SC. -
THE Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago said the Prime Minister is wrong to suggest that police can enter private properties to enforce public health regulations. To do so, the association said, would be illegal.
Dr Keith Rowley was speaking at a news conference in Tobago on Thursday to announce stricter measures to deal with the rising number of covid19 infections and deaths.
He said, “I expect there will be greater observation of the request and demand that house parties, family gatherings, liming by a house next to a bar and those kind of things, that the already overworked police will go one step further, and where they believe the activities taking place which are inimical to the public interest, that under the protection of existing law the police will intervene.”
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Canons stand strong at Aboud Circular, Bellevue Road, St. James on Wednesday. - Photo by Angelo Marcelle
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Annie who sells fresh flowers at the roundabout in Marabella, says she s anxious for the upcoming Mother s Day sales. As she watered the flowers she said she believes flowers give people a reason to smile despite the pandemic. - Photo by Marvin Hamilton