DADerek Achong

1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Derek Achong

   Family evicted after losing land dispute case (opens the original)

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   A fam­i­ly from San Juan has been giv­en six months to va­cate their home, which was built on land they have been oc­cu­py­ing for over 70 years. High Court Judge Robin Mo­hammed made the or­der on Tues­day as he re­solved a long-stand­ing prop­er­ty dis­pute be­tween the fam­i­ly and the cur­rent own­er of the land. In the law­suit, the land own­er Ir­ma Se­u­nath sued Elisa Mor­gan, and her hus­band Kei­th Moore over their con­tin­ued oc­cu­pa­tion of the land at Mis­sion Road in San Juan. Se­

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2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Derek Achong

   Valencia man jailed 18 years for repeatedly raping runaway teen boy (opens the original)

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   A 48-year-old man from Va­len­cia has been sen­tenced to 18 years in prison for re­peat­ed­ly rap­ing a 15-year-old boy, whom he took in af­ter the boy ran away from home over a decade ago. Nigel Gor­don Phillip was con­vict­ed of two bug­gery charges by a nine-mem­ber ju­ry be­fore Jus­tice Nali­ni Singh in late June and was sen­tenced this morn­ing. Phillip was ac­cused of abus­ing the teenag­er be­tween April and May 2015. Ac­cord­ing to the ev­i­dence pre­sent­ed by As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor of

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3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Derek Achong

   PSA seeks to hold NALIS in contempt for failing to reinstate worker (opens the original)

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   The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is seek­ing to have the Na­tion­al Li­brary In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem (NALIS) held in con­tempt of court over its fail­ure to re­in­state a work­er af­ter be­ing or­dered to do so by the In­dus­tri­al Court. The trade union brought the con­tempt ap­pli­ca­tion last week as it sought to have NALIS’s ap­peal over the In­dus­tri­al Court’s de­ci­sion struck out. The ap­pli­ca­tion cur­rent­ly be­fore the Court of Ap­peal re­lates to le­gal ac­tion tak­en by

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4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Derek Achong

   State withdraws its Star Sabga house arrest appeal (opens the original)

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   The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al have agreed to with­draw their ap­peal against a judge’s de­ci­sion to place 69-year-old cheese mak­er Star Sab­ga un­der house ar­rest af­ter she spent sev­er­al weeks in de­ten­tion un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO). At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing the TTPS and the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice in­di­cat­ed their po­si­tion via email yes­ter­day af­ter­noon. Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands tha

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5. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Derek Achong

   Court strikes down law allowing State to spy on prisoner-lawyer calls (opens the original)

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   An amend­ment to the In­ter­cep­tion of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Act, giv­ing law en­force­ment of­fi­cers the au­thor­i­ty to lis­ten in, record and utilise tele­phone com­mu­ni­ca­tions be­tween pris­on­ers and their lawyers, has been de­clared un­con­sti­tu­tion­al. On Fri­day, High Court Judge Robin Mo­hammed struck down the 2020 amend­ment as he up­held a le­gal chal­lenge from Lyn­don Charles, one of two men await­ing re­tri­al for the mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man. In the

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