However, Gosine-Ramdass was unable to secure bail and was remanded into custody.

She was taken to the Women’s Prison in Arouca where she spent Wednesday night. Yesterday, relatives returned to the court to secure the bail which was granted only upon approval of the clerk of the peace. The charges stemmed from investigations by the Fraud Squad.

Newsday learned yesterday the bail was again not secured up to 4 pm yesterday and Gosine-Ramdass, who is the wife of Police Inspector Darryl Ramdass, spent another night at the prison.

Inspector Ramdass had also appeared before Misir-Gosine charged wit the illegal possession of eight macaws and was granted bail in the sum of $25,000.

The activities get going at 6 am with a 5K marathon for adults and a 3K run for the children with am added bonus of complimentary massages for race participants.

Breakfast, lunch, drinks and snacks will be on sale and a variety of stalls as well as Purple Dragon products will be on sale. Other activities include bubble football, tug of war and an aerobic burnout will complete the events.

The Ministry of Health will also be on site to offer blood pressure testing, cholesterol and blood sugar tests.

Additional entertainment will be provided by a DJ and moko jumbies.

The organisers are inviting the public to support the event as part proceeds will assist with the medical expenses for one of the Purple Dragon instructors.

For more info and registration for marathons check Facebook

TT national Douglas Gordon who is the event director says the cannabis industry is the fastest growing business opportunity globally. He said the business conference and expo was arguably the most critical networking, discussion and information exchange platform in the Caribbean where participants would have the opportunity to meet and interact with stakeholders and professionals.

At the event, there will be over 20 speakers headlined by Montel Williams, the American television personality and radio talk show host, who is also a spokesman for the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA). After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999, Williams created the MS Foundation, a non-profit organisation with a focus on research and education, a year later.

Williams has openly said that he uses medical cannabis, saying it helps to ease his multiple sclerosis-caused neuropathic pain. He has also become a vocal advocate of cannabis, supporting efforts to pass medical cannabis laws in the US, as well as calling for full legalisation.

Gordon said: “The event comes at a pivotal time in Jamaica and will bring together professionals from across the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and North America to discuss opportunities for investment, medical developments and the legal landscape.” The conference will also feature presentations and exhibitions by experts, policymakers, researchers and business people.

Gordon is inviting local stakeholders to get involved in the event.

Prince found the back of the net in the 10th, 12th, 27th and 40th minutes, while Afiyah Cornwall notched a hat-trick (49th, 61st and 78th). Also getting on the scoreshet were captain Kara Trotman (16th and 35th), Chrissy Mitchell (42nd), Maria-Francis Serrant (69th), Annika Daniel (76th) and an own goal from Kaitlyn Livie (52nd).

Prince was elated with her performance stating, “I feel really happy because it’s a long time we have been training and I just hope that we continue…The best thing about this group of girls is they’re very cooperative, they know how to play and very easy to work with.” Prince, making her debut at this level, said she was very anxious to play the match and hardly got sleep the night before as eagerness got the better of her.

In the earlier game, Grenada spanked Curacao 6-2, with items from Sharanda Charles (12th, 56th), Coie Smith (eighth), Melania Fullerton (27th), Malia Ramdhanny (41st) and Cassie Rennie (82nd). Lindsey Hart (45th and 79th) got both goals for Curacao.

TT coach Jamaal Shabazz, speaking after Tuesday’s game, noted, “a good result for TT against a team that we were far superior to, in all departments.” The US Virgin Islands are coached by ex-national midfielder/ striker Izler Browne. Shabazz said, “It’s good (to see) where Izler has reached as a coach of another country in women’s football.

She’s certainly an ambassador in the game, in the Caribbean. Their programme is a development (one) and we wish her all the best going forward.” Action continues in Group B today at Couva with Grenada facing US Virgin Islands at 5 pm and TT meeting Curacao at 7.30 pm.

She succeeds Professor Verene Shepherd who held the post since 2010.

Holder of a doctorate in philosophy and ethnic studies/ literature from the University of California, Berkeley, Adisa is an internationally recognised writer, educator, cultural activist and diversity trainer who works with institutions on issues of inclusion and fairness, the UWI said in a release.

Returning to the region having studied and worked abroad, Adisa said she was happy to return home to contribute to gender justice and other diversity issues that were essential to the development of the region.

She said, “When we are able to acknowledge, appreciate and provide space for everyone to contribute to her or his full potential, then we have created a society that works for everyone.

“Our growth and development must be informed by these humanistic values, so we really celebrate our hardearned independence.” Adisa also holds a bachelor of arts degree in communications and educational media from Hunter College of the City University of New York, a master of arts degree (MA) in English and Creative Writing and an MA in Theatre and Directing, San Francisco State University, California.

Prior to her IGDS appointment, she was a distinguished professor of the master of fine arts programme in writing and diversity studies, a graduate faculty mentor, faculty advisor for the diversity studies programme and supervising faculty member of the undergraduate writing and literature programme at California College of the Arts since 1993.

She also worked as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the African American Studies Department and other universities including, Stanford and the University of the Virgin Islands.

Adisa has authored over twenty scholarly and creative publications that centralise women, explore issues of gender and Caribbean and African diaspora history.

Her poetry, stories, essays and articles have been collected in over 400 journals, anthologies and other publications.

She has also lectured and read her work throughout the United States, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Germany, England and Prague, and performed in Italy and Bosnia.

Magistrate Kerrianne Byer, presiding in the San Fernando Magistrates’ court, said that she was minded to jail Sunil Ramkissoon, 42, of Moonridge Drive, Phillipine, to six years because he has chalked up a record 23 previous convictions for larceny and narcotic offences which characterises that of a career criminal.

Considering that he pleaded guilty, she reduced the sentence by two years for his guilty plea, that on Tuesday, he broke into V&S Supermarket on SS Erin Road, Phillipine. The prosecutor Sgt Ian Sylvan, told Byer that at about 3 am, while on police patrol, officers responded to a wireless report of a break-in at the supermarket. Upon arrival, they saw that a window and burglarproof to the businessplace were broken. Sylvan said police went into the building and confronted Ramkissoon, who had in his hand a bag with $30,747 . The bag also contained US$40. He was arrested and charged with larceny.

The prosecutor told the magistrate Ramkissoon had previous convictions for housebreaking and narcotic offences and they amounted to 23 over just a few years. Byer commended the police for their diligent police work in responding immediately to the crime and arresting the defendant in the act.

‘The business owners must have been contented that all of the money was recovered, for, it is not often the perpetrators are caught with the loot and a lot of time they remain at a loss, “ Byer said.

According to reports, Dale Lutchman, 45, of Oropouche Road, Sangre Grande, his son Darryl Lutchman, 14, and Brandon Sam were allegedly abducted.

Early yesterday, Dale Lutchman was released in the same area from which he was allegedly kidnapped. He was unable to give any useful information to the police except to confirm that his son and nephew were kidnapped. He could not say where they were taken.

According to reports, at about 10.30 am yesterday, Darryl’s mother Ria Lutchman received a phone call from a man claiming to have her son and nephew in his custody.

The man demanded that she pay a ransom of $350,000 for their safe return or the teens would be killed.

In an impromptu media conference after the formalities at President’s House, St Ann’s, reporters noted his four predecessors – Ancil Antoine, Fitzgerald Hinds, Marlene Mc Donald and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley – and asked if this high turnover meant the ministry was blighted? Le Hunte replied, “No. It’s not blighted.

No. I see it as a challenge.

I see it as something that is there that needs to be done.” Le Hunte was once a People’s National Movement (PNM) alderman on the San Fernando City Corporation and said that Rowley offered him the job about two weeks ago.

Saying the ministry affects’s people’s daily lives such as their water supply, he said, “I think it’s a honour that I’ve been given the opportunity to work in this ministry to try to make the lives of those people a bit better.” Le Hunte said he had a successful four years in HFC Bank in Ghana (a Republic Bank subsidiary) and now heeded the call to serve in the TT Cabinet utilising his business sector skills. He said he built a fantastic team at the bank over the past four years and they were now able to carry on.

He said, “I’m leaving the bank at a very pivotal point where we’ve moved from losses to the highest level of profitability.” Newsday asked Le Hunte what motivated him to join a Cabinet with challenges in crime, economy and aspects of governance? “Service. One word.

Service,” Le Hunte replied. “I strongly believe that if good people do not get into politics then a void is created. You must be authentic as a leader in whatever you do, and so when asked to serve I could not stand by and see all the challenges that we are facing – and you know them probably better than me – and then say ‘well because of the challenges I cannot.’” Earlier, Le Hunte read from a formal statement saying, “It is indeed an honour to be part of Prime Minister Dr Rowley’s Cabinet, especially during these times. I know he’s rallying a team together to take us to another level.

“I’m aware that Public Utilities is a very sensitive ministry, with responsibility for water, electricity, things that affect the daily lives of all our citizens. Lingvobalt vertim? biuras Lietuvoje

“I am going to give dedicated hard work, passionate work, as I’ve done in the private sector, to try to make the ministry as effective and efficient as possible. Oblakasalon.lt – Limfodrena?inis masa?as, Depiliacija, Lazerinis jauninimas, rand? naikinimas, fir?ros koregavimas, k?no ?vyniojimas ir plauk? ?alinimas lazeriu Vilniuje

Especially during these times, where efficiency is going to be very important when we have a lot less to go around.” When asked about Mc Donald, Le Hunte said he had not spoken to her and that her issues were in the past while he was looking at what was ahead.

Akiel Paris, Renderick Junior Paris and Maseo Murphy appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Maria Busby Earle-Caddle in the Port of Spain Magistrate’s Eighth Court to face charges of murder. Earle-Caddle informed the men that their attorney Melissa Mano, who is currently on maternity leave, was not present at the hearing and she would have to adjourn the matter to October, at this point the accused expressed their discontent with such a late adjournment. However, Earle- Caddle informed the men that the only other available time for the matter to be heard will be in November.

Akiel said he understood Earle- Caddle’s challenges in scheduling a date for the matter and, while he appreciated that the fault was not hers, he and his associates had already spent two years languishing behind bars awaiting a trial date.

“Your worship, I understand that this isn’t your fault, it is you alone here having to deal with all of these cases, and I appreciate you trying to move this along, but we have been in here for the past two years. We’ve been coming here and our lives are just wasting away on the inside.” After deliberation, Earle-Caddle rescheduled the trial to September 4, where cross-examination of witnesses is expected to resume. The matter is one of the fifty-two cases that has been restarted in the wake of Marcia Ayers-Caesar’s ascension as a High Court judge.

The trio are accused of killing Nicholas Joseph aka “BJ” on Carnival Tuesday night in 2015.

Yesterday, Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard SC gave instructions to Inspector Coggins of the Child Protection Unit to charge the woman. She was expected to be detained last evening.

On Sunday she was interviewed for several hours by Coggins and she vehemently denied ever physically assaulting the girl.

Yesterday the child remained in critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit of the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex with a slim chance of survival.

She has undergone two surgeries to repair a ruptured colon and is on life support.

Two Saturdays ago, her father left her with the woman and when he returned, his daughter complained of pains to her stomach.

The suspect told the girl’s father she was constipated hence the reason for her complaining of pains, and one day later the child began vomiting and was taken to hospital where doctors found she had a ruptured colon as a result of blunt force trauma. This prompted a police investigation and several people were interviewed including the woman.