Camille Guerra, 48, of River Road was granted bail by Magistrate Rae Roopchand who ordered her to report to the Arima Police Station every Saturday.

She first appeared before a San Fernando magistrate on Monday but bail was refused and she was remanded into custody. Guerra is also accused of signing documents claiming to be a woman named Vina Bayne.

It is alleged the cheque she attempted to deposit on July 4 at Republic Bank in Mayaro was made out in Bayne’s name.

Police have also charged Guerra with having and uttering a false driver’s permit, a false identification card, a false WASA bill and a false certificate of registration to a company with the name Vina Bayne Interiors.

Another charge of uttering a valuable security payable to Vina Bayne in the sum of $2.5 million drawn from the account of Marooni Enterprise Ltd was also laid against her. The mother of four was not called upon to plead.

Guerra was represented by attorneys Chantal Paul and Wayne Beharry. The case was adjourned to August 9.

The junior “Calypso Girls” destroyed neighbours Grenada 76-35 in their final game in Botswana yesterday .

It was their second victory of the cup series after their victory over Wales 36-32 on Tuesday .

But Caribbean teams fared badly at the cup series as none except Caribbean queens Sunshine Girls of Jamaica (facing Uganda in their last preliminary game) have a chance of qualifying for the round of eight. Neither Grenada nor Barbados managed to win a solitary game at the cup series .

Despite their two victories, the junior “Calypso Girls” failed to reach the final eight team group to challenge for the title currently held by New Zealand .

The Silver Ferns, Australia England and hosts Botswana head their group .

The top two teams in each group after the preliminary round advance to the second round .

Clarke’s nude body was found by a passer-by in some bushes along the Guapo/Cap-De-Ville Main Road, at the back of a hardware store. Her face was bruised and bloody and she was frothing at the mouth. Her clothes, also covered in blood, were found near her body. Police were working on the theory that she had been sexually assaulted, killed and her body dumped in the bushes.

Though visibly upset, Clarke’s mother Francesca Shade told Newsday her daughter was “hardened” and did not like to listen to her advice.

“She was a nice girl but she never liked to listen to me,” Shade said.

“She only liked to smoke weed and lime with bad company.” Clarke lived with her father in San Juan for a number of years after he and Shade separated. However she eventually asked to live with her mother in Belmont.

Shade told Newsday that for a number of years Clarke was acting out against her, then one day she left altogether.

“She just take up her clothes and leave and gone. She went to live with a man in Point, then she went to live with another man who was also from Point. Last month she was in the hospital in San Fernando. I begged her to take her clothes and come back home, but she said that she did not want to go.” A pathologist at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday determined that Clarke was beaten to death with a piece of wood. The beating was so brutal that her face was crushed. Police also found a piece of wood at the scene with blood on it.

The pathologist found no evidence of sexual assault. The murder toll for the year now stands at 266.

According to Harris, they are being set up to fail.

He was addressing the issue of children with learning disabilities during his monthly live Facebook chat Ask the Archbishop yesterday from Archbishop’s House in Port of Spain.

“We put everybody into this grammar school education and there are a lot of people not capable of grammar school, so we produce failures and then we want to know why there is crime,” Harris said.

Results of the 2017 SE A exam revealed that just over 2,000 students scored below 30 percent.

Education Minister Anthony Garcia has since advised that children under the age of 13 have the opportunity to resit the exam next year if they wish. Recalling his time when he sat and passed his Exhibition exam, he said the pass mark then was 50 percent and to gain entry to St Mary’s College was 80 percent.

“The whole system is crazy.

Now you putting it down to 30 percent to get into a secondary school. If that child can’t get more than 30 percent, is that child ready for secondary school where the curriculum increases tremendously? But we force them into secondary school to do what? To fail?” He feels SE A should be scrapped and suggested that each school do its own evaluation of their students in going forward with the child’s education.

He said the SE A exam continues to put not only the children under “too much stress”, but parents as well as they try to ensure that they get into their school of choice.

So bad it has become, that Harris said it has reached the point where children no longer enjoy school vacations.

He remembered as a child, spending his “whole holidays, holidaying.” “There was no such thing as private lessons and this and that and the other. We had a holiday, and I am no less intelligent for that.” He said not allowing children to enjoy their vacation time amounts to violence as violence was not only “slapping them up,” but “violence is taking away from them the things that they need to do as children. Its awful.” Harris lamented that education system has not yet started looking at “learning styles and aptitudes,” and it is the reason every child is being put into “this grammar school education.”

Moonilal questioned why the Defence Force asked for an extension of time to provide a copy of a report, to former chief of defence staff Kenrick Maharaj, on an investigation into who authorised Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s children to handle military weapons at Camp Cumuto last year.

Noting that Moonilal alleged that two officials linked to the probe received HDC units, Mitchell said, “Dr Moonilal is alluding to two purchasers of apartment units in the Victoria Keyes Development, Diego Martin, which was formally opened in February 2017.” Mitchell said he indicated then that 206 units in that development was available for sale on the open market. “To clarify further, these 206 units are advertised and available for sale to anyone who is financially able to meet the purchase prices subject to the usual financial due diligence,” Mitchell said yesterday.

He said the officials referred to by Moonilal satisfied the requirements and entered into sales agreements for the purchase of the units through a transparent sales process.

He said it is unfortunate that Moonilal continues to place inaccurate information in the public domain and urged the UNC MP “to re-acquaint himself with the facts.”

The issue being bandied about in the public domain arose as a result of letters served on employees of the ministry which indicated that the contracts of these workers will expire at the end of this month, hence their automatic termination if these contracts are not renewed.

Indarsingh is suggesting that the union leaders who represent these workers could make certain objections and prevent them from being retrenched.

Now, isn’t that double standards by the MP? He had the chance to do something but he didn’t raise a finger and allowed the entire sugar industry to crumble.

Indarsingh is advocating that the workers of the ministry concerned “have to buy food for their families” and have “mortgages to pay.” Didn’t sugar workers back then have similar commitments? That raises the point as to why Indarsingh, as leader of the trade union representing sugar workers at the time of the closure of the sugar industry, did not do the right thing and object, since he is against workers losing their jobs. He could have saved the jobs of the 9,000 plus workers of Caroni 1975 Ltd.

In Guyana, there was talk about the closure of the sugar industry recently. However, this was averted as a result of the objections and a solid case put forward by the trade union representing the majority of workers there.

Hats off also to Joseph Remy, the union leader representing workers in the Ministry of Tourism. He was successful in getting a court order preventing the restructuring of the ministry which may have meant the termination of some workers.

At least they have bought themselves some time in which to plan their next action.

Well done, union bosses.

I can’t say the same for the All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers’ Trade Union.

WKS HOSEIN Chaguanas

The man has been identified as 22-year-old Kendall Garcia, alias Sausage, who had addresses in Maturita and Valencia. He was detained by police hours after the murders of Rose Mohammed and 13-year-old Vedesh Subar at Ajim Baksh Street, Malabar.

Mohammed and Subar were found with their throats slit at the woman’s home. Garcia and two others were detained by police but he was later released pending further investigations after he was not pointed out in an identification parade. Yesterday, Senior Supt Mc Donald Jacob said Garcia was known to the police and was a suspect in several crimes including robberies and gun-related offences.

Garcia was shot to death during the police exercise which began at about 4.30 am. Members of the Central Division Task Force went to Orange Field Road, Carapichaima to execute a search warrant when two men ran out of an apartment and into some nearby bushes. Police ran after the men and were allegedly shot at by Garcia. The lawmen returned fire and Garcia was hit several times. He was taken to the Chaguanas Health Facility but was pronounced dead on arrival. The second suspect escaped. Police allegedly found a pistol with several rounds of ammunition close to where Garcia was shot. They also returned to the apartment where they detained four people and seized a quantity of drugs.

The four included a 19-year-old man, a 19-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man.

Sources revealed yesterday a 25-year-old man of Sangre Grande and a 54-year-old male relative of Mohammed remained in custody for further questioning.

The Sangre Grande man was detained last week at Pinto Road, Arima, while Mohammed’s relative was taken into custody on Sunday night.

Police are working on information that Mohammed may have been murdered over an ongoing land dispute and that people were hired to kill her. Homicide Bureau members are expected to approach the Director of Public Prosecutions soon on the matter.

“Part of our Local Government reform is to strengthen our Municipal Police throughout the 14 Regional Corporations of Trinidad and the Tobago House of Assembly. We’ve already started the recruitment process for that…

In addition to that, we are also launching shortly a programme referred to as the NCPP. This would provide a direct nexus between the Ministry of National Security and the municipalities; what we call Community Councils, dealing with issues within the communities because we’ll have (direct communication). Therefore, we’ll be able to take certain kinds of initiatives to treat with situations.

More on that later on; I don’t want to go too much into detail because it will be launched soon.” Dillon previewed Government’s latest crime fighting strategy yesterday while speaking with reporters on the sidelines of a graduation ceremony for the Citizen Security Programme training course in Information and Communication Technology for residents of Sea Lots.

The six-month course was taught by staff at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago, and it was at the college’s City Campus Student Centre on the corner of Dundonald Street and Fitzgerald Lane, Port-of-Spain, that the graduation ceremony was held.

Asked if he was concerned about the police yesterday fatally shooting 22-year-old Kendall Garcia, alias Sausage; one of the suspects in the June 27 double murder in Malabar, Dillon said, “Any kind of engagement with the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) or other law enforcement agencies and the public will always be of concern to me but that is being dealt with by the Commissioner of Police.” Dillon was also asked about border security, in relation to Venezuela and the deteriorating economic situation there which has prompted thousands of Venezuelans to come to this country.

“The Coast Guard continues to work together with Venezuela’s Guarda Costa and Venezuelan National Guard. Some time ago, we re-established bi-lateral co-operation with the Venezuelans; to the extent where we had direct person- to-person contact between the Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard and the Commander of the Guarda Costa. In fact, the Commanding Officer of the Guarda Costa is due here some time next week for another one-to-one visit with his counterpart – the TT Coast Guard Commanding Officer.” “Additionally, we have tasked our Military Attaché in Caracas to go into the outlying areas; the places that are border to TT on the east coast of Venezuela, to give us a sense of what is happening in those coastal villages. So we are looking at tapping different sources.” Dillon told reporters that according to the latest report he’s received from Immigration officials, “between January and now, roughly 9,000 Venezuelans came into this country legally.

Of those, about 800 remain in TT.

“It seems to be a travel pattern as to those who come through the legal routes,” Dillon stated.

On his Twitter page on Tuesday, Lewis posted, “first national Beach and Sand Games on the drawing board, (TTO C) looking at November 2017.” In a telephone interview, Lewis said, “We plan to have it come off the ground. We’re having discussions in the background and we’re very determined for it to happen.” The inaugural World Beach Games will take place in San Diego, California, United States in 2019. And it will be staged under the auspices of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC).

Lewis is unclear whether or not his idea for an inaugural Beach and Sand Games in November will come to fruition.

“With the economic challenges, it may have to be scaled down,” he acknowledged.

Among the sporting disciplines which may be contested at the TT Games are beach soccer, beach volleyball, beach handball and dragon boat racing.

Lewis noted, “Tobago has the potential to be the Beach Games capital of the Caribbean.” He pointed out, “At the international level, most organisations and federations are having a beach version of their Games.” And the TTO C boss is expecting that a number of untapped sporting talent, preferably from coastal areas, will have a chance to showcase their potential at the national level.

“It affords an opportunity for the youths in these areas to participate in the Beach and Sand Games,” ended Lewis.

During the meeting, Agriculture Minister, Clarence Rambharat, told the committee members, “We have a lot of work to do in a short space of time.” The committee is expected to discuss Amendments to the Conservation of Wildlife Act, paying particular attention to provisions related to wildlife trade, scope of wildlife and increased fines and penalties; amongst others.

The ministry, in a statement issued yesterday, said Rambharat; speaking in the context of the expectation that the Committee will deliberate on pertinent issues, said a valuable starting point would be a review of the Final Report of the Steering Committee on the Management of Hunting.

Rambharat also advised them to do so while paying attention to “the economic value of wildlife hunting in Trinidad and Tobago.” Committee members include Courtney Park – Conservator of Forests, Forestry Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, Gupte Lutchmedial – representing the Zoological Society of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Reeza Mohammed – former Minister of Agriculture and representative of the Hunting Association, Dr Indira Omah-Maharaj – Zoologist, Buddie Miller – representing Amateur Hunters in Trinidad and Tobago, Anthony Davis – representing the interest of Caged Birds Fanciers, Tennille Plata-George – representing the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago, and Yasmin Baksh-Comeau – representing Field Naturalists.