Couple on murder charge

Mother of two Josanne Alleyne, 27, and her boyfriend Christopher Heerah, 28, yesterday appeared before Justice of the Peace Norisha Pundit in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court jointly charged with the murder.

It is alleged that between August 26 and 27, at Edinburgh South, Chaguanas, the couple murdered Quamina.

The charge, laid by PC Terrance Rahim of the Homicide Bureau in San Fernando. As the charge is a capital offence (for which the penalty is death) the couple was not called upon to enter a plea and the case would have to be determined in a trial before a judge and jury if so ordered at the end of a preliminary inquiry.

Quamina of Mahaica Street, Waterloo Road in Carapichaima was employed as a supervisor at the Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB) in Chaguanas.

Female accused Alleyne also worked at the same bank but as a Customer Sales Representative.

Initial police reports stated that “a masked intruder” stormed the couple’s home back in August and committed the crime. Quamina was at the time staying at the couple’s home. Both accused - Alleyne and Heerah - are to reappear in court on Monday.

ARINI Viveka Persad- Wingson, daughter of attorney and Trinidad and Tobago’s High Commissioner to India attorney Dave Persad, was called to the bar as an attorney yesterday at the Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain. She was among several new attorneys who were admitted to practise.

Persad-Wingson’s mother, attorney Indrani Mootoo-Persad, presented her daughter’s petition at the ceremony which was attended by the young attorney’s grandfather and former Mayor of San Fernando, Dr Romesh Mootoo