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January 6th, 2010. A man was found dead, with a stab wound to the neck, at a house in Princes Town yesterday.

The veranda at the Asa Wright Nature Centre in Arima, Trinidad, is a front row for bird-watchers from around the world.

Stabbing deaths during confrontations, people reported missing by relatives and botched robberies resulting in either choppings or shooting deaths continued towards the end of the year.

Minister of Health Jerry Narace has placed the construction of the Roxborough Health Facility and the upgrade of the Sangre Grande Health Centre and Arima District Health Facility on his list of priorities for 2010.

As the year 2009 comes to a close, the murder toll, according to an Express tally, stands at 501.

THIS year seems set to end on a bloody, deadly note as within the space of less than 24 hours, between Monday and yesterday, the murder toll rocketed from 497 to 504 with seven killings being recorded.

Chaos broke out at Sangre Grande District Hospital yesterday, when members of a gang stormed the facility and reportedly attacked a patient at the casualty department.

December 28th, 2009. A masked gunman shot and killed Ricardo Dudley near his Barkers Trace Colemine Sangre Grande home.

STAFF AND patients at the Accident and Emergency Section of the Sangre Grande District Hospital fled for their lives yesterday when three men entered the hospital and began brutally stabbing a man with whom they had a previous altercation.

TWO men were killed Saturday night into yesterday, taking the weekend tally to four and the overall murder toll to 502 by the Express' count.

Latest terror alert forces new protocols at Piarco All passengers on flights to the United States are now being frisked by Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago security personnel, even after they have cleared security scanners at the Piarco International Airport.

ONE man is currently under police guard at the Sangre Grande Hospital, after being attacked by a group of men while at the health facility early yesterday morning.

Moderator of the Presbyterian Church Rev Elvis Elahie greets members of his congregation after Christmas Day service at the Susamachar Presbyterian Church in San Fernando.

The Board of Inland Revenue Division is permanently closing six of its district offices.

In previous articles I referred to, among other things, our dichotomous relationship, so to speak, with the letter 's' by adding it erroneously to singular words while at the same time excluding it, erroneously also, in plural forms.

A SANGRE GRANDE woman on Wednesday won a lawsuit against the Eastern Regional Health Authority for the death of her one-day-old baby.

December 17th, 2009. The claim that there have been 18 Swine Flu related deaths at the San Fernando General Hospital is being denied.

December 17th, 2009. A court has ruled that there was negligence in the death of baby Aaron Ramkisson at the Sangre Grande Hospital five years ago.

Los Alumnos de San Juan have done it yet again. The Lower Santa Cruz, Bourg Mulatresse-based group won the prestigious National Parang Association of Trinidad & Tobago title at the Arima Velodrome on Saturday night.

Patients in waiting: A handful of persons wait to be screened for symptoms of Influenza A/H1N1 under a tent at the San Fernando General Hospital yeste... PRINCES Town North MP Subhas Panday yesterday named 18 persons whose death certificates, he said, might suggest they died of swine flu, as he accused the Ministry of Health of covering up an ...