A 22-year-old Mor­vant man who had re­cent­ly signed up to join the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment was shot dead this morn­ing at the Unipet Gas Sta­tion at the cor­ner of Mor­vant Old Road and the East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille.

For­mer FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent and ex-gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Jack Warn­er has won a de­ci­sive le­gal vic­to­ry af­ter the High Court per­ma­nent­ly stayed the ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings brought against him by the Unit­ed States, bring­ing to an end a decade-long le­gal bat­tle that reached the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed be­lieves the High Court’s de­ci­sion to per­ma­nent­ly stay the ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against for­mer FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent and for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Jack Warn­er should prompt a wider re­view of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s con­sti­tu­tion­al and ju­di­cial sys­tems, ar­gu­ing that the decade-long le­gal bat­tle ex­posed weak­ness­es in how jus­tice is ad­min­is­tered.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve and their for­mi­da­ble le­gal team were left dis­ap­point­ed last night, af­ter Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh and two Ap­pel­late Judges grant­ed a stay of a de­ci­sion of three of their col­leagues to or­der them re­leased and placed un­der house ar­rest.