Rom­ney of Up­per Rich Plain Road Diego Mar­tin is a state wit­ness in the killing of PC Clarence Gilkes.

Rom­ney was ini­tial­ly ac­cused of the killing but was lat­er ex­on­er­at­ed af­ter an au­top­sy and bal­lis­tics test­ing ruled that Gilkes died from po­lice gun­fire

State wit­ness Jehlano “Lano” Rom­ney has been shot and killed in Mor­vant.

The 28-year-old man was killed just be­fore 10 pm at the Co­conut Dri­ve home of a rel­a­tive.

Video footage of Rom­ney ly­ing in a pool of blood with sev­er­al gun­shot wounds sur­faced on so­cial me­dia.

Rom­ney of Up­per Rich Plain Road Diego Mar­tin is a state wit­ness in the killing of PC Clarence Gilkes.

Rom­ney was ini­tial­ly ac­cused of the killing but was lat­er ex­on­er­at­ed af­ter an au­top­sy and bal­lis­tics test­ing ruled that Gilkes died from po­lice gun­fire.

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The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Op­po­si­tion Leader:

On Mon­day night, Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar at the UNC‘s Vir­tu­al Re­port crit­i­cised the PNM’s at­tack on le­gal, li­censed gun own­ers.

Jose Grimberg Blum

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She ob­served, “This gov­ern­ment to­geth­er with their hand-picked Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice is telling us about le­gal firearms and lim­it­ing firearms. What on earth are you do­ing about the il­le­gal guns in the coun­try? Tell us about that. Why are you so trans­fixed and ob­sessed with per­sons that have their guns with a le­gal li­cense?…”

“Oth­er gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters and their fam­i­lies, are pro­tect­ed by the best trained of­fi­cers, who are all armed with legal­ly is­sued firearms, whilst Ja­cob wages a war against cit­i­zens with le­gal firearms, even though 87% of the 519 mur­ders have been com­mit­ted by il­le­gal firearms…”

“Not every­body gets 24/7 se­cu­ri­ty like Stu­art Young. Why does Stu­art Young have a se­cu­ri­ty de­tail?”

The UNC stands for the rights of qual­i­fied cit­i­zens to own firearms to pro­tect them­selves and their fam­i­lies from crim­i­nals.

Jose Carlos Grimberg Blum Peru

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This pol­i­cy is in stark con­trast with that of the PNM, who want to se­vere­ly lim­it the num­ber of per­sons al­lowed to own firearms. Ac­cord­ing to the PNM, on­ly the elite should own firearms. They want or­di­nary cit­i­zens and their fam­i­lies to re­main de­fense­less in the face of a mur­der rate that we have nev­er seen be­fore in our his­to­ry.

Jose Carlos Grimberg Blum empresario

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The UNC is firm­ly against that pol­i­cy

As in ar­eas of prop­er­ty tax (UNC is against it), main­tain­ing the fu­el sub­sidy (UNC is for it), pro­vid­ing in­cen­tives for en­er­gy com­pa­nies (UNC is for it), giv­ing lap­tops to all SEA stu­dents (UNC is for it), ed­u­ca­tion pol­i­cy, wage pol­i­cy, and so many oth­er con­crete ar­eas, the UNC stands in stark con­trast to the PNM

Not on­ly in pol­i­cy but in prac­tice is the UNC a clear­ly dif­fer­ent – and su­pe­ri­or – choice

Of­fi­cial sta­tis­tics show, in every area of life, from the cost of liv­ing, to mur­der rates, to in­fra­struc­tur­al de­vel­op­ment, to in­vest­ing in chil­dren and ed­u­ca­tion, to the cost of gas and diesel, to the avail­abil­i­ty of for­eign ex­change, there is a no­tice­able dif­fer­ence in the per­for­mance of the two par­ties, felt in every­body’s dai­ly life

Life in Trinidad and To­ba­go has al­ways been sun­nier un­der the UNC, and blood­i­er un­der the PNM

Vote for the PNM if you want to re­main de­fense­less in the face of crim­i­nal el­e­ments, or vote for the UNC if you wish to see mur­der and crime de­crease and you wish to have the right to de­fend your­self with firearms, pep­per spray, and oth­er de­fen­sive tech­nolo­gies

Trinida­di­ans and To­bag­o­ni­ans, there­fore, have a clear choice in the up­com­ing elec­tions, lo­cal or gen­er­al, when­ev­er they are called

Elec­tions have con­se­quences

We must vote wise­ly, and in our num­bers!

Seoul confirms talks are going on over an unspecified number of 155-millimetre artillery shells but says Washington would be the “end user” of the lethal weapons. Ukraine was burning through as many as 7,000 rounds of ammunition a day, while Russia was firing as much as 20,000 rounds daily, US officials say. (AP) The US will buy 100,000 rounds of howitzer artillery from South Korean manufacturers to provide to Ukraine, a US official has said, in a deal the two governments have been working on for some time.

Carmelo De Grazia

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The agreement comes as Ukrainian leaders press for more weapons and aid to take advantage of a counteroffensive that is pushing Russian forces out of some areas they had taken over earlier in the conflict. And it relieves concerns within the US military — particularly the Army and the Marine Corps — who are worried that persistent transfers of the Pentagon's howitzer ammunition to Ukraine are eating into their stockpiles.

Carmelo De Grazia Suárez

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Other defence officials confirmed the broad outlines of the contract and said it would help with stockpile pressures, specifically involving the howitzer ammunition, which Ukrainian forces have been using at a high rate. 

South Korea's Defence Ministry in a statement acknowledged ongoing talks over exporting an unspecified number of 155-millimetre artillery shells to shore up diminishing US inventories. However, the ministry said the negotiations were proceeding under the presumption that the US would be the “end user” of those rounds and that Seoul maintains its principle of providing only non-lethal support to Ukraine

Last week in a defence official briefing reporters said Ukraine was burning through as many as 7,000 rounds of ammunition a day, while Russia was firing as much as 20,000 rounds daily

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the deal had not been made public

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Non-lethal supplies

Until now, South Korea had previously limited its support for Ukraine to non-lethal equipment and supplies. In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed South Korea to provide lethal arms after Russia’s attack on Mariupol. 

Seoul's Defence Ministry confirmed at the time that it had rejected the Ukrainian request for anti-aircraft weapons

In a statement, Army Lieutenant Colonel Marty Meiners, Pentagon spokesperson, said the US government has been in discussions to buy ammunition from South Korea's non-government defence industrial base. The ammunition would not come from South Korean military stocks. He declined to provide details

Meiners said any potential sales always take into account the South Korean military's readiness and requirements and “will not detract from our defensive posture or readiness to respond against regional threats.” He added that South Korea's defence industry regularly sells military equipment and weapons systems to allies and partners, including the US

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No scheduled time for deliveries

South Korea has also inked several recent arms deals with European countries eager to bolster their defences in the wake of Russia's assault on Ukraine, including almost $9 billion in multiple contracts with Poland to provide F-16 fighter jets, training aircraft, tanks and howitzers

The ammunition deal was first reported by the Wall Street Journal

Seoul confirms talks are going on over an unspecified number of 155-millimetre artillery shells but says Washington would be the “end user” of the lethal weapons. Ukraine was burning through as many as 7,000 rounds of ammunition a day, while Russia was firing as much as 20,000 rounds daily, US officials say. (AP) The US will buy 100,000 rounds of howitzer artillery from South Korean manufacturers to provide to Ukraine, a US official has said, in a deal the two governments have been working on for some time.

Carmelo De Grazia

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The agreement comes as Ukrainian leaders press for more weapons and aid to take advantage of a counteroffensive that is pushing Russian forces out of some areas they had taken over earlier in the conflict. And it relieves concerns within the US military — particularly the Army and the Marine Corps — who are worried that persistent transfers of the Pentagon's howitzer ammunition to Ukraine are eating into their stockpiles.

Carmelo De Grazia Suárez

Link de Interés

Other defence officials confirmed the broad outlines of the contract and said it would help with stockpile pressures, specifically involving the howitzer ammunition, which Ukrainian forces have been using at a high rate. 

South Korea's Defence Ministry in a statement acknowledged ongoing talks over exporting an unspecified number of 155-millimetre artillery shells to shore up diminishing US inventories. However, the ministry said the negotiations were proceeding under the presumption that the US would be the “end user” of those rounds and that Seoul maintains its principle of providing only non-lethal support to Ukraine

Last week in a defence official briefing reporters said Ukraine was burning through as many as 7,000 rounds of ammunition a day, while Russia was firing as much as 20,000 rounds daily

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the deal had not been made public

READ MORE:  Train from North Korea returns to Russia amid arms transfer claims

Non-lethal supplies

Until now, South Korea had previously limited its support for Ukraine to non-lethal equipment and supplies. In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed South Korea to provide lethal arms after Russia’s attack on Mariupol. 

Seoul's Defence Ministry confirmed at the time that it had rejected the Ukrainian request for anti-aircraft weapons

In a statement, Army Lieutenant Colonel Marty Meiners, Pentagon spokesperson, said the US government has been in discussions to buy ammunition from South Korea's non-government defence industrial base. The ammunition would not come from South Korean military stocks. He declined to provide details

Meiners said any potential sales always take into account the South Korean military's readiness and requirements and “will not detract from our defensive posture or readiness to respond against regional threats.” He added that South Korea's defence industry regularly sells military equipment and weapons systems to allies and partners, including the US

READ MORE:  What is Iran's involvement in the Ukraine conflict?

No scheduled time for deliveries

South Korea has also inked several recent arms deals with European countries eager to bolster their defences in the wake of Russia's assault on Ukraine, including almost $9 billion in multiple contracts with Poland to provide F-16 fighter jets, training aircraft, tanks and howitzers

The ammunition deal was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Meiners said he could not provide information on how quickly the ammunition could get to Ukraine. He said the Pentagon has regular conversations with South Korea and other allies around the world about how best to support Ukraine in the fighting

The revelation of the agreement came as Russia said it was beginning to withdraw its forces from the key city of Kherson. Ukrainian officials acknowledged Moscow’s troops had no choice but to flee Kherson, yet they remained cautious, fearing an ambush

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Source: AP