00:00Eight-year-old Morfa Pensioner has been stabbed to death at his Angelina Terrace home.
00:05The incident happened yesterday afternoon close to 1 p.m.
00:08The victim has been identified as Kerwin Mark.
00:11Police say residents assisted in taking Mark to the Port of Spain General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
00:19Investigators were told Mark had allegedly been stabbed by a male relative
00:23who left the family home shortly before police arrived.
00:26Crime scene investigators recovered an ice pick and a knife from the house.
00:31Police say the relative has not been located and is now being sought in connection with the killing.
00:39In other crime-related news, police have seized approximately 2.2 kilograms of cannabis
00:45during an anti-crime operation across Port of Spain.
00:48The TDPS says officers first searched an abandoned apartment at Harp Palace at Harp Place, East Dry River, Port of
00:57Spain,
00:57where they found more than 800 grams of cannabis.
01:01A short while later, another quantity was discovered in a plastic bag
01:05launched between two booths at People's Mall on Henry Street.
01:09Officers later searched a bushy area at Jackson Place, East Dry River, where more cannabis was recovered.
01:15The seizures were made during Operation Blast on Tuesday.
01:20No arrests were reported and police say the operation ended without incident.
01:27Police are investigating two robberies involving more than $38,000 in cash.
01:33A Canupia man was robbed of $27,000 by armed masked men
01:37while attempting to buy a vehicle advertised on Facebook Marketplace in Chamflais.
01:43Hours later, $11,000 in iPad and other electronic items
01:47were stolen from a Toyota Hilux in Maracas, St. Joseph.
01:52Investigations are continuing.
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