T&T man on trial for setting wife on fire ...he didn’t like the food, the State alleges
(Trinidad Express) A man who allegedly set his wife on fire because he did not want the meal of patchoi and roti she was cooking went on trial on Wednesday.
Welder Levi Dolloway, 37, who is also known as Roger, was charged with the murder of Arlene Fraser-Dolloway.
It was alleged that in the early morning of June 7, 2008 Fraser-Dolloway, 26, sustained second and third degree burns to the upper part of her body.
She died ten days later at hospital.
The couple was married for eight-and-a-half years and had two children, ages four years and two months old.
Dolloway’s defence is that it was an accident. (Trinidad Guardian) Education Minister Anthony Garcia has once again made the call to principals to enforce the ban on cell phones with cameras in all schools. The only cell phones which will be allowed into schools will be those without cameras.
Garcia made the call in the wake of an incident involving two Form Two students at Fatima College, Port-of-Spain, who were recorded in an act being described as a children’s prank.
The video, which was subsequently posted on social media, incensed many, with some expressing the concern one of the boys had been sexually assaulted by the other. Yesterday, Garcia said the latest incident had driven home why the cell phone ban should be enforced. He said the videotaping of incidents in schools could have dire consequences, adding that the two students “could be labelled for life.”
“They were engaging in child’s play...a normal thing for boys that age to engage in that kind of play,” Garcia said. He said the parents of the students had also agreed it was child’s play and were satisfied no harm was done.
Garcia said the ban on cell phones with cameras in schools had been the ministry’s policy for the past ten years but it was up to the principals to ensure this was done. He said it was also the responsibility of school supervisors to liaise with principals to ensure the policy was carried out.