ASSISTANT Chief Fire Officer Marlon Smith says it took about 15 minutes for fire officers to get from their Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, headquarters to the Maraval fire that claimed the lives of three children on Monday.

Smith was unable to say, however, how long it took officers to get into the house, or how many fire officers were present battling the blaze.

POLICE responded yesterday evening to what they suspected was a murder-suicide at New Grant.

Michael Deonarine and wife Crystal Jagroop, both 25, who were in a relationship for just over a year, were found dead in a bedroom at their home at Unis Trace, Busy Corner.

Deonarine is suspected to have killed Jagroop and then himself. Officers found several spent shells but no weapon.

Trinidad and Tobago nationals who returned to this country from Canada are calling on the Ministry of Health to clarify its policy on the mixing of Covid-19 vaccines.

This after they were made to pay fees ranging from $13,500 to $17,000 to quarantine at a State-approved facility.

The raging flames have disappeared but the pain felt far and wide of the loss of three children dying in a house fire in Maraval on Monday has not.

Ezekiel Burke, 17, Faith Burke, six, and Kayden Burke, three, were trapped by burglar-proofing and perished in the fire that engulfed their home in Rookery Nook in Maraval. Two other siblings—Janiceia, 15, and Kiseane, 13—were rescued.