(Trinidad Guardian) As he mounted a United National Congress (UNC) platform for the first time in his life last night, former People’s National Movement (PNM) attorney general John Jeremie, in endorsing UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, told the crowd, “I am the last man you would expect to see here tonight.”
(Trinidad Express) Police are trying to determine the cause of a fire that broke out yesterday at the Amerijet warehouse facility located at the South Terminal of Piarco International Airport.
(Trinidad Guardian) A series of new crime-fighting initiatives, including the creation of an elite tactical unit for high-priority criminal threats will be introduced if the PNM returns to office.
(Trinidad Guardian) A fire early Friday morning at the Amerijet warehouse facility at the South Terminal of Piarco International Airport has led to the temporary suspension of all flight operations, according to the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Guardian) The father of Trinidad-born British citizen Zaheer Esat who was abducted in broad daylight after leaving a mosque in Central Trinidad on Friday is appealing to his son’s kidnappers to release him.
(Trinidad Guardian) Violence broke out at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca yesterday, resulting in the death of one inmate and injuries to two others.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two Venezuelan men were killed by Southern Division Task Force officers yesterday, after they allegedly confronted lawmen with a gun and a Chinese chopper during an alleged weapons deal.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Trade Paula Gopee-Scoon says officials from this country and the United States have agreed to engage in dialogue to continuously review the tariff structure between the two nations.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three years after four divers lost their lives in what became known as the Paria diving tragedy, the government has decided to award TT$1 million to each of their families and an additional TT$1 million to the lone survivor.
(Trinidad Express) Sixty days after she was arrested and interrogated for two days, suspended Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher is yet to be charged with any crime.
(Trinidad Guardian) Nigerian energy company Oando PLC, the Government’s preferred bidder for the lease of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery, has been struggling financially.
(Trinidad Guardian) Darryl White has resigned with immediate effect as the chief executive officer and regional vice president of corporate and investment banking of RBC Financial (Caribbean) Ltd.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago’s music fraternity is mourning the death of Hawthorn “King Wellington” Qua-shie who passed away at the age of 86.
(Trinidad Guardian) United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday called on Prime Minister Stuart Young to support moves against Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro’s administration during a bilateral meeting in Kingston, Jamaica.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Court of Appeal has overturned a judge’s decision to uphold a novel constitutional challenge over this country’s homophobic buggery and serious indecency laws.
(Trinidad Guardian) Housing Minister and Laventille East/Morvant MP Adrian Leonce is now in hot water, after admitting to registering a UK-based company using another person’s address in that country before terminating the company.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has ruled in favour of former High Court judge Marcia Ayers-Caesar, dismissing an appeal brought by Trinidad and Tobago’s Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) and upholding findings that her removal from office in April 2017 was unlawful.