Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Awakened by loud explosions as gunmen shot up his bedroom early yesterday morning, a Chaguanas man remained on his bed paralysed with fear.

(Trinidad Express) Covid-19 vaccines will be distributed to all citizens and non-nationals in Trinidad and Tobago, says Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh.

(Trinidad Guardian) Members of the San Juan community turned out to support grieving family and friends of murdered teenager Ashanti Riley in a motorcade held in her memory yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Police Service (TTPS) is owing more than $40 million to several garages and auto repair shops across the country for work done on police vehicles.

(Trinidad Express) A woman was granted $75,000 bail after she was charged with three offences of assault, including throwing hot water on her husband.   Around 10 pm on Friday, a 41-year-old man, who is employed as a security officer, went to the Point Fortin Police Station and made a report against his wife Dyan Bailey, 20, also a security officer.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seventh-Day Adventist pastor Clive Dottin is calling on Trinidad and Tobago’s men to become more actively involved in the protection of the nation’s women and children.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thick, black smoke billowed high into the skies across Port-of-Spain yesterday, as thousands of gallons of fuel burnt indiscriminately following an explosion at National Petroleum’s Sea Lots compound.

(Trinidad Express) Former Miss Trinidad and Tobago Yvee Clarke has less than seven days to pay over $100,000.

(Trinidad Express) The office of the Member of Parliament for Moruga/Tabeland was severely damaged by fire on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A steelpan tutor who began a sexual relationship with a then 12-year-old student in 2009, which eventually resulted in three children, has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

(Trinidad Express) The autopsy done on the body of murdered 18-year-old Ashanti Riley has found a cause of death, and it was brutal.

(Trinidad Express) POLICE suspect that one of three people who perished in a fire at St James early Tuesday was a woman.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith is encouraging more women to apply for Firearm Users Licences (FUL) to protect themselves against criminal elements.

(Trinidad Express) Three teenagers have been charged for the murder of robbery victim Mickel Berrot. 

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have released a man who was caught on camera taking a teenage girl into his car after the girl refused to give them a statement.

(Trinidad Guardian) After leaving the country for life-saving heart surgery last month, a retired police corporal is pleading with the government to allow him to return home for Christmas.

(Trinidad Express) Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s star continues to shine as preliminary results of the United National Congress (UNC) internal elections last night showed the incumbent political leader trumping her opponent Vasant Bharath.

(Trinidad Guardian) Forty-five women and two girls have been murdered so far.

(Trinidad Express) Thirty-three-year-old Isabelle is struggling to cope with multiple life-threatening illnesses in the absence of her 60-year-old mother who is stranded in Guyana.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that supermarkets and groceries will be allowed to open 24-hours from December 10 to January 3.