Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) The raid which dominated the headlines on April 10 was described as the first of its kind by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) during the Covid-19 lockdown.

(Trinidad Guardian) The swift deportation of 160 Venezuelans by the Ministry of National Security late yesterday came on the cusp of a planned meeting between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro.

(Trinidad Express) The High Court has blocked the State from deporting 19 Venezuelan nationals against whom deportation orders had been issued.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of a Palo Seco businessman, who police shot dead on Thursday, are calling for a murder investigation as they said police killed an unarmed man.

(Trinidad Express) JANUARY 29, 2021 has been set as the date when the preliminary enquiry against former government minister Marlene McDonald and four others on corruption charges is expected to begin.

(Trinidad Guardian) The young man who found the abandoned baby hidden among bushes in Freeport last Thursday wants to visit the infant, to see for himself how she is doing.

(Trinidad Express) THE State has been restrained from again deporting 16 Venezuelan children and 11 adults while their challenge against their deportation that took place over the weekend is heard and determined by the High Court.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court Judge has ordered the immediate release of 10 minors and four of their mothers from a migrant detention centre at the T&T Coast Guard’s Heliport in Chaguaramas.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has issued a statement on the issue of migrants from Venezuela who are continuing to flee their country and travel by boat to Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Moruga man who chopped his neighbour’s goat in a fit of rage because it ate his crops has been jailed for six months.

(Trinidad Guardian) On the steps outside attorney Nafeesa Mohammed’s office yesterday, Gregoria Figueredo sat disconsolately.

(Trinidad Express) ALL 250 people detained early yesterday morning at a “zesser party” in Caroni will be charged.

Three men are expected to appear before a magistrate on Monday 23rd November 2020, to face multiple charges, after a shootout with Emergency Response Patrol (ERP) police officers on Wednesday 18 November 2020.

(Trinidad Express) A Siparia retiree used his dying breath to give his daughter the registration number of the vehicle which struck him and drove away on Friday evening.

(Trinidad Express) A Siparia retiree used his dying breath to give his daughter the registration number of the vehicle which struck him and drove away on Friday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government has now allocated $30 million to bail out restaurant and bar employees and people who are self-employed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said there is to be no Christmas parties in the public service in 2020 and has called on the private sector to follow suit.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of National Security says the Opposition’s failure to support the continuation of the Anti-Gang Act “will have very serious negative effects on the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s (TTPS) fight against gangs and criminality.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Insensitive comments by a person recording a cell phone video of the body of a man who was fatally shot, have generated ire among social media users.

(Trinidad Express) An appeal has been made to Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly to get answers from the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) and put an end to “nine weeks of torment” for thousands of secondary school pupils.