Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) A police constable was shot and killed last night in Chaguanas.

(Trinidad Guardian) While the owners of the barge and tug that caused the oil spill in Tobago haven’t been located just yet, Government has been contacted by a Nigerian lawyer representing the purported owners.

(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Police Service (TTPS) and the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) are investigating the discovery of illegal CCTV cameras mounted by gangs to monitor police stations, says National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 36-year-old bank worker was ambushed and shot several times yesterday afternoon as she arrived home from work.

(Trinidad Guardian) Senseless and reckless.    This is how Kevon Lewis described the murder of his uncle, Siparia labourer Leroy Sifontis, who was held up on his way to work yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) A High Court judge yester­day axed a long-­standing colo­nial policy that prison officers must be “clean-sha­ven” in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) For the first time in this country’s history an auditor general has filed a lawsuit against an attorney general.

(Trinidad Guardian) Up to late yesterday evening, police were still trying to determine a motive for the murders of a man and his common-law wife at their mini-mart on Penal Rock Road, Penal, on Monday night. 

(Trinidad Guardian) The estimated costs of the clean-up operation so far for the Tobago oil spill at the central Government level is around US$12 million but by the end of the exercise it could increase to as much as US$30 million, says Energy Minister Stuart Young.

(Trinidad Express) A 29-year-old man who has been called ‘the prime suspect’ in the mass shooting reported in Cocorite on Saturday night which claimed the lives of four men, and injured eight others, has been held attempting to flee the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite recently opening its flagship Miniso store at the Falls Westmall, found-er and CEO of First Retail Inc, Omar Hadeed, says the company’s local growth will “now be slowed” as the foreign exchange (forex) problem continues to be very challenging.

(Trinidad Guardian)Tobago investigators have identified the body found over a precipice in Mt St George as 32-year-old Shellon Walters-Joseph, of Mt Marie, Scarborough.

(Trinidad Express) Four people were killed and eight injured in a mass shooting at Powder Magazine in Cocorite on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four people are dead, and eight others wounded following a shooting in Cocorite, on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Express) Roadside vendors are defending the cost of their goods against criticism from consumers that the prices of pomerac and mango are too high when compared to imported apples.

(Trinidad Express) Comedian and chutney singer Kenneth Supersad, of Nahh News fame, yesterday received an apology from officers of the Arouca Police Station after he had been turned away while making a robbery report on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago now joins several other CARICOM countries in formally recognising the State of Palestine.

(Trinidad Express) The owner of Crystal Waters Limited was shot and killed last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) A global outbreak of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu or avian flu, has prompted the Chief Veterinary Officer to ban the importation of poultry from Miami, Florida via both air and sea.  

(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, has deemed the contents of a legal letter sent to him by Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass as “threats” and said he will not be “intimidated” in the course of his duties.