Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Couva businessman Alan Babwah, 37, was killed during a home invasion on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) A day after The Baking Room bakery found itself under heavy criticism for selling a beef pie teeming with maggots, the establishment was opened as usual for business.

(Trinidad Express) The father of Jayden Reyes, 21, who was gunned down on Sunday night at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH), has appealed to young men to not choose a life of crime but to aspire to greatness as his son did.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Caribbean Dawah Association is calling on the Government to clarify why the Immigration Division denied Islamic Scholar Sheik Uthmaan Ibn Farooq entry into T&T, classing him and members of his charity group as “undesirables”.

(Trinidad Guardian) A former health minister is warning the public that the steady rise in costs to provide free medical care to the population will eventually put the country in a financial bind.  

(Trinidad Express) Four men were fatally shot in an incident on Sunday night that began in Gonzales and ended in further bloodshed at the Port of Spain General Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) A year after his cousin was shot and killed, and there was an attempt to kill his brother and nephew, a South Oropouche man was gunned down outside his home on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has vowed to reopen the Petrotrin Refinery should she be re-elected prime minister in next year’s general election.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) decision to remove the Agriculture Double Award from its syllabus has been described as “short-sighted” by agricultural economist Dr Omardath Maharaj, who believes this will have a ripple effect on food production in the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Guardian) The mas fraternity has been plunged into mourning following the death of eight-time San Fernando King of the Band winner Leroy Prieto.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have charged Canadian YouTuber Chris Must List with sedition, a day after he was taken into custody by officers of the Special Investigation Unit in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

…Energy Minister refers to global shift away from hydrocarbons (Trinidad Guardian) T&T has received six bids on four blocks from BP, Shell and EOG Resources in the 2023 shallow water auction to explore for oil and gas.

(Trinidad Express) A couple likely drowned when their car overturned and crashed into the sea in Chaguaramas on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian)       In collaboration with Bellingcat: Logan Williams, Thomas Bordeaux, Lotte van de Waal and members of the Bellingcat Discord community.

(Trinidad Express) The killing of two cousins in Maloney on Thursday has pushed this country’s 2024 murder toll to 226.

(Trinidad Express) The brother-in-law of Deborah Gopaul has been charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kidnapped victim Anisha Hosein-Singh has been released by her kidnappers.

(Trinidad Guardian) MovieTowne, the cinema complex owned by businessman Derek Chin, owes the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) TT$93 million in unpaid taxes and penalties.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born United States citizen Deryck Harrinath loved the land of his birth and, after decades of residing abroad, he returned about seven years ago and built a house on his family’s land in South Oropouche.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Police have confirmed that an undisclosed ransom demand has been made for the safe release of kidnap victim Anisha Hosein-Singh.