Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Health authorities in St Vincent and the Grenadines have announced that the country has registered its first case of coronavirus COVID-19.

(Trinidad Express) Legal action has been filed against the Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) by attorneys representing a woman who caught on fire while giving birth at the Sangre Grande Hospital in 2016.

(Trinidad Express) The mother of seven-year-old Shazard Mohamed is living a nightmare no parent ever wants to encounter.

(Trinidad Guardian) United National Congress leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called for international observers to be brought into Trinidad and Tobago for this country’s 2020 general elections.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has been giv­en the green light to re­in­state gang charges against 13 per­sons con­nect­ed to the mur­der of for­mer In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dana See­ta­hal, SC. 

(Trinidad Guardian) A jilt­ed hus­band and his friend, who al­leged­ly so­licit­ed and con­tract­ed a hit­man to mur­der his ex-wife and her new lover, a lit­tle over 13 years ago, have won their ap­peal against their con­vic­tions. 

(Trinidad Guardian) Cana­di­an au­thor­i­ties say one of sev­en new cas­es of the coro­n­avirus COVID-19 in the Al­ber­ta province, had trav­elled from Trinidad and To­ba­go.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young fell off the stage after giving his address at the opening of the new Penal Fire Station on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) A form five pupil has appeared in court today charged with shooting cashier Navita Premchand at her workplace in Fyzabad.

(Trinidad Express) A seven-year-old boy is suspected to have choked and died while eating a pholourie.

(Trinidad Express) The oil price crash yesterday spells trouble for Trinidad and Tobago’s economy.

(Trinidad Express) What Sunil Ramsundar thought was a prank call a few weeks ago turned very real for him after a threatening phone call, and two men with guns showed up at his Charlieville home on Monday night ready to kill him.

(Trinidad Express) Two criminal suspects who played a game of hide and seek in a supermarket with dozens of heavily armed police officers, ended up the losers.

(Trinidad Guardian) The same man, Ken­neth “Span­ish” Ro­driguez, who was re­ferred to as a “known gang leader” in the In­ter­im Re­port from the Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) on Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty is still re­ceiv­ing lu­cra­tive Gov­ern­ment con­tracts from the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion.

(Trinidad Guaridan) Beetham Gar­dens com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivist An­der­son Wil­son has been sen­tenced to sev­en days in prison for curs­ing Laven­tille West MP Fitzger­ald Hinds in 2018. 

A 23-year-old has been charged with the murder of Charan Singh, the son of a retired superintendent of police.

(Trinidad Express)  Assistant Commission­er of Police Irwin Hack­shaw has been flagged by three finan­cial institutions for close to $2 million in suspicious activity.

(Trinidad Newsday) Two years after consensual homosexual sex acts were decriminalised by the High Court, gay rights activist Jason Jones wants to determine how heterosexuals feel about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI+) community.

(Trinidad Guardian) Min­is­ter of State in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy says govern­ment is rolling out pro­grammes and ini­tia­tives to help women, chil­dren, and men too.

(Trinidad Express) A man who is seeking a separation from his wife is not prepared to return a Mercedes Benz he said he received as a gift from her father.