Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.   In a letter from his attorney, Kevin Bissoondath, denied that he held any property on behalf of his father-in-law, Ranjan Seegobin Singh.

(Trinidad Express) Newlyweds, David and Jessica Francis, who drowned together at Cumana Beach, Toco, will be laid to rest in separate countries.

(Trinidad Express) Autopsies  on the charred bodies of a mother and son, and a family friend, found in a burnt house last Friday in Guapo, near Point Fortin, have found the three were stabbed to death.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gov­ern­ment doesn’t yet have a sys­tem which would have al­lowed im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cials to ac­quire visa in­for­ma­tion from the Unit­ed States which would have in­di­cat­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go-born US-based rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj’s hus­band was an al­leged sex of­fend­er in his na­tive coun­try.

(Trinidad Guardian) Moves to in­crease the ef­fi­cien­cy of the pro­tec­tion or­der sys­tem are in the works.

(Trinidad Express) The couple who faced 46 charges in relation to alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old have been denied bail.

(Trinidad Guardian) One day af­ter a San Juan mar­ket ven­dor re­port­ed that he was paid with a coun­ter­feit $100 bill at the Cen­tral Mar­ket in Port-of-Spain, a source in the Bankers’ As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT) is say­ing coun­ter­feits are much more ram­pant than the pub­lic knows.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is a short­age of N-95 masks in the coun­try, which puts doc­tors at risk should there be an out­break of the nov­el coro­n­avirus (COVID-19).

Shaking hands is banned in church due to fears of spreading the coronavirus.