Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) To­ba­go en­joyed rel­a­tive­ly safe J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions as on­ly mi­nor in­ci­dents were re­port­ed by po­lice.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born American rapper Nicki Minaj was yesterday urged to do a soca song with soca stars Machel Montano and Neil “Iwer” George for Carnival 2021.

(Trinidad Express) Two police officers are among three people charged with trafficking in person (child) for the purpose of exploitation, under Section 18 of the Trafficking in Persons Act.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 31-year-old ac­coun­tant and moth­er of one was shot and killed by two masked men armed with gun when they in­vad­ed her St Al­bans Quar­ry Road, Va­len­cia yes­ter­day morn­ing.

(Trinidad Express) A mother of two returning home after an overnight prayer vigil was killed in a car crash early today.

(Trinidad Express) A mother of two returning home after an overnight prayer vigil was killed in a car crash early today.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “It’s a re­al sweet feel­ing. It’s a feel­ing I didn’t have for a very long time.”

(Trinidad Guardian) While chil­dren may be cu­ri­ous about mar­i­jua­na and its var­i­ous prod­ucts, High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad yes­ter­day told stu­dents of the Na­pari­ma Girls High School that bring­ing the drug to school can change their lives for the worse.

(Trinidad Express) The seven children of a woman who died last month have petitioned the court to have another sister hand over her jewelry to them.

(Trinidad Express) On Valentine’s Day, five days before she was shot twice in the chest, woman police officer Nicolette Persad refused a marriage proposal.

(Trinidad Express) Terri Lyons is the 2020 National Calypso Monarch, having dethroned defending monarch, Ronaldo London who placed 12th.

(Trinidad Express) The criminals waited until late, until a doubles vending couple had sold most of their food, before walking in to take their money.

(Trinidad Express) A man who relatives said was forced into to a life of crime was killed in an shootout with police on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Out of 150 people pulled aside for driving under the influence following Machel Monday, at Hasely Crawford Stadium, only five were found to be above the prescribed limit of 35 microgrammes per 100 millilitre of breath.

(Trinidad Express) A WOMAN who was arrested and detained for several hours in 2016 after officers wrongly believed that she had failed to pay an outstanding $100 on a traffic ticket has been awarded $40,000 by the court.

(Trinidad Guardian) A po­lice sergeant is now in po­lice cus­tody for al­leged­ly shoot­ing his com­mon law wife, who al­so is a po­lice of­fi­cer.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 14-year-old form two stu­dent from a To­ba­go Sec­ondary School is said to be in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion and is fight­ing for her life af­ter she was shot in the head dur­ing an ex­change of gun­fire with po­lice yes­ter­day.   The girl was a pas­sen­ger in a gold Nis­san B16 ve­hi­cle, al­leged­ly used as the get­away car, fol­low­ing the rob­bery of Caribbean Jew­ellers at the Low­lands Mall on Mon­day.

(Trinidad Express) The controversial “sea stage” that was being constructed at Maracas Beach has been removed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Evict­ed from state lands, Pas­tor Es­ther Cruick­shank, head of the Soul Re­vival King­dom Min­istries, said she is not leav­ing Carlsen Field.   Of­fi­cials work­ing the State Lands Of­fice un­der the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Lands and Ma­rine Re­sources con­firmed that on Fri­day Feb­ru­ary 14, 2020 a no­tice was served to the church ad­vis­ing them to va­cate the premis­es.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Court of Ap­peal has agreed to sus­pend a re­cent judge­ment, which struck down as­pects of this coun­try’s colo­nial-age sedi­tion leg­is­la­tion.