Trinidad & Tobago News

PhD Zoology candidate at The University of the West Indies, Nicholas Mohammed, is calling on the public to report sightings of the vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) on farms in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Shane Ramjattan, the man who lied about being kidnapped, has been fined $600.

(Trinidad Express) Vincent Panchoo has been identified as the man whose headless body was found in Santa Flora on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Express) Shane Ramjattan has been charged with making a false report.

 (Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Gov­ern­ment has backed Bar­ba­dos’ po­si­tion not to send a rep­re­sen­ta­tive to to­day’s meet­ing be­ing held by US Sec­re­tary of State Mike Pom­peo with sev­er­al Caribbean lead­ers in Ja­maica.

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidadian couple who travelled to the United States and entered into fraudulent marriages to gain citizenship was convicted for the crime last week Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) State-owned Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) lost over US$500,000 in a bad deal on the sale of bunker fu­el on the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket.

(Trinidad Express) Shane Ramjattan, the missing father of two, has emerged from the forest telling an incredible story of being abducted, beaten and a trip to Venezuela.

(Trinidad Express) The shootout between police and suspected gang members on the Eastern Main Road, Laventille Wednes-day was a watershed event with criminals now operating with new sophisticated, highly organised guerilla-type tactics.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young has given the assurance that Venezuelan migrants who were given registration cards will receive “an automatic six-month extension” at the end of the expiry period.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Red House has been pro­claimed as the place for the con­tin­u­a­tion of Par­lia­ment.

 (Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young has given the assurance that Venezuelan migrants who were given registration cards will receive “an automatic six-month extension” at the end of the expiry period.

(Trinidad Express) A day after his 43rd birthday, Julien Christopher Caleb was gunned down.

(Trinidad Guardian) Broken pieces of red and blue ink pens on the road outside the Southern Girl Guides Headquarters marked the spot yesterday where Dr Rudradeva Sharma was kidnapped before being killed in a vehicular crash.

(Trinidad Express) Who shot and killed two brothers and their cousin in Wallerfield yesterday morning?

(Trinidad Express) Just two weeks after five people were wounded and one killed in Port of Spain, the capital city recorded another multiple shooting this afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi may have suf­fered an­oth­er big le­gal loss yes­ter­day in the mat­ter be­tween the State and in­ter­na­tion­al he­li­copter provider, Cob­ham PLC.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago Olympian Michelle-Lee Ahye will miss this year’s Tokyo Olympics af­ter be­ing banned for two years due to “where­abouts fail­ures,” the Ath­let­ics In­tegri­ty Unit (AIU) an­nounced yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 31-year-old man from Pin­to Road, Ari­ma is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate charged with a triple mur­der which oc­curred in Ari­ma on Mon­day 6 Jan­u­ary.

(Trinidad Guardian) The state will ap­peal Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad’s sedi­tion rul­ing, as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al Rawi has claimed the rul­ing could have a rip­ple ef­fect with se­ri­ous im­pli­ca­tions con­cern­ing oth­er in­her­it­ed laws from our colo­nial past.