Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(Trinidad Express) Education Minister Anthony Garcia is warning school children about the dangers of the ‘jump/trip challenge’, after a child suffered a broken arm.

(Trinidad Express) A TAXI driver was hijacked, shot to the head and left for dead on Sunday by criminals wanting his car.

(Trinidad Guardian) A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer from To­ba­go, who last month be­gan a law­suit against Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith over his han­dling of pro­mo­tions to the rank of Su­per­in­ten­dent, was among 48 of­fi­cers who were pro­mot­ed by Grif­fith on Fri­day.   Last month, High Court Judge Eleanor Don­ald­son-Hon­ey­well grant­ed act­ing Se­nior Supt Col­lis Hazel, of Rox­bor­ough, To­ba­go, leave to pur­sue his ju­di­cial re­view case against Grif­fith.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sev­er­al front­line UNC MPs — in­clud­ing MP Fuad Khan— have said peo­ple are swing­ing back to UNC and they’ve knocked for­mer par­ty leader Bas­deo Pan­day’s bid to uni­fy small par­ties in­to a po­lit­i­cal third force.

(Trinidad Guardian) De­spite its small size, T&T is among the top five coun­tries with the high­est car­bon emis­sions world­wide.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith says the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is doing all that can be possibly done to deal with the crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ice, a large pri­vate yacht, docked in Port-of-Spain on Fri­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pi­o­neer­ing So­ca Pro­duc­er Dar­ryl Brax­ton, the man who made hits for Bun­ji Gar­lin and KMC, died on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) The Child Protection Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is investigating three reports of children ingesting food items containing marijuana at schools in Central and North Trinidad.

(Trinidad Express) The Child Protection Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is investigating three reports of children ingesting food items containing marijuana at schools in Central and North Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) A high court judge has found the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) guilty of med­ical neg­li­gence in the death of 30-year-old Navin Singh.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pi­o­neer­ing So­ca Pro­duc­er Dar­ryl Brax­ton, the man who made hits for Bun­ji Gar­lin and KMC, died yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) Police have detained two men in connection with the killing of Freeport business analyst Charan Singh, who was shot and killed during a botched robbery on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Machel Montano is now a married man. The King of Soca wedded his long-time girlfriend, Renee Butcher, at the Red House in Port-of-Spain on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) I don’t want to die. This from Chaguanas businesswoman Rachael Sukhdeo, woman who broke her silence yesterday on the carnage that has surrounded her since the killing of her husband, Sheron Sukdeo almost two years ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s a moth­er’s worst night­mare to wake up to trag­ic news of her daugh­ter be­ing killed and her grand­daugh­ter shot and wound­ed and in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

(Trinidad Guardian) The son of a re­tired po­lice su­per­in­ten­dent was shot dead while ly­ing on the ground next to his fa­ther, in a hold-up in Freeport Wednes­day night.

(Trinidad Guardian) While homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are prob­ing a drug link in Tues­day’s quadru­ple mur­der in Ran­cho Que­ma­do, some in­for­ma­tion point to a hit or­dered on the life of one of the vic­tims, An­to­nio Alexan­der.