Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Women and girls in Trinidad and Tobago cannot walk the streets without being harassed by dirty men with foul mouths who brazenly make offensive comments which can range from “baby yuh sweet and sexy” to explicit remarks about female genitalia.

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Stuart Young announced on Thursday that a Cabinet decision was made to remove the existing $100 bill from circulation and replace it with a new, harder to counterfeit note.

(Trinidad Express) As he realised the brakes on his truck were failing, driver Johnald Smith told his 18-year-old loader to jump out before the vehicle went over a cliff along the Lady Young Road in Morvant.

(Trinidad Express) There are 80 million $100 bills (valued at $8 billion) currently in circulation in Trinidad and Tobago, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion ex­tends deep­est con­do­lences and sym­pa­thy to the fam­i­ly of our for­mer Pres­i­dent Ray­mond Tim Kee fol­low­ing his pass­ing on Sat­ur­day night at his home in Port-of-Spain.

(Trinidad Guardian) The new poly­mer $100 ban­knotes have been print­ed and are ready for dis­tri­b­u­tion, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has an­nounced.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an at­tempt to es­cape the grid­lock traf­fic which snarled all routes in­to and out of the cap­i­tal city on Sat­ur­day, a de­liv­ery dri­ver lost his life af­ter he at­tempt­ed to use an al­ter­na­tive route.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dana Pe­ruza last saw and spoke with her son Key­on “Geno” Gill around 7 pm on Thurs­day as she or­dered KFC for din­ner.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rage and out­rage af­ter a 15-year-old Form Three stu­dent of the Mara­bel­la South Sec­ondary School had to be hos­pi­talised af­ter be­ing beat­en by a par­ent on the school com­pound on Wednes­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 2019 murder toll is now officially over 500.

(Trinidad Express) The husband of Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is currently hospitalised and was carded to  undergo a medical procedure.

(Trinidad Express) A woman described as an avid church member appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with armed robbery at a gas station in August.

(Trinidad Newsday) A gunman who shot at and missed his intended target in the streets of San Fernando on Thursday morning fled police by running into an all-girls’ school.

(Trinidad Express) The body of an unidentified woman was found yesterday afternoon near a sweet potato garden in Cunupia.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men are dead after gunmen opened fire on a group of people in Covigne Diego Martin last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pris­on­ers in lo­cal jails are com­mu­ni­cat­ing on the In­ter­net us­ing 4G and LTE tech­nol­o­gy, prompt­ing the Gov­ern­ment to amend the In­ter­cep­tion of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion law soon to deal with this.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has been no­ti­fied that 178 out of the to­tal unionised work­force of 286 work­ers at Unilever Caribbean Ltd (UCL) work­ers are be­ing sent home.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) says the vot­er turnout in Mon­day’s Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions was 34.49 per cent of the vot­ing pop­u­la­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) A seven-seven tie result for People’s National Movement and United National Congress!

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health says it has conducted an epidemiological examination of the Influenza deaths for this season.