Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) The United National Congress (UNC) has stormed into the PNM stronghold that was the San Fernando City Corporation (SFCC).

(Trinidad Express) A doctor was among three people killed overnight in separate crashes.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has closed the State’s case in the pre­lim­i­nary in­quiry of ten men charged with the mur­der of for­mer In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dana See­ta­hal, SC.

(Trinidad Express) Two fire fighters and a civilian were injured when a pick up van crashed into the fire tender on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A proposal to bring back a more efficient Petrotrin is chief among the plans Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar laid out at Saturday night’s United National Congress (UNC) rally.

(Trinidad Express) Criminals got only the shirt off the back of a medical doctor during an attempted robbery at his San Fernando office on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) A man was gunned down mere metres away from the office of the Homicide Bureau in San Fernando on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) An off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer and a veg­etable ven­dor were killed last night along Low­er Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain, af­ter a gun­man opened fire on a Beetham man who man­aged to es­cape with mi­nor in­juries.

(Trinidad Guardian) There have been over 552 re­port­ed cas­es of sex­u­al of­fences for the year with women mak­ing up the ma­jor­i­ty of the cas­es.

(Trinidad Express) The wife of a former local government councillor died on Thursday from a suspected case of the H1N1 flu virus (swine flu).

(Trinidad Expess) “I want to tell Kamla Persad-Bissessar something tonight. Not all East Indians in politics are thieves.”

(Trinidad Newsday) While singer Destra Garcia was shocked at the reactions to her recently released video, Me Gusta, with Pakistani-American cricketer Ali Khan, she believes the videos of apologies done by Khan and Dwayne “DJ” Bravo showed “great courtesy” by wanting to remedy the situation.

(Trinidad Newsday) The Prime Minister has identified gambling as one of many social ills in TT which the Opposition UNC has no interest in addressing.

(Trinidad Guardian) A sergeant in the T&T Defence Force was arrested by officers of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) yesterday for the alleged rape and buggery of a child.

(Trinidad Newsday) Pakistani-American cricketer Ali Khan is asking his fans on social media to “move on” from an issue over his being a part of soca singer Destra Garcia’s Me Gusta video.

(Trinidad Guardian) A sergeant in the T&T De­fence Force was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) yes­ter­day for the al­leged rape and bug­gery of a child.

`(Trinidad Express) A member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force was held by police yesterday following a report of a sexual assault of a boy.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has lament­ed that the war against crime has to be fought not on­ly on the streets but with­in the Po­lice Ser­vice where there are some er­rant and crim­i­nal­ly-in­clined of­fi­cers.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of one, Shanice Williams, was shot dead by a man who called her out of her home on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gun­men climbed on­to rooftops of the Plan­nings at Up­per and Low­er Nel­son Street and fired off “warn­ing/mes­sage” gun­shots at each oth­er yes­ter­day morn­ing when five stray bul­lets end­ed up pen­e­trat­ing a class­room at the South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School.