Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) A 45 year old Ste Madeleine man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing a woman by setting her on fire.

(Trinidad Express) After a photo of a capuchin monkey wearing a People’s National Movement (PNM) dress was brought to the attention of Minister of Agriculture, Clarence Rambharat, he referred it to local law enforcement officials.

(Trinidad Express) The body of a woman was found yesterday afternoon off Demerara Road in Arima.

(Trinidad Newsday) Port of Spain mayor Joel Martinez, on Tuesday, called on citizens and members of the public to desist from feeding the homeless in the city.

(Trinidad Express) A Freeport woman has vanished on her drive home from her mother’s house.

(Trinidad Express) If you plan on making a generous offering of old $100 bills at Old Year’s mass this year think again.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five men were sen­tenced to death by hang­ing yesterday af­ter a ju­ry found them guilty, af­ter lengthy de­lib­er­a­tion, of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of Dr Ed­ward Khoury.

(Trinidad Express) Police detained two men yesterday afternoon when they were caught using a card-skimming device at a Scotiabank automated teller machine (ATM) in Trincity Mall.

(Trinidad Guardian) Less than one week af­ter com­mer­cial banks start­ed ex­chang­ing the ex­ist­ing $100 cot­ton bills for the new $100 poly­mer notes, crim­i­nals have be­gun to pro­duce coun­ter­feit $100 pa­per bills.

(Trinidad Newsday) While senators agreed decriminalisation of marijuana is a step in the right direction, some said a joint select committee (JSC) is needed to treat with concerns in the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2019.

(Trinidad Newsday) Hassan Ali was denied bail on Friday when he appeared before magistrate Cheron Raphael in the Arima First Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged with demanding money by menace.

(Trinidad Express) West Indian Cannabis Company Ltd is involved in the apparel industry.

(Trinidad Guardian)The Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions and Chair­man of the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion are be­ing called up­on to im­me­di­ate­ly in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the set­tle­ment of the sex­u­al ha­rass­ment law­suit brought against for­mer Sports Min­is­ter Dar­ryl Smith.

(Trinidad Guardian) She told us that hun­dreds of peo­ple are still trapped in their homes, how­ev­er, and that much of Clarke Road, Quinam Road, La Truce Road, and Naipalier Trace are still flood­ed out.

(Trinidad Guardian) Col­leagues of Sco­tia­bank’s Ch­agua­nas branch se­nior em­ploy­ee, Sil­vine Coop­er, 41, who col­lapsed on the job on Thurs­day and sub­se­quent­ly died from a sus­pect­ed heart at­tack, are blam­ing her death on the stress con­nect­ed to the new $100 poly­mer bill.

(Trinidad Guardian) ANSA Mer­chant Bank Lim­it­ed has signed an agree­ment to pur­chase Bank of Bar­o­da’s op­er­a­tions in T&T, which if ap­proved will al­low it to do all as­pects of com­mer­cial bank­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Sco­tia­bank em­ploy­ee at­tached to the Ch­agua­nas Main Road branch col­lapsed on the job and was lat­er pro­nounced dead.

(Trinidad Guardian) In the last three days, sev­er­al sus­pi­cious trans­ac­tions by du­bi­ous pro­fes­sion­als have been un­earthed in the bank­ing sec­tor as thou­sands of cus­tomers con­tin­ue to rush fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions to ex­change their ex­ist­ing $100 bill for the new $100 poly­mer notes.   One sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ty in­volved a bar­ber who walked in­to a bank with $1mil­lion in pa­per-based $100 bills to be swapped for the new $100 notes which the pub­lic be­gan ac­cess­ing at banks on Tues­day.

(Trinidad Express) It is two weeks before Christmas and the people living in flood-ravaged South Trinidad are facing a financial disaster.

(Trinidad Express) A man who often wore a lot of gold jewelry, was shot, killed, and robbed of it on Wednesday night.