Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) A Mus­lim Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP), who suc­cess­ful­ly chal­lenged the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) pol­i­cy ban­ning fe­male of­fi­cers from wear­ing hi­jabs while on du­ty, has been award­ed $185,000 in com­pen­sa­tion. 

(Trinidad Express) There has been an explosion at the Parkade building in Port of Spain.

(Trinidad Express) Special Reserve Police (SRP) officer Sharon Roop, who won her right last November to wear her hijab while in uniform, has been awarded $185,000 by the High Court for breach of her Constitutional rights.

A tropical wave is sweeping across Trinidad and Tobago from this morning, bringing heavy rainfall, gusty winds and street or flash flooding.

(Trinidad Express) A Claxton Bay man was killed days after three men were committed to stand trial for attempting to murder him three years ago.

(Trinidad Express) Coast guard officers assisted police in the search for the bodies of two people found burnt in a boat at Canari bay, Moruga, yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Hours before he was to appear in court for his wife’s murder, a San Fernando man is suspected to have committed suicide.

(Trinidad Guardian) Busi­ness­man John­ny Soong and chair­man and prin­ci­pal in­vestor of Green La­va Labs, the first com­pa­ny to be­gin le­gal cannabis cul­ti­va­tion in St Vin­cent says Trinidad & Tobago can be a ma­jor play­er in the pro­duc­tion and trade of med­i­c­i­nal mar­i­jua­na.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the shoot­ing of an­oth­er po­lice of­fi­cer in one day.

(Trinidad Express) Wayne Chance, the founder and executive director of the non-governmental organisation Vision on Mission (VOM), has died.

(Trinidad Guardian) At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi says ful­ly le­gal­is­ing mar­i­jua­na now will crip­ple its eco­nom­ic po­ten­tial for the small man.

(Trinidad Express) A Cocorite resident has filed a police report alleging that Police Commissioner Gary Griffith choked him and threatened to kill him.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men and a woman were shot and killed in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents be­tween Fri­day night and Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

(Trinidad Newsday) Officials at the Education Ministry requested copies of leave for the past three years for local government candidate and art teacher Richard Rampersad.

(Trinidad Guardian) The An­gli­can Church is still in­ves­ti­gat­ing the fi­as­co sur­round­ing the Style­Week Port-of-Spain fash­ion show at the Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral.

(Trinidad Express) Point Fortin police rescued the kidnapped wife of an offshore service contractor within minutes of her abduction on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Leg­is­la­tion to have mar­i­jua­na de­crim­i­nalised is to be laid in Par­lia­ment to­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) He is now be­ing called “snake boy”. Sai­fudeen Muham­mad the 13-year-old, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas stu­dent went vi­ral af­ter a video was post­ed on so­cial me­dia of his brav­ery in re­mov­ing a wild maca­juel snake at the school com­pound this week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Lennox Joseph, 65, sur­vived an at­tempt on his life where he was shot six times.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man, who was want­ed in con­nec­tion with ten mur­ders in­clud­ing Tues­day’s dou­ble mur­der of Mar­sha Joseph, 55, and her son, Shawn, 22, was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing yesterday in San­ta Cruz.