Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(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.