Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS), Satnarayan Maharaj, has died.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha and a man who carved out a lega­cy for him­self as a fight­er, Sat­narayan Ma­haraj, 88, has died.

(Trinidad Guardian) The pro­tract­ed “Pi­ar­co Two” pre­lim­i­nary in­quiry in­to fraud charges aris­ing out of the con­struc­tion of the $1.6 bil­lion Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has to be restart­ed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homi­cide de­tec­tives strong­ly be­lieve that a dead­ly hit was car­ried out on the life of Ar­lene Black­man, how­ev­er, a mo­tive is yet to be es­tab­lished for her killing.

(Trinidad Newsday) Counsellors from the police Victim and Witness Support Unit have been assigned to ten children, eight of whom witnessed the killing of their father, Damian Howe, in the family’s Marabella home on Thursday morning.

(Trinidad Express) Arlene Blackman died on Thursday night after being shot in her car in Mt Hope.

(Trinidad Guardian) Short­ly af­ter UNC of­fi­cials spoke out against T&T’s run­away crime sit­u­a­tion at a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing on Thurs­day night came news that Princes Town MP Bar­ry Padarath had been robbed at gun­point.

(Trinidad Express) A CEPEP worker was shot dead in front of his children at their home in Marabella yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man who jumped bail 23 years ago on charges of rape, buggery and robbery with aggravation has been found by the police.

(Trinidad Newsday) A 31-year-old father on Tuesday found out in the Chaguanas magistrates’ court that he had been paying maintenance for two children whom, he later found out are not his.

(Trinidad Guardian) The griev­ing moth­er of the eight-year-old Nathaniel Find­ley, who died af­ter suf­fer­ing a seizure at his Pri­ma­ry School on Mon­day, is call­ing for a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his death.

(Trinidad Guardian) An op­por­tunist!  That’s how Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer Ani­ta Haynes de­scribed Christo­pher Wylie who worked with Cam­bridge An­a­lyt­i­ca (CA) and con­duct­ed da­ta min­ing and analy­ses in T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of National Security Stuart Young says he is very con­cerned about the in­for­ma­tion brought to light in Christo­pher Wylie’s book about how the UNC sanc­tioned a breach of cit­i­zens’ pri­va­cy.

(Trinidad Express) Months of investigations by the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), Fraud Squad and Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau into a multi million dollar racket at the Licensing Department culminated on Tuesday night with a series of raids on homes around the country.

(Trinidad Express) A nine-year-old boy has died after he had a seizure at the Guaico Government Primary School.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours af­ter a 29-year-old man sur­ren­dered to the po­lice for al­leged­ly kid­nap­ping his land­lord and throw­ing him over a precipice, the 41-year-old land­lord suc­cumbed to in­juries at the hos­pi­tal.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of father of two Derick Valentine, who was killed in the presence of his two children on Sunday night, said they believe they will get justice.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two and a half weeks af­ter 15-year-old An­dron Jag­gan went miss­ing while on an er­rand to pur­chase bread and sausages, he was found in an aban­doned house in Pe­nal. 

(Trinidad Express) A twenty-nine year-old San man was in police custody last night after he turned himself in after he kidnapped his one legged landlord and threw him down a precipice off the North Coast Road last week.

(Trinidad Newsday) Murdered Water and Sewage Authority (WASA) worker Ganesh Leroy Codjoe is being hailed a hero by relatives.