Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.   One of the bul­lets ric­o­cheted and grazed a fe­male teacher on the hand, while an­oth­er bul­let went just over the head of a pupil while he was sit­ting his end of term ex­am­i­na­tion, miss­ing his head by mere cen­time­tres.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice have con­firmed that an elec­tron­ic de­vice was re­cov­ered at the Gov­ern­ment Cam­pus’ Parkade fol­low­ing an ex­plo­sion yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) The patient shot and killed on Ward 3 of the Port of Spain General Hospital last night was not the intended target.

(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.   Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Soong said “There is a busi­ness side to it that we should not be left be­hind.

(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.