Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) An unemployed father of two who admitted he sold marijuana was yesterday jailed for a year.

(Trinidad Guardian) A patient, suspected of being infected with the H1N1 virus (Swine Flu), has been warded at the Scarborough General Hospital.

(Trinidad Newsday) An Arouca woman is in custody after she was caught offering her daughters for sex this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dean and Rec­tor at the Holy Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral, Rev­erend Shel­ley Ann Tenia said she was dis­ap­point­ed that the ac­tion of one de­sign­er taint­ed the pub­lic’s view of an event meant to help with the restora­tion of the Port-of-Spain church.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pho­tographs of mod­els in bathing suits walk­ing down the aisle of the Holy Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral went vi­ral on so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day as peo­ple ques­tioned the ap­pro­pri­ate­ness of the sit­u­a­tion.

(Trinidad Newsday) Two days after a woman was chopped to death at her home, an unidentified woman was found dead of chop wound on land parcel off Caura Royal Road, Caura yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Beware of that boob job or Brazilian butt lift procedure you may be tempted to undergo.

(Trinidad Express) A police inspector shot two people whom he said attempted to rob him at a bar in Marabella early Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) For­mer sport and youth af­fairs min­is­ter Dar­ryl Smith is de­mand­ing that the government de­stroy all copies of the re­port in­to the pay­ment of $150,000 to his for­mer per­son­al assistant af­ter she was fired and al­leged sex­u­al ha­rass­ment.

(Trinidad Guardian) A close male rel­a­tive is in po­lice cus­tody for the mur­der of 24-year-old Dol­mati Man­groo who was found hacked to death on Thurs­day af­ter­noon by rel­a­tives.

(Trinidad Express) Police have launched a manhunt for a man wearing a hospital gown who pushed down a police officer and escaped custody at the Princes Town Health Centre yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Police are searching the home of businessman Patrick Aboud Jr.

(Trinidad Express) A fatal crash on the Beetham Highway, Port of Spain has caused traffic mayhem for commuters entering the Capital, but the Ministry of Works and Transport is not opening the Priority Bus Route to citizens.

(Trinidad Guardian) Cov­er up! That is one of the ma­jor find­ings of the re­port of a com­mit­tee set up by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the dis­missal and pay­ment of $150,000 to a for­mer em­ploy­ee of the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, af­ter she al­leged that she was sex­u­al­ly ha­rassed by the for­mer min­is­ter Dar­ryl Smith.

(Trinidad Guardian) An off-duty police officer disrupted the plans of a group of bandits in Santa Cruz yesterday after he shot one man and forced the group to abandon their criminal mission.

(Trinidad Newsday) Stedman Graham, international businessman and long-time partner of US media mogul Oprah Winfrey, has told local business leaders they have to be great leaders of themselves.

(Trinidad Express) Arouca police are investigating a report in which a prison officer and his relatives were threatened.

(Trinidad Guardian) The moth­er of a two-year-old boy who was be­ing abused and had sev­er­al in­juries about his body has plead­ed guilty to cru­el­ty to a child.

(Trinidad Express) A Barataria man was yesterday sentenced to 30 days with hard labour after he pleaded guilty to allega­tions of sexual harassment via telephone.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Thou­sands of dri­vers were af­fect­ed yes­ter­day as Unipet’s 21 ser­vice sta­tions across the coun­try re­mained closed when deal­ers sought to send a mes­sage to the Gov­ern­ment that the prof­its they were mak­ing were way too low for them to con­sid­er stay­ing in busi­ness.