Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinida­di­an born po­et and au­thor, Ian Williams has won Cana­da’s rich­est lit­er­ary award for fic­tion, for his nov­el Re­pro­duc­tion.

(Trinidad Express) A St Joseph man is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, charged with the murder of physically challenged landlord Rudven Prout.

(Trinidad Newsday) Because she was scheduled to be deported after serving a prison sentence, a Venezuelan woman was kept in prison even after she had completed her jail term.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ram­ra­jie Gob­in, 49, who was dis­cov­ered hacked to death at her home in Gol­con­da on Sun­day was de­scribed as an “An­gel.”

(Trinidad Express) Digicel customer service employee Dillon Fraser was killed in Port of Spain this morning.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Writer Ian Williams won Canada’s top annual literary award for fiction for his book “Reproduction,” the prize’s sponsor said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The media have been banned from the funeral of Satnayaran Maharaj, secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS).

(Trinidad Newsday) The day before she was fired as Scarborough General Hospital’s Medical Chief of Staff, Dr Rufaro Celestine sent a legal letter to the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA), questioning the conduct of the authority’s CEO Sheldon Cyrus in relation to an e-mail she had written, two weeks ago, expressing concern about the shortage of medical staff at the hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two teenagers, a 15-year-old girl and 19-year-old boy, drowned at the Argyle Waterfall in Tobago yesterday, after a sudden gush of water caught them off-guard.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 26-year-old man from El Dorado was shot and killed while purchasing a meal in Curepe, early yesterday. 

(Trinidad Express) A man was attacked and beaten to death with a concrete block in Ste Madeleine near San Fernando on Sunday afternoon.

(Trinidad Newsday) A three-year-old girl died in the arms of her father after suffering for three days from cold-like symptoms, which her family believes were related to the H1N1 virus (swine flu).

(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.