Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) has moved to shut down a biki­ni par­ty ad­ver­tised to be held on an HDC com­pound in Arou­ca on Sun­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago Homicide Officers are probing the circumstances surrounding the island’s eighth murder for 2019.

(Trinidad Express) How could a fisherman raise “overnight” US currency of $20,000 to pay as a ransom, National Security Minister Stuart Young asked yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A thief with a firearm ripped a gold chain off the neck of a woman holding a baby in South Oropouche on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Newsday) It was anything but a happy birthday for a Tunapuna man accused of sexually assaulting a teen couple on October 14.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice and fire­fight­ers had to break in­to a se­nior cit­i­zen’s home in South Trinidad yes­ter­day af­ter staff locked the gate and re­fused a woman ac­cess to her aunt.

(Trinidad Express) A husband and his wife who were both found driving the same car under the influence of alcohol mere moments apart on the same day, appeared before the court.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an un­usu­al feat, a now con­firmed tor­na­do touched down in parts of Wood­brook and In­vaders Bay this af­ter­noon, leav­ing be­hind a trail of de­struc­tion.

(Trinidad Express) Danah Alleyne witnessed the autopsy of her companion Keone Paryag who was killed from a gunshot wound to the leg in a stand-off with police on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pas­tor Dave Neaves ap­peared in court yes­ter­day for al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing a 13-year-old girl.   Neaves, 46, of the Grace Wor­ship Cen­tre in Rio Claro, was grant­ed bail but on the con­di­tion that he has no con­tact with the girl.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 14-year-old girl, who is be­lieved to be a vic­tim of hu­man traf­fick­ing, was among 22 fe­males de­tained at a ‘Se­cret Sun­day’ pool par­ty bust­ed by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) af­ter mid­night on Sun­day.

(Trinidad Newsday) Princes Town MP Barry Padarath advised his political opponents to attack him if they wish, but not his baby daughter, giving Newsday his take on last Friday’s row in the Standing Committee of the House of Representatives.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Val­sayn busi­ness­man and his son who were both de­tained in a raid by po­lice of­fi­cers from the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team(SORT) at La­dy Chan­cel­lor Heights, Port-of-Spain ear­ly this morn­ing are ex­pect­ed to be charged for the pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.

(Trinidad Express) Businessmen driving luxury cars were among the 20 men taken away from the “$500 a night” apartment complex where 22 females, some children, were found in a police raid shortly after midnight.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Chaguanas father is making a desperate plea to the public for any assistance that can help reduce the financial burdens he faces in his attempts to fund his daughter’s last few months in a US college.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man from St James was on Sunday shot and killed with­in me­tres of the lo­ca­tion where his fa­ther met a sim­i­lar fate at the hands of the po­lice, a lit­tle over two years ago.  

(Trinidad Express) Police raided a house at Lady Chancellor Heights, St Anns, Port of Spain shortly after midnight.

(Trinidad Guardian) Mar­i­jua­na ac­tivist Naz­ma Muller is claim­ing that po­lice in­fringed her con­sti­tu­tion­al rights by ar­rest­ing her out­side of Par­lia­ment, last Fri­day. 

(Trinidad Guardian) The death threat made against Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi came from someone behind prison walls by a man already facing a murder charge on the high-profile matter.

(Trinidad Guardian) A hostage dra­ma in­volv­ing Danah Al­leyne, the sis­ter of Crime Watch host Ian Al­leyne, end­ed in the death of her boyfriend Keone Paryag last night af­ter po­lice in­ter­vened and shot him.