Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice of­fi­cers are not done with their in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the Trans­formed Life Min­istry and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre.

(Trinidad Guardian) New multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions will pre­fer to in­vest in Guyana rather than Trinidad & Tobago be­cause of poor reg­u­la­to­ry con­trols by the Min­istry of En­er­gy and lack of trans­paren­cy, says geo­physi­cist Javed Raza­ck.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday State-owned Caribbean Airlines is in the black “for the first time”.

(Trinidad Express) Police constable Vishram Ragoo has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for five offences including the 2008 rape of a teenager.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two po­lice of­fi­cers have been charged with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice, fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing a male vic­tim which oc­curred in March 2018.

(Trinidad Express) I am not a monster! Pastor Glen Awong, the founder of Transformed Life Ministry and Rehabilitation Centre in Arouca where 69 people were “rescued” from cages yesterday says Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith got it all wrong.

(Trinidad Express) Residents of Embacadere, San Fernando had become so accustomed hearing gunshots that when they rang out on Wednesday night no one checked.

(Trinidad Express) An eighteen-year-old pupil charged with the rape of a 15-year-old has been granted bail.

(Trinidad Express) Several workers of the Transformed Life Ministry (TLM) came to the defence of their employer and church owner, Glen Awong, yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The pastor detained by police in connection with the “rescue” of 69 men and women on Wednesday, appeared before a Parliament Joint Select Committee (JSC) in June 2016.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six­ty-nine peo­ple rang­ing from the ages of 19 to 70 years have been found locked away in cages at a church lo­cat­ed along the East­ern Main Road in Arou­ca on Wednes­day morn­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezue­lan pi­rates who op­er­ate out of Patos Is­land, one of Venezuela’s small un­in­hab­it­ed is­land, have re­port­ed­ly kid­napped three Ica­cos fish­er­men for ran­som.

(Trinidad Guardian) In 2020 the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) will cre­ate a cen­tre with the ca­pac­i­ty to mon­i­tor and analyse so­cial me­dia ac­tiv­i­ty via the use of sur­veil­lance sys­tems, and the TTPS will al­so get the Ar­moured Per­son­nel Car­ri­ers which Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith had ad­vo­cat­ed since he was the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter un­der the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship regime.

(Trinidad Express) Moruga labourer Christopher Moore was having an argument with a man over a cellphone when he was gunned down on Saturday.

(Trinidad Newsday) The Prime Minister took the witness stand on Tuesday in an assessment for damages before a High Court master in which he is seeking compensation for defamatory statements made against him by former chairman of the Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG), Brian Stone.

(Trinidad Express) From 2020 travellers will have shorter waiting times at the airports.

(Trinidad Express) Senior Geoscientist at Touchstone Exploration, Xavier Moonan, says the Piparo mud volcano would be closely monitored in the coming weeks as fractures continue to widen.

(Trinidad Express) Criminals are now using aerial drones to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband to inmates at prisons in Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sev­er­al times a year, in­creased con­cen­tra­tions of Sa­ha­ran dust move across our re­gion, turn­ing our typ­i­cal­ly blue skies in­to a dusty and hazy mess.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert read the 2020 Bud­get in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yester­day.