Trinidad & Tobago News

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia
Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia

Trinidad men not joining the teach­ing pro­fes­sion

(Trinidad Guardian) As Trinidad & Tobago joined the rest of the world in cel­e­brat­ing World Teach­ers’ Day yes­ter­day, ques­tions have arisen about what in­cen­tives can be of­fered lo­cal­ly to at­tract more males to the teach­ing pro­fes­sion.

The AK-47 and ammunition recovered from the car of a Santa Cruz suspect on Sunday.
The AK-47 and ammunition recovered from the car of a Santa Cruz suspect on Sunday.

Trinidad: Man arrested on the way to carry out hit

(Trinidad Guardian) A San­ta Cruz man who po­lice be­lieve was on his way to meet ac­com­plices to car­ry out a hit on a law en­force­ment of­fi­cer was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers from the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Trinidad: Seven blinded by tainted eye injection

(Trinidad Guardian) A taint­ed eye in­jec­tion—brought in­to Trinidad and To­ba­go via “il­le­git­i­mate im­por­ta­tion chan­nels”—has left sev­en di­a­bet­ic pa­tients blind (ei­ther in both eyes or one).

Ivor Archie

Trinidad Chief Justice rebukes detractors

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie came out swing­ing against ‘lo­cal de­trac­tors’ at the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Fam­i­ly Court, Calder Hall, To­ba­go, yesterday.

Trinidad Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley

Law Association files lawsuit against Trinidad PM

(Trinidad Guardian) The Law As­so­ci­a­tion has filed its law­suit against Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley over his de­ci­sion to re­ject its in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to mis­con­duct al­le­ga­tions lev­elled against em­bat­tled Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie. 

A police officer walks along the road in Malabar outside of the house where a mother and daughter were held hostage yesterday.

Trinidad: Cops rescue mother, daughter held hostage by father

(Trinidad Guardian) A woman and her daugh­ter had to be res­cued yes­ter­day by of­fi­cers from the Guard and Emer­gency Branch, Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions re­sponse Team (SORT) and the North­ern Di­vi­sion af­ter a two-hour or­deal where they were held hostage by the woman’s hus­band.

Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed

Trinidad: Unicomer (Courts) ordered to pay $255,000 to pensioner

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has or­dered Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed to pay more than $255,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a Freeport pen­sion­er who was in­con­ve­nienced by the com­pa­ny’s con­struc­tion of its head­quar­ters and dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tre in 2017. 

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