Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Ques­tions are now be­ing raised about the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Cul­ture and the Arts’ (MCD­CA) de­ci­sion to fork out $4,000 on a cake while min­istry work­ers claim they had been fac­ing prob­lems in the re­cent past to get ba­sic of­fice sup­plies.

(Trinidad Guardian) The San­ta Rosa First Peo­ples com­mu­ni­ty said it is not in favour of renam­ing the Piarco In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port due to its con­nec­tion to the First Peo­ples’ his­to­ry.

(Trinidad Express) The murder of 30-year-old Curtly “Conehead” Calder in St James on Friday night has taken the homicide figure for 2019 to 400.

The murder of 30-year-old Curtly “Conehead” Calder in St James on Friday night has taken to homicide figure for 2019 to 400.

(Trinidad Express) Mini mart and car wash owner Jahdiel David Robinson was shot and killed in Mt D’or on Thursday night Robinson, 24, who owns and operated the One Stop Mini Mart and Car Wash along Mt D’or Road, was killed at about 9.20p.m.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the ab­duc­tion and mur­der of Richard Chan At­tong, 43, of Bel­mont, points to a close rel­a­tive.

Armed ban­dits killed a home­own­er on his bed and robed his ten­ants, two Chi­nese women, dur­ing the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing, San Fer­nan­do.

(Trinidad Express) Convicted drug accused Stephen Gocking has been slapped with a 20-year prison term after being found guilty by a Port of Spain jury in July on two counts of cocaine possession for the purpose of trafficking.

(Trinidad Express) SATNARINE “TEDDY’ RAMPERSAD was shot and killed while in his bed around 4 a.m.

(Trinidad Express) Tickets for traffic offences like speeding will start being mailed to offenders this year, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gov­ern­ment ex­pects Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Ltd to be able to restart the for­mer Petrotrin re­fin­ery in less than 12 months since it won’t im­me­di­ate­ly have to raise its (US)$700 mil­lion pay­ment.

(Trinidad Express) One man is dead following a confrontation with an off-duty police officer in La Horquetta on Monday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) The Zoological Society of Trinidad and Tobago said yesterday that they welcome the recent designation of the capybara as a vermin species under the Conservation of Wildlife Act.

(Trinidad Guardian) Eight men, in­clud­ing sev­en Venezue­lans, were ar­rest­ed by Fraud Squad of­fi­cers in con­nec­tion with a card-skim­ming ring in the North­ern Di­vi­sion.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 53-year-old pri­ma­ry school teacher was found mur­dered in Cu­mu­to. 

(Trinidad Guardian) While he celebrated the planned reopening of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery, economist Dr Roger Hosein says the deal between the Government and the OWTU-owned Patriotic Energies and Technologies Services Limited, must be transparent.

(Trinidad Express) A year after her reported suicide in August 2018, Nandita Harbukhan’s common-law husband has been charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Express) The Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) is asking the people to have patience as it yesterday acknowledged there is “ongoing anxiety” surrounding the trade union’s move to purchase the Petrotrin refinery.

(Trinidad Guardian) An air­tight non-dis­clo­sure agree­ment (NDA) is keep­ing Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) pres­i­dent Gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get from nam­ing his in­ter­na­tion­al in­vestors on the takeover of the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

(Trinidad Express) All schools will be closed today as the country continues on a riverine high risk alert.