Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(Trinidad Newsday) Deangelo Clark, the suspect in the murder of his 20-year-old Trinidadian girlfriend Kiara Alleyne, will be charged with murder today.

(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.

(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.   Se­nior in­tel­li­gence sources told Guardian Me­dia the SORT of­fi­cers were on sur­veil­lance in La Canoa, Low­er San­ta Cruz, when they re­ceived in­for­ma­tion about a sil­ver Nis­san B-15 with a lone oc­cu­pant in which an il­le­gal firearm was be­ing trans­port­ed.

(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).

(Trinidad Express) A Chase Village man was killed instantly on Friday night when his car crashed into a utility pole along the Uriah Butler Highway.

(Trinidad Newsday) Although he was given an honorary doctorate last month Police Commissioner Gary Griffith does not want to be referred to as “doctor” after checks raised doubts over the institutions that bestowed it.

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad and Tobago immigration official based in Caracas, Venezuela has sent a distress call to the T&T authorities to send him money to survive or bring him back home.

(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 Guardian) For­mer trav­el agent Vicky Boodram and her es­tranged hus­band Ravi Ar­joon­s­ingh were yesterday com­mit­ted to stand tri­al on 107 fraud charges in the San Fer­nan­do High Court.

(Trinidad Express) Police and soldiers launched a five month anti-crime exercise yesterday, with Police Commissioner Gary Griffith calling on citizens to help with information to find the criminals.

(Trinidad Express) Police have interviewed the husband of the Princes Town woman who drank poison while at a park with her children on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Newsday) Housing Development Corporation chairman Newman George yesterday insisted fired managing director Jearlean John was “disrespectful” to the board at a meeting, and this led to her being summarily terminated the next day.

(Trinidad Guardian) The cen­tu­ry-old Clax­ton Bay Ju­nior An­gli­can School has been shut down be­cause of un­safe con­di­tions, leav­ing over 170 pupils dis­placed.

(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. 

(Trinidad Express) The man last seen near the Chaguanas overpass on Sunday, ended up in Malick, where he was killed that very day.

(Trinidad Express) Musical prostitution. This is how 31-year-old aspiring artiste Sancha Samara Scipio has described her experience trying to break into the soca music industry, after being told by a popular radio DJ that she needs to “post more sexy pictures” and “show more skin” to get recognition.

(Trinidad Express) A 23-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Justine Davis.