Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) A 19-year-old Michael Joseph ap­peared be­fore a Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trate Court yes­ter­day charged with the mur­der of his moth­er Al­is­tra Kam­po, which oc­curred on Sat­ur­day 24th Au­gust.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter for­mer Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) head Matthew An­drews la­belled for­mer In­tel­li­gence Di­rec­tor Carl­ton Den­nie a patho­log­i­cal liar, Den­nie has agreed to sub­ject him­self to a lie de­tec­tor test as he main­tains he was asked to fire per­sons of East In­di­an de­scent from the ser­vice.

(Trinidad Express) An Airport Authority’s employee spotted a potential problem with an American Airlines passenger aircraft moments before it took off from the Piarco International Airport today.

(Trinidad Newsday) Trinidad & Tobago national Arlene Chow is the interim CEO at Heritage Petroleum.

Harricharan Ramsundar was found hanging from a tree hours after he chopped his wife to death in their Siparia home yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) The po­lice Ca­nine Unit has been called in to as­sist in a man­hunt now un­der­way for a Siparia man want­ed for this morn­ing’s mur­der of Re­pub­lic Bank em­ploy­ee, Se­lene Sankar.

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad-born man living in Maryland, United States accused of planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, DC, was indicted last Wednesday on a terrorism-related charge, five months after his arrest.

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad-born woman will represent Germany at the next Miss Universe pageant.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Bank­ing and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (BIG­WU) has con­firmed it re­ceived a com­plaint of in­ap­pro­pri­ate be­hav­iour against its for­mer pres­i­dent Vin­cent Cabr­era one month be­fore he was ap­point­ed In­dus­tri­al Court judge.

(Trinidad Newsday) Retired cricket star Brian Lara yesterday apologised once again for disturbing the animals at the Emperor Valley Zoo last week.

(Trinidad Express) A seven-month-old baby boy died of last Thursday after becoming lodged between the wall and bed at the family’s Point Fortin home.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia on Fri­day ad­mit­ted that the ter­mi­na­tion of 199 non-aca­d­e­m­ic Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) staff will be a trau­mat­ic ex­pe­ri­ence, but said it was the on­ly way the in­sti­tu­tion could sur­vive.

(Trinidad Newsday) A taxi driver conned by a woman who claimed to work for a television station believes the culprit is the same person who used a similar story and stole $300 from the wallet of a print-shop owner in San Fernando last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tears flowed and anx­i­ety in­creased among Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T staff yes­ter­day, as some col­lect­ed their re­trench­ment let­ters and oth­ers wait­ed for hours at cam­pus­es through­out the coun­try.

(Trinidad Guardian) On the day Dale Lemessy got his let­ter of re­trench­ment, he got the shock­ing news that his wife Dana was hav­ing triplets.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pub­lic Ser­vices’ As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) Pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke has been re­leased on $250,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court to an­swer a sedi­tion charge.

(Trinidad Express) A veteran lifeguard fell ill while on duty at Vessigny Beach in La Brea and died on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) For­mer di­rec­tor of in­tel­li­gence at the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) Carl­ton Den­nie has backpedalled on ac­cus­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley of di­rect­ly in­struct­ing him to fire all East In­di­ans from the agency back in 2015.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two mur­ders have been record­ed in the past 15 hours in Ch­agua­nas and Mal­oney.

(Trinidad Express) A nervous-looking Kerry Phillips appeared before an Arima magistrate yesterday charged with the murder of a 71-year-old retired nurse.