Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) An es­ti­mat­ed $2.4 mil­lion worth of co­caine has been de­mand­ed for the re­lease of a Venezue­lan cou­ple who was al­leged­ly kid­napped on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “A storm in a teacup and noth­ing to lose sleep­over.”

(Trinidad Express) A Laventille man is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, charged with the murder of Angelina Samuel and wounding two men.

(Trinidad Express) A man wearing a mask claimed Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley was privy to the details of the now cancelled US$71.7 million contract between the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) and Chinese construction company Gezhouba Group International Engineering Co Ltd (CGGC).

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­plete strangers have built a new home for an ail­ing sin­gle moth­er of nine who had been liv­ing in a di­lap­i­dat­ed shack in Cara­pichaima.   Kathy Ann De­venish, 41, who has can­cer, had been strug­gling to sup­port her fam­i­ly as she un­der­went chemother­a­py treat­ments when mem­bers of a lo­cal church found out about her plight and pitched in to help.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “Worried and concerned about Port-of-Spain South.” That’s how PNM Port-of-Spain South MP Marlene McDonald said she is feeling about Thursday’s announcement regarding the cancellation of a contract to a Chinese firm for the planned housing unit construction in her constituency.

(Trinidad Guardian) One of the coun­try’s most “Want­ed” and “Dan­ger­ous” man was gunned down sev­er­al feet away from the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion sec­onds af­ter he walked out from the charge room on Sat­ur­day night.

(Trinidad Newsday) The cousin of murdered fisherman and suspected gang leader Vaugh­an ‘Sand­man’ Mieres has been shot dead.

(Trinidad Newsday) Relatives of murdered man, Ricky Mohammed, 54 believe land dispute may be the reason why he was shot yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A woman and a child died in a road traffic accident this morning involving a truck.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over the past week, about 15 cus­tomers of Sco­tia­bank’s San­gre Grande branch had thou­sands of dol­lars stolen from their ac­counts af­ter their cards were skimmed.

(Trinidad Guardian) The de­bate over a ban on fire­works raged yes­ter­day af­ter a young male Red Kan­ga­roo at the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo died from “trau­ma and stress” it ex­pe­ri­enced af­ter the In­de­pen­dence Day fire­works in the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

(Trinidad Newsday) A man was shot by police after he stormed the Barataria South Secondary School this morning and attacked security guards and police.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four peo­ple ac­cused of op­er­at­ing a drug traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tion in West­moor­ings have been com­mit­ted to stand tri­al.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Cabinet has decided to cancel a contract that was given to a Chinese construction company, Gezhouba Group International Engineering Co Ltd (CGGC), the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that Trinidad and Tobago will assist The Bahamas with soldiers, electricity workers and US$500,000.

(Trinidad Guardian) “The snake big like a man’s neck!” That’s how a Rousil­lac res­i­dent de­scribed the snake that slith­ered in­to her neigh­bour’s wash tub when she made the fran­tic call to the Forestry Di­vi­sion for help.   Sav­it­ri and her moth­er 78-year-old mom Pol­ly Boodoo were greet­ed with the maca­juel curled up in the wash tub when they re­turned to their Mon De­sir Road home on Wednes­day morn­ing af­ter vis­it­ing the health clin­ic.

(Trinidad Newsday) A 28-year-old Grenadian man was arrested in relation to the disappearance of missing Belmont woman Shannice Cooper.

(Trinidad Guardian) Has there been a change in the Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on the Sedi­tion Act?

(Trinidad Express) On Independence Day, Harricharan Ramsundar and his wife Neisha Cyleane Sankar spent time together and celebrated the holiday.