Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC, has advised police to charge Public Service Association (PSA) Watson Duke with sedition.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard was on Wednes­day evening locked in dis­cus­sions with the po­lice on whether or not sedi­tion charge/s should be laid against Pub­lic Ser­vices’ As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke.

(Trinidad Guardian) A sev­en-month preg­nant woman, her com­mon-law hus­band and one of their neigh­bours from Diego Mar­tin have been de­nied bail af­ter be­ing charged with be­ing mem­bers of a gang.

(Trinidad Express) A nine month old baby boy suffering from a cough and cold was found dead in his bed at his Ste Madeleine home on Tuesday morning.

(Trinidad Newsday) BULGARIAN FIDE grandmaster (GM) GM Marian Petrov led a chess training workshop for some ten inmates at the Maximum Security Prison, Arouca, as part of a nine-day trip, in which he gave a number of workshops at varying levels for the chess-playing community.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ac­cus­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley of “us­ing the might of his of­fice to at­tack cit­i­zens,” Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress will sup­port any­one who faces po­lit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) A war of words has bro­ken out be­tween Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and for­mer di­rec­tor of in­tel­li­gence at the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) Carl­ton Den­nie and at the cen­ter of it is the is­sue of race, which has pushed Row­ley in­to a de­fen­sive mode.

(Trinidad Express) A woman died on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway on Tuesday afternoon after her Toyota Hilux spun out of control on the rain swept road, and crashed into a light pole on the median.

(Trinidad Express) Ten years after a crash that killed three boys and two men at Mosquito Creek, South Oropouche, the driver of the truck involved in the tragedy is yet to go on trial.

(Trinidad Newsday) Last Wednesday, Dana Lemessey, 29, from Icacos, Cedros, gave birth to triplets at the San Fernando General Hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Prime Min­is­ter’s re­cent ‘at­tack’ on pub­lic ser­vants could be an in­di­ca­tion that he plans to fire them.

(Trinidad Guardian) A wit­ness in a kid­nap­ping case was gunned down and his girl­friend shot and wound­ed while at their home in Cau­ra on Sun­day night.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s being described as an unfair and horrific tragedy, for 83-year-old Polly “Mama” Bahadoor to be murdered in the way she was—her head completely bashed in exposing her brain tissues and her face smashed into the skull.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two teenagers are in po­lice cus­tody af­ter they killed and in­jured close rel­a­tives in what po­lice of­fi­cers have de­scribed as hor­rif­ic and bru­tal at­tacks.

(Trinidad Express) A pregnant woman was chopped to death in an attack at her home at Chin Chin Road, Las Lomas No.

(Trinidad Express) One week after she went missing, a retired nurse and sister of an Independent senator was found murdered and her body stuffed in a barrel yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are try­ing to de­ter­mine a mo­tive for the killing of a Care­nage man which oc­curred ear­ly yesterday morn­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has said a crime-fight­ing ex­pert will be brought in­to the coun­try soon to dis­cuss crime and vi­o­lence as a pub­lic health is­sue.

(Trinidad Guardian) After spending almost 11 days on remand, Michael Carew, the long-time companion of former government minister Marlene McDonald was on Friday able to access bail.

(Trinidad Express) A man is dead following a crash along the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, near Claxton Bay, on Saturday.