Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) A police officer on patrol at MovieTowne, Port of Spain, lost a toe in a bizarre shooting on Tuesday morning.

(Trinidad Newsday) Cathy-Ann Belfon and Michelle Belfon-Hackett appeared before the Scarborough Magistrates’ Court charged with possession on 749 grams of marijuana on Monday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) A po­lice of­fi­cer at­tached to the Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol in To­ba­go has been ar­rest­ed by po­lice on an out­stand­ing war­rant.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter and Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Dr Kei­th Row­ley has re­voked the ap­point­ment of Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald as the deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the PNM.

(Trinidad Guardian) One man is dead and an­oth­er in­jured dur­ing a dri­ve-by shoot­ing near the bas­ket­ball court in Mar­aval just a stone’s throw away from Diego Mar­tin East MP of­fice Colm Im­bert.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Po­lice Sergeant was ar­rest­ed on Sun­day night af­ter he al­leged­ly at­tacked his wife in­side a po­lice sta­tion where she went to make a re­port that he had threat­ened to kill her.

(Trinidad Express) Former Public Administration Minister Marlene McDonald has been granted bail amounting to $2 million.

(Trinidad Express) Less than a month after he reported receiving threats against his life, 34-year-old Shazard Mannick was gunned down at the Original Sauce’s Doubles’ booth along the Southern Main Road, Curepe, while serving customers.

(Trinidad Express) The swearing in of Senator Garvin Simonette to replace corruption-accused Marlene McDonald as Minister of Public Administration, has been cancelled.

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Min­is­ter Don­na Cox’s eyes welled up with tears when she vis­it­ed em­bat­tled PNM MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald yes­ter­day at St Joseph Po­lice sta­tion and prayed with Mc­Don­ald.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter four days of be­ing in po­lice cus­tody, the rul­ing PNM’s deputy leader Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald and her com­mon-law hus­band Michael Carew were charged last night.

(Trinidad Express) The Government has been reliably informed that based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service shall be charging Minister of Public Administration.

(Trinidad Guardian) The board of Aus­tralian out­fit BHP has ap­proved its more than $3 bil­lion Ru­by and Delaware project in T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a brazen “machine gun” attack in Curepe on a busy Saturday night where a doubles vendor was shot, scores of limers and late night snackers were left shaken, in shock and thanking God for saving their lives.

(Trinidad Express) While he served customers, doubles vendor Shazard Manick was approached by two gunmen and shot multiple times.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four stu­dents who were caught cheat­ing dur­ing the CSEC Maths ex­am in May — af­ter a video was post­ed to so­cial me­dia show­ing them and oth­er stu­dents us­ing their cell-phones to share an an­swer sheet — have been dis­qual­i­fied.

(Trinidad Guardian) The crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald and her com­pan­ion widened on Friday as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors have un­earthed new in­for­ma­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter two days on the run, prison es­capee Dil­lon Clarke has been re­cap­tured dur­ing J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions in Ari­ma on Sat­ur­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) The lo­cal crick­et­ing fra­ter­ni­ty was thrown in­to shock with the news that crick­et um­pire Carl­ton Best was killed by rob­bers at the age of 38.

(Trinidad Guardian) In­deira Gar­cia is due to give birth to her ninth child any day now but the joy and ex­cite­ment any ex­pect­ing moth­er would feel is cloud­ed for Gar­cia as she is des­per­ate­ly seek­ing as­sis­tance to re­build her home af­ter an ar­son at­tack in Feb­ru­ary.