Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(Trinidad Newsday) A grieving dog refused to look at the body of its owner, 34-year-old murder victim Jesse Jacob, on Thursday during the funeral at the family’s home in St John’s Village, San Fernando.

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

(Trinidad Express) Minister in the Ministry of Public Administration and Communications, Marlene Mc Donald spent Thursday night at the St Joseph Police Station and police are expected to continue their line of questioning today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pris­on­er Dil­lon Clarke, who es­caped from the Gold­en Grove Prison in Arou­ca yes­ter­day while out on an agri­cul­tur­al project, re­mains on the run.

(Trinidad Guardian) A crack-shot team of an­ti-crime ex­perts has been hired by a busi­ness lob­by group to as­sist the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in dis­man­tling and pros­e­cut­ing crim­i­nal gangs who have been linked to the ma­jor­i­ty of mur­ders in the coun­try.

(Trinidad Guardian) The res­ur­rec­tion of a six-year-old in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­leged si­phon­ing of over $1 mil­lion from a gov­ern­ment min­istry to three or­gan­i­sa­tions linked to fam­i­ly and friends cul­mi­nat­ed in the ar­rest of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald and her hus­band yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of Public Administration Marlene McDonald and her husband have been arrested.

(Trinidad Newsday) A social media post featuring a traffic ticket allegedly received via mail is a demo.

(Trinidad Guardian) A crack-shot team of an­ti-crime ex­perts has been hired by a busi­ness lob­by group to as­sist the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in dis­man­tling and pros­e­cut­ing crim­i­nal gangs who have been linked to the ma­jor­i­ty of mur­ders in the coun­try.

(Trinidad Express) Three people have been shot and killed at Pipiol Road, Santa Cruz, a crime hot spot.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Store Bay man has blamed what he considers to be the slow response of Tobago’s ambulance service for the death of his common-law wife and their unborn child.

(Trinidad Express) It was no secret that Netanya Mohamdally was a troubled child.

(Trinidad Guardian) Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Lands and Fish­eries said crim­i­nal el­e­ments are mak­ing life dif­fi­cult for le­git­i­mate fish­er­men.

(Trinidad Express) A father of three was killed in St Ann’s yesterday morning in a robbery attempt.

(Trinidad Express) A 15-year-old girl, died in her bedroom on Monday afternoon, with a positive pregnancy test next to her body.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Sea Lots man who is well known to the po­lice has been de­tained for ques­tion­ing in the mur­der of the five Car­li Bay fish­er­men who were beat­en and thrown over­board on Ju­ly 22.

The usu­al­ly sub­dued res­i­den­tial St Ann’s com­mu­ni­ty re­coiled in hor­ror on Monday af­ter a would-be rob­ber shot dead a res­i­dent who wres­tled with a gun­man who at­tempt­ed to storm a house.

(Trinidad Express) The elderly man who was beaten during a mystery attack in Penal in which his daughter was shot, has died at hospital.