Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The at­tacks against prison of­fi­cers con­tin­ued on Sun­day morn­ing af­ter a prison officer’s house was shot at in Pleas­antville.

(Trinidad Express) Police have rescued a 17-year-old Venezuelan national who was abducted and being kept in a house in exchange for drugs.

(Trinidad Express) Three men who held employees of a popular ice cream establishment at gunpoint and robbed them of cash and cellphones were held on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Express) Radio announcer Justin Dookhi drowned in a pond at the La Vega Estate in Gran Couva on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court Judge has blocked the de­por­ta­tion of a Ja­maican man ac­cused of drug traf­fick­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Di­ag­nosed with cere­bral pal­sy at birth years ago, doc­tors ini­tial­ly said Josi­ah At­i­ba Man­dela Thomas might nev­er walk or talk.

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith says de­spite his achieve­ments over the last year in of­fice, mur­ders and the fear of crime con­tin­ues to be his biggest chal­lenges.

(Trinidad Express) A man and his female companion are dead following a shoot-out with police on Friday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Au­top­sies on the bod­ies of the Pe­nal triple mur­der vic­tims re­vealed that their throats were slit.

(Trinidad Express) A pregnant woman was among four people shot by police in Santa Cruz on Friday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) An em­ploy­ee at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal was ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na seized by of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion Task Force, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Fri­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said the coun­try is go­ing through a pe­ri­od when the pub­lic will see “more and more of what hap­pened in the last week”, re­fer­ring to the re­cent ar­rest and charges be­ing laid against for­mer min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald.

(Trinidad Guardian) The two chil­dren found in their Penal home with three corpses on Thurs­day were blood-soaked and starv­ing, accord­ing to their grand­fa­ther Dipraj Ra­goo­nanan.

(Trinidad Guardian) The In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA) said it is con­sid­er­ing plac­ing signs at sev­er­al beach­es along the North-West­ern Penin­su­la of Trinidad af­ter it found high lev­els of bac­te­ria present in the wa­ter, which it said, could in­crease the prob­a­bil­i­ty of con­tract­ing in­fec­tions and oth­er ail­ments.

(Trinidad Newsday)  Strong winds, accompanied by heavy rains blew the roofs of 15 homes, five in Point Fortin and ten in the Penal/Debe area on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) Police are at the scene of a crime right out of a horror movie.

(Trinidad Express) A Diego Martin man was shot dead following an argument yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The police action against corruption accused Marlene McDonald is not a crisis but a ray of hope says Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Newsday) The Prime Minister has told the participants in an energy mentorship programme, “Money isn’t everything.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Port-of-Spain South MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald re­mained un­der po­lice cus­tody at the St Clair Med­ical Cen­tre, even though her $2 mil­lion bail bond had been grant­ed.