Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Almost three weeks have passed since theatre actor/director Raymond Choo Kong was stabbed to death at his Arima home.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Cedros couple watched helplessly on Friday evening as fire destroyed their home amounting to an estimated $1 million in losses.

(Trinidad Guardian) Young peo­ple in Or­chid Gar­dens, Pleas­antville, were he­roes on Sat­ur­day when a fire broke out in an apart­ment build­ing on Sat­ur­day.

(Trinidad Express) Sea-lots, Port of Spain resident Kareem Stanisclaus has appeared in court charged with murdering five fishermen,, the attempted murders of two, and six offences of robbery.

(Trinidad Newsday) Atiba Jeremiah, 30, had already set a date for his wedding.

(Trinidad Guardian) The fam­i­lies of five mur­dered fish­er­men are call­ing on the po­lice to ar­rest and charge all of the peo­ple who were in­volved in the Ju­ly 22 pi­rate at­tack off Car­li Bay.

(Trinidad Guardian) Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed has been hit with a tech­no­log­i­cal prob­lem that is af­fect­ing its cus­tomer trans­ac­tions, in­clud­ing mo­bile and In­ter­net bank­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers with decades of ser­vice, ap­peared in the Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trates Court yester­day morn­ing charged with sex­u­al mis­con­duct.

(Trinidad Express) Two senior officers are expected to appear before the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court charged for sexual misconduct.

(Trinidad Express) Just over one week after Vaughn “Sandman” Mieres, his wife and two of his bodyguards were shot dead in Las Cuevas, one of the men who allegedly committed the quadruple murder made an appearance in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court.

(Trinidad Express) Two women arrested in connection with the deadly attack on seven Couva fishermen last week, appeared before a magistrate on Wednesday charged with robbery with violence.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just two months af­ter he got bap­tised and mar­ried the moth­er of his child, Carl Swamber was gunned down in cold blood out­side his home.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ja­mal Young and his wife Nar­i­va St Rose are sleep­ing un­der a tent in Cou­va af­ter their home and shop were torn down by the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Un­der Gary Grif­fith’s tenure as Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er so far, an es­ti­mat­ed 485 peo­ple have been mur­dered.

(Trinidad Guardian) A major boost in the police’s anti-crime arsenal is expected to unfold following Wednesday night’s passage of the Bail (Amendment) Bill which was surprisingly supported by the Opposition.

(Trinidad Guardian) A ma­jor boost in the po­lice’s an­ti-crime ar­se­nal is ex­pect­ed to un­fold fol­low­ing Wednes­day night’s pas­sage of the Bail (Amend­ment) Bill which was sur­pris­ing­ly sup­port­ed by the Op­po­si­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) The fu­ner­al ser­vice for Vaughn “Sand­man” Mieres and his wife Ali­ka “Let­ty” De­here can­not be held at the Las Cuevas Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion An­tho­ny Gar­cia con­firmed on Wednes­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) High Court Judge Vasheist Kokaram has grant­ed a lim­it­ed sus­pen­sion of his judg­ment on the un­con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of a law, which gives prospec­tive lawyers from T&T a short­cut in­to the lo­cal le­gal pro­fes­sion not af­ford­ed to Cari­com cit­i­zens.

(Trinidad Express) The desire to have her father walk her down the aisle at her wedding will not be a reality for a woman who was indecently assaulted by him when she was eight and ten years old.

(Trinidad Express) The mother of a man shot and killed by the police after he robbed and terrorised patrons of a bar in Phillipine last Saturday morning, says her son was innocent.