Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice shot dead well-known Sea Lots gang­ster, Aki­ni “Dole” Adams and in­jured an­oth­er man dur­ing an ex­er­cise on Thurs­day evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Web­sites be­long­ing to the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty and the Min­is­ter of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al were among sev­er­al gov­ern­ment web­sites tar­get­ted by Brazil­ian hack­ers Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) One of the main suspects held in connection with yesterday morning’s quadruple murder in Las Cuevas of reputed drug and gun smuggler, Vaughn ‘Sandman’ Mieres, his wife, Alika “Letty” Dehere and two others, has been identified as one of Mieres’ key associates.

(Trinidad Guardian) The death toll from a violent bandit attack at sea continues to rise this morning as the bodies of two more missing fishermen surfaced along the Cedros coastline this morning.

(Trinidad Express) A reputed gang lord was killed in Sea Lots by police on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homi­cide of­fi­cers are cur­rent­ly on quadru­ple mur­der scene in Las Cuevas where re­put­ed drug and gun smug­gler, Vaughn ‘Sand­man’ Mieres, his wife and two oth­ers were killed.

(Trinidad Guardian) A search party has found the body of one of the seven missing fishermen from Orange Valley.

(Trinidad Express) Cabinet has agreed to the reconstitution of the Board of Directors of Tourism Trinidad Ltd.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Sat­narayan Ma­haraj and the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s me­dia com­pa­ny Cen­tral Broad­cast­ing Ser­vices have won their law­suit over the re­fusal of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to dis­close the war­rant used to search Ra­dio and TV Jaa­gri­ti, in April.

(Trinidad Express) The body of one of the seven fishermen thrown overboard in the Gulf of Paria on Monday night has been found.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has instructed National Security Minister Stuart Young to deport Venezuelan nationals who have not registered with the Government.

(Trinidad Guardian) An 18-month-old boy was Tues­day night list­ed in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter he fell from an apart­ment lo­cat­ed on the fourth floor of a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) build­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian)  The in­fil­tra­tion of crim­i­nal gangs which have been si­phon­ing mil­lions of tax­pay­ers dol­lars from Gov­ern­ment projects and con­trac­tors has been a prob­lem for over two decades, ac­cord­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

(Trinidad Guardian) The search con­tin­ues for sev­en fish­er­men who were forced over­board af­ter they were at­tacked by ban­dits in the Gulf of Paria on Mon­day night.

(Trinidad Express) The mother of 20-year-old murder victim Michael Creese may not be able to attend her son’s funeral.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives and friends of sev­en fish­er­men lost at sea are mak­ing a des­per­ate plea for as­sis­tance in find­ing them.

(Trinidad Express) In a midnight pirate attack, five fishing vessels were stolen from the Gulf of Paria in the vicinity of Carli Bay and Orange Valley.

(Trinidad Express) Police can only detect and arrest people driving without a drivers’ license on the nation’s roads if there are informants.

 (Trinidad Guardian) A Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter pub­licly dis­closed on Monday that he had to seek po­lice pro­tec­tion af­ter a crim­i­nal gang threat­ened him so that he could help arrange a por­tion of a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar State con­tract in the Moru­ga dis­trict.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sev­en­teen-year-old Sta­cy Paul and her boyfriend Ronald De­onar­ine, 21, want­ed to build a life with each oth­er.