Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Laven­tille is in cri­sis and we need to fix it.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago has suffered a downgrade in its sovereign ratings from credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s.

(Trinidad Express) Two-year-old Amara Reason has died. The infant was struck by a vehicle on Saturday morning along La Retreat Road, Arima.

(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan woman seeking a job was instead turned into a sex slave for two days by a man and his girlfriend.

(Trinidad Express) Several police officers in the South-West peninsula are said to be seeking legal advice to prevent them having to undergo polygraph testing set to begin later this week.

(Trinidad Guardian) When Kyle Ja­groop went to the in­fa­mous Debe death strip where his neigh­bour Nicholas Coon had sur­vived a car ac­ci­dent, he was un­aware that the body still trapped in the wreck was his fa­ther Prem­c­hand Ja­groop.

(Trinidad Express) “We would like to signal our growing impatience and anxiety with the lack of actions regarding persons who are free to kill.”

(Trinidad Express) One man was killed and two people injured when a gunman opened fire at the Princes Town Market just before dawn yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A 16 year old boy was gunned down in his mother’s home at Guayaguayare on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan baby boy fell 20 feet from an apartment window on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Spec­u­la­tion by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) that the Gov­ern­ment will post­pone Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions has been rub­bished by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith says he is taking action against human trafficking and the exploitation of women and minors, paying particular attention to night clubs, bars, and brothels where these women are being used.

(Trinidad Guardian) A fairy tale came to life for 16-year-old Ka­ri­na Sama­roos­ingh who ar­rived in a gold­en car­riage at the Trinidad Hilton and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre in Port-of-Spain for her grad­u­a­tion ball, much to the sur­prise of guests, par­ents, teach­ers and fel­low grad­u­ates.

(Trinidad Guardian) More than a year af­ter the An­ti Gang Act 2018 was pro­claimed in­to law, not a sin­gle gang­ster has been con­vict­ed al­though po­lice have charged sev­er­al peo­ple.

(Trinidad Express) Stay focused, relax, say your prayers and believe in yourself.

(Trinidad Guardian) Cari­com is propos­ing at­tach­ing a fee to the air­line and cruise ship tick­ets of tourists to help fund re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­sti­tu­tions.

(Trinidad Guardian) The un­will­ing­ness of cit­i­zens to sup­port moves to make the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) this coun­try’s fi­nal ap­pel­late court is di­rect­ly linked to a lack of trust and con­fi­dence in the lo­cal Ju­di­cia­ry.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were killed minutes apart in Curepe and Piarco on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Express) School teacher Dexter Pollard lost control of his car on the Uriah Butler Highway near Caroni some time on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) An autopsy has determined that three-year-old Isaiah Hazel died of hyperthermia.