Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) A se­nior US mil­i­tary of­fi­cer is warn­ing that the re­turn of T&T ter­ror­ist fight­ers can pose a ma­jor threat to this coun­try.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is an es­ti­mat­ed back­log of 20,000 peo­ple in T&T re­quir­ing ac­tion on their agri­cul­tur­al State land leas­es – and Cab­i­net has been put on no­tice to deal with 400 ap­pli­ca­tions next Thurs­day.

(Trinidad Express) A Jamaican national who went mining for gold in Guyana and then came to this country to sell it to jewellery stores in Port of Spain, only to later break into the business places and steal the jewellery claiming he was underpaid for his “hard work” has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.

(Trinidad Express) For the second time in just over one month and the third time in two years, a Claxton Bay man has been awarded compensation by the court for wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution.

(Trinidad Express) One of the arguments offered by anti-migrant proponents is that the 14,000 -plus Venezuelans registered to live and work in Trinidad and Tobago for one year, will take the jobs of locals.

(Trinidad Guardian) To­ba­go Po­lice are cur­rent­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ing a video of a group of boys dressed in the uni­form of Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School pass­ing around what ap­peared to be a firearm.

(Trinidad Newsday) Members of the 2019 National Culinary Team, who took part in the Taste of the Caribbean competition in Miami which ended on Tuesday, took away gold, silver and bronze medals in individual categories.

(Trinidad Express) A six-year-old boy was stung by a scorpion while at school on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s ‘wajang’ behaviour places Trinidad and Tobago at risk if United States President Donald Trump pulls support to the Caribbean basin programme says Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith says that the Intelligence agencies have revealed that there are over 50 “ shooters”, linked to various gangs, with most being active in taking out hits on opposing gang members.

(Trinidad Express) A man with previous convictions for robbery and narcotics was gunned down near his home in Rio Claro on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress has moved on from the Gan­ga Singh is­sue and there is no di­vi­sion in the par­ty.

(Trinidad Newsday) The three young children of murdered Venezuelan Evelyn Mata Rojas are facing eviction with relatives from an house in central Trinidad.

(Trinidad Express) Western Division police are investigating a report in which a 25-year-old prison officer was threatened.

(Trinidad Guardian) Clutch­ing a rock as she strug­gled to es­cape bat­ter­ing waves and strong cur­rents, Rad­ha Ju­goon watched in dis­may as her 13-year-old son drowned in the sea while swim­ming in the Morne Di­a­blo Beach on Sat­ur­day.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young said yesterday the murder of State witness Candy-Ann McIntyre on Tuesday was a tragedy, but added that she was not in the witness protection programme.

A Venezuelan national died after being struck by a vehicle while walking on the shoulder of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway on Friday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley slammed the US State De­part­ment for T&T’s rank­ing in their 2019 Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons Re­port which placed the coun­try at Tier 2.

(Trinidad Guardian) The hur­ri­cane fore­cast for 2019 is just as bad as the fore­cast of 2018 and with nine to 15 named storms ex­pect­ed to form in the At­lantic this year, of­fi­cials from the Com­mon­wealth of Do­mini­ca wants the rest of the Caribbean to pre­pare.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is said to be an “in­va­sion” of Colom­bians and Venezue­lans at Brick­field in Cara­pichaima which are caus­ing grave con­cerns by vil­lagers who are claim­ing that il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties are on a ram­pant in­crease in­clud­ing State land grab­bing, drug traf­fick­ing, guns and am­mu­ni­tion traf­fick­ing and hu­man traf­fick­ing.