Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (JCC) has filed a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) re­quest­ing de­tails of the State’s US $71 mil­lion deal with a Chi­nese-based hous­ing con­struc­tion com­pa­ny.

(Trinidad Newsday) Fired CEO of the Trinidad Tourism Ltd (TTL) Camille Campbell maintains she did her best for the company in the six months she was there, and her work had only just begun when she was axed.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of two, Roslyn Rivers, has a bad feeling about her younger daughter’s disappearance.

(Trinidad Guardian) Clothes, pho­tos, shoes, even a bank card and oth­er per­son­al items be­long­ing to Neil, 25, and Nigel See­bran, 23, are cher­ished and close­ly guard­ed by their fam­i­ly at their Granville, Ce­dros home.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are mov­ing to lay a charge of in­vol­un­tary manslaugh­ter against a Cen­tral school bus dri­ver more than a week af­ter a tod­dler died in her care.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 40-year-old man, of no fixed place of abode, has ap­peared be­fore a San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate, af­ter be­ing charged with lar­ce­ny amount­ing to $51,000, af­ter promis­ing to im­port and de­liv­er ve­hi­cles to sev­er­al vic­tims.

(Trinidad Guardian) It was the re­union that many hoped for. Zookeep­er Wal­ter Bun­yan and Al­bi­no Burmese Python on Fri­day re­unit­ed af­ter a bite that shocked many on Thurs­day.   A video post­ed on so­cial me­dia Thurs­day af­ter­noon showed Bun­yan open­ing Mus­tard’s en­clo­sure and toss­ing a rab­bit for him to eat.

(Trinidad Express) A woman charged in 2015 with stabbing her ten-year-old sister during an alleged argument over a television remote control has been committed to stand trial before the San Fernando High Court.

(Trinidad Guardian) One week af­ter she be­came vo­cal on the many se­ri­ous is­sues and con­cerns in­clud­ing crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties in the Orop­une Gar­dens, Pi­ar­co area, the life of a for­mer news an­chor Colleen Hold­er has been threat­ened.

(Trinidad Guardian) Cab­i­net will ini­ti­ate a com­mis­sion of en­quiry to ex­am­ine the cir­cum­stances in which over $500 mil­lion was paid to home­own­ers to ac­quire land for the ex­ten­sion of the high­way from San Fer­nan­do to Point Fortin.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago track and field athlete Michelle-Lee Ahye has been charged with domestic violence in the United States.

(Trinidad Guardian) The US Em­bassy has do­nat­ed 110,000 rapid HIV test kits to the Min­istry of Health.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice and Im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cers are search­ing for 14 per­sons who es­caped from the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) in Aripo.

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidadian man fatally stabbed during an ambush 13 years ago was lured to his death by a former girlfriend, the Supreme Court was told as two people went on trial here for his murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) PNM coun­cil­lor Vidya Mun­gal-Bisses­sar is deny­ing al­le­ga­tions by so­cial me­dia com­men­ta­tor Mar­cia Brave­boy that she was racial­ly abused by San Fer­nan­do May­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo.

(Trinidad Guardian) A day­light rob­bery was foiled when two ban­dits be­lieved to be in their ear­ly 20s from Long­denville and Rio Claro re­spec­tive­ly were shot by se­cu­ri­ty guards as they at­tempt­ed to rob Savi’s Clas­sic Jew­el­ry lo­cat­ed on the cor­ner of Noel Street and South­ern Main Road, Cou­va on Tues­day.

(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.