Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The moth­er of se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer Ri­car­do Dixon, 22, was on Thursday lost for words as she tried to come to terms with los­ing her sec­ond son in six years to vi­o­lence.

(Trinidad Guardian) De­spite a pend­ing le­gal ac­tion which chal­lenges the Sedi­tion Act and pos­si­ble charges against Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Sat­naryan Ma­haraj, po­lice re­turned to Ra­dio and TV Jaagri­ti yesterday to ob­tain tapes which may be linked to the case.

(Trinidad Guardian) A San Fer­nan­do fam­i­ly of 12, in­clud­ing four chil­dren, cow­ered in fear at their home ear­ly on Wednes­day af­ter, what they first thought was a storm, turned out to be a Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty he­li­copter hov­er­ing, close to their roof.

(Trinidad Guardian) Des­per­ate to get the at­ten­tion of any­one to come to his fam­i­ly’s aid, Ra­jku­mar Singh, 70, screamed from his win­dow for help be­fore dawn on Wednesday as fire trapped his fam­i­ly in­side.

(Trinidad Express) Former national footballer and former Scottish football club player Richard Roy has come to the attention of an animal welfare charity for allegedly cooking and eating an iguana in the UK.

(Trinidad Guardian) Life­guards at Mara­cas Bay are ad­vis­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to stay away, say­ing they will be go­ing at their own risk.

(Trinidad Express) Government is attempting to hide information and secure fat pensions for themselves before the 2020 general election claims Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Former international football strongman, Jack Warner, on Tuesday suffered a major setback in his fight against extradition to face corruption charges in the United States, after the Court of Appeal here dismissed a judicial review challenging that extradition.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T could earn as much as $10 bil­lion over the next nine years fol­low­ing the sign­ing of a deal be­tween Gov­ern­ment and Roy­al Dutch Shell.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just over two years after his father was fatally shot close to his home, 28-year-old Sebastian “Buju” Julien was killed in similar circumstances on Monday in Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Guardian) Justin Sow­ley was de­ter­mined to make the most of the op­por­tu­ni­ties avail­able to him as he cared for his broth­er who was un­der­go­ing phys­io­ther­a­py in Cana­da fol­low­ing a car ac­ci­dent in Trinidad in 2005.

(Trinidad Guardian) A mass appeal by at least 30 private bodies, including the Law Association of T&T (LATT) is trying to force the Government to withdraw the Clause 7 amendment to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan mother of three was shot dead allegedly by her Venezuelan boyfriend in Carapichaima early ­yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Killers pretending to have car trouble shot and killed an ex-convict outside his house in Biche on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian)  A Clax­ton Bay grand­moth­er who al­leged­ly failed to report a sex­u­al of­fence against a child was on Fri­day grant­ed $45,000 bail.

(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan woman was shot and killed early Saturday. Two men were involved in the killing.

An elderly woman appeared before the court charged with failing to report a sexual act against a seven-year-old girl to the police.

(Trinidad Express) A soldier and a police officer appeared before the court charged with maliciously wounding a DJ.

(Trinidad Express) An underground explosion in the city of Port of Spain yesterday morning triggered a national security alert over fears that someone had set off a bomb.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four days af­ter he was re­port­ed miss­ing, the body of 23-year-old Nicholas “Nicho” Ju­man was found over a cliff along the road to Mara­cas Bay yester­day af­ter­noon.