Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Armed with a blow torch, a gang of “professional thieves” broke into the home of a Penal family and robbed them of thousands in cash and valuables early Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has been muzzled.

(Trinidad Guardian) The CEO of the Tourism Trinidad Ltd has been fired af­ter just six months on the job.

(Trinidad Express) Seeking to arouse the consciences of senators, National Security Minister Stuart Young yesterday spoke of the harrowing experiences of young Venezuelan women forced into prostitution by their captors, whom he described as “animals”.

(Trinidad Express) A late night rendezvous with a woman in a car parked roadside in Caroni, ended in the death of the driver.

(Trinidad Guardian) Many of the lo­cal women and chil­dren who trav­elled to Syr­ia to fight for the Is­lam­ic ter­ror group Isis were forced to do so, ac­cord­ing to lo­cal Imam Sher­az Ali.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Ja­maican na­tion­al and three Cubans are among 14 ten­ants left home­less af­ter fire gut­ted their apart­ment com­plex in Curepe on Mon­day evening.

(Trinidad Express) A BICHE man who is a State witness in a murder case was lured out of his home on Monday night by a gunman who pretended to have car trouble.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 25-year-old man from West­moor­ings has plead­ed guilty to hav­ing a small in­door mar­i­jua­na grow­ing op­er­a­tion at his home.

It turned out to be a grave error. A grave was dug and all funeral arrangements were made after a Muslim family received news from a public hospital official that their relative had died.

(Trinidad Guardian) For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sub­has Pan­day is call­ing on Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith to ex­pose the names of the 50 dan­ger­ous shoot­ers re­spon­si­ble for the rise in homi­cides in T&T.

(Trinidad Express) The slaying of citizens multiple times a day is no longer big news in a country where upwards of 400 people are murdered every year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men were shot and killed and three oth­ers in­jured in four sep­a­rate shoot­ing in­ci­dents across north Trinidad yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Police have obtained closed circuit television footage of the paedophile who allegedly raped a 14 year old girl at a sporting complex last week Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Reg­is­tra­tion cards have not yet been is­sued to Venezue­lans who reg­is­tered re­cent­ly since Gov­ern­ment is still work­ing out who should be in T&T, who should not be and who are crim­i­nals.

(Trinidad Guardian) The com­mon-law wife of 69-year-old co­me­di­an and ac­tor Den­nis “Spran­galang” Hall is call­ing on the na­tion to pray for his speedy re­cov­ery and to bless the hands of the ten doc­tors at­tend­ing to the en­ter­tain­er.

(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.