Trinidad & Tobago News

Minister of Public Utilities Robert Le Hunte takes a closer look at at the new T&Tec Mobile Substation machinery.
Minister of Public Utilities Robert Le Hunte takes a closer look at at the new T&Tec Mobile Substation machinery.

Trinidad power company owed 700 million by customers

(Trinidad Guardian) Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte says out­stand­ing pay­ments owed to the Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) for the sup­ply of ser­vices is ap­prox­i­mate­ly $700 mil­lion—with the ma­jor­i­ty of ar­rears owed by Gov­ern­ment di­vi­sions.

From left are: Ian Sandy, De­on Cal­liste and Chris Durham

Trinidad judge stays murder indictment of trio

(Trinidad Guardian) A de­ci­sion by Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC, to con­tin­ue to pros­e­cute a triple mur­der case af­ter the State’s main wit­ness ad­mit­ted to fab­ri­cat­ing ev­i­dence has led to three men be­ing freed.

Ru Seecharan, 41, of Mc Bean Village, Couva.

Trinidad: Missing taxi driver found murdered

(Trinidad Guardian) When news came in late on Sun­day night that PH dri­ver Ru Seecha­ran’s body was found, the fam­i­ly was in a state of shock, but in par­tic­u­lar, his 87-year-old moth­er Cha­naradai Seecha­ran was dev­as­tat­ed.

Jamaican boarding pass

Trinidad: Jamaican deportee willing to surrender

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ja­maican man who was de­nied en­try at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Fri­day says he did not es­cape cus­tody and claimed he paid US$500 to an Im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cer to se­cure his free­dom.

Director of Economics at the Caribbean Development Bank Dr Justin Ram.

CDB’s director: Trinidad & Tobago must diversify

(Trinidad Guardian) Di­rec­tor of Eco­nom­ics at the Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank Dr Justin Ram says T&T must fo­cus on di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and ways to boost the oth­er sec­tors in the econ­o­my such as tourism, agri­cul­ture, and the cre­ative in­dus­tries.

Acting National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds (centre) speaks to members of the media outside the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday. Also in picture are Police Commissioner, Gary Griffith, left and PS in the National Security Ministry, Vel Lewis.

Hundreds of Venezuelans turn up on first day of registration in Trinidad

(Trinidad Guardian) Hun­dreds of Venezue­lan na­tion­als, some of whom slept on the side­walks in San Fer­nan­do and Port-of-Spain on Thurs­day night to be ahead in the line, turned out yesterday on the first day of the 13-day reg­is­tra­tion which will al­low them to work and live in this coun­try legal­ly for up to a year.

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