Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have launched a manhunt for two suspects, who fatally shot a former member of the Medical Board of Trinidad & Tobago just meters away from his Wallerfield home yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A security officer assigned to keep watch on a cargo vessel anchored off the port of Port of Spain has been found murdered.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 93 Venezue­lan na­tion­als who have been de­tained by po­lice in Pa­lo Seco, are be­ing re­leased.

A 75-year-old medical doctor was killed in a robbery near his home before dawn on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) Independent Senator Dr Varma Deyalsingh says, given the ill-effects of alcohol, legislation should be passed that will make it harder for people to obtain liquor licences.

(Trinidad Newsday) Tobago East MP Ayanna Webster-Roy is appealing to parents who have children languishing in orphanages to renounce their rights and allow them to be adopted.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives of a young woman who was among 22 pas­sen­gers on board the Ana Maria, the ves­sel that has not been seen since it sailed from Güiria in Venezuela bound for T&T, say she had been promised a job at a re­sort ho­tel where the in­come of up to US$1,000 a week was guar­an­teed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six men from Diego Mar­tin, who spent al­most a decade be­hind bars await­ing tri­al for mur­der, were freed on Tues­day af­ter a mag­is­trate found there was in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence for them to face a judge and ju­ry.

(Trinidad Express) After a midnight argument with his sister, Ricardo Chinnon walked into the water near the Chaguaramas Boardwalk, and disappeared.

(Trinidad Express) Nalini Ramai, the woman who made comments about Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley after her Zee TV channel was interrupted by political broadcasts, is threatening to sue Amplia Communications.

(Trinidad Express) After three-years of assurances by the Ministry of Education that the Ramai Trace Hindu School is one of the Ministry’s priority project, the school, which is 90 per cent complete, remains abandoned, with overgrown bush choking the premises.

(Trinidad Guardian) A se­cret agri­cul­tur­al plot in Los Iros, where five Venezue­lan women are be­ing as sex slaves, has been un­cov­ered by vil­lagers who are now call­ing on law en­force­ment au­thor­i­ties to in­ves­ti­gate.

(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Coast Guard (TTCG) is on stand­by should they be called for help by the Venezue­lan Coast Guard as the search con­tin­ues for 19 refugees, who have been feared drowned af­ter the pirogue they were in sunk last Thurs­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is work­ing with the New York Po­lice De­part­ment (NYPD) on strength­en­ing the per­for­mance the po­lice’s homi­cide and an­ti-gang units.

(Trinidad Guardian) A pen­sion­er, 74, was found mur­dered at her home at Mu­cu­rapo Road in St James yester­day.

(Trinidad Express) A Jamaican man is the second person to be charged in connection with the murder and the unlawful removal of the body of Kurt Edwards.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man known as “El Cu­lon” who on­ly re­cent­ly as­sumed lead­er­ship of the Evan­der gang was one of eight Venezue­lans ar­rest­ed over the week­end in a po­lice ex­er­cise in Point Fortin to­geth­er with a Trinida­di­an man who to­geth­er/who are both con­sid­ered mas­ter­minds of kid­nap­pings, drug traf­fick­ing, gun run­ning and hu­man traf­fick­ing.

(Trinidad Newsday) Ryan Alexander is being hailed a hero in Tarodale for using his body as a shield to protect his girlfriend, Andrea Yusuff, from a hail of bullets on Mother’s Day.

(Trinidad Express) The six prisoners who were held last week following their escape from the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca, are expected to be charged with escaping lawful custody.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ari­ma Hin­du School on Tem­ple Street, has been or­dered closed fol­low­ing an up­surge of crime in the com­mu­ni­ty where it is lo­cat­ed On Fri­day, Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cials told the prin­ci­pal and staff no one should en­ter the school com­pound un­til fur­ther no­tice.