Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Three men were gunned down in a parked vehicle at Fazal Avenue, Penal, on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young has de­fend­ed his min­istry’s de­ci­sion to rent the Queen’s Park Oval to use as one of the venues for the reg­is­tra­tion of Venezue­lans liv­ing in this coun­try lat­er this week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sad­dened by the en­slave­ment of Venezue­lan mi­grants who are on­ly seek­ing to fill emp­ty stom­achs in T&T, re­cent­ly-in­stalled mod­er­a­tor of the Pres­by­ter­ian Church, Rev Joy Ab­dul-Mo­han, says her flock will use their re­sources to al­le­vi­ate the mi­grants’ hunger.

(Trinidad Express) Three girls all under the age of 18 were found at the house in which prison escapees Olatungi Denbow and Michael Findley were hiding.

(Trinidad Guardian) The US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain has ad­vised that ef­fec­tive June 1, doc­u­ments sub­mit­ted in sup­port of a Non-Im­mi­grant Visa (NIV) in­ter­view waiv­er ap­pli­ca­tion will not be re­turned, oth­er than the ap­pli­cant’s valid and ex­pired pass­ports.

(Trinidad Guardian) The two last es­capees—Olatun­gi Den­bow and Michael Find­lay—who had been on the run for 11 days af­ter break­ing out of the Gold­en Grove Re­mand Yard Prison in Arou­ca have been re­cap­tured.

(Trinidad Guardian) “It’s Time.” That’s the word from former Oropouche-West MP Mickela Panday.

(Trinidad Newsday) The first of the three episodes of Love and Hip Hop Atlanta filmed in Trinidad & Tobago will air on VH1 on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sev­en­teen Venezue­lans have been caught hid­ing in an aban­doned ho­tel in­fest­ed with bats and rats at Chatham South beach.

(Trinidad Guardian) Any Venezuelan national who arrives in this country before the end of the two-week registration process can apply to live and work here for up to a year.

(Trinidad Express) Eight hand grenades have been discovered by officers of the Organised Crime and Intelligence Unit (OCIU) during an exercise in the Point Fortin area, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says that Trinidad and To­ba­go can­not be the so­lu­tion for mil­lions of Venezue­lans who are flee­ing the coun­try and that there will come a time when the vol­ume of Venezue­lans com­ing here will be­come a bur­den.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just less than one month after he was allegedly involved in a shooting in Malick, Nicholas ‘Chico’ Jobe, 35, was gunned down yesterday morning in San Juan along with another man.

(Trinidad Guardian) Barefeet and cold, lit­tle Lu­cia Meza sat on the street hun­gri­ly lick­ing an emp­ty pack of bis­cuits while her moth­er tried to find ac­com­mo­da­tion for them to spend the night.

(Trinidad Guardian) “Every­body de­serves a sec­ond chance.” This is why a 30-year-old cler­i­cal work­er wants to pay the fines im­posed on pop­corn ven­dor Kevin Thomas for il­le­gal­ly vend­ing on Low­er High Street, San Fer­nan­do.

(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.