Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) One of the sev­en Sea View Dri­ve, Gulf View res­i­dents whose homes were searched as part of a con­tro­ver­sial po­lice op­er­a­tion last Fri­day, has threat­ened to sue the State over the in­ci­dent.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two days be­fore Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert pre­pares to present his 2019 mid-term bud­get re­view, comes news that BPTT will not have enough nat­ur­al gas to sup­ply At­lantic LNG’s Train One and the plant may have to close down for at least two years.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 33-year-old Coast Guard of­fi­cer, who set his po­lice of­fi­cer girl­friend on fire dur­ing an ar­gu­ment last week, has been de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court this morn­ing.

(Trinidad Express) A POST MORTEM examination on the body of a six-month-old baby girl who was found unresponsive at an El Socorro daycare centre on Thursday afternoon found that she died as a result of aspiration.

(Trinidad Express) A businessman was shot dead while saying prayers in a mosque in California, Couva, on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Teach­ers at the Ari­ma Hin­du School were forced to send pupils home and shut down op­er­a­tions for the rest of the day yes­ter­day, af­ter a gun at­tack near the com­pound left one man dead and a woman in­jured.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thir­teen peo­ple from a well-known gang in the North­ern Di­vi­sion, who were found lurk­ing around the Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trates’ Court on Wednes­day, were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a plot to mur­der a state wit­ness as he was about to leave the court.

Venezuelan nationals on board the Kuvanakan, after they were stopped by T&T Coast Guard and denied entry to this country within sight of their final destination, Chaguaramas.

(Trinidad Guardian) At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi told Par­lia­ment on Wednes­day that 12 at­tor­neys “alone con­sumed” $290 mil­lion of ex­pens­es dur­ing the pre­vi­ous 2010-2015 pe­ri­od.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have arrested of 13 male suspects wanted in connection with a plot to murder a state witness, as he exited a Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) Four girls were passengers on the ill-fated fishing pirogue when it capsized in rough seas on the way from Venezuela to Trinidad two weeks ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith yes­ter­day pre­sent­ed a graph­ic which sug­gest­ed 14-year-old Nao­mi Nel­son may have been killed by a bul­let to the head from an il­le­gal gun fired by Care­nage res­i­dents and not the po­lice.

(Trinidad Newsday) Education Minister Anthony Garcia has promised to get to the bottom of a report that a teacher has threatened to kill a family, which includes two students who attend the southern school where he is based.

(Trinidad Express) Even as the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) has launched an investigation into last Friday’s police-involved killing of three people in Carenage, the autopsy report for 14-year-old victim Niomi Nelson concluded that she was shot to the back of the head.

(Trinidad Guardian) As po­lice con­front a sus­tained wave of vi­o­lent crime in Trinidad and Tobago, some 23 peo­ple have been killed in of­fi­cer-in­volved shoot­ings this year, a 64% in­crease over a sim­i­lar pe­ri­od in 2018.

(Trinidad Guardian) For the sec­ond week in a row, an Op­po­si­tion Par­lia­men­tar­i­an—this time a Sen­a­tor—was put out of the Par­lia­ment cham­ber.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Venezue­lan mi­grant who fled to T&T to es­cape the harsh eco­nom­ic con­di­tions is now fac­ing a pos­si­ble mur­der charge af­ter killing his com­mon-law wife on Sun­day.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Siparia gardener won his lawsuit on Monday in the High Court against police prosecuting him for marijuana 15 years ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of three po­lit­i­cal par­ties in To­ba­go—Plat­form of Truth (PTP), To­ba­go For­wards (TF), and To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Peo­ple (TOP)- vot­ed on Sun­day to de­ter­mine if one new po­lit­i­cal en­ti­ty should be formed un­der the theme “One Voice”.

(Trinidad Express) An 86 year old newlywed man has gone missing and his wife is begging for the public’s help in finding him.