Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(Trinidad Guardian) The two prison es­capees who were still at large up to late yes­ter­day have promised to sur­ren­der to po­lice in ex­change for jus­tice.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives of 22 refugees who have not been seen since they left Güiria, Venezuela, on Thurs­day evening for Trinidad & Tobago, are ap­peal­ing for search­es to be launched for their miss­ing loved ones.

A par­tic­i­pant in the Sea to Sea Marathon col­lapsed and died near the fin­ish line dur­ing the com­pe­ti­tion this morn­ing.

(Trinidad Express) A pregnant woman yesterday appeared before the court charged with twice exposing a three-year-old boy to suffering.

(Trinidad Guardian) Even as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the cheat­ing scan­dal which oc­curred dur­ing last Wednes­day’s CSEC Math ex­am at the Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School, a par­al­lel in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the ab­sence of a key se­nior of­fi­cial who ought to have been present at the in­sti­tu­tion on the day.