Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Housing Edmund Dillon says construction will begin this year on 439 low and middle-income housing units in Port-of-Spain and San Fernando.

(Trinidad Newsday) Brandon Baptiste, a 32-year-old stay-at-home dad, was shot dead in a parlour on Eligon Avenue, Diego Martin, on Thursday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) A pe­ti­tion cir­cu­lat­ing is call­ing for all stu­dents to re-sit the 2019 CSEC Maths ex­ams fol­low­ing se­ri­ous breach­es of the ex­am­i­na­tion reg­u­la­tions.

(Trinidad Express) A 62-year-old employee of funeral home, is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, after being arrested and charged for drug trafficking.

(Trinidad Express) One week after the death of Kurt Edwards, a woman has been charged with the unlawful disposal of her ex-boyfriend’s body.

(Trinidad Guardian) Vil­lagers at Sa­roop Trace in Las Lo­mas No. 2 were left trau­ma­tised and forced to lock up in their homes ear­ly yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, af­ter the two re­main­ing pris­on­ers who es­caped from Gold­en Grove in Arou­ca were seen run­ning through the area.

(Trinidad Guardian) Part of Char­lotte Street, from Park Street to In­de­pen­dence Square, is to be of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed as ‘Chi­na­town’ and arch­ways are to be built by the Shang­hai Con­struc­tion Group to sig­ni­fy it.

(Trinidad Guardian) David Phillip, the al­leged ban­dit who was fa­tal­ly shot dur­ing a rob­bery in Fyz­abad on Wednes­day is ac­tu­al­ly Gary Govin­dass of Fyz­abad.

(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan national has appeared in court charged with the murder of his wife, Katherine Diaz.

(Trinidad Express) The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is investigating a breach in examination security, after a video surfaced on Facebook showing students of Central Trinidad school using their cellular phones and chatting during a CSEC Mathematics examination.

(Trinidad Express) A woman who stole money from an ice-cream parlor has been ordered to repay the establishment.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Na­tion­al He­li­copter Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (NHSL) is now in­ves­ti­gat­ing what caused a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar he­li­copter that was part of a joint law en­force­ment search for eight pris­on­ers to crash short­ly af­ter one yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five of the eight men who made a dar­ing dash for free­dom from the Gold­en Grove Re­mand Yard in Arou­ca were re­cap­tured by a joint team of army, po­lice and prison of­fi­cers short­ly be­fore 7 pm yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) A suspected bandit was shot and killed by a security guard at a sports bar in Fyzabad yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Shazana Hosein has been sent to St Ann’s Hospital after she appeared before the court charged with the Valentine’s Day attempted murder of her boyfriend.

(Trinidad Express) A major search is underway for eight prisoners discovered missing at daybreak today, from the Golden Grove Prison, Arouca.

(Trinidad Newsday) A 30-year-old Princes Town woman who stabbed her boyfriend, for no reason according to police, after having lunch with him on a beach in Siparia, is expected to face a magistrate today charged with attempted murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) Even with bul­lets still in her body, a de­fi­ant An­drea Yusuff left the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal to re­turn home to her fam­i­ly af­ter learn­ing that her com­mon-law hus­band had not sur­vived Sun­day’s at­tack.

(Trinidad Guardian) In what po­lice be­lieve was a land dis­pute turned dead­ly, a 46-year-old fe­male teacher was bru­tal­ly stabbed with an icepick in front of her Stan­dard Two pupils at the St Pi­ous Boys’ RC School in Arou­ca on Mon­day.

(Trinidad Express) Three assault rifles, including an AR-15 and an AK-47, were discovered on the Port of Port of Spain yesterday hidden in a barrel stocked with canned meats and vegetables.