Trinidad & Tobago News

Tricia Hudlin-Cooper, assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, responds to a question during the Joint Select Committee on Finance and Legal Affairs at the International Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain, yesterday.
Tricia Hudlin-Cooper, assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, responds to a question during the Joint Select Committee on Finance and Legal Affairs at the International Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain, yesterday.

Trinidad magistrates courts a ‘disaster’

(Trinidad Express) PROSECUTORS, State witnesses and others are put at risk because of the inadequacies of the physical infrastructure in the Magistrates’ Courts.

Nelson Street
Nelson Street

Trinidad gang war erupts again

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours af­ter armed po­lice of­fi­cers were called in to pre­vent gang vi­o­lence from erupt­ing at the Nel­son Street, Port-of-Spain hous­ing de­vel­op­ment, res­i­dents said they were fear­ful they may now be­come tar­gets of the war­ring gangs.

Ander Charles, the Mayor of the Valdez Municipality of the Sucre State in Venezuela

Trinidad coast guard searching for 25 Venezuelans after boat sinks

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Coast Guard of­fi­cers and fish­er­men were up to late yes­ter­day as­sist­ing their Venezue­lan coun­ter­parts in a mas­sive search and res­cue mis­sion for 25 Venezue­lan mi­grants who re­mained miss­ing af­ter their boat sank on the way to Trinidad and To­ba­go on Tues­day night.

T&T’s oil revenue under new threat

(Trinidad Express) As the government of T&T, unlike its Caribbean counterparts, continues to fail to get T&T removed from a European Union blacklist even once, T&T could be about to lose close to millions of dollars in oil revenue this year, a French tax attorney confirmed over the Easter weekend.

Jamaican reggae artiste Buju Banton performing at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Trinidad & Tobago

Buju Banton preaches peace at Trinidad concert

(Trinidad Guardian) The at­mos­phere at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah was lit, es­pe­cial­ly with the over­pow­er­ing scent of mar­i­jua­na at Sun­day’s I Am Leg­end Con­cert but with­in all the fun, Gram­my-win­ning leg­end Bu­ju Ban­ton sobered the au­di­ence in call­ing the coun­try out on its ram­pant mur­ders.

Police Commissioner Gary Griffith appears on stage with Jamaica reggae artiste Buju Banton at the I Am Legend concert at the Queen’s Park Savannah on Sunday.

Trinidad Top Cop defends decision to appear on Buju’s stage

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith yesterday de­fend­ed his de­ci­sion to ap­pear on stage dur­ing Bu­ju Ban­ton’s “I am Leg­end” con­cert, stat­ing if he had not done so, it would have re­sult­ed in a strained re­la­tion­ship be­tween T&T and Ja­maica.

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