Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) A 47-year-old taxi dri­ver was killed dur­ing an ap­par­ent rob­bery,on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) An elec­tri­cal black­out at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal left pa­tients hun­gry and in tears yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) The bullet-riddled bodies of a man and woman found in a parked car off Pashley Street, Laventille, on Easter Monday were identified yesterday as those of Devon Jones and Erin Ali.

(Trinidad Express) What began as the kidnapping of a Carapichaima man and his girlfriend at the Waterloo cremation site on Tuesday night ended in his murder.

(Trinidad Express) The bullet-riddled bodies of a man and woman found in a parked car off Pashley Street, Laventille, on Easter Monday were identified yesterday as those of Devon Jones and Erin Ali.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Trinidad & Tobago woman who mar­ried an ISIS fight­er in 2014, said she re­gret­ted her de­ci­sion even be­fore she ar­rived in Syr­ia with her new hus­band and her then 12-year-old son.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sur­veil­lance on Venezue­lans le­gal, il­le­gal and crim­i­nal. The TT Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is mon­i­tor­ing the con­nec­tions be­tween Venezue­lan crim­i­nals who have been iden­ti­fied in T&T and the lo­cal gangs.

(Trinidad Express) Evidence is growing that Cunupia doubles man Barry Choon killed his family before he committed suicide in Toco more than a week ago.

(Trinidad Express) Bail in the sum of $350,000 has been granted to each of the three men accused of holding four Venezuelan women hostage and sexually assaulting two of them in a “fake police station” in Diego Martin.

(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.

(Trinidad Newsday) Housing Minister Edmund Dillon says the movements of Venezuelan criminals in Trinidad are being monitored.

(Trinidad Express) BAIL in the sum of $350,000 has been granted to each of the three men accused of holding four Venezuelan women hostage and sexually assaulting two of them in a “fake police station” in Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Express) Evidence is growing that Cunupia doubles man Barry Choon killed his family before he committed suicide in Toco more than a week ago.

(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.

(Trinidad Newsday) A YEAR after she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bone cancer, Arielle Fahey-Cadiz died at a New Jersey hospital on Sunday night.

(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.

(Trinidad Guardian) De­spite a po­lice-en­forced Red Alert and a man­date for in­creased po­lice vis­i­bil­i­ty, there were nine mur­ders over the long East­er week­end.

(Trinidad Express) The woman whose husband was killed by police officers during a domestic dispute in Chaguanas on Friday was chopped almost a dozen times by her spouse.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours af­ter de­fend­ing his of­fi­cers’ de­ci­sion to search the ho­tel room of Bu­ju Banton, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith met with the Ja­maican reg­gae artiste to as­sure him of­fi­cers will not in­ter­fere with him or mem­bers of his en­tourage again.

(Trinidad Express) “I never heard a thing. I have been good…” This is the response of newly Cabinet appointed Industrial Court judge Nizam Khan when contacted for comment on sexual harassment claims against him.