Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has de­nied claims that they left spe­cial needs pas­sen­gers off a Sat­ur­day night flight from Trinidad to To­ba­go al­though there were avail­able seats.

(Trinidad Express) A police officer  with eight years’ service appeared before the court charged with obtaining money by false pretences after allegedly selling a ring.

(Trinidad Guardian) Weeks of bit­ter ar­gu­ments and rage end­ed trag­i­cal­ly for Ter­ry El­lie on Sat­ur­day when he died from in­juries he suf­fered in a fight with a male rel­a­tive hours ear­li­er. 

  (Trinidad Express) To his family, Barry Choon was a kind and gentle man who loved his children more than life.

(Trinidad Guardian) A na­tion­al iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card bear­ing the name of a Venezue­lan na­tion­al has sparked an in­ves­ti­ga­tion and claims of vot­er-padding as the State gets ready to roll out an amnesty pol­i­cy to al­low mi­grants to live and work legal­ly in this coun­try.

(Trinidad Guardian) It has been clas­si­fied as the largest fi­nan­cial crime in Porsche Cars North Amer­i­ca’s his­to­ry and it was al­leged­ly per­pe­trat­ed by Shi­raaz Sookral­li, 44, a man born to Trinida­di­an par­ents who has lived in the Unit­ed States all his life, but is re­port­ed to have deep busi­ness con­nec­tions in this coun­try.

(Trinidad Guardian) To­co vil­lagers and sea­soned po­lice of­fi­cers re­coiled in hor­ror on Friday as the bod­ies of an eight-month-old ba­by boy and his sev­en-year-old sis­ter were found in a car with their dead parents.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith wants Venezue­lans sus­pect­ed to be in­volved in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty to be de­port­ed im­me­di­ate­ly.

(Trinidad Express) A retiree has been placed on a ban from driving for the rest of his life after he was found driving drunk for a third time.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith wants Venezue­lans sus­pect­ed to be in­volved in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty to be de­port­ed im­me­di­ate­ly.

(Trinidad Guardian) To­co vil­lagers and sea­soned po­lice of­fi­cers re­coiled in hor­ror on Friday as the bod­ies of an eight-month-old ba­by boy and his sev­en-year-old sis­ter were found in a car with their dead par­ents.

(Trinidad Guardian) As Government announced a two-weeks registration process of Venezuelans living in T&T, which will begin next month, National Security Minister Stuart Young on Thursday admitted they expect to face difficulties with the entire “process” which is expected to cost taxpayers $5 million.

(Trinidad Guardian) Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says Ja­maica’s dance­hall and reg­gae star Bu­ju Ban­ton will be the green light to en­ter the coun­try for his much-an­tic­i­pat­ed “Re­demp­tion” con­cert sched­uled next Sun­day at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

(Trinidad Guardian) A div­er lost at sea was able to swim ap­prox­i­mate­ly 44 miles, bat­tling strong cur­rents in the At­lantic Ocean, be­fore mak­ing it ashore in To­co on Thurs­day.

(Trinidad Express) A MAYARO mother was killed after she threw herself in front of a moving vehicle on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) There are 77 police stations spread throughout Trinidad and Tobago, manned by 2,300 police officers.

(Trinidad Guardian) Of­fi­cers of the TTPS Child Pro­tec­tion Unit in To­ba­go are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a se­ries of in­ap­pro­pri­ate, vile, text mes­sages sent to a 15-year-old school­boy from a so­cial me­dia ac­count of a To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) em­ploy­ee.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Marabella father died after he was crushed by a machine at his job in Chaguanas on Tuesday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) A self-con­fessed panty thief was sent to prison for four years on Wednes­day af­ter elud­ing of­fi­cers for al­most a year.

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad and Tobago national is among 123 foreigners in the United States taken into custody during a month-long operation conducted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Jersey.