Trinidad & Tobago News

(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 Guardian) There are re­ports of T&T ports be­ing used by Venezuela’s state oil com­pa­ny, Petróleos de Venezuela, SA (PDVSA), to avoid US sanc­tions.

(Trinidad Express) Police officers shot and killed a man who was chopping his wife to death in Chaguanas on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) An act­ing po­lice su­per­in­ten­dent with over 35 years of ser­vice has been ar­rest­ed and charged for un­law­ful­ly caus­ing the re­lease of a po­lice con­sta­ble with­out him be­ing pros­e­cut­ed for the of­fence of neg­li­gence in breach of the Firearm Act.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith yes­ter­day de­nied that po­lice of­fi­cers raid­ed the of­fices of Jaagri­ti TV.

A co­caine ship­ment with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue close to TT$40 mil­lion, which was des­tined for Trinidad and To­ba­go, was in­ter­cept­ed by mem­bers of the Cuer­po de In­ves­ti­ga­ciones Ci­en­tifi­cas Pe­nales Y Crim­i­nal­is­tics (CI­CPC) in Venezuela yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Bu­ju Ban­ton has been grant­ed per­mis­sion to en­ter T&T this week­end for the “I am Leg­end” con­cert.

(Trinidad Express) The worst fears of the family of a missing Penal farmer came true when he was discovered murdered yesterday.

(Trinidad Newsday) THERE may be about 15 Trinidad & Tobago children in refugee camps in Syria, but a news story in the Daily Telegraph of London on Friday said a mother, who is a TT citizen, could not be accounted for.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Ch­agua­nas fam­i­ly is count­ing them­selves lucky to be alive af­ter they were bound, beat­en and robbed by three masked ban­dits who al­so set their home of nine years on fire be­fore they fled the area as well.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “Blingers” and “Zessers” be­ware of Gov­ern­ment’s Ex­plain Your Wealth leg­is­la­tion.

(Trinidad Express) Shalini Sookdeo-Choon was pregnant with her third child at the time her throat was cut, an autopsy found on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Peo­ple will have to start keep­ing their re­ceipts and a pa­per trail of their pos­ses­sions— like jew­ellery— once the Ex­plain Your Wealth Bill gets go­ing, In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira has rec­om­mend­ed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Moya Gyan­dass paced anx­ious­ly along the Car­li Bay shore­line yes­ter­day, as the par­ty who went search­ing for her hus­band Sie­u­nar­ine Gyan­dass and neigh­bour Vedesh Mar­lo re­turned.

(Trinidad Guardian) When Gram­my-nom­i­nat­ed rap­per Nipsey Hus­sle (Er­mias As­ghe­dom) was fa­tal­ly shot in Los An­ge­les two Sun­days ago, so­cial me­dia was flood­ed with users, in­clud­ing renowned mu­si­cians, ac­tors, and ath­letes ex­press­ing dis­tress over his death.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) is investigating an attempted piracy attack reported north-east of the Hibiscus platform, off Trinidad’s north coast on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) Keshan Bajnathsingh appeared the Siparia court yesterday morning charged with the murder of Leisha Ramnath who was beaten and strangled to death.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pres­i­dent of the Yacht Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (YSATT) Tom­my John­son, has re­port­ed an at­tack on a yacht by eight Venezue­lan na­tion­als.

(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.