Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The State funeral for former prime minister Basdeo Panday will be held next Tuesday at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA), according to a reliable source.

(Trinidad Express) Five days after being snatched, El Socorro businesswo­man Anesha Narine-Boodhoo has been found.

(Trinidad Guardian) Basdeo Panday, who served as T&T’s fifth prime minister from 1995 to 2001, was the first person of Indian descent and the first Hindu to hold that office.

(Trinidad Express) Basdeo Panday has passed away. His death was announced by daughter Mickela Panday this afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Massy has appointed an “independent external counsel” (who they refused to identify) to investigate the claims made by its former executive vice president of business integrity and group general counsel Angélique Parisot-Potter about its executive leadership programme.

(Trinidad Express) Businesswoman Aneesha Narine-Boodoo was kidnapped by three men just feet away from her home in El Socorro yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) A shooting in Arima on Thursday night claimed the lives of two people, including a pregnant woman and a teenager, while two others were hurt.

(Trinidad Express) Less than two weeks after siblings Simeon and Siniaya Lessey were shot dead in the carpark of Courts Megastore in San Juan, a police officer has appeared in court for their murders.

(Trinidad Express) Police officers who kicked in a door to arrest a man in his bed are claiming he fired a shot at them during a raid on his Carapichaima home on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Nine days after Massy’s executive vice president of business integrity and group general counsel Angélique Parisot-Potter raised concerns about the company’s executive leadership programme, she has resigned. 

(Trinidad Guardian) A brazen ambush by gang members led to carnage along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in St Augustine yesterday, as four people, including an innocent woman who was in her house, were murdered.

(Trinidad Guardian) Nine days after Massy’s executive vice president of business integrity and group general counsel Angélique Parisot-Potter raised concerns about the company’s executive leadership programme, she has resigned.

(Trinidad Guardian) The National Insurance Board of Trinidad and Tobago (NIBTT) is reporting a cyber-attack which occurred on Boxing Day.

(Trinidad Guardian) People who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases are being asked to take the necessary precautions, as there is currently a significant concentration of Saharan Dust in the atmosphere.

(Trinidad Express) She was the first of six children to attend university and her family had hoped she would achieve her dreams of becoming an attorney.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rima Hosein lost her two sons weeks apart–her youngest son Matthew Hosein, 17, mysteriously disappeared on August 25.

(Trinidad Guardian) Amid claims of foreign exchange wastage, the United National Congress (UNC) is calling for the resignations of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and chairman of the Massy Group.

(Trinidad Guardian) The police constable accused of killing two people and injuring two others during an incident at the Courts Megastore in San Juan on Sunday, was arrested by a team of officers on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Express) The suspect in Tobago’s 11th murder walked into the Shirvan Road Police Station yesterday, told police a murder had been committed and then led officers to the crime scene at Gleneagles Drive, Mt Irvine.

(Trinidad Express) A double murder has rocked Tobago. The deceased are Akiem Frith of Rockly Vale, Scarborough, and Lawrence Fritz Allyen who were both shot dead outside Sherwin Williams Paints, Bon Accord, yesterday morning.