Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) It is possible that as many as six people in the country have died from the flu so far this year, a Ministry of Health doctor said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Commissioner of Prisons Deopersad Ramoutar last evening confirmed that one of his officers had been killed during a gun attack in Arima.

(Trinidad Guardian) Business owners at Long Circular Mall, St James, are calling for heightened security following a shooting incident in the mall’s ground level car park yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Another officer from the St Joseph Police Station is facing disciplinary action based on content that was leaked online.

(Trinidad Guardian) A little over a week after Calida Schamber and her mother Carmelita De Leon were gunned down at their Point Cumana, home, a 48-year-old soldier was charged with their murders.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the country bid a tearful but celebrative farewell to former prime minister Basdeo Panday yesterday, tales of his life as a warrior for the vulnerable, a visionary leader, and a tender father showed that his legacy will live on for generations.

(Trinidad Express) “Our father was fearless, honest, strong-willed, disciplined, polite, humble, kind, selfless, hard-working like no one I’ve ever know or will ever know.”

(Trinidad Express) Former President of the senate Timothy Hamel Smith and former PNM Government minister Karen Nunez Tishera jumped the railing to get onto the compound of the Southern Academy of Performing Arts to try to sit in the auditorium for the funeral service of the late Basdeo Panday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A regional ferry system may be on the horizon to journey through Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) A gunman broke into a family’s home in Tabaquite before dawn today and killed a man.

(Trinidad Express) While there will be leading political figures in attendance at the state funeral for the late former prime minister Basdeo Panday today, none of them will be speaking at the service.

(Trinidad Express) Fifteen people have been murdered in just the first week of the new year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are searching for two men who shot a Pasea businessman before crashing their getaway car in a nearby drain on Saturday evening.

(Trinidad Express) Time seemed to have stood still as members of the Defence Force bore the body of the late former prime minister Basdeo Panday in a coffin, draped in the national colours of red, white and black, through the streets of the capital city of Port of Spain, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The autopsies on the bodies of Shevonne Moffat and Gemma Alexis have come back as inconclusive, and police will now await toxicology reports on the bodies.

(Trinidad Guardian) Local entertainer Akhenathon “Yung Bredda” Lewis is calling out citizens, in particular fellow artistes, for their silence on the crime situation.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has come under fire for his “attack” on Integrity Commission (IC) chairman Dr Rajendra Ramlogan.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot dead and three others injured during an attack in front the Tunapuna Market, along the Eastern Main Road, last night.

(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.