Trinidad & Tobago News

Stephen Ramsaroop
Stephen Ramsaroop

Trinidad man, 29, on over 100 fraud charges

(Trinidad Guardian) A 29-year-old man from Ari­ma has been de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with mon­ey laun­der­ing close to $300,000 that was stolen from the San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (SJL­RC) in a mul­ti-mil­lion fraud scam.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Kamla: Unexplained Wealth Bill dangerous

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has described The Civil Assets Recovery and Management and Unexplained Wealth Bill as dangerous and warned that she will challenge it in court if it is passed in its current form.

A White Axio sedan on fire in Gasparillo in early March.

Car fires ignite new fuel fears in Trinidad

(Trinidad Guardian) Wide­ly shared so­cial me­dia posts blam­ing im­port­ed fu­el for at least six in­ci­dents in re­cent months in which cars caught fire have been dis­pelled by me­chan­ics who be­lieve poor main­te­nance and shod­dy mod­i­fi­ca­tions were done to the ve­hi­cles were like­ly the cause of the fires.

The final resting spot of this country’s first road traffic fatality William Leslie Nicol at the Lapeyrouse Cemetery

The deadliest road in Trinidad & Tobago

(Trinidad Guardian) The dead­liest stretch of road­way in Trinidad & Tobago is a 700-me­tre por­tion of the M2 Ring Road in Debe, where at least sev­en peo­ple have been killed as a re­sult of five fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dents be­tween 2013 and 2017.

Trinidad hitman stopped by special operations team

(Trinidad Guardian) Less than 24 hours af­ter the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) is­sued a con­fi­den­tial re­port in­di­cat­ing that pris­ons of­fi­cers were the tar­get of death threats, their of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a “hit­man” on his way to al­leged­ly kill a first di­vi­sion pris­ons of­fi­cer in East Trinidad on Wednes­day night.

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