Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Nobody is happy with the foreign exchange (forex) situation in T&T, said the head of the local operations of Scotiabank, at the bank’s launch of its digital banking platform at the Hyatt Regency on Wrightson Road in Port of Spain on Wednesday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) The hunt is on for a Mara­bel­la man who stole a po­lice ve­hi­cle from the same of­fi­cers who were chas­ing him.

(Trinidad Guardian) A young man who was pre­vi­ous­ly dis­qual­i­fied from hold­ing a dri­ver’s per­mit but took a chance to dri­ve a car to im­press a girl has been jailed for three months.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health continues its recruitment drive of medical professionals from Cuba with the recent intake of 58 specialist healthcare professionals.

(Trinidad Guardian) A plot by prisoners to kill five prison officers has been uncovered by the Special Operations Response Team.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Felicity mechanic who allegedly tried to steal two cars from murdered kidnap victim Sheldon Sukhdeo has appeared before a Chaguanas magistrate charged with two counts of uttering a forged document.

(Trinidad Express) PRISONER Matthew Woods has been sentenced to three months’ hard labour after his failed escape attempt from custody on Monday morning at the Scarborough Port.

(Trinidad Express) What at first seemed like an All Fool’s Day prank, turned out to be a robbery at a store in Princes Town on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A plot by pris­on­ers to kill five prison of­fi­cers has been un­cov­ered by the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team.

(Trinidad Guardian) A loud round of ap­plause and cheers of prais­es and grat­i­tude erupt­ed from the bas­ket­ball court at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) in Aripo yes­ter­day when Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young shared a ray of hope to the Venezue­lan de­tainees telling them that they may soon be freed and al­lowed to work in T&T for one year soon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two more sus­pects in a mul­ti-na­tion­al pros­ti­tu­tion ring in west Trinidad, which was bust­ed by po­lice two months ago, have ap­peared in court for hu­man traf­fick­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) The pro­pos­al for the lease of the Jean De La Valette (JDLV) as a tem­po­rary in­ter-is­land fer­ry to ease up the seabridge woes is al­ready be­fore Cab­i­net.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two more sus­pects in a mul­ti-na­tion­al pros­ti­tu­tion ring in west Trinidad, which was bust­ed by po­lice two months ago, have ap­peared in court for hu­man traf­fick­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yesterday morn­ing con­firmed that he ex­pects to get a new op­er­a­tor for the moth-balled Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

(Trinidad Newsday) Matthew Woods appeared before the Scarborough Magistrates Court after he tried to escape custody this morning while prison officers were transferring him from Tobago to Trinidad.

(Trinidad Express) An Arima teenager died when his car spun out of control and crashed on Saturday.

(Trinidad Express) Two more Chinese nationals, including one who was said to be a former military commander in China have been charged with harbouring under age Venezuelan girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

THERE is something fishy going on at gas stations across the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) From 2015 to March 2019, al­most 100 peo­ple and groups have been added to the state’s con­sol­i­dat­ed list of ter­ror­ists whose as­sets in lo­cal fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions were or­dered to be frozen.

(Trinidad Express) A Chinese national is clinging to life after being shot and robbed of TT$100,000 today.