Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(Trinidad Express) The Hispania Spirit, the LNG tanker on which $120 million in cocaine was found at a port at Atlantic in Point Fortin last week, has left Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) The con­tracts for “Keep and Car­ry” firearms for pris­ons of­fi­cers were ex­pect­ed to be signed yester­day.

(Trinidad Express) Jadhi Williams appeared before the court charged with stealing a police vehicle last Wednesday.

(Trinidad Newsday) PETER Kurt Carrera, 37, opened the door of his Tomato Drive, Diego Martin home on Saturday night to greet a stranger who knocked and then asked for a light to smoke a cigarette.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and To­ba­go will not open a refugee camp for Venezue­lans, Prime Min­is­ter Dr.

(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.

(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.

(Trinidad Express) A SIXTEEN-year-old boy who walked out his grandmother’s home to get bread and sausages for dinner was gunned down near his Laventille home on Friday night and his $1,500 cellphone ta­ken.

(Trinidad Express) A MAN reportedly abducted by Venezuelan pirates while fishing off Moruga three months ago was killed after being injured in an explosion during an operation involving Venezuelan security forces.

(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 Guardian) Just a week af­ter pur­chas­ing a sports util­i­ty ve­hi­cle, Re­on Ra­goobir lost his life af­ter he was thrown from the van dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing ac­ci­dent near Gas­par­il­lo yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) If in­no­cent cit­i­zens have noth­ing to fear or hide, the Civ­il As­set Re­cov­ery Un­ex­plained Wealth Bill should not scare them.

(Trinidad Guardian) A “hit­man” is be­lieved to have shot his own boss as he at­tempt­ed to shoot and kill his in­tend­ed vic­tim yes­ter­day at a pre-arranged “meet­ing place” along El So­cor­ro Road South in San Juan.

(Trinidad Express) A 20-year-old student has more than ten million reasons to be happy.

(Trinidad Guardian) A fe­male Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) has won her law­suit over her sus­pen­sion by for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Stephen Williams, af­ter a provoca­tive pho­to­graph of her in uni­form was shared on so­cial me­dia two years ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuelan national Alexander Cedeno Roroba was gunned down at De Verteuil Street in Port-of-Spain yesterday morning.

(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.

(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.