Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Two Freeport fam­i­lies are ap­peal­ing for the pub­lic’s help in find­ing three men who were ab­duct­ed on Sun­day out­side their homes.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s debt to Chi­na has jumped from $2.2 bil­lion last year to $6.2 bil­lion af­ter Gov­ern­ment part­nered with Chi­na again on two new projects.

(Trinidad Newsday) With last Monday’s bombing by US-backed Syrian forces of the two remaining ISIS-controlled villages in which 200 men, women and children were reportedly killed, some families in TT fear their loved ones who migrated to Syria and Iraq might be among the dead.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hos­pi­tals are be­com­ing “home” for some—in­clud­ing chil­dren at Car­ni­val time.

(Trinidad Newsday) Siparia magistrate Margaret Alert denied bail to the parents of a two-month-old boy when they appeared before her yesterday jointly charged with having a gun and ammunition.

(Trinidad Express) Director of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) David West says corrupt police officers are involved in “gangs, money laundering and human trafficking—with young Venezuelan girls fast becoming the preferred targets”.

(Trinidad Express) Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Susan Francois has suggested that a “cash-restricted” system be implemented in Trinidad and Tobago to combat money laundering and corruption.

(Trinidad Guardian) The death of an el­der­ly man who was struck and killed by a po­lice ve­hi­cle while at­tempt­ing to cross the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route in Barataria — the sec­ond fa­tal ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer in three days — has prompt­ed the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice to get per­son­al­ly in­volved in the in­ves­ti­ga­tions of both mat­ters.

(Trinidad Express) A Tobago landscaper is expected to appear before a Scarborough Magistrate charged with the March 12 murder of businessman Donald Parks.

(Trinidad Express) Accused wife killer Dominic Guevara reappeared in court on Friday.

(Trinidad Newsday) A birthday party ended in bloodshed on Tuesday night after a gunman opened fire on partygoers at a house in Enterprise, Chaguanas.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice of­fi­cers were called in to deal with a sit­u­a­tion at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ St Au­gus­tine cam­pus on Wednes­day af­ter a male stu­dent pep­per sprayed a fe­male class­mate fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment over a group project.

(Trinidad Guardian) A three-year-old boy, who was among 13 pas­sen­gers re­fused en­try in­to Trinidad and To­ba­go af­ter they came off a flight from Venezuela, was re­unit­ed with his moth­er last night.

(Trinidad Express) HOURS after a Hindu priest performed an “exorcism” at the Mathura home in Gasparillo, the ‘buck’ still showed up.

(Trinidad Express) Dominic Guevarra who survived a shotgun attack which killed his wife a year ago, has been charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five fe­male Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice Of­fi­cers and a se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent of po­lice are among sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau for mis­chief in pub­lic of­fice.

(Trinidad Express) When Anita Espinoza heard she was on fire during her Caesarean section, she thought she was ­going to die.

(Trinidad Express) President Donald Trump has invited the leaders of The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Saint Lucia to his Florida resort tomorrow to discuss Chinese “predatory economic practices” and the crisis in Venezuela.

(Trinidad Express) While some people woke up Ash Wednesday still recovering from Carnival festivities on Monday and Tuesday, one Diego Martin family were organizing funeral arrangements.

(Trinidad Express) A woman is dead, and police have arrested one of their colleagues who allegedly hit her with a speeding vehicle in Diego Martin on Tuesday.