Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Des­per­ate to es­cape Venezue­lan pi­rates, two kid­napped fish­er­men jumped off their ab­duc­tors’ boat on Mon­day night and took their chances in the sea.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 22-year-old man of San­gre Grande was gunned down mo­ments af­ter leav­ing the Kiss Bak­ing Com­pa­ny at Gas­ton Street in Ch­agua­nas on Mon­day night.

(Trinidad Guardian) An out­pour­ing of spir­i­tu­al help has come for the Mathu­ra fam­i­ly, who be­lieve that a mys­ti­cal spir­it crea­ture called a “buck” is ter­ror­is­ing them in­side their Morne Roche, Gas­par­il­lo home.

(Trinidad Express) A man who touched the bottom of a 72-year-old woman was on Tuesday sent to jail.

(Trinidad Guardian) Haunt­ed by a shad­owy spir­it crea­ture which they say lives in­side their home, a Gas­par­il­lo fam­i­ly is now seek­ing spir­i­tu­al help to re­move their un­want­ed guest.

(Trinidad Guardian) The South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) is on heightened alert after two children from different schools in South Trinidad died from suspected cases of meningitis.

(Trinidad Express) A woman, who was set on fire during a caesarean section at the San Fernando General Hospital, has won her medical negligence lawsuit against the South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA).

(Trinidad Guardian) No further layoffs are expected at National Flours Mills Limited (NFM) following a restructuring exercise in which some senior management positions were made redundant.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pres­i­dent of the Is­lam­ic Mis­sion­ar­ies Guild, Imti­az Mo­hammed, says T&T can­not rule out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of ter­ror at­tacks sim­i­lar to what hap­pened in New Zealand on Fri­day tak­ing place in this coun­try.

(Trinidad Newsday) Mental disorders affects people from adolescence to adulthood, mental health manager at the Ministry of Health, Ashvini Nath said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A pas­tor has been award­ed more than $430,000 by the High Court for the dam­ages he suf­fered as a re­sult of sev­er­al defam­a­to­ry Face­book posts by a for­mer mem­ber of the church.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 34-year-old Arou­ca man on Friday ap­peared in the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court fac­ing sev­er­al charges in con­nec­tion with an at­tack on two fe­male British tourists.

(Trinidad Express) An off-duty police officer shot two men who attempted to rob him of his vehicle on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) The Prison Service today responded to photographs circulating on social media showing an inmate posing with what appears to be a firearm in a cell.

(Trinidad Express) A woman who said she was treated in a discriminatory manner after she went to the renew her identification card at the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) in Tunapuna yesterday took to social media to share herordeal.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinida­di­an-born Archye Lea­cock, 65, is run­ning for an elect­ed City Coun­cil 9th Dis­trict Seat in Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia, USA, on May 21, 2019.

(Trinidad Guardian) He mi­grat­ed from this coun­try at a young age and has been dom­i­nat­ing head­lines in the Unit­ed States af­ter he was ac­cept­ed in­to not one, not two…not even three but 17 uni­ver­si­ties.

(Trinidad Guardian) Women are not al­ways the vic­tim in sex­u­al ha­rass­ment is­sues since some can en­tice em­ploy­ers with promised sex­u­al at­ten­tion to get favourable treat­ment, says Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee mem­ber Hazel Thomp­son-Ahye.

(Trinidad Express) The Ummah T&T Muslim Lobby Group is condemning the mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday Juma’ah prayers in New Zealand which killed 49 people and injured a similar number, some seriously.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sup­ple­men­tal Po­lice un­cov­ered and re­moved a fake ATM pan­elling de­vice that was hid­ing a cell­phone used to cap­ture im­ages of cus­tomers’ pin num­bers at Sco­tia­bank’s Freeport ATM unit.