Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Someone shot and killed a couple in Sangre Grande yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) A motion calling on the Prime Minister to take action against Chief Justice Ivor Archie is to be debated in the House of Represen-tatives.

(Trinidad Guardian) For­mer Health Min­is­ter Dr Fuad Khan is stand­ing be­hind the mes­sage he com­mu­ni­cat­ed to plus-sized mas­quer­ad­er Can­dice San­tana on Fri­day when he called her out for be­ing obese and over­weight, as he again urged her to get fit and healthy.

(Trinidad Guardian) Unit­ed Na­tions De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP) as­sis­tant res­i­dent rep­re­sen­ta­tive Shar­i­fa Ali-Ab­dul­lah says cul­tur­al be­liefs con­tribute to the sex­u­al abuse and bat­ter­ing of women and chil­dren in T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) A pre­lim­i­nary re­port has shown that the brak­ing sys­tem on the Caribbean Airlines Limited’s (CAL) ATR air­craft was not func­tion­al at the time the air­craft col­lid­ed with a wall at Pi­ar­co Airport on Wednes­day, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert said on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A vendor who allegedly stole two bulldogs and thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment was on Friday placed on $1 million bail.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Faris al-Rawi has revealed that taxpayers have spent over half a billion dollars in pursuit of criminal investigations and litigation resulting from the collapse of CLICO.

(Trinidad Express) A vendor who allegedly stole two bulldogs and thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment was on Friday placed on $1 million bail.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Faris al-Rawi has revealed that taxpayers have spent over half a billion dollars in pursuit of criminal investigations and litigation resulting from the collapse of CLICO.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley who com­plet­ed one set of med­ical tests on Wednes­day, has to do two more sets of tests to­mor­row and next Mon­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two po­lice of­fi­cers from east Trinidad have been grant­ed a to­tal of $285,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court on cor­rup­tion and gang charges.

(Trinidad Guardian) The dam­age to one of Caribbean Air­lines’ (CAL) ATR air­craft will cost the State US$1 mil­lion to re­pair, a cost which the act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has de­scribed as a “pre­lim­i­nary es­ti­mate.”

(Trinidad Guardian) In­ves­ti­ga­tors prob­ing the death Multi­na­tion­al Pro­tec­tion Spe­cial­ist Net­work own­er Richard Ed­wards have con­clud­ed it was ac­ci­den­tal due to neg­li­gence in us­ing his li­censed firearm.

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old boy is one of the thieves killed by police in the washroom of a jewellery store in Couva yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A Caribbean Airlines aircraft crashed into the terminal building at the Piarco International Airport on Wednesday night causing extensive damage.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prais­ing the po­lice for killing two rob­bers and re­cov­er­ing over $200,000 in stolen loot, Cou­va jew­ellers An­na and Lakhram Par­riag yes­ter­day ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion that some of the “pests” who had been ter­ror­is­ing them were dead.

(Trinidad Guardian) Medi­um band K2K Al­liance & Part­ners are the first ever win­ners of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion’s Over­all Band of the Year com­pe­ti­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Carnival Tuesday lime at Claxton Bay Junction turned deadly when a masked gunman opened fire on a soldier, killing him instantly in front of family and friends.

(Trinidad Guardian) Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young yes­ter­day laud­ed the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice for their ef­forts for Car­ni­val, say­ing they achieved an ap­prox­i­mate­ly 95 per cent of­fi­cer turnout which con­tributed to this year’s safe Car­ni­val.

(Trinidad Express) A US citizen was stabbed, robbed and beaten during J’ouvert celebrations in San Fernando on Monday, and her mother is claiming that police did not do enough to apprehend the criminals.