Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) A New Yorker who went missing during Carnival celebrations in Port of Spain on Monday, sparked panic and a police search.

(Trinidad Express) Two High Court judges have distanced themselves from the Judiciary’s statement regarding an incident on the front steps of the Hall of Justice in Port of Spain on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dil­lian John­son who fled to the Unit­ed King­dom in 2017 af­ter he was shot out­side his home has writ­ten to British Prime Min­is­ter There­sa May ex­press­ing fear for his life fol­low­ing the sus­pi­cious cir­cum­stances in which ex-coast guard of­fi­cer Richard “Mus­cle” Ed­wards died.

(Trinidad Express) Police said a seven month old baby was found with three Venezuelans, firearms, game fowls and suspected drug-laced cheese in Moruga on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith is urg­ing all ac­tive po­lice of­fi­cers to turn out for work on Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day, not based on con­se­quences, but be­cause of “pa­tri­o­tism and an an­swer to the call to du­ty”.

(Trinidad Guardian) How could Richard “Muscle” Edwards, a man with at least 25 years training in the Defence Force, point a weapon to his head with a round chambered and squeeze the trigger?

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will leave to­mor­row for the Unit­ed States (US) where he will un­der­go a se­ries of coro­nary tests and ob­ser­va­tion.

(Trinidad Express) Police have made “a major breakthrough” in a case in­volving an increase in fraudulent automated banking machine (ABM) transactions at the One Wood­brook Place branch of First Citizens (FCB).

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is us­ing drone tech­nol­o­gy as part of the TTPS’s ef­fort to en­sure pub­lic safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty across the coun­try dur­ing the Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions.

(Trinidad Express) FORMER Chief of Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard Richard Edwards fatally shot himself on Friday while demonstrating gun safety.

(Trinidad Express) TWO year old Devika Dass did not even cry when the wheel of a car crushed her chest in the garage of her family’s home on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) The spice Isle, Grenada, is now also the new Soca kingdom as the island’s most popular soca artiste, Mr Killa (Hollis Mapp) is the 2019 International Soca Monarch (Power).

(Trinidad Guardian) Of­fi­cers at Ca­roni Po­lice Sta­tion were caught by sur­prise on Thurs­day night when a man “soaked in blood” ran in­to the charge room scream­ing for help af­ter his friend was shot dead and he him­self had been shot sev­er­al times in the chest and arms dur­ing an ap­par­ent am­bush.

(Trinidad Newsday) HOURS after National Security Minister Stuart Young announced that Cabinet would be registering all Venezuelans in the country and offering an amnesty to those who entered illegally, 17, including elderly and toddlers, were caught hiding in the Moruga forest.

(Trinidad Express) A 67 year old Rio Claro man was charged with attempted murder of his son and daughter in law.

 (Trinidad Guardian) In­ter-Caribbean air­line Li­at Ltd on­ly has enough cash to func­tion for the next 10 days and will face a shutdown if Cari­com does not in­ter­vene.

(Trinidad Newsday) A 19-year-old Laventille man was arrested for robbing a La Romaine vendor on Wednesday afternoon and tried to explain his behaviour by blaming it on Carnival, police said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Which one of this sea­son’s ca­lyp­soes might be a “night­mare” for Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young?

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice of­fi­cers were called to the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s Clifton Tow­ers at St Paul Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, af­ter il­le­gal oc­cu­pants at the com­plex al­leged­ly van­dalised a ve­hi­cle be­long­ing to a le­gal ten­ant.

(Trinidad Express) A despicable act of violence and a sad day for education.