Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) A week after their kidnapping for a ransom in Venezuela, five fishermen have returned home.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice have smashed what they be­lieve to be a ma­jor sex and drug ring op­er­at­ing in West­ern Trinidad af­ter they raid­ed sev­er­al up­scale homes and a restau­rant along Ari­api­ta Av­enue in Port-of-Spain ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

(Trinidad Express) A funeral is being arranged for the foetus found in a shallow grave on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) It has been a week since Morne Diablo fisherman Jerry O’Brian was released by his kidnappers after part of the US $200,000 ransom was paid for his life.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two notorious criminal gangs want Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith and his family dead.

(Trinidad Guardian) At least one In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor is not in sup­port of the names of sex­u­al of­fend­ers go­ing pub­lic.

(Trinidad Newsday) Trinidad & Tobago is earning a big name internationally with Friday’s capture in Syria of yet another ISIS fighter, Nicholas Lee, 39, originally from Point Fortin.

(Trinidad Express) Two women died today in a crash in Chaguanas involving a garbage truck, a Blue Waters delivery truck and a Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) deluxe coach bus.

(Trinidad Guardian) Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has con­firmed a fifth death as a re­sult of swine flu.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are now brac­ing for a fall­out af­ter a 31-year-old moth­er of two was gunned down just out­side her Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, Sea Lots home yes­ter­day morn­ing, less than 12 hours af­ter a dead­ly dri­ve-by shoot­ing claimed the lives of two men, in­clud­ing a ca­lyp­son­ian, and left six oth­ers wound­ed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused the me­dia of in­sult­ing him by in­sin­u­at­ing that the Drag­on Gas deal is some­thing per­son­al be­tween him­self and Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Muduro.

(Trinidad Guardian) A dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Sea Lots has left one man dead and five oth­ers wound­ed.

(Trinidad Express) FOOTBALL coach Shakeem Darius appeared before the court charged after he allegedly French kissed a 14-year-old girl.

(Trinidad Express) After shooting six and killing one in Sealots, Port of Spain on Sunday night, a killer came back early today and killed another.

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old girl from Wallerfield committed suicide by poisoning after her mother took away her cellphone on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice of­fi­cers moon­light­ing as “es­corts” and us­ing of­fi­cial ve­hi­cles to trans­port peo­ple from the pop­u­lar Soa­ka fete at O2 Park have come un­der fire from Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Gary Grif­fith.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sex­u­al preda­tors, ban­dits, and tres­passers are cre­at­ing fear among fe­male se­cu­ri­ty guards of the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (MTS).

(Trinidad Guardian) A 17-year-old sec­ondary school stu­dent who is on sus­pen­sion has been gunned down by an un­known gun­man.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Cana­di­an busi­ness­man has warned his coun­try­men to be care­ful when trav­el­ling to Trinidad af­ter he was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of three emp­ty bul­let shell cas­ings and kept for a week at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP.)

(Trinidad Guardian) Even po­lit­i­cal par­ties must find in­no­v­a­tive ways to raise funds to sus­tain op­er­a­tions.