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Canadian businessman Brian Doubt
Canadian businessman Brian Doubt

Canadian businessman recounts arrest for “keychain” in Trinidad

(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 & Tobago Coast Guard fast patrol vessel returns after patrolling the Gulf of Paria.
Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard fast patrol vessel returns after patrolling the Gulf of Paria.

Venezuelan influx strangling Trinidad

(Trinidad Guardian) Leav­ing their loved ones be­hind in a coun­try torn by vi­o­lence, star­va­tion and po­lit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion, hun­dreds of Venezue­lans con­tin­ue to risk their lives to come to Trinidad in search of a bet­ter life.

Kidnappers train their guns at five of the six Trinidad & Tobago fishermen who were reportedly abducted and taken to Venezuela. The victims were from left Brandon Arjoon, Jason O'Brian , Jagdesh Jude Jaikaran, Jerry O'Brian , Linton Manohar and missing from photo Ricky Rambharose.

Relatives of missing Trinidad fishermen go silent

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives of the kid­napped Morne Di­a­blo fish­er­man are re­fus­ing to com­ment on the mat­ter as they claim me­dia cov­er­age is jeop­ar­dis­ing the safe­ty of the men One of the fish­er­men, Jer­ry O’Brien, 36, was re­leased by his cap­tors on Wednes­day but his broth­er Ja­son O’Brien, 38, Bran­don Ar­joon, 28, Lin­ton Manohar, 36, Jagdesh Jaikaran, 16 and Ricky Ramb­harose,35, are still in the hands of their ab­duc­tors The men left the Morne Di­a­blo beach at around 4 pm on Mon­day to fish.

Manager of the Ministry of Education’s Student Support Services Division Professor Dennis ConradMinistry of Education

Trinidad schools hit by new addictive drug `Molly’

(Trinidad Guardian) “Mol­ly” which is a new ad­dic­tive drug has hit the na­tion’s schools and of­fi­cials of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion are cur­rent­ly “scram­bling” to get more on it and its ef­fects so that they can deal with the fright­en­ing is­sue.

Minister of National Secu-rity Stuart Young responds to a question during yesterday’s Senate sitting.

Trinidad Govt seeks advice on Dragon Field gas plan

(Trinidad Guardian) Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing ad­vice to as­cer­tain the ef­fect on its Drag­on Field gas plan of the US Gov­ern­ment’s sanc­tions on Venezuela’s Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) oil com­pa­ny, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has said.

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