Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) ANSA McAL, Trinidad and Tobago’s largest conglomerate by assets and profits, has put in a bid to acquire the T&T operations of the Bank of Baroda, which is owned by the government of India.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Fa­ther Ja­son Gor­don is re­it­er­at­ing his call for Venezue­lans to be giv­en the chance to have a bet­ter life in T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are cur­rent­ly hunt­ing for an Ari­ma busi­ness­man who is the reg­is­tered ex­porter of a con­tain­er found with some $9 mil­lion worth in co­caine hid­den in­side.

(Trinidad Guardian) Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion of be­ing racists, spark­ing a shout­ing match and name call­ing in the Par­lia­ment on Fri­day night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gangs are re­spon­si­ble for the mur­ders of at least 2,100 peo­ple in this coun­try ac­cord­ing to sta­tis­tics from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

(Trinidad Guardian) A so­cial me­dia post deemed racist, which was made by a To­ba­go-based fe­male po­lice of­fi­cer, has been re­ferred to Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith.

(Trinidad Guardian) The State has been or­dered to pay over $280,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a woman and her two teenage sons who were wrong­ful­ly de­tained by po­lice dur­ing a rou­tine traf­fic stop.

(Trinidad Express) A fight between a woman and two teenage girls which was filmed and later went viral may have caused her murder.

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old boy expected to appear in court today, charged with sexual penetration of a 15-year-old girl.

(Trinidad Express) Police are trying to find out why Mariah Neptune was shot and killed in Tunapuna on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Express) Frustrated at the slow pace of development and the terrible road conditions within their community, Fyzabad residents took up the onus of repairing the road themselves.

(Trinidad Express) Purported Unruly ISIS gang member Allan Muhammad died yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 61-year-old man, who was left per­ma­nent­ly scarred af­ter doused with acid by his sis­ter-in-law, has fi­nal­ly re­ceived com­pen­sa­tion af­ter an al­most two-decade-long le­gal bat­tle.

(Trinidad Express) A Moruga fisherman was fined $35,000 for possession of protected animals found in a mini zoo at his home on Wednesday.

(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.