Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(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.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are ques­tion­ing a 36-year-old Guapo sales clerk about the dis­cov­ery of a ba­by’s body in a shal­low grave at the back of her home.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia said he was dis­turbed about a video on In­sta­gram which showed sus­pend­ed Diego Mar­tin North Sec­ondary a stu­dents boast­ing about their deeds.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion of try­ing to un­der­mine Gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts at med­i­ta­tion in Venezuela’s on­go­ing po­lit­i­cal cri­sis.

(Trinidad Guardian) Cit­i­zens have racked up US$1.205 bil­lion in cred­it card trans­ac­tions for 2018 which is now en­gag­ing the at­ten­tion of the Min­istry of Fi­nance.

(Trinidad Guardian) To­ba­go po­lice are prob­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the killing of An­der­son Ba­boo­nanan.