Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) A new colour-cod­ed threat alert sys­tem and train­ing for po­lice of­fi­cers to pros­e­cute cas­es are some of the im­me­di­ate out­comes of a week-long vis­it to the Unit­ed King­dom by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith.

(Trinidad Guardian) A month af­ter he was kid­napped, po­lice be­lieve they have fi­nal­ly found the body of car deal­er Shel­don Sukhdeo.

(Trinidad Guardian) The fam­i­ly of a 28-year-old con­struc­tion work­er is fear­ful he may have been kid­napped by pi­rates while fish­ing off the coast of Ce­dros al­most a week ago.

(Trinidad Express) Four years in jail will be served by a husband who breached a protection order and beat his wife.

(Trinidad Guardian) An 82-year-old woman was killed in­stant­ly af­ter a col­li­sion with a car and a Reg­i­ment truck at the in­ter­sec­tion of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route and Pasea Main Road, Tu­na­puna, on Mon­day.

(Trinidad Express) Two Trinidadian children kidnapped and taken to Syria by their ISIS fighter father in 2014 have been reunited with their Trinidadian mother.

(Trinidad Guardian) Al­most a year af­ter the sea swal­lowed three homes and a por­tion of the road near the coast in Ce­dros, vil­lagers are still fear­ful that more hous­es will col­lapse in­to the sea.

(Trinidad Newsday) There have been calls for a boycott and overwhelming condemnation on social media of a “dub plate” sung by soca artiste Denise “Saucy Wow” Belfon, in which she calls for the killing of a “b—-r” and a “batty bwoy.”

(Trinidad Guardian) The mas fra­ter­ni­ty has been plunged in­to mourn­ing fol­low­ing the death of vet­er­an mas man Roland St George, 73, at around 4 am yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the longest-ever gov­ern­ment shut­down in Unit­ed States his­to­ry con­tin­ues, there are warn­ings that T&T and oth­er coun­tries in the Caribbean could be af­fect­ed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives of Jamel Woods, 24, who was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Wa­ter­hole, Co­corite, on Sat­ur­day claim he was ex­e­cut­ed and are call­ing for a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his death.

(Trinidad Newsday) Some 47 people, presumably men, are in jail for failing to pay child maintenance, revealed acting Assistant Commissioner of Prisons Carlos Corraspe to a parliamentary committee on Friday.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Diego Martin woman has been arrested and charged with stealing more than $40,000 worth of wigs and hair weaves from a businesswoman.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago electo­rate was used as the guinea pig for Brexit, which in turn was the test-run for the 2016 United States presidential campaign, which Donald Trump won.

(Trinidad Guardian) In­fu­ri­at­ed af­ter he was dumped by his girl­friend, a San Fer­nan­do man went to her home on Fri­day night and hacked her co-work­er to death.

(Trinidad Newsday) Girls are making and distributing child pornography videos in Trinidad & Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) A POLICE officer was robbed of his vehicle on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) A US citizen was robbed at gunpoint of over $7,000 in cash, jewellery and valuables in the car park of a mall on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) ABUSE. Sexual assault. Blackmail. Victimisation by both citizens and law enforcement.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day ac­cept­ed some re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for San­dals Re­sorts In­ter­na­tion­al pulling out of the To­ba­go ho­tel project.