Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Of­fi­cials of the Susamachar Pres­by­ter­ian Church have arranged for flu vac­ci­na­tions to giv­en to their con­gre­ga­tion mem­bers to­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice were last night in­ter­view­ing sev­er­al peo­ple af­ter an 11-year-old autis­tic girl fell off the bal­cony of her home in Mal­oney.

Lo­cal rice pro­duc­tion dropped from 21,000 met­ric tonnes in 1992 to just 585 met­ric tonnes last year, a Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) chaired by An­tho­ny Viera heard from Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) chair­man Nigel Ro­mano yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) Police say they have discovered a crack cocaine making laboratory in Carapichaima.

(Trinidad Newsday) While his homeland hasn’t even begun to discuss whether or not to decriminalise marijuana use for medical purposes, let alone fully legalise the herb, Trinidadian Clint Seukeran is set to go on a financial high as he was among six people selected by the Canadian government to be licensed retailers of marijuana in Ontario.

(Trinidad Express) A Penal father is pleading for assistance in locating his 16-year-old daughter who did not return home last Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) An Arima man was gunned down moments after leaving his home yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two days of “in­tense” polic­ing saw 138 peo­ple ar­rest­ed by po­lice over the week­end.

(Trinidad Newsday) The art of practising black magic in Trinidad & Tobago has become the subject of a police and immigration investigation, the suspects being nationals from India.

(Trinidad Guardian) Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says there is a cri­sis in the out­break of H1N1 or swine flu in Trinidad es­pe­cial­ly in the south­ern part of the coun­try where there have been three re­port­ed deaths.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 16-year-old Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al has been cap­tured on the bat­tle­field in Syr­ia with fight­ers for the Is­lam­ic State, a re­port in the New York Times says.

(Trinidad Guardian) Take the free vac­cines to guard against swine flu, was the ad­vice from Health Minister Ter­rence Deyals­ingh on Friday af­ter he re­vealed there have been 17 lab-con­firmed cas­es of Influen­za A (H1N1) in the last year.

(Trinidad Express) A couple was killed early on Saturday after their vehicle hit the concrete bridge spanning the Guyamare River on the Uriah Butler Highway.

(Trinidad Express) The family of slain Couva fish vendor Samuel Sookdeo were bracing for more gunfire during his wake last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) A stag­ger­ing 500 po­lice ve­hi­cles have been tak­en out of ser­vice over the past three years and Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith blames an in­ef­fi­cient main­te­nance sys­tem for the on­go­ing prob­lem.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Health Min­istry is on high alert for cas­es of Swine Flu fol­low­ing the death of a third pa­tient from the dead­ly virus.

(Trinidad Express) The body of a man found with bullet wounds to the face in Cunupia last week has been identified as missing taxi-driver Anton Jacelon-Moore.

(Trinidad Express) Two criminals who went “shopping” at George Street, Port of Spain this afternoon, left the store with multiple bullets wounds.

(Trinidad Guardian) A group of Venezue­lans who are liv­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go are ques­tion­ing the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and Nico­las Maduro regime, in light of the ques­tions sur­round­ing the le­git­i­ma­cy of Maduro’s new regime.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Tabaquite woman has died from swine flu. Rel­a­tives said med­ical of­fi­cials on­ly con­firmed Nicole Seecha­ran con­tract­ed the dead­ly H1 N1 virus days af­ter her death.