Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) The wife of slain Couva fish vendor Samuel Sookdeo said that six months ago she made a police report that she had been threatened.

(Trinidad Newsday) DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard, SC yesterday said senior magistrate Indrani Cedeno could have requested additional information from police, before she decided to fine a man $17,000 for having 3.9 kilos of cocaine at his St Augustine home.

(Trinidad Express) Three men were killed Wednesday night, bringing to five the number of homicides in the first two days of the new year.

(Trinidad Guardian) The first day of 2019 had bare­ly end­ed, but crim­i­nals had man­aged to snuff the life of an­oth­er vic­tim with the mur­der of Cou­va fish­er­man Samuel Sookdeo on Tues­day night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has made good on his promise to re­vamp the process for ob­tain­ing a firearm user li­cence.

(Trinidad Express) A Siparia woman who moved to Tobago for a better life has gone missing.

(Trinidad Express) A WOMAN who stole money from a bar patron’s wallet, denied that she had taken $1,500.

(Trinidad Express) Sixteen-year-old Rachael Ramkissoon had studied late into the night back in January 2017 and woke up late the next morning.

(Trinidad Express) A Fyzabad man was killed by a single gunshot fired from a police officer’s gun in Vessigny Village, La Brea early Monday.

(Trinidad Express) A fireman passing by minutes after a three car collision assisted two children found in the wreckage of one of the vehicles in Princes Town on Monday night.

 (Trinidad Guardian) A near-fa­tal ac­ci­dent three weeks be­fore their wed­ding al­most de­railed the plans of a San­gre Grande cou­ple.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dis­charge of gas caused the evac­u­a­tion of staff in the Area Con­trol Cen­tre of Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, dis­rupt­ing air traf­fic ser­vices and re­sult­ing in de­lays in flights yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) A man and his wife were killed in a crash near Princes Town early on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) It is es­ti­mat­ed that more 100 T&T cit­i­zens have left this coun­try to join Is­lam­ic State, in­clud­ing about 70 men who were joined by dozens of chil­dren and women.

(Trinidad Guardian) An in­ter­na­tion­al non­prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion is try­ing des­per­ate­ly to se­cure trav­el doc­u­ments for two T&T both­ers cur­rent­ly strand­ed at a camp for women and chil­dren linked to Isis in Syr­ia.

(Trinidad Guardian) For­mer Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma has list­ed A House for Mr Biswas by Trinidad-born No­bel lau­re­ate Sir VS Naipaul among the list of best books he read this year.

(Trinidad Express) A biker was killed in a crash in La Romaine on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) Scratch bomb users are facing stiff penalties if caught in the act following yesterday’s signing of the Explosives (Prohibition of Scratch Bombs) Order 2018 by National Security Minister Stuart Young.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has read the ri­ot act to top rank­ing po­lice of­fi­cers say­ing a shake-up is com­ing from with­in the hi­er­ar­chy of the Po­lice Ser­vice in 2019.

(Trinidad Newsday) Has a cult lured away 16-year-old schoolgirl Shindlar Cuffy? This is the question Cuffy’s mother Shondel Shallow was asking yesterday after she found a letter which she says was written by her daughter and addressed to the family.