(Trinidad Express) “Our father was fearless, honest, strong-willed, disciplined, polite, humble, kind, selfless, hard-working like no one I’ve ever know or will ever know.”
(Trinidad Express) Former President of the senate Timothy Hamel Smith and former PNM Government minister Karen Nunez Tishera jumped the railing to get onto the compound of the Southern Academy of Performing Arts to try to sit in the auditorium for the funeral service of the late Basdeo Panday.
(Trinidad Express) While there will be leading political figures in attendance at the state funeral for the late former prime minister Basdeo Panday today, none of them will be speaking at the service.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police are searching for two men who shot a Pasea businessman before crashing their getaway car in a nearby drain on Saturday evening.
(Trinidad Express) Time seemed to have stood still as members of the Defence Force bore the body of the late former prime minister Basdeo Panday in a coffin, draped in the national colours of red, white and black, through the streets of the capital city of Port of Spain, yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The autopsies on the bodies of Shevonne Moffat and Gemma Alexis have come back as inconclusive, and police will now await toxicology reports on the bodies.
(Trinidad Guardian) Local entertainer Akhenathon “Yung Bredda” Lewis is calling out citizens, in particular fellow artistes, for their silence on the crime situation.
(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot dead and three others injured during an attack in front the Tunapuna Market, along the Eastern Main Road, last night.
(Trinidad Guardian) The State funeral for former prime minister Basdeo Panday will be held next Tuesday at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA), according to a reliable source.
(Trinidad Guardian) Basdeo Panday, who served as T&T’s fifth prime minister from 1995 to 2001, was the first person of Indian descent and the first Hindu to hold that office.
(Trinidad Guardian) Massy has appointed an “independent external counsel” (who they refused to identify) to investigate the claims made by its former executive vice president of business integrity and group general counsel Angélique Parisot-Potter about its executive leadership programme.
(Trinidad Guardian) A shooting in Arima on Thursday night claimed the lives of two people, including a pregnant woman and a teenager, while two others were hurt.
(Trinidad Express) Less than two weeks after siblings Simeon and Siniaya Lessey were shot dead in the carpark of Courts Megastore in San Juan, a police officer has appeared in court for their murders.