Trinidad & Tobago News

Christ­mas end­ed trag­i­cal­ly for the fam­i­ly of Tar­ra Seer­am, 63, af­ter the ail­ing woman died in a fire that de­stroyed her two-bed­room home in Cara­pichaima.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture said there will be stiffer penal­ties for il­le­gal hunt­ing next year now that Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes has as­sent­ed to the Fi­nance Act 2018, which in­creas­es fines for in­frac­tions un­der the Con­ser­va­tion of Wildlife Act.

(Trinidad Guardian) Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has giv­en Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith an “A” grade for his ster­ling per­for­mance as top cop, promis­ing that for the new year cit­i­zens would see a more se­ri­ous ap­proach to crime fight­ing.

(Trinidad Newsday) HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh disclosed that his son Brandon could have died because a doctor in a private medical institution could not diagnose that he had a ruptured appendix.

(Trinidad Newsday) A woman is full of praise for two policemen who she believes saved her life by promptly responding to her predicament on the Uriah Butler Highway on Thursday, when she lost consciousness while driving.

(Trinidad Newsday) THE collapse of the David Granger-led government in Guyana after a no-confidence motion could not happen in Trinidad & Tobago, because of the differences in the two countries’ political systems.

(Trinidad Guardian) Glo­ria Nicome, who is liv­ing with an en­larged tu­mour grow­ing on her back, but­tocks, hips and legs that weighs al­most 200 pounds, has been giv­en no­tice by her land­lord to va­cate her Mal­abar apart­ment.

(Trinidad Express) By press­ing their bodes against a flim­sy sheet of gal­vanise to cre­ate a space they could fit through, five Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) de­tainees es­caped while of­fi­cers re­laxed at a Christ­mas gath­er­ing last Thurs­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition MP Barry Padarath yesterday hailed Guyana MP Charrandas Persaud as a hero for democracy in the Caribbean and warned the Dr Keith Rowley-led Government that it could find itself in a similar situation.

(Trinidad Guardian) A dead­ly gun at­tack by the jilt­ed for­mer boyfriend of a 19-year-old woman in Pe­nal, be­fore he took his own life, has left the com­mu­ni­ty in shock.

(Trinidad Guardian) If De­vant Ma­haraj’s claim that he is get­ting priv­i­leged in­for­ma­tion from some­one in­side Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s Cab­i­net is cor­rect, then Row­ley needs to en­sure that any dis­con­tent is ad­dressed to avoid be­ing put in a sim­i­lar predica­ment to what tran­spired in the Guyana Par­lia­ment on Fri­day night.

(Jamaica Observer)  Fly Jamaica has begun taking steps towards compensating passengers who suffered loss when its Boeing 757-200 aircraft overshot the runway at Guyana’s main international airport last month.

(Trinidad Guardian) A La Ro­maine man was shot dead not far from his home on Fri­day night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pre­dic­tions of sab­o­tage of T&T’s oil as­sets are ma­te­ri­al­is­ing af­ter Heritage Pe­tro­le­um re­port­ed that a crude oil line had been hack­sawed on Fri­day by al­leged saboteurs.

(Trinidad Express) How did five men escape from the Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) in Wallerfield on Thursday?

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is pleading with the population to educate themselves on the difference between decriminalisation and legalisation of marijuana, saying they are not the same.

(Trinidad Guardian) Heritage Petroleum Company Limited says it has plugged what it says was a minor oil spill in the Gulf of Paria which occurred on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) A ransom of $2 million has been demanded for the safe return of 32-year-old Sheldon Sukhdeo, police have confirmed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Some 127 pas­sen­gers ar­rived on Sun­wing Air­lines’ first-ever di­rect flight from Cana­da to To­ba­go yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) A Caribbean airlines pilot, his Italian wife, two lawyers and a fifth person appeared in the Tunapuna Magistrates’ Court this morning charged with making arrangements for the adoption of a child contrary to Section 9 (A) of the Adoption of Children Act, Chapter 46:03.