Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

Medical doctor Rajeev Bahall died early Friday morning in a car crash in Chaguanas.

(Trinidad Guardian) The main sus­pect, be­lieved to have scammed hun­dreds of peo­ple of their hard earned mon­ey through on­line fraud, may es­cape be­ing charged.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 17-year-old boy is among three peo­ple who have been charged with the mur­der of PC Krys­ton Ramirez.

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.