Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said he will not be rushed to de­cide on the Law Asso­ci­a­tion’s re­port on Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie.

(Trinidad Guardian) A month af­ter the own­er of 4Play Sports Bar and Lounge was mur­dered, one of his em­ploy­ees was shot in the carpark of the hos­tel on Fri­day night.

Just days before Christmas, five families have been left homeless after fire destroyed their homes at a squatting village in Couva on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Stephen “Yan­kee” Lopez, who con­fessed that he mur­dered his friend 15 years ago, yes­ter­day ex­pressed his re­morse and thanked a judge for bring­ing clo­sure in the mat­ter.

(Trinidad Guardian) A ship­ment of mar­i­jua­na and co­caine to­talling 13 bags were dis­cov­ered by em­ploy­ees as they were of­fload­ing a con­tain­er on the com­pound of Caribbean Bot­tlers Lim­it­ed along the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way in Tu­na­puna yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) A Longdenville air-conditioning technician has been charged with the murder of 13-year-old Trinity College pupil Joash Pantin.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has the pow­er to trig­ger an im­peach­ment process against Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie al­though he may be called as a po­ten­tial wit­ness in the mat­ter, says for­mer Caribbean Court of Jus­tice pres­i­dent Michael de la Bastide.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Po­lice Con­sta­ble at­tached to the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) is cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody af­ter be­ing charged with two counts of com­mon as­sault and ob­struc­tion of jus­tice.

(Trinidad Guardian) The par­ents of Krys­tiana Sankar will try again to­day to get her out of jail af­ter her at­tor­ney, Lar­ry Williams, suc­cess­ful­ly filed an ap­pli­ca­tion to have the terms of her bail ad­just­ed.

(Trinidad Guardian) The now high­ly pub­li­cised “Sex Is­land” fete is not ap­par­ent­ly tak­ing place this week­end in Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) as pre­vi­ous­ly ad­ver­tised and re­port­ed, but on a neigh­bour­ing Venezue­lan is­land – Is­la Mar­gari­ta.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad & Tobago’s mur­der toll reached the 500 mark yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) yesterday  fired 51 more employees.

(Trinidad Express) An argument over an Orchard fruit drink at a mini-mart in Tunapuna has led to the shooting death of 47-year-old Lester “Bellyman” Sookhai on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Bail has been set at $300,000 for a 32-year-old financial advisor and managing director of an investment company.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (LATT) mem­ber­ship has vot­ed to re­fer al­le­ga­tions of mis­con­duct against Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley for his con­sid­er­a­tion of im­peach­ment pro­ceed­ings against the CJ.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Estate Police Association of T&T yesterday said it stood behind officer Kelvon Alexander in the recent issue involving Foreign Minister Dennis Moses at the Piarco International Airport.

(Trinidad Guardian) A fam­i­ly of three has ap­peared in the the San­gre Grande Mag­is­trates’ Court charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) The or­gan­is­ers of Sex Is­land say this is not the first time they’ll be us­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go as the venue for their con­tro­ver­sial sex and drugs event.

(Trinidad Express) Prostitute and drug-fueled Sex Island will be hosted at a resort on a private island off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, a representative from the company has told the New York The Post.

(Trinidad Express) Tabaquite MP, Surujrattan Rambachan, has revealed alarming statistics on the high number of people living in poverty in Trinidad and Tobago.