Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) A 44-year-old fa­ther was grant­ed $50,000 bail when he ap­peared in court charged with will­ful­ly ne­glect­ing a two-year-old boy.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is no let-up on Gov­ern­ment from De­vant Ma­haraj.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six days af­ter a Pe­nal fam­i­ly of five were kid­napped from their home, one man has been charged.

Commissioner of Police (CoP) Gary Griffith is bringing in foreign officers and other experts to help in the war on crime.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men will ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate on Mon­day, charged with kid­nap­ping UWI em­ploy­ee Maria Dass-Su­per­sad.

(Trinidad Newsday) The payphones that were being loaded onto a flat bed truck on Thursday were not stolen.

(Trinidad Guardian) Busi­ness mag­nate Derek Chin has called for the reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion of Venezue­lans liv­ing in T&T so that they can be­come part of the work­force.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot and killed overnight in separate incidents in south Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) Height­ened se­cu­ri­ty in the cap­i­tal city since mid­night is ex­pect­ed to im­pact thou­sands of peo­ple to­day, as one of the main streets lead­ing in­to down­town Port-of-Spain will be cor­doned off to fa­cil­i­tate two high-pro­file crim­i­nal cas­es.

(Trinidad Guardian) Schiz­o­phre­nia is a chron­ic and se­vere men­tal dis­or­der that af­fects how a per­son thinks, feels and be­haves.

(Trinidad Express) A man was gunned down in a drive by shooting in Freeport on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) In­ves­ti­ga­tors have launched a drag­net to catch more sus­pects be­lieved to be linked to Tues­day’s ma­jor drug bust in West­moor­ings.

(Trinidad Express) The management of Tribe Carnival has distance itself from racist statements posted to Facebook by one of its frontline models.

(Trinidad Express) Veteran calypsonian Fred Mitchell (Mighty Composer), 83,  who had been hospitalised for the past two weeks with a heart condition and other health issues, died on Wednesday morning.

(Trinidad Newsday) THE man who is believed to have orchestrated the daring, daylight kidnapping last week of UWI manager Maria Dass-Supersad, at the St Augustine campus, did so from behind prison walls.

(Trinidad Guardian) An es­ti­mat­ed $15 mil­lion of co­caine and mar­i­jua­na were seized in a West­moor­ings apart­ment and five peo­ple were ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing a mid­day sting op­er­a­tion by the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

(Trinidad Guardian) Shocked rel­a­tives of Joash Pan­tin, 13, emerged from the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James yes­ter­day af­ter­noon with their eyes filled with tears, as their great­est fears were re­alised when the au­top­sy con­firmed he was bug­gered and stran­gled to death.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three mem­bers of the Sook­nanan fam­i­ly and their rel­a­tive were dis­charged from the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Sun­day night.

(Trinidad Express) EVEN the children of Aaron and Paola Sooknanan were beaten by the abductors who snatched them as well their parents and their aunt in the early hours of Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homi­cide and se­nior Cen­tral Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers were at Cashew Gar­dens, Long­denville, late last night where the body of miss­ing 13-year-old Joash Pan­tin was found.