Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(Trinidad Express) Former Petrotrin workers showed up at the company’s administration office in Pointe-a-Pierre yesterday to submit proof of their 2017 income tax returns in order to process termination payment.

(Trinidad Express) Police officers are expected to be advised by the Director of Public Prosecutions for a recommendation on whether charges can be laid against a man held after the fatal shooting of a police officer in the Blanchisseusse forest last Thursday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter be­ing kid­napped and held hostage in the for­est for ap­prox­i­mate­ly 33 hours, the Sook­nanan fam­i­ly was res­cued by po­lice in Bar­rack­pore yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) A SEVEN year old boy died after he was pinned by a vehicle in the garage of his home on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Busi­ness ty­coon Lawrence Duprey has been blocked by the High Court from dis­pos­ing of over TT$1 bil­lion in as­sets, in­clud­ing three mega es­tates and a lo­cal in­sur­ance com­pa­ny, af­ter a freez­ing in­junc­tion was sought by the com­pa­ny’s for­mer sub­sidiary in The Bahamas over a failed land de­vel­op­ment in Flori­da.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Four more peo­ple have been im­pli­cat­ed in a flood re­lief grant scam.

A desperate search is underway tonight for a woman, her husband and their two infant children.

(Trinidad Express) Petrotrin workers in Santa Flora, Pointe-a-Pierre and Point Fortin have formed human barricades, and are refusing the leave the compound.Workers

The Opposition “is sabotaging the country” and “protecting the criminal elements.”

(Trinidad Express) Kes The Band lead vocalist, Kees Dieffenthaller, is resting comfortably at hospital after undergoing surgery on Friday morning, to remove his appendix and he’s thanking fans for their well wishes.

(Trinidad Guardian) A hunt­ing trip in Blan­chisseuse with a group of friends end­ed trag­i­cal­ly for a po­lice­man af­ter he was ac­ci­den­tal­ly shot yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) More than $45 mil­lion that was sup­posed to go to flood vic­tims in por­tions of North East Trinidad last month was in­stead ob­tained by fraud­sters, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says.

(Trinidad Express) A fifty-one-year-old nephew of murdered United States retiree, Yvonne Trumpet-Nicholson is expected to appear before an Arima Magistrate today charged with, “various sexual offences.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has an­nounced that the gov­ern­ment has reached an agree­ment with BP and Shell that he says with bring “sig­nif­i­cant” fi­nan­cial ben­e­fits to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rad­hi­ca Dass, the moth­er of res­cued kid­nap vic­tim Maria Dass-Su­per­sad, last night thanked Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith for the quick and ef­fi­cient work on his men.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve pop­u­lar me­chan­ic Win­ston Luke’s mur­der was a con­se­quence of crimes com­mit­ted by one of his sons.

(Trinidad Guardian) A woman from cen­tral Trinidad, who lost a lit­tle over $20,000 in a bank phish­ing scam ear­li­er this year, has been re­im­bursed by Sco­tia­bank.