Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) A Toco man appeared before a Sangre Grande Magistrate on Tuesday charged with possession of protected bird.

(Trinidad Express) The decomposed body found near Camp Cumuto, Wallerfield on Tuesday has been identified as 74-year-old US Citizen Yvette Trumpet Nicholson.

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old was one of two people who appeared before the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of national awardee Haseena Ali.

(Trinidad Express) The decomposing body of a man was found behind a house in Carapo yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 24-year-old man, who ad­mit­ted to steal­ing al­most $60,000 from his em­ploy­er to pay for his wed­ding, is ex­pect­ed to be sen­tenced to­day.

(Trinidad Express) A woman was critically injured when a thief commandeered a PTSC passenger bus in Chaguanas in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, and crashed into her house.

(Trinidad Express) – SUSPENDED Senior Superintendent of Police Edward Castillo was gunned down at his business place in Waterloo on Saturday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice have ar­rest­ed the imam of a Cara­po mosque in con­nec­tion with an al­leged as­sault, kid­nap­ping and rob­bery in­ci­dent last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are now seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in iden­ti­fy­ing the body of a woman found by hunters in San­ta Cruz on Sat­ur­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) A se­nior po­lice­man who was on su­pen­sion was fa­tal­ly shot at his busi­ness place at Wa­ter­loo Road, Cara­pichaima, yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Newsday) Thirteen people including officials at the Ministry of Social Development will appear in court tomorrow after they were charged by the Fraud Squad for offences relating to the distribution of grants to flood victims.

(Trinidad Guardian) Res­i­dents af­fect­ed by the dev­as­tat­ing floods a month ago are strug­gling to re­build their lives and men­tal health ex­perts are ap­peal­ing to the au­thor­i­ties to en­sure there are mech­a­nisms to pro­vide emo­tion­al and psy­cho­log­i­cal sup­port.

(Trinidad Guardian) At the end of their re­struc­tur­ing process, the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vice of T&T (TSTT) in­tends to send home 700 em­ploy­ees said Ronald Wal­cott, TSTT’s CEO.

PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday arrested 75 Cubans who are seeking asylum in the Caribbean island nation, after the group camped out for about three weeks outside the United Nations office in the capital, seeking humanitarian aid.

Police need help in locating 16-year-old Jamaica Girandi Rojas Campo. Jamaica, was last seen at her Moninam Street, St.

(Trinidad Express) Torrential rainfall fueled by the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affected all fourteen Municipalities on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men have been ac­quit­ted of mur­der­ing a pen­sion­er dur­ing a botched rob­bery over a decade ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) An aspiring mechanic was murdered in Carenage during a drive-by shooting in the area on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Newsday) Hours before Special Reserve Constable Michael Youksee shot dead his estranged common-law wife and then turned the gun on himself on Sunday, he wrote three letters.

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith and se­nior mem­bers of the Or­gan­ised Crime and In­tel­li­gence Unit are cur­rent­ly fo­cus­ing on three al­leged gang lead­ers and their “shoot­ers” whose pho­tos were leaked in a so­cial me­dia post yes­ter­day.