(Trinidad Express) Eight years’ imprisonment was the sentence imposed on two former employees at the Foreign Affairs Ministry after they were found guilty, last month, of trafficking cocaine to New York, Canada and London two decades ago.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Central Bank of T&T (CBTT) says the decision to suspend the exchange of TT dollar banknotes by the Bank of Jamaica was taken to reduce costs and to prevent the possibility of criminal activities, including money laundering.
(Trinidad Guardian) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Surinamese government to implement a more effective social protection programme.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s identification card number, his driver’s permit number and his passport number have been found to be compromised in TSTT’s data breach.
(Trinidad Express) POLICE officers were among the men who engaged in sexual exploitation of a trafficked 16-year-old girl over several months between 2014 and 2015.
(Trinidad Guardian) Just days before their divorce was to be finalised, a T&T woman was fatally shot by her abusive estranged husband outside a house in Katy, Texas, in the United States.
(Trinidad Guardian) It was a bittersweet moment for the National Security Ministry and Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) yesterday, as despite successfully achieving the first-ever conviction under this country’s human trafficking laws, the perpetrator broke free of his electronic monitor bracelet and is now on the run.
(Trinidad Guardian) Jamaica’s central bank, which is called the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), announced yesterday that it was suspending the exchange of T&T banknotes at its banking counter effective Monday “until further advised.”
(Trinidad Guardian) The fatal shooting of Steffen Belgrave and Darnell Pierre on Wednesday night at Jeffers Lane, St James, has raised concerns among members of that community.
(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has frozen the assets of an attorney as part of a bid by a company to recover $7 million in funds paid to a contractor for a construction project that allegedly did not materialise.
(Trinidad Guardian) The family of one of three men who were murdered in Arima believe he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time yesterday evening.
(Trinidad Express) Heads must roll and there must be an immediate investigation into who purchased 20 unusable wooden ladders for the Trinidad and Tobago Fire Service (TTFS) for a whopping TT$1 million.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Radisson Blu Hotel which is strategically located in the heart of downtown Port-of-Spain will not only add to Trinidad’s quality hotel roomstock but will enhance the capital with its alluring structure.
(Trinidad Guardian) The 22-year-old Santa Cruz man accused of an assassination attempt on Deputy Prison Commissioner Sherwyn Bruce died of unnatural causes, an autopsy revealed yesterday.