Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) What started off as a sunny Divali morning yesterday gradually turned into overcast skies, heavy rainfall and flooding in several areas along East Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter more than 35 years in the art form, so­ca king Machel Mon­tano is be­ing award­ed an Hon­orary Doc­tor­ate in by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT).

(Trinidad Guardian) The State has again amend­ed its case against High Court judge Kevin Ram­cha­ran.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fear among the law-abid­ing cit­i­zen­ry con­tin­ues to rise as crim­i­nals con­tin­ue to com­mit mur­ders with im­puni­ty on a dai­ly ba­sis in T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four days af­ter he re­leased his lat­est pos­i­tive Vy­bz song for Trinidad & Tobago, What We Need, Kelon “Don Kelon” Cruick­shank, 31, died along with his friend, Chris Rag­bir af­ter an al­ter­ca­tion at the NP Mon­trose Ser­vice Sta­tion in Ch­agua­nas on Sun­day night, in which both of them were stabbed sev­er­al times in the head and neck.

(Trinidad Newsday) A pregnant teenager and her boyfriend were murdered in a car at Brazil Road, Wallerfied this afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Mo­ments af­ter leav­ing an event meant to cel­e­brate new life, a 25-year-old clerk of the ju­di­cia­ry was fa­tal­ly struck by a car in a hit-and-run ac­ci­dent.

(Trinidad Express) Fishermen in central Trinidad are under pirate attack. Four boats were stripped of engines at the weekend.

(Trinidad Guardian) Diwali in­volves a host of cus­toms, one of which is the ex­ten­sive clean­ing of homes and sur­round­ings.

(Trinidad Newsday) QUOTING calypsonian Mighty Sparrow’s lyrics, “Age is Just a Number,” Curtis Thomas, 84, of Dow Village in South Oropouche on Sunday collected his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication from COSTAATT’s Ken Gordon School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinida­di­an pas­sen­gers who were on board Caribbean Air­lines’ flight BW601 have ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment at the air­line’s lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion about why the flight had to re­turn to the Pear­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (YYZ) on Fri­day morn­ing, one hour af­ter take-off from Cana­da des­tined for the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ex­e­cu­tion of Kedar Ali-Mark is be­ing de­scribed by po­lice as a re­venge hit.

(Trinidad Express) An 18-year-old playing with a gun accidentally shot himself in the head on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and To­ba­go record­ed its tenth earth­quake in the space of two weeks on Fri­day night.

A businessman has been shot and killed on the compound of Anand Low Price Supermarket near the Mosquito Creek, South Oropouche.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three moth­ers charged with un­law­ful pos­ses­sion of gro­cery items have been giv­en un­til Mon­day to pro­duce a re­ceipt or proof that they pur­chased the items.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just three days af­ter the ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty said farewell to the Mighty Shad­ow, De Orig­i­nal De Fos­to Him­self (Win­ston Scar­bor­ough) died of a sus­pect­ed heart at­tack on Thursday morn­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two days be­fore cel­e­brat­ing her 75th birth­day, na­tion­al award win­ner Haseena Ali was found dead at her home in Freeport yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter one hour of fly­ing from Toron­to’s Pear­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (YYZ) to Port-of-Spain, a Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) flight sud­den­ly be­gan ex­pe­ri­enc­ing tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties and was forced to re­turn to Cana­da.

(Trinidad Guardian) Less than a week af­ter say­ing a fi­nal farewell to Win­ston “Mighty Shad­ow” Bai­ley, the ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty is mourn­ing the death of an­oth­er vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian in Win­ston ‘The Orig­i­nal De Fos­to Him­self’ Scar­bor­ough.