Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Pow­er 102.1FM talk show host Garth Christo­pher has been pulled off the air over “of­fen­sive com­ments” he al­leged­ly made to­wards Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith in re­la­tion to the re­cent po­lice killing of five Laven­tille youths.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Caribbean Airlines is confirming reports that an emergency evacuation of flight BW 1526 took place at the Piarco International Airport, Trinidad on Tuesday.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A man is in police custody after he attempted to sexually assault a woman at the Scarborough Library in Tobago shortly before noon ­yesterday.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A YELLOW alert is now in effect as adverse weather conditions are expected to last from today through Friday.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A socially displaced man appeared before the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court on Monday, after being charged with attacking another socially displaced man who was awaiting a complimentary meal from a church.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) A Princes Town man is due to ap­pear be­fore a Siparia Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with the pos­ses­sion of a firearm af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (SWDTF) dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Pe­nal yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) “I wish he was here to see how much peo­ple loved him,” said Shar­lan Bai­ley, as he de­liv­ered the eu­lo­gy for his fa­ther Dr Win­ston “Mighty Shad­ow” Bai­ley, in front of a mass of white-clad well-wish­ers at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Skim­mers have re­port­ed­ly suc­cess­ful­ly stolen close to $.2 mil­lion from bank ac­counts be­long­ing to Sco­tia­bank cus­tomers.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) The taste of freedom was short lived for two prisoners on Monday after they escaped from a prison vehicle in Mayaro.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six months ago, Al­ber­to Car­ril­lo left his wife and three chil­dren in Venezuela to come to this coun­try in search of work.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Three men have been charged with a total of 13 crimes connected to last week’s robbery at a bar in Siparia.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A Corporal with the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment lost his life on Friday evening when his motorcycle crashed into a car in Caroni while he was attempting to perform a stunt.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) POLICE are still searching for one of their former colleagues who stole five rotisserie chickens from a grocery in the Port of Spain Division last week, before fleeing the scene when confronted by a security guard.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Private McKeon Eastman, of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force, died on Sunday morning in a bizarre incident in Lowlands, Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) A young stu­dent who won a foot­ball schol­ar­ship on­ly this year died yes­ter­day in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent in the Unit­ed States.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge is call­ing for the en­act­ment of laws to hold par­ents and guardians re­spon­si­ble for their chil­dren’s crim­i­nal ac­tions.

(Newsday) Trinidad & Tobago is one of the most political countries he has ever encountered, Sandals chairman Gordon “Butch” Stewart declared yesterday, as he reiterated that the only document which exists with Government is a “little MoU” and not a signed contract for the Tobago Sandals project.

(Trinidad Guardian) An In­ter­na­tion­al team of ex­perts is be­ing sought to form the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) newest unit, the Cold Cas­es and Miss­ing Per­sons Unit.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) A po­lice sergeant on va­ca­tion was al­leged­ly caught steal­ing women’s un­der­wear at PriceS­mart in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) The decision by the daughter of a rape convict to send a Facebook friend request to the presiding judge who is due to sentence him, was raised before the court on Friday.