Trinidad & Tobago News

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Dureem Arjoon appeared before a San Fernando magistrate charged with the Jouvert murder of Osei Joseph.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Po­lice have ar­rest­ed one man af­ter dis­cov­er­ing what ap­pears to be a gun fac­to­ry in east Trinidad.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) What was believed to be the body of a man floating in the Ste Madeleine pond Wednesday afternoon, instead turned out to be a murti (consecrated statue of a Hindu deity).

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Curepe res­i­dents in the path of the pro­posed in­ter­change want the Com­mis­sion­er of Val­u­a­tions to ap­point an in­de­pen­dent ne­go­tia­tor or take up the man­tle him­self to set­tle their out­stand­ing com­pen­sa­tion mat­ters.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) SOUTHERN Division Sup Yussuf Gaffar yesterday boasted of a high number of seizures of guns and a reduction in murders in his division between January and September this year, as compared to last year for the same period.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) THE Prime Minister rejected charges that he has a Florida bank account as a deliberate plot to defame him by “spurious and wholly untrue allegations.”

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) FOUR boys charged with assaulting their schoolmate at the Princes Town West Secondary School are to keep away from the 14-year-old during the course of the court matter.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A La Ro­maine man, ac­cused of rob­bing three peo­ple af­ter they were lured to an area through an on­line car ad­ver­tise­ment, has been grant­ed $300,000 ap­proval bail.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) A HIGH COURT judge has dismissed an application for an injunction sought by a beauty queen pageant contestant against the Miss Universe Organisation.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Head of the Hin­dus­tan Shiv mandir Pun­dit Ka­she­va Go­sine has led devo­tees in a march against crime, say­ing many crimes in Princes Town go un­re­port­ed.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Police need help in locating 17-year-old Anjalide De Gannes.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) About that black coffin that was discovered outside the Port of Spain Magistrate Court early this morning with a dead bird on it and wrapped with a red ribbon.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) This afternoon, the Industrial Court is expected to rule on an application from the Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union to stop State-owned Petrotrin from retrenching workers.

(Sunday Express) Police officers are asking eye-witnesses to come forward and identify a red band maxi taxi and its driver, which left the scene of a road traffic accident which claimed the life of a 64-year-old El Dorado man on Saturday afternoon.

(Sunday Express) Three Colombian women who were “pimping out” girls in Trinidad and Tobago have been captured, Colombia’s state prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) The son of a for­mer deputy com­mis­sion­er of po­lice was gunned down in Ch­agua­nas a short while ago.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Laven­tille East/Mor­vant Adri­an Leonce says his wife who suf­fered se­ri­ous in­juries to her face af­ter falling at home is re­cov­er­ing af­ter three “ex­ten­sive surg­eries.”

(Trinidad Express) The Sankat family has expressed thanks to those who offered support and prayers to their son, Nishal Sankat.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) A 32-year-old woman is dead and her male passenger fighting for his life after an early morning accident along the Uriah Butler Highway.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) A HIT-and-run accident is what claimed the life of Ken “Professor” Philmore contrary to earlier reports.