Trinidad & Tobago News

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Another prison officer has been shot and killed. Officer Darren Francis died from a bullet to the head.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Mother-of-two Vanessa Ali was the second woman to be killed in 2018.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) The 21-year-old moth­er of a two-year-old girl who drowned in Ch­aguara­mas in Au­gust has been re­leased on $75,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with manslaugh­ter.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A central Trinidad wife is blaming black magic for her husband’s disappearance.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) A 72-year-old pas­tor has ap­peared be­fore a San­gre Grande Mag­is­trate, charged with four counts of sex­u­al touch­ing against a fe­male vic­tim.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) When fire broke out at the Mohammed family home at Tulsa Trace, Debe on Monday afternoon, 87-year-old Shairoon Mohammed was carried to safety.

(Trinidad Newsday) TWO Policemen will today appear before a Chaguanas magistrate charged with misbehavior in public office.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Police are searching for two men in connection with the home-invasion killing of Penal technician Rawson Rattan two weeks ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Disturbing and confusing. This was how the Police Service Social and Welfare Association president Insp Michael Seales described the incident in which a police officer reportedly abandoned duty, went to a club where he met a woman and subsequently sexually assaulted her before confessing to the crime.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Two Chi­nese na­tion­als and a Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al are sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain mag­is­trate to­mor­row charged with pos­ses­sion of a dead ju­ve­nile Scar­let Ibis.

(Trinidad Newsday) CEDROS fisherman Marvin Farria saw death staring him in the eye last Tuesday, when, he said, the Venezuelan Guardia Nacional opened fire on him and his crew while they were fishing in local waters, near Soledado Rock.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A 21-year-old woman is due to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate on Monday charged with the manslaughter of her daughter on August 12.

(Trinidad Guardian) It has been 42 days since Gan­gad­har Hanooman, 49, has been miss­ing and rel­a­tives in re­new­ing their calls for help in find­ing him, have al­so called on Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith for a “per­son­al” in­ter­ven­tion in the in­ves­ti­ga­tions sur­round­ing the case.

(Trinidad Newsday) A supervisor at the TT Electricity Commission (TTEC) is tensely waiting for Monday, to see if he will be suspended for bringing his three children to work with him when he could not find a babysitter yesterday, when schools in Port of Spain were closed for the TT Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) annual National Convention.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Rasta­far­i­an move­ment in Trinidad & Tobago will soon hand over a Po­si­tion Pa­per to the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

(Trinidad Express) Police killed three robbers on Friday. The three were allegedly among a gang of four men suspected of hijacking a cigarette salesman at Todd’s Road, Caparo and robbing him of $80,000 in cigarettes.

(Trinidad Guardian) Vindicated.  That’s how Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MP Roodal Mooni­lal said he felt yes­ter­day af­ter he claimed sev­er­al “pieces of the puz­zle start­ed com­ing to­geth­er” con­cern­ing the re­cent al­le­ga­tions he’s made against Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 500 po­lice of­fi­cers in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) are cur­rent­ly on sus­pen­sion and sick leave.

(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.