Trinidad & Tobago News

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Caribbean Airlines has disclosed that flight BW 3502 bound for ANR Robinson International Airport, Tobago was brought to a stop at the end of the runway at the ANR Robinson International Airport in keeping with standard operating procedures, after the cockpit crew were alerted by a strong smell of alcohol in the aircraft.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) The Ministry of Education has launched an investigation into a fight at the Princes Town West Secondary School on Thursday, which resulted in one pupil being taken to hospital.

(Trinidad Express) Death came for reputed gang leader Gary Mc Clarence in the parking lot outside SuperPharm at Gulf View, La Romaine last night.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A WOMAN hit last week by a stray bullet while watching television in her Barataria home has died at hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) One week after his arrest, Nishal Sankat’s attorney is urging authorities to move his client from prison to another facility under a private physician’s care amid fears over his mental state.

(Trinidad Guardian) For­mer CL Fi­nan­cial (CLF) ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Lawrence Duprey has been or­dered to pay over US$122 mil­lion in dam­ages to the com­pa­ny’s for­mer sub­sidiary in the Ba­hamas over a failed land de­vel­op­ment in Flori­da.

FORMER UWI principal Professor Clement Sankat and his wife have hired a high-profile attorney to handle the case of their son, Nishal Sankat, accused in the US of burglary, trespassing and grand theft.

(Trinidad Guardian) Businessman and sex ther­a­pist Giri­raj “Raj” Ram­nanan has been giv­en the green light to pur­sue a law­suit against the Comp­trol­ler of the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion over the seizure of three ship­ments of sex toys and oth­er para­pher­na­lia.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) THE tropical depression named Kirk has regained strength and is once more a tropical storm, but the Met Office says it poses no threat to Trinidad & Tobago.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) PUBLIC Utilities Minister Robert Le Hunte said he felt as if he was treated like a criminal by police officers when he was stopped and redirected from Dock Road near the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Sunday evening, due to ongoing road works by the Water and Sewage Authority (WASA).

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) DEBATE has again followed Government’s declaration of the observance of Divali 2018 in Trinidad and Tobago, with one Hindu organisation claiming its given date of November 6 is off the mark.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) A 50-year-old Cunupia driving instructor was shot in the right eye while a teenager who he was giving driving lessons to was shot twice in the head near the Cocorite walkover shortly after 8.40 am today.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) A 21-year-old Venezue­lan woman, who was charged with firearm and am­mu­ni­tion pos­ses­sion af­ter her friend was killed in an al­leged shootout with po­lice in March, has been freed.

(Trinidad Express) Police say they have arrested a 38-year-old man  in connection with the robbery of three security officers who were at the time replenishing a Republic Bank Limited ATM, in the Caroni district on Monday.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) YEARS of broken promises by Member of Parliament (MP) for Laventille West Fitzgerald Hinds to the people of the Beetham Gardens was what led to one man splashing muddy water at him during a tour of the area last month.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Eye­wit­ness­es to to­day’s brazen rob­bery of a G4S Se­cu­ri­ty ar­moured ve­hi­cle and its four armed guards have de­scribed it as “like a scene out of an ac­tion movie.”

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) THE decomposing body of 42-year-old Tricia Farrow was found on Monday, three days after she went missing.

Pre­pare—and pray. That’s the word from Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Kaz­im Ho­sein and munci­pal au­thor­i­ties yes­ter­day as Trop­i­cal Storm Kirk swept across the At­lantic, with T&T and neigh­bour­ing Wind­ward is­lands with­in the path of its ex­tend­ed cone—so far.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A police corporal who was a member of the Police Band took his own life at Riverside Plaza, Port of Spain on Sunday morning.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) The Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government (MRDLG) along with the fourteen Municipal Corporations are closely monitoring the development and path of Tropical Storm Kirk.