(Trinidad Guardian) Ag Deputy Commissioner of Police, Intelligence and Investigation Curt Simon yesterday praised God and the investigators whose work led to two men being arrested and charged for the murders of four members of the Peterkin family at their home in Heights of Guanapo, Arima.
(Trinidad Express) Businessman Mohan Persad of supermarket chain Persad’s ‘D’ Food King and his wife were beaten and robbed during a home invasion early yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Investigators believe revenge was the motive for the murders of Keith “Pam Pam” Roberts and Allan Azard Ali who were gunned down in Point Fortin on Monday night in an attack that left their friend, Anthony Junior “Mario” Bermudez, critically wounded.
(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert has announced a nearly $60 billion 2024 budget, promising to pay public servants’ backpay of $1 billion by Christmas this year, to triple the intake of police officers to 1,000 next year and to allocate school supplies and book grants of $1,000 to needy students chosen through a means test.
(Trinidad Guardian) A reported love triangle ended tragically after Rae-Ann “Lucy” Henry, 39, of Canaan, was stabbed to death in Bon Accord, Tobago, on Saturday.
(Trinidad Express) Defamatory posts on social media have cost one user more than $1 million which he has been ordered by the High Court to pay to chief executive of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA), Davlin Thomas.
(Trinidad Express) Hours after a 13-year-old Rio Claro schoolgirl attended an identification parade to point out the perpetrators who had sexually assaulted her, she and her uncle were shot dead and her father critically wounded in their home early yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three months after gunmen murdered his brother Kevon “Faces” Andrews, Keyon Andrews suffered a similar fate on Thursday when a gunman brazenly shot him in the street.
(Trinidad Guardian) It was only on Wednesday that Radica Smith thought she would start buying Christmas gifts for her son Rishi, but tragedy jolted her as he died hours after gunmen attacked.
(Trinidad Guardian) Sweltering heat across parts of Trinidad yesterday ended abruptly, as roaring thunder, strong winds and torrential rain left several without roofs and electricity.
(Trinidad Guardian) In a move that has left Tobagonians talking, President Christine Kangaloo surprisingly made a call for the autonomy Tobago has been clamouring for, saying the time had come for it to be done once and for all.
(Trinidad Guardian) Even with her little body wrapped in bandages after suffering second-degree burns when she fell into a pot of boiling lentil peas, little Shazade Simon tried to console her worried relatives.
(Trinidad Express) Almost 300 guests, including a number of Trinidadians, had to be evacuated from a hotel in Guyana on Saturday night after fire tore through one of the floors of the six-storey building which was booked to capacity with fans who came for the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) cricket final last night.
(Trinidad Guardian) With T&T’s credit card sales using foreign exchange projected to reach US$2 billion this year, Minister of Finance Colm Imbert requested the Central Bank inject US$50 million into the banking system on a one-off basis last Wednesday.