Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Renowned Trinidad author and columnist, BC Pires has died.

(Trinidad Guardian) NiQuan’s founder and chief visionary officer Ainsley Gill has written to bankers, noteholders and financiers saying that if the Gas to Liquids (GTL) plant does not get urgent funding it will be forced “to cease operations and send home all employees”.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley was set to travel so he was dressed casually before he was roped into an international press conference.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago can now make cash payments to Vene¬zuela for the natural gas extracted from the Dragon field, Energy Minister Stuart Young has announced.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago can now make cash payments to Vene­zuela for the natural gas extracted from the Dragon field, Energy Minister Stuart Young has announced.

(Trinidad Guardian) Members of the T&T Police Service yesterday made another haul of arms and ammunition in Santa Cruz.

(Trinidad Guardian) The man found dead on Chancellor Hill with stab wounds to his chest has been identified.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kerissa Dowrich was planning to wear a white dress her mother Karen Thompson got for her graduation at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, next week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four days after an attempt on the life of a Deputy Commissioner of Prisons Sherwyn Bruce and a shooting and wounding of prison officer Steve Phipps, another prison officer was shot at on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Crime in the country’s capital city has been on the increase.

(Trinidad Guardian) Officers of the US-based Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Bureau are assisting local police in tracing the origin of several high-powered rifles, machine guns and ammunition that were seized in a forested part of Santa Cruz on Wednesday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has proposed his team for anti-crime talks with the Opposition, to be chaired by Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC.

(Trinidad Guardian) Months of surveillance and intelligence gathering led to the seizure of a quantity of high-powered rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, including armour-piercing rounds, and gunpowder yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A late-night visit to a fast food strip ended with a popular music producer being murdered the wounding of two other men, including a Trinibad artiste, on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) The Government is on the cusp of settling a memorandum of understanding (MoU) mechanism for Maritime Security Cooperation between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago to combat human and narcotics trafficking, migrant smuggling and other forms of transnational organised crime.

(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) A supermarket security guard was shot and killed last night.

(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.