Trinidad & Tobago News

(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 Guardian) A 49-year-old businessman was shot and killed by gunmen at his Valencia workplace yesterday afternoon.

(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 Express) Another child has been killed overnight. A 13-year-old girl and an older male relative were shot dead in a house in Rio Claro.

(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 Express) “He was not a bad person, he never had any kind of ene­mies, and a lot of people looked up to him and loved him.”

(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) A Venezuelan migrant was one of two men killed in a drive-by shooting in St Helena yesterday afternoon.

(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.

(Trinidad Express) “The blood of our children is on the ground right now; where is the Commissioner?

(Trinidad Guardian) Last night, T&T and Venezuela finally signed an agreement to jointly explore the Dragon Gas Field, which is located in the maritime area of Venezuela.

 (Trinidad Express)  The bloodbath in Trinidad continued early today, with the execution-styled killing of three children and a 19-year-old in the crime hotspot of Heights of Guapapo.

(Trinidad Guardian) American Chamber of Commerce CEO Nirad Tewarie says Government intervention into the ongoing foreign exchange shortage is long overdue.

(Trinidad Guardian) Several weeks after Massy Holdings declared a 20 per cent increase in profits, its subsidiary, Massy Stores, terminated nine front-end supervisors who it deemed as a surplus to its operations last Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Several weeks after Massy Holdings declared a 20 per cent increase in profits, its subsidiary, Massy Stores, terminated nine front-end supervisors who it deemed as a surplus to its operations last Thursday.