Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Local non-governmental LGBTQ+ organisation PrideTT says it is dismayed by recent “blatantly false” statements made by religious leaders about the LGBTQ+ community.

(Trinidad Guardian) Popular social media personality Kevon “Yank Boss” Solomon was murdered in the car park of Trincity Mall yesterday evening.

(Trinidad Express) The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has fallen away from its mission in scientific research, says Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Express) Police have arrested and charged five “major players” of gangs ope­rating in St Augustine, says National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Occupational Safety and Health Authority (OSHA) yesterday served a prohibition order stopping the operation of NiQuan Energy’s Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plant in Pointe-a-Pierre, following an incident last Thursday, which led to the death of 35-year-old pipefitter Allanlane Ramkissoon on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Although it poses no direct threat to Trinidad and Tobago, all eyes are on Tropical Storm Bret, which was located just over 1,300 kilometres east of Tobago yesterday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago House of Assembly Chief Secretary Farley Augustine is accusing one contractor, who is owed millions of dollars by the THA, of seeking to blackmail his executive into paying a $60 million sum due using the recently leaked audio clip.

(Trinidad Guardian) Residents of Katwaroo Trace, Penal, are facing a new threat, as oil-slicked snakes are now invading their properties in the aftermath of Monday’s oil spill.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and several members of Cabinet have met with Chief Justice Ivor Archie to discuss the administration of justice in the country.

(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan national charged with possession of firearms for the purpose of trafficking has been sentenced to nine years’ hard labour by a San Fernando Senior Magistrate.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court Judge has ordered a little over $150,000 in compensation to a former media worker who was wrongly arrested and charged by police while filming at a crime scene.

(Trinidad Express) The Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed Jules John Arjoon’s matter against the 27-year sentence imposed on him for manslaughter, rape, kidnapping and robbery.

(Trinidad Express) A Point Fortin woman was shot and killed on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) Coast Guard officers were the ones responsible for the rape and battery of a 21-year-old Venezuelan woman at the Heliport in Chaguaramas last month.

(Trinidad Express) A Princes Town businessman was shot dead inside his vehicle on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot and killed during what police claimed was an exchange of gunfire early yesterday in Second Caledonia, Morvant.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency Ambassador Dennis Francis, has been elected as the 78th President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).

(Trinidad Guardian) Repeatedly targeted, beaten and terrorised by bandits, armed with guns or cutlasses, farmers are buckling under pressure.

(Trinidad Express) Twenty-five-year-old mother of five Gabrielle Raphael was raped and strangled, a post-mortem has revealed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Election footing is on, as Local Government elections will be held within 90 days of the Privy Council’s May 18 judgment.