Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) The man shot dead in St Ann’s, Port of Spain, on Tuesday has been identified as local dancehall artiste, Anthony “Wacko Dan” Reyes.

(Trinidad Express) Vouchers to pay fines are now available at NLCB lotto booths.

(Trinidad Guardian) Watermelon vendor Dillon Joseph, 30, was killed in a drive-by shooting at his stall near the Caroni roundabout yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) “Babe, run”, Dwane Saunders shouted to his common-law wife, Akeisha Balkissoon, as a gunman shot him several times as they tried to get home on Sunday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homicide detectives are investigating four murders in Penal which occurred over the past 12 hours, including a triple murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) Although last Monday’s shooting at Temple Street, Arima, left one woman dead at the scene, a second woman has now succumbed to injuries sustained during the attack after spending four days at hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) An ongoing family dispute over a 16-acre parcel of land at O’Connor Street, Blanchisseuse, is being blamed for the killing of Carver Evangelist yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) “Have no fear. I am not going go drop dead tomorrow.”

(Trinidad Express) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC, yesterday said there have been attempts by the Attorney General to interfere in his independent office.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has a crime detection rate of 20 per cent and of that 20 per cent who are charged, 70 per cent are acquitted.

(Trinidad Express) An Aranguez businessman was shot dead by bandits in a robbery on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has promised to make home invasions a specific “criminal offence”, saying people under attack in their homes should be allowed self-defense under “stand your ground” laws.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caricom Secretary-general Dr Carla Barnett says an action plan to be implemented across the region will be compiled at the end of today’s Caricom Crime Symposium at the Hyatt Regency in Port-of-Spain.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Rowley says the war against crime is one which the region cannot afford to lose, moreso because, “violence is destroying our paradise in the Caribbean Sea.”

(Trinidad Guardian) The Opposition, which is attending today’s Caricom Crime Symposium launch, is appealing to Caricom leaders to get Prime Minister Keith Rowley to remove National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T is likely to see an exodus of businesspeople if the Government fails to meet with stakeholders to address the crime scourge.

(Trinidad Guardian) Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) officers yesterday arrested nine officers from a specialised unit within the T&T Police Service’s Eastern Division.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said the Government has no intention of calling a state of emergency in response to the escalation of crime, especially murders in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Central businessman was one of two people murdered in separate incidents in Chaguanas and Sangre Grande Tuesday night into yesterday, taking Trinidad and Tobago’s homicide toll to 164.

(Trinidad Express) A relative of one of the two men killed along the Churchill-­Roosevelt Highway in Piarco, on Monday night, heard the gunshots that ended their lives and saw the vehicle they were in pull to the side of the road.