Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) A hundred and twenty-six Digicel customer contact service centre employees have been retrenched this morning, as the company has transitioned to a consolidated regional centre in Jamaica.

(Trinidad Guardian) With his hands raised to the heavens, Levi Paul wept as he questioned why his 14-year-old son was murdered while playing football on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Express) Akim London appeared before a Point Fortin magistrate yesterday, charged with the murder of Subrina Thomas.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Keith Rowley says it couldn’t be further from the truth that he’s trying to get rid of the DPP.

(Trinidad Express) Pleasantville taxi-­driver Anthony Andrews was well loved by his family and the residents in his community in which he spent most of his life.

(Trinidad Express) A woman who placed a red rose in the coffin of Tortuga gardener Ganesh Deopersad at his funeral was detained by police as investigations continue into his killing.

(Trinidad Guardian) While homicide detectives are yet to establish a motive for the murder of Couva mother, Natasha Moonasar, they suspect that someone ordered a hit on her life.

(Trinidad Express) It is time to modernise the Presidency to allow for greater use of its facilities for the benefit of the public and for greater accessibility by the people.

(Trinidad Express) Calypsonian Weston Rawlins (Cro Cro) has been banned from singing lines of his 2023 calypso “Another Sat is Outside Again” which are alleged to be defamatory towards businessman Ishan Ishmael.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 38-year-old man has been murdered in Crystal Stream, Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Express) The Woo Ling Grocery, one of the oldest businesses in St James, is closing down.

(Trinidad Express) A New Grant woman has been charged for attempted murder and exposing a child to danger following an incident involving a 13- year-old that occurred on Thursday at the family home.

(Trinidad Guardian) A staff mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday said it again “encourages” the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank to remove all restrictions on current international transactions as a means of creating a more investment-friendly business environment that would drive the diversification of the T&T economy.

(Trinidad Guardian) Oropouche West MP Dave Tancoo has accused Finance Minister Colm Imbert of, “trying to play word semantics with the population when he claims that we don’t have a forex crisis but a shortage.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Mexico has asked Caricom to join its legal fight to hold US gun manufacturers and distributors responsible for the crime mayhem their weapons of destruction have been used to unleash in some countries – and T&T is actively considering the request.

(Trinidad Express) An ex-boyfriend of Rio Claro mother of two Patrice Aaron has been charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Express) If the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) does not receive additional staff soon, then it could lead to an inevitable collapse of the criminal justice system.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government has proclaimed legislation which will increase the number of people from Caricom member states who can enter and work in this country, as well as allow them to do so indefinitely.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has partially dismissed a discrimination case brought by a group of citizens and institutions from Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada against the Government of Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) After spending almost two decades before the courts, former prime minister Basdeo Panday, his wife Oma, former Cabinet minister Carlos John and businessman Ishwar Galbaransingh have been freed of corruption charges related to the construction of the Piarco International Airport.