Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Cartels control food production in Trinidad and Tobago. This was the opinion of Prof Brinsley Samaroo, who spoke last Wednesday at the launch of “History Fest: An Examination of the Business History of T&T” at the audio-visual room of the Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

(Trinidad Express) As debate continues to rage about human trafficking and prostitution in Trinidad and Tobago, an official list of convicted sex offenders has been made public for the first time via an online sex offenders registry.

(Trinidad Guardian) National scholarship winner Jilisse Roberts hit a stumbling block during her studies at Naparima Girls’ High School after her mother, Lystra, suffered kidney failure.

(Trinidad Guardian) A St Augustine mother of three was fatally shot in front of her mother, sister and children as she knelt before her two killers begging for mercy.

(Trinidad Express) As debate continues to rage about human trafficking and prostitution in Trinidad and Tobago, an official list of convicted sex offenders has been made public for the first time via an online sex offenders registry.

(Trinidad Guardian) Descendants of John Treveleyan, part owner of six plantations in Grenada, apologised yesterday for the role the family played in slavery and made donations to the University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus.

(Trinidad Guardian) “Just in the order they were born, they died.”

(Trinidad Guardian) A 77-year-old man is dead after he was trapped in a fire started by bandits who robbed his family before setting his Chaguanas home ablaze yesterday.

 (Trinidad Express) Soca artiste Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate on Wednesday charged with using obscene language.

(Trinidad Express) A Chutney Soca Monarch (CSM) finalist and former CSM queen is condemning this year’s results.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has received a letter of apology dated February 20, from American Airlines Managing Director, International Government Affairs, Robert Wirick, for treatment meted out at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport last week.

(Trinidad Express) Former SM Jaleel vice-president Adil Aleem Mohammed has been convicted and placed on probation by a court in the United States for unlawful use of a two-way device.

(Trinidad Express) Mitera Balkaran’s battle with cancer is over. The 33-year-old mechanical engineer succumbed to her illness and died early on Saturday morning at San Fernando General Hospital after landing in Trinidad about two weeks prior.

(Trinidad Express) Newly appointed Government Senator Richie Sookhai has denied accusations on social media that his family donated air-conditioning units to the People’s National Movement (PNM) to install at its Balisier House headquarters in Port of Spain.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ricardo “Daddy Chinee” Melville is the 2023 Chutney Soca Monarch, while breakout performer, nine-year-old Katelin Sultan is the new Queen of Chutney.

(Trinidad Express) A man suspected of the killing of two Cuche relatives and the wounding of a third has been arrested and charged.

(Trinidad Guardian) Georgetown, Guyana: Trinidad and Tobago’s self-proclaimed “number one salesman,” Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, was hard at work yesterday as he marketed this country as the region’s best bet for a bright energy future.

(Trinidad Guardian) The hunt is now on for a man who shot and killed a police officer’s son at his Princes Town home last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hope is fading for four Guayaguayare fishermen who have been missing since January 31.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homicide officers are continuing investigations into the murders of two Tabaquite men and have already taken statements from several villagers.