Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(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.