Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is extending its congratulations to the newly elected 7th President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Christine Kangaloo.

(Trinidad Guardian) President-elect Christine Kangaloo is humbled by her appointment as Trinidad and Tobago’s next President.

(Trinidad Express) Leela Ramsubhag was brutally beaten and killed, and her partially nude body discarded in the yard of a house in Claxton Bay yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) Three members of the Defence Force have been detained for questioning into the kidnapping and murder of 34-year-old Teddy Sylvester.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two Morvant men were killed by police in Barataria yesterday, as they conducted a sting operation to apprehend suspects they believed were using social media sites to lure unsuspecting victims to locations and robbing them.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 55-year-old man and his nephew were murdered during a robbery in Wallerfield yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) People’s National Movement leader Dr Keith Rowley has rung in the changes within his contingent of deputy political leaders.

(Trinidad Express) A taxi-driver standing near the corner of St John’s Road and the Eastern Main Road, St Augustine near Scotia Bank was shot and killed in full view of commuters and bank customers yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The “Mother of all Carnivals” is on and the Government does not intend to institute any additional restrictions despite rising COVID-19 cases.

(Trinidad Express) Men dressed as police officers and soldiers gunned down an American citizen in Arima on Tuesday.

PORT OF SPAIN,  (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago received a total of 16 bids for exploring and developing oil and natural gas at eight onshore blocks in its most recent bidding round, the country’s Energy Ministry said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Forty-three year old Judith Lakhan has been charged with the murder of her common-law-husband Likhram Primlal.

(Trinidad Guardian) A family of four were ambushed at their home in Sangre Grande during the wee hours of Sunday morning and shot, including a six-year-old girl who later succumbed to her injuries at hospital.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot and killed by police officers in Mt D’or, Champs Fleurs, yesterday and their relatives have given two completely different reactions to their deaths—with one mother saying her son “had it coming”.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dominican Republic-based start-up Arajet Airlines, has received permission from the country’s civil aviation board, Junta de Aviación Civil (JAC), to begin both scheduled and unscheduled flights to Trinidad from its base at Santo Domingo’s Las Américas International Airport (SDQ).

(Trinidad Guardian) The threat and nuisance of the Giant African Snail (GAS) may now be a means to supplement your income, as the Ministry of Agriculture plans to introduce a bounty system offering a reward for the capture and submission of the snails to a designated site.

(Trinidad Express) Two  men died in a shooting in Maloney on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man who was shot in Pinto, Arima on Wednesday has succumbed to his injuries at hospital.

(Trinidad Express) Cleon Teesdale is expected to appear before a Princes Town magistrate on Friday, charged with seven offences including the murder of Sachel Elliot and her daughter, 17-month-old Nova Brereton.

(Trinidad Guardian) The curtains have been drawn on the life of Dr Leroy “Black Stalin” Calliste.