Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) It was supposed to have been a day of celebration as Kendell Francis turned 18-years-old on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) “What a joke!” was the exclamation made by the team of attorney who represented the nine former murder accused who were awarded $2 million for malicious prosecution in the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder case on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) The month of February began with two people shot dead and a third in hospital during an altercation in Biche yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police investigating the killing of 38-year-old Siobhan Rogers say they have no clear motive for her murder.

(Trinidad Express) Ex-Caroni worker Pundit Donny Samlal clashed with supporters of Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday as he was being interviewed by the media at the United National Congress’ National Congress in Couva.

(Trinidad Guardian) The weekend’s second triple murder was recorded in Cunupia just hours after three other people were killed in Carapo, Arima, on Saturday evening.

(Trinidad Express) A dispute over 16 acres of north coast land is believed to have led to yesterday morning’s double homicide in Blanchisseuse.

(Trinidad Guardian) There will be no International Soca Monarch competition this year, as its promoters have decided to cancel it after Government refused their request for funding to the tune of $10 million.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 16-year-old schoolboy was among three killed yesterday.   Darshan Ramnauth was gunned down opposite his home in St Augustine, while another man named Geno, age unknown, was found a short distance away in the same community.

(Trinidad Express) Three members of the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, charged with murder, appeared virtually before the Port of Spain magistrates’ court yesterday.

(Trinidad Newsday) Three members of the Coast Guard’s elite Special Naval Unit have been charged for the murder of Teddy Sylvester, well-placed police sources confirmed to Newsday on Monday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) The robbery of a KFC delivery driver on Sunday night ended in the deaths of three of four suspects in a shoot out with the police in Mayaro on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Bar owner Vera Boopsingh stopped to help a motorist after his car crashed at the Gasparillo Overpass on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) A hooded gunman stormed into a minimart at La Romaine on Friday and shot two men dead before jumping through a window, making a successful escape.

(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.