Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly says there is no policy barring children from wearing clothing other than their school uniform to attend functions at their schools.

(Trinidad Express) A group of 30 police constables have emerged victorious in a judicial review claim against the Office of the Police Commissioner and the Promotion Advisory Board.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Estate Management and Business Development Company Limited (EMBD) will have to pay over $83 million in outstanding fees to Junior Sammy Contractors Limited.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Finance, Colm Imbert, said yesterday that the foreign exchange window opened by the Exim Bank for wholesale importers of basic foods and pharmaceuticals during the COVID-19 pandemic was a temporary initiative.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Chinese national is set to appear in court after being charged with money laundering. 

(Trinidad Guardian) A mother of three was shot and killed as she left a bar in Cocoyea Village, San Fernando, yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 49-year-old former soldier was shot and killed during a robbery yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago could be facing a shortage of basic food items as wholesalers who import the majority of these goods have been unable to access foreign exchange from the Exim Bank in two months.

(Trinidad Guardian) McCartha Linda “Calypso Rose” Sandy-Lewis was among eight icons in Tobago honoured by the Tobago House of Assembly on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A T&T national has been extradited to the United States to face charges for 128 counts of sex crime offences against children.

(Trinidad Express) Specialist maritime attorney Nyree Alfonso says that arresting the tug Solo Creed to recover $244 million could become “a case of the candle costing more than the funeral,” as she believes the expenses and efforts of this legal pursuit might ultimately outweigh any financial recovery.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne has called for the removal of what he called “imperial arrogance” from discussion on repatriations.

(Trinidad Express) Police are still searching for kidnapped businessman Suvesh Ramnarine.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has arrested the Solo Creed tug in African country Angola, eight months after the vessel is believed to have abandoned the Gulf Stream barge and caused the oil spill disaster off Cove, Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Government Minister Stuart Young has been spared from facing the Parliament’s Privileges Committee for his offensive comments in Parliament.

(Trinidad Guardian) Criminal activity in the capital forced the closure of at least one school yesterday, after a drive-by shooting and the firing of high-powered rifles by gunmen in and around the city sent pedestrians scampering and businesses rushing to close their doors.

(Trinidad Express) THE police investigation into the death by suicide of 15-year-old schoolboy Jayden Lalchan is nearing completion, says ACP Wayne Mystar.

(Trinidad Express) House Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George has been called upon to refer Energy Minister Stuart Young to the Parliament’s Committee of Privileges to face punishment.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seven years after teenager Hannah Mathura was reportedly killed and buried in a shallow grave in the backyard of the family’s compound in Valsayn, instructions have been issued for her parents to be charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three days after the murder of his wife Laura Sankar, a 41-year-old handyman appeared before the High Court charged with murder.