Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(Trinidad Express) What was  supposed to be a night of celebration and joy ended in tragedy as 39-year-old Nichusasi Wells was stabbed to death in Sangre Grande.

(Trinidad Guardian) Isaiah “Oopsie” Commissiong was celebrating his 20th birthday on Christmas Day, when he was followed by his attackers and gunned down as a group of men were playing a game of football at Phase 6 in La Horquetta yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A pastor who was struck by a car on Friday night, has died at hospital.

(Trinidad Express) Two more murders have taken the murder toll to 590.

(Trinidad Express) A Caroni man was found dead in a hotel in San Fernando on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) A woman who lost her husband and her son in a shooting at Three B’s Drive, Piarco, claimed yesterday that, despite constant reports about being followed home by suspicious people, the police never responded.