Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) An unidentified man was shot dead on Sunday night while allegedly attempting to rob an off-duty police officer.

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy and Energy Industries Minister Stuart Young is facing significant backlash from the public following a controversial “hot mic” incident in which he was heard making salacious comments about the Opposition in Parliament on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Shundell Barrow’s mother was on the phone with his sister on Sunday night when the volley of gunshots that took his life rang out.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines Limited pilots, represented by the Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots’ Association (TTALPA), delivered a letter to the Minister of Finance yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) In one week, five women and a baby girl have been attacked by men known to them.

(Trinidad Express) Police have no motive for the murder of Special Reserve Police officer Jerome Bleasdel.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon has heaped praise on local manufacturer SM Jaleel for contributing to T&T’s exports over the 100 years of its existence.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of two Laura Sankar has been murdered. Sankar, 34, was chopped to death at the family home near Princes Town on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating another kidnapping, which reportedly was carried out by men dressed as police officers. 

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, Dr Amery Browne, has joined the list of countries and prominent individuals condemning the Dominican Republic’s mass deportation of Haitians.

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has admitted that more than 60 per cent of the vehicle fleet of the T&T Police Service (TTPS) either needs repairs or will have to be written off.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rishi Motilal has appeared in court charged with the murder of his estranged common-law wife and his 14-month-old baby.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has defended the $50 million allocation to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) for entertainment and functions.

(Trinidad Guardian) The new car industry has been labelled as the largest consumer of foreign exchange in this country by Minster in the Ministry of Finance Brian Manning.

(Trinidad Express) Misleading and mischievous.. This was the response yesterday from Patriotic Energy Services Company Ltd, owned by the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) to Energy Minister Stuart Young’s statement that the company provided a fake and fraudulent document during its bid for the former Petrotrin refinery at Pointe-a-Pierre.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is challenging the Opposition Leader to name the so-called paedophiles that she claims are in the “high ranks” of the People’s National Movement (PNM).

(Trinidad Guardian) Likening themselves as a phoenix, supposedly rising out of the ashes of the Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU), the Republic Workers Union (RWU) officially launched yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a shocking revelation in Parliament yesterday, Energy Minister Stuart Young claimed the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union’s (OWTU) Patriotic Energies Company Limited failed to make the next round of bidding on the mothballed Petrotrin refinery because it lied about its financial standing by submitting a fake document to the evaluation committee tasked with receiving proposals.

(Trinidad Express) A business arrangement that did not go as planned came to an end with Trinbagonian cricketers Sunil Narine and Terrance Hinds having to pay more than $60,000 to their former landlord for breach of contract.

(Trinidad Express) Sachel Kungebeharry, the used car dealer who was allegedly kidnapped for ransom by police officers in a marked police car last month, has been found dead.