Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) In what police believe was an act of revenge, a former soldier was gunned down at his Embacadere, San Fernando home on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ashley Taylor, the president of the Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Corporation Limited (Plipdeco), was sent on administrative leave by the board of the company in July, three months before his retirement in November.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into the death of 16-year-old Aliyah Santoo, who was allegedly shot by a male companion at a house in Wallerfield on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of Agriculture Kazim Hosein has presented Letters of Appointment to the 14 members of the Food Security and Food Prices Committee.

(Trinidad Express) Trinbago Commercial Development Company Ltd (TCDC), which owns MovieTowne, Port of Spain, has agreed to place TT$3 million in escrow until the substantive case over arrears is determined.

(Trinidad Express) `Huegla de Melandro Ismael’, which translates to ‘Strike by criminal Ismael’, was on a sign found next to the body of a man who had been buried recently, then dug up, doused with a flammable liquid and burnt sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning in Sangre Grande.

(Trinidad Express) Pan Trinbago’s headquarters will be constructed at the old post office site on Wrightson Road in Port of Spain, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has confirmed.

(Trinidad Express) The action to repossess the MovieTowne cineplex in Port of Spain was an act of thuggery that caused great embarrassment and loss of money, said chairman of Trinbago Commercial Development Company Ltd (TCDC) Derek Chin.

(Trinidad Guardian) Lawrence Duprey, the former chairman of CL Financial (CLF) and the Colonial Life Insurance Company of Trinidad and Tobago (Clico), has died at 89.

(Trinidad Guardian) The owners of the MovieTowne complex at Invader’s Bay, Mucurapo, and the management of the Port-of-Spain Infrastructure Company (POSINCO) and the Port Authority of T&T (PATT) seem heading for a showdown.

(Trinidad Express) “ZOË, YOU’RE TRENDING!” That’s the all-caps message flooding British travel vlogger Zoë Reeve’s mobile phone after the jaw-dropping release of her music video collaboration with local dancehall artiste Big P, titled “Come Big P”.

(Trinidad Express) A gang-related killing has upped Tobago’s murder toll to a record high of 20.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six months after wreaking environmental havoc on Tobago’s Windward coast, the mysterious Gulfstream barge is in Port-of-Spain and undergoing preparation for storage.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gunmen opened fire on Moruga businessman Enrico Andy Guerra, killing him and his five-year-old daughter, Anika Guerra, last night.

(Trinidad Express) Four more homicides were reported between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) After featuring on Trinidad and Tobago’s Coat of Arms for 62 years, the depictions of Christopher Columbus’ three ships: the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, which commemorated Columbus’ arrival in 1498, will be removed, according to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Express) Sixty-eight-year-old Edward Taylor, enfeebled by three strokes and a heart condition, could do nothing when gunmen broke into his home and terrorised him at daybreak yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Kiefer Wilson was run over and killed by a car driven by an ex-boyfriend, after she was struck with a wheel spanner on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Floodwaters forced more than 25 businesses to close along Penal Rock Road yesterday as intense rainfall triggered extensive flooding.

(Trinidad Guardian) It took 24 surgeries and 60 hours of operating time for a team of American doctors to remove hundreds of growths from T&T citizen Charmaine Sahadeo’s face, head and body.