Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into a murder that took place in broad daylight in Enterprise, Chaguanas yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) January 2022 ended with 50 murders, a figure that was double that of last year and given the constant rising number of murders and violent crimes, a criminologist has suggested that T&T seems heading to become a mafia country.

(Trinidad Guardian) A decomposed body that was found at the Heights of Aripo on Friday has been identified as that of a Cocorite woman who was reported missing on the weekend, 21-year-old Keithisha Cudjoe, a mother of one.

(Trindiad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says corruption in the Public Service has been flourishing.

(Trinidad Express) Former police commissioner Gary Griffith said yesterday the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) was “starved of resources” while he was at the helm.

(Trinidad Guardian) Virgin Atlantic is back! After a forced break of almost two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK carrier has restarted flights to Tobago as part of a wider resumption of services to the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Guardian) Virgin Atlantic is back! After a forced break of almost two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK carrier has restarted flights to Tobago as part of a wider resumption of services to the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Guardian) Almost 150 employees of Scotiabank are set to be out of a job by the end of May.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigators believe the broad daylight murders of two men who were gunned down while in the car park of South Park Mall, in San Fernando on Thursday, was a well-planned execution.

(Trinidad Express) Seventy nationals have lost their jobs following the decision of the Shanghai Construction Group to throw in the trowel on the construction of the Central Block at the Port of Spain General Hospital (POSGH) project.

(Trinidad Guardian) After spending almost 15 years on remand and facing two trials, two friends from Point Fortin have been freed of murdering a fellow resident in 2007.

(Trinidad Guardian) The search for missing local model, actress and brand promotions representative Vanna Girod, fondly called Vanna Vee, ended tragically on Wednesday after her body was found near a beach in Arnos Vale in Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) All 65 people who were held on a party boat in Carenage earlier this month have now been charged with breaching the Public Health Regulations.

(Trinidad Express) Make certain soca songs and calypsoes age-defined.   This call came from Independent Senator Varma Deyalsingh as he contributed to the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) Bill, 2022, in the Senate on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Works Minister Rohan Sinanan says he is awaiting a report following the partial collapse of the $280 million Mosquito Creek segment of the Solomon Hochoy Highway Extension project.

(Trinidad Express) Sergeant Lisa Felix has died after testing positive for Covid-19.

(Trinidad Guardian) A leading regional executive, who has been embroiled in the ongoing tiff between the business communities of Guyana and T&T, believes the situation, while it is unfortunate, provides a good opportunity to address all outstanding differences between the two countries.

(Trinidad Guardian) In 2021, the Financial Investigations Branch (FIB) charged four people with money laundering with a cumulative value of TT $30,747,417 and it’s anticipated that this year, more people will face similar charges.

(Trinidad Guardian) Days after she was subjected to fierce criticisms for her comments on poverty in T&T, Jeanine Brandt, this country’s delegate at the Miss World 2021 pageant, has been named among 40 semi-finalists who will go to Puerto Rico from March 13 to 18, to compete in the next round of the competition.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three people were murdered and two others injured in separate incidents within the space of 17 hours in Pleasantville and Erin.