Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Energy Minister and Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West MP Stuart Young says fireworks should not be sold to members of the public, and are a waste of foreign exchange.

(Trinidad Express) Homicide detectives have charged a third man in connection with a 2020 quadruple homicide.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago has crossed 3,000 COVID-19 fatalities since the start of the pandemic with over 1,000 deaths reported in the last 45 days.

(Trinidad Express) A three-year feud between neighbours in La Romaine is said to have led to the killing of a man and the burning-down of a house on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Another police officer has succumbed to COVID-19.   In a statement, the TTPS said PC Saied Ali passed away on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Constable Shelford Kinsale and Police Constable Anthony Mohammed both tested positive for COVID-19 and subsequently passed away.

(Trinidad Express) Two homes in Maraval which are occupied by businessman Adrian Scoon were searched yesterday by officers of the Western Division.

(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-seven year old Ceyon Nicholas of Simon Road, Carapo, has been charged with the murders of Richie Richard Ragoo and Emmanuel Nyron Phillip and the attempted murder of another man.

(Trinidad Express) Eleven North Eastern Division Task Force officers were detained yesterday after a Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS)-issued Galil rifle went missing over the Christmas period.

(Trinidad Express) Sixty-seven people, including members of the Defence Force and the Coast Guard, were detained yesterday morning on a boat in the waters off Carenage.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two years after they were arrested for having in their possession an AK-47 high-powered rifle, 75-year-old Roy Mahabir and his daughter-in-law Sharlene Lawrence, 28, were gunned down on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) While many people hope 2022 will be a year when the world finally defeats COVID-19, it continues to bring tragedy, claiming the life of beloved Soca Parang artiste Kenwrick “Kenny J” Joseph.

(Trinidad Express) The station diary at the Carenage Police Station states that businessman Adrian Scoon called Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi while there and being questioned in connection with the party on board the MV Ocean Pelican on Boxing Day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Veteran calypsonian The Mighty Bomber has died. Bomber, whose real name is Clifton Ryan, passed yesterday at the age of 93.

(Trinidad Express) Fire officers believe a sky lantern or fireworks may have caused a New Year’s morning fire in East Port of Spain which destroyed four homes, damaged two cars and caused a power outage after an electricity pole was incinerated.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seriously consider taking the vaccine and the booster. That’s the year-end message to their flocks from seven churches that have jointly called for an attitude of hope heading into 2022, as they warned against “divisiveness” and suggested that vaccination against Covid-19 become a tool for unity.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Constable Marcus Henry who was last attached to the Eastern Division Task Force, passed away yesterday due to complications from the COVID-19 virus.

(Trinidad Guardian) The hike in the price of flour, announced yesterday by the National Flour Mills (NFM), has triggered a panicked ripple effect in the country, especially after the company admitted that prices could rise again in the future.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dozens of Venezuelan nationals who were attempting to enter Trinidad and Tobago illegally in two separate vessels, were intercepted by the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) during patrols carried out over the Christmas holiday weekend. 

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health advises the population that on the evening of Boxing Day, six more cases of the COVID-19 Omicron Variant of Concern were confirmed.