Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) It’s now a horrific quadruple murder as the fourth man shot on Monday morning along with three others in Tobago died on Monday night at the Scarborough General Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) An outbreak of dengue in a community in Barrackpore has resulted in one death and left two hospitalised in critical condition.

(Trinidad Express) An early morning home invasion in Carlsen Field, Central Trinidad, yesterday left a son dead and his father in critical condition.

(Trinidad Express) Hangings must resume in this country. So said a relative of Anslem Douglas, one of the three murder victims shot multiple times on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men were shot and killed, and a fourth man was left injured, in a shooting incident yesterday morning in Black Rock, Tobago. 

(Trinidad Guardian) The Opposition is calling on Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh to declare dengue a public health emergency.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former director of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) Major Roger Best is distancing himself from claims by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley that the agency under his watch was plotting to replace the country’s political leadership.

(Trinidad Guardian) A team headed by T&T’s High Commissioner to the UK, Vishnu Dhanpaul (the former Finance Ministry’s permanent secretary), will evaluate proposals for the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery after the end of the month.

(Trinidad Express) Ste Madeleine grandmother Michelle Balgobin has been charged with the murder of her husband and remanded in prison.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 70,000 rounds of ammunition that the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) had purchased and is now unaccounted for poses a very serious and grave threat to citizens, visitors and national security, says National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds.

(Trinidad Guardian) The procurement of high-powered weapons and the training of personnel to use them were part of a possible plot by the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) to replace the Government.

(Trinidad Guardian) Che Mendez, a driver employed with Massy Distribution, was reportedly delivering cigarettes around 12.35 pm when he was shot in the head during what the police claimed was an attempted robbery.

(Trinidad Express) Hurricane Beryl strengthened into what experts called an “extremely dangerous” category 4 storm as it approached the south-east Caribbean, which began shutting down yesterday amid urgent pleas from government officials for people to take shelter.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago is bracing for the worst as Hurricane Beryl is forecasted to pass over the island today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) team’s investigation into baby deaths at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in April has highlighted deficiencies in the operations at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) Police have viewed explicit sex videos as they investigate the murder of nurse and beauty pageant contestant Sadna Gangoo.

(Trinidad Express) Police  have viewed explicit sex videos as they investigate the murder of nurse and beauty pageant contestant Sadna Gangoo.

(Trinidad Guardian) How would you feel if your heart surgeon was a robot? 

(Trinidad Guardian) Raoul Glynn, the managing director of West Indian Tobacco Company (Witco), the cigarette manufacturer, has been placed on administrative leave with pay, pending an internal investigation.

(Trinidad Guardian) UNC Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called out the Government on Indian businessman Naveen Jindal, questioning if it was “the Venezuelans” who put the Government on to Jindal to get the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery.