Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Crime in the country’s capital city has been on the increase.

(Trinidad Guardian) Officers of the US-based Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Bureau are assisting local police in tracing the origin of several high-powered rifles, machine guns and ammunition that were seized in a forested part of Santa Cruz on Wednesday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has proposed his team for anti-crime talks with the Opposition, to be chaired by Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC.

(Trinidad Guardian) Months of surveillance and intelligence gathering led to the seizure of a quantity of high-powered rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, including armour-piercing rounds, and gunpowder yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A late-night visit to a fast food strip ended with a popular music producer being murdered the wounding of two other men, including a Trinibad artiste, on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) The Government is on the cusp of settling a memorandum of understanding (MoU) mechanism for Maritime Security Cooperation between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago to combat human and narcotics trafficking, migrant smuggling and other forms of transnational organised crime.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ag Deputy Commissioner of Police, Intelligence and Investigation Curt Simon yesterday praised God and the investigators whose work led to two men being arrested and charged for the murders of four members of the Peterkin family at their home in Heights of Guanapo, Arima.

(Trinidad Express) A supermarket security guard was shot and killed last night.

(Trinidad Express)  Businessman Mohan Persad of supermarket chain Persad’s ‘D’ Food King and his wife were beaten and robbed during a home invasion early yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigators believe revenge was the motive for the murders of Keith “Pam Pam” Roberts and Allan Azard Ali who were gunned down in Point Fortin on Monday night in an attack that left their friend, Anthony Junior “Mario” Bermudez, critically wounded.

(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert has announced a nearly $60 billion 2024 budget, promising to pay public servants’ backpay of $1 billion by Christmas this year, to triple the intake of police officers to 1,000 next year and to allocate school supplies and book grants of $1,000 to needy students chosen through a means test.

(Trinidad Guardian) A reported love triangle ended tragically after Rae-Ann “Lucy” Henry, 39, of Canaan, was stabbed to death in Bon Accord, Tobago, on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 49-year-old businessman was shot and killed by gunmen at his Valencia workplace yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) Defamatory posts on social media have cost one user more than $1 million which he has been ordered by the High Court to pay to chief executive of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA), Davlin Thomas.

(Trinidad Express) Hours after a 13-year-old Rio Claro schoolgirl attended an identification parade to point out the perpetrators who had sexually assaulted her, she and her uncle were shot dead and her father critically wounded in their home early yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Another child has been killed overnight. A 13-year-old girl and an older male relative were shot dead in a house in Rio Claro.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three months after gunmen murdered his brother Kevon “Faces” Andrews, Keyon Andrews suffered a similar fate on Thursday when a gunman brazenly shot him in the street.

(Trinidad Guardian) It was only on Wednesday that Radica Smith thought she would start buying Christmas gifts for her son Rishi, but tragedy jolted her as he died hours after gunmen attacked.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sweltering heat across parts of Trinidad yesterday ended abruptly, as roaring thunder, strong winds and torrential rain left several without roofs and electricity.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a move that has left Tobagonians talking, President Christine Kangaloo surprisingly made a call for the autonomy Tobago has been clamouring for, saying the time had come for it to be done once and for all.