Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) “He was not a bad person, he never had any kind of ene­mies, and a lot of people looked up to him and loved him.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Even with her little body wrapped in bandages after suffering second-degree burns when she fell into a pot of boiling lentil peas, little Shazade Simon tried to console her worried relatives.

(Trinidad Express) Almost 300 guests, including a number of Trinidadians, had to be evacuated from a hotel in Guyana on Saturday night after fire tore through one of the floors of the six-storey building which was booked to capacity with fans who came for the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) cricket final last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Venezuelan migrant was one of two men killed in a drive-by shooting in St Helena yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) With T&T’s credit card sales using foreign exchange projected to reach US$2 billion this year, Minister of Finance Colm Imbert requested the Central Bank inject US$50 million into the banking system on a one-off basis last Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) “The blood of our children is on the ground right now; where is the Commissioner?

(Trinidad Guardian) Last night, T&T and Venezuela finally signed an agreement to jointly explore the Dragon Gas Field, which is located in the maritime area of Venezuela.

 (Trinidad Express)  The bloodbath in Trinidad continued early today, with the execution-styled killing of three children and a 19-year-old in the crime hotspot of Heights of Guapapo.

(Trinidad Guardian) American Chamber of Commerce CEO Nirad Tewarie says Government intervention into the ongoing foreign exchange shortage is long overdue.

(Trinidad Guardian) Several weeks after Massy Holdings declared a 20 per cent increase in profits, its subsidiary, Massy Stores, terminated nine front-end supervisors who it deemed as a surplus to its operations last Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Several weeks after Massy Holdings declared a 20 per cent increase in profits, its subsidiary, Massy Stores, terminated nine front-end supervisors who it deemed as a surplus to its operations last Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) Days after Special Reserve Cor-poral Charles Kublalsingh received an award for his dedication to duty as a police officer, he was gunned down during a robbery attempt in Curepe.

(Trinidad Guardian) NiQuan Energy has been forced to put its plant to sleep (it is now offline) because it has neither natural gas nor permission to run it.

 (Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s largest bank, Republic Bank Ltd (RBL), last night advised its customers that it was cutting in half the maximum US dollar spending limit per billing cycle on their Republic Bank credit cards.

(Trinidad Express) A woman died yesterday morning, after being stabbed with a compass.

(Trinidad Express) Police suspect that Monday evening’s murder of a funeral home employee in Laventille is a reprisal for last week’s killing of another man at the same place.

(Trinidad Express) Police suspect that Monday evening’s murder of a funeral home employee in Laventille is a reprisal for last week’s killing of another man at the same place.

(Trinidad Express) A Laventille man who police believe was not the intended target of gunmen was shot dead near his Pashley Street home yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) With their hands bound with tie-straps and shivering with fear, a mother and daughter who were kidnapped from their Maraval home ran into the arms of Morvant residents on Friday night, pleading for help.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gillian French said she didn’t want her son, Kevin Barker, to do work for the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).