Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Just three months after announcing a resumption in service to Trinidad, Montreal-based airline Air Canada has now suspended the route indefinitely.

(Trinidad Express) “Where  yuh son?” These were the words 48-year-old Pamela Joseph heard before she was fatally shot yesterday morning at her home in Ninth Avenue, Barataria.

(Trinidad Express) Four months ago, Darren Nandlal wed his best friend, promising to love and protect her for the rest of their lives.

(Trinidad Guardian) An historic moment for the Caribbean as a mother and daughter from Antigua and Barbuda are the first space tourists from the region to journey to space and back to earth on the same day.

(Trinidad Express) Thousands of Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) customers were unable to place calls, access mobile data and Internet services for hours yesterday after the provider suffered a widespread network outage.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday he was not in breach of the Integrity in Public Life Act since he did declare the purchase of his townhouse at Shirvan Development in Tobago to the Integrity Commission.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a nationwide crackdown on the sale of unregistered drugs, the Food and Drug Division has confiscated several drugs, including vitamins, from over 40 pharmacies across T&T.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar stood her ground last night, saying she would not apologise for calling on citizens to “light up” home invaders in self-defence.

(Trinidad Express) Social media blogger Rhoda Bharath has been blocked by the High Court from making any further defamatory remarks against former police commissioner Gary Griffith related to a recent post on her “Newsauce” Facebook page.

(Trinidad Express) Former police commissioner Gary Griffith confronted Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on the Moka golf course on Saturday and told him to his face that he was a “failure” who was busy golfing four times a week when the country is in distress.

(Trinidad Guardian) The mother of a 28-year-old woman who was gunned down in Carenage says she is willing to forgive her daughter’s killers as she is doing her part to break the cycle of hate in the country.

(Trinidad Express) The man killed on Saturday night when he and his accomplices attempted to invade a house at Endeavour, Chaguanas, was identified yesterday as Mark Anthony Joseph, 25.

(Trinidad Express) As of midnight tonight the wearing of masks at all public and private hospitals and medical clinics will no longer be mandatory.

(Trinidad Guardian) MP for Pointe-A-Pierre David Lee has called the recent shutdown of four Point Lisas plants a regional embarrassment.

(Trinidad Express) Cellphone jammers inside the country’s prisons are not enough to stop criminals behind bars from sending messages to others on the outside.

by Asha Javeed  Lead Editor Investigations  asha.javeed@guardian.co.tt  (Trinidad Guardian) NiQuan Energy is facing a cash crunch challenge.

(Trinidad Guardian) Horrified relatives say the charred remains discovered in an outhouse in Maraval on Thursday are those of their loved one Anastacia Waldron.

(Trinidad Express) Woodside Energy last night confirmed that it had to shut in (close off) its offshore operations in the country as a precaution following an incident on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) flights in and out of Piarco International Airport were temporarily delayed yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) After spending 14 years in prison, six men have been freed of murdering a man from East Dry River, Port-of-Spain.