Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) A Princes Town businessman was shot dead inside his vehicle on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot and killed during what police claimed was an exchange of gunfire early yesterday in Second Caledonia, Morvant.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency Ambassador Dennis Francis, has been elected as the 78th President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).

(Trinidad Guardian) Repeatedly targeted, beaten and terrorised by bandits, armed with guns or cutlasses, farmers are buckling under pressure.

(Trinidad Express) Twenty-five-year-old mother of five Gabrielle Raphael was raped and strangled, a post-mortem has revealed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Election footing is on, as Local Government elections will be held within 90 days of the Privy Council’s May 18 judgment.

(Trinidad Guardian) A proposal from an independent multidisciplinary team has presented a strategy for developing a wind industry in T&T covering the period until 2035.

(Trinidad Express) Guyanese nationals living and working in Trinidad have joined their fellow citizens in mourning the deaths of 18 girls and a boy in the alleged arson attack at Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana, late Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former government minister Brian Kuei Tung, businessman Steve Ferguson and United States businessman Raul Guiterrez Jr have signalled their intention to appeal the Government’s US$131.5 million (approx.

(Trinidad Express)Three people, one of whom was said to be an “illegal gunsmith” linked to a criminal gang, were shot dead yesterday morning in separate incidents at Petit Valley, La Horquetta and Curepe.

(Trinidad Express) A Carenage businesswoman was shot and killed today, three years after the killing of her husband, whose body was buried under concrete near a hotel the couple was constructing in Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Kisseh is innocent. This is the cry of a Carenage family that is seeking answers following the police killing on Tuesday of Kisseh Lendore.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government’s move to extend the term of local government representatives by a year has been deemed unlawful.

(Trinidad Express) A close relative of slain businesswoman Subrina Thomas was yesterday morning detained by police in connection with her killing.

(Trinidad Express) The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has received final judgment in the sum of US$131,318,840.47 in the civil matter arising out of the Piarco Airport corruption scandal.

(Trinidad Guardian) Foreign ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet in Jamaica from today to review regional foreign policy and community governance matters.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) and Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) will begin joint patrols in Tobago on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) “Excellent” This was how Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher responded yesterday when asked to rate her performance in the first 100 days of her tenure.

(CAL) Caribbean Airlines, the leading carrier in the region, is pleased to announce the resumption of operations to Caracas, Venezuela from Saturday May 13; and the expansion of its route network to the Eastern Caribbean in the coming months.

(Trinidad Guardian) Construction company China Jiangsu International Corporation Trinidad and Tobago Limited has been ordered by the High Court to pay the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) more than TT$30 million in damages related to the controversial HDC Las Alturas Project.