Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) “Have no fear. I am not going go drop dead tomorrow.”

(Trinidad Express) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC, yesterday said there have been attempts by the Attorney General to interfere in his independent office.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has a crime detection rate of 20 per cent and of that 20 per cent who are charged, 70 per cent are acquitted.

(Trinidad Express) An Aranguez businessman was shot dead by bandits in a robbery on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has promised to make home invasions a specific “criminal offence”, saying people under attack in their homes should be allowed self-defense under “stand your ground” laws.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caricom Secretary-general Dr Carla Barnett says an action plan to be implemented across the region will be compiled at the end of today’s Caricom Crime Symposium at the Hyatt Regency in Port-of-Spain.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Rowley says the war against crime is one which the region cannot afford to lose, moreso because, “violence is destroying our paradise in the Caribbean Sea.”

(Trinidad Guardian) The Opposition, which is attending today’s Caricom Crime Symposium launch, is appealing to Caricom leaders to get Prime Minister Keith Rowley to remove National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T is likely to see an exodus of businesspeople if the Government fails to meet with stakeholders to address the crime scourge.

(Trinidad Guardian) Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) officers yesterday arrested nine officers from a specialised unit within the T&T Police Service’s Eastern Division.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said the Government has no intention of calling a state of emergency in response to the escalation of crime, especially murders in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Central businessman was one of two people murdered in separate incidents in Chaguanas and Sangre Grande Tuesday night into yesterday, taking Trinidad and Tobago’s homicide toll to 164.

(Trinidad Express) A relative of one of the two men killed along the Churchill-­Roosevelt Highway in Piarco, on Monday night, heard the gunshots that ended their lives and saw the vehicle they were in pull to the side of the road.

(Trinidad Guardian) One religious leader is calling on National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds and Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher to break their silence and give the public some kind of assurance and comfort as crime fear continues to grip the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) What was a usual family dinner turned into 30 minutes of terror for the Ghany family on Sunday night, as six men invaded their property and beat, tormented and traumatised them demanding cash and valuables.

(Trinidad Express) A PENAL man was shot and killed, and his body was dumped on a desolated road a few kilometres away from his home on Saturday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four Maloney men remained hospitalised following a mass shooting on Saturday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) A Penal man was shot and killed, and his body was dumped on a desolated road a few kilometres away from his home on Saturday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Helen Riley’s fervent hope that her unborn grandchild would survive the tragic shooting that claimed her son’s life and left his 16-year-old girlfriend in critical condition at hospital were dashed with the loss of the baby yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A grandfather and grandson were killed yesterday when a tree they were cutting fell on top of them.