Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s for­mer porous bor­ders have “hard­ened” in the last two weeks with ap­prox­i­mate­ly 70 peo­ple ap­pre­hend­ed, seek­ing il­le­gal en­try, says Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young.

(Trinidad Guardian) The State has agreed to pay al­most $75,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a woman who fell in­to a de­fec­tive man­hole in Princes Town.

(Trinidad Newsday) THE police Cyber Crime Unit is investigating a third death threat against Commissioner Gary Griffith, which was received at the E999 Command Centre on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two po­lice of­fi­cers in­volved in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent in Cen­tral Trinidad yes­ter­day will no longer be al­lowed to dri­ve whilst on du­ty.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T is not ready to make in­ter­na­tion­al law a law here re­gard­ing peo­ple seek­ing asy­lum and refugee sta­tus as it just can­not af­ford too, es­pe­cial­ly with re­gards to hous­ing and ed­u­ca­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’ll be more of a Silent Night this Christ­mas: “scratch” bombs have at last been banned and de­clared il­le­gal.

(Trinidad Guardian) Un­less sec­ondary crime pre­ven­tion is im­ple­ment­ed quick­ly, T&T could be sad­dled with more than 100,000 new crim­i­nals in the next five years.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 35-year-old Princes Town man ac­cused of is­su­ing death threats to Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith and his wife has been sent for a psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) A po­lice man­hunt is on in New York for a Trinidad and To­ba­go man whose pe­nis was bit­ten by a woman he beat un­con­scious be­fore try­ing to force her to have oral sex on him.

(Trinidad Newsday) State carrier Caribbean Airlines Ltd will soon add 12 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft to its fleet, starting in the fourth quarter of 2019.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 12-year-old boy has plead­ed guilty to is­su­ing death threats to Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith.

(Trinidad Guardian) Yvonne “Eve” Trum­pet-Nichol­son, 74, of Brook­lyn, New York, was last seen alive and well by her im­me­di­ate fam­i­ly at the JFK In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port min­utes be­fore her flight to T&T last Tues­day.

Like a scene out of a Final Destination movie, Ulric John was standing roadside minding his own business when a utility pole was pulled down by a passing truck and swung in his direction.

(Trinidad Express) A Toco man appeared before a Sangre Grande Magistrate on Tuesday charged with possession of protected bird.

(Trinidad Express) The decomposed body found near Camp Cumuto, Wallerfield on Tuesday has been identified as 74-year-old US Citizen Yvette Trumpet Nicholson.

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old was one of two people who appeared before the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of national awardee Haseena Ali.

(Trinidad Express) The decomposing body of a man was found behind a house in Carapo yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 24-year-old man, who ad­mit­ted to steal­ing al­most $60,000 from his em­ploy­er to pay for his wed­ding, is ex­pect­ed to be sen­tenced to­day.

(Trinidad Express) A woman was critically injured when a thief commandeered a PTSC passenger bus in Chaguanas in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, and crashed into her house.

(Trinidad Express) – SUSPENDED Senior Superintendent of Police Edward Castillo was gunned down at his business place in Waterloo on Saturday afternoon.