Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice have ar­rest­ed the imam of a Cara­po mosque in con­nec­tion with an al­leged as­sault, kid­nap­ping and rob­bery in­ci­dent last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are now seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in iden­ti­fy­ing the body of a woman found by hunters in San­ta Cruz on Sat­ur­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) A se­nior po­lice­man who was on su­pen­sion was fa­tal­ly shot at his busi­ness place at Wa­ter­loo Road, Cara­pichaima, yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Newsday) Thirteen people including officials at the Ministry of Social Development will appear in court tomorrow after they were charged by the Fraud Squad for offences relating to the distribution of grants to flood victims.

(Trinidad Guardian) Res­i­dents af­fect­ed by the dev­as­tat­ing floods a month ago are strug­gling to re­build their lives and men­tal health ex­perts are ap­peal­ing to the au­thor­i­ties to en­sure there are mech­a­nisms to pro­vide emo­tion­al and psy­cho­log­i­cal sup­port.

(Trinidad Guardian) At the end of their re­struc­tur­ing process, the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vice of T&T (TSTT) in­tends to send home 700 em­ploy­ees said Ronald Wal­cott, TSTT’s CEO.

PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday arrested 75 Cubans who are seeking asylum in the Caribbean island nation, after the group camped out for about three weeks outside the United Nations office in the capital, seeking humanitarian aid.

Police need help in locating 16-year-old Jamaica Girandi Rojas Campo. Jamaica, was last seen at her Moninam Street, St.

(Trinidad Express) Torrential rainfall fueled by the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affected all fourteen Municipalities on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men have been ac­quit­ted of mur­der­ing a pen­sion­er dur­ing a botched rob­bery over a decade ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) An aspiring mechanic was murdered in Carenage during a drive-by shooting in the area on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Newsday) Hours before Special Reserve Constable Michael Youksee shot dead his estranged common-law wife and then turned the gun on himself on Sunday, he wrote three letters.

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith and se­nior mem­bers of the Or­gan­ised Crime and In­tel­li­gence Unit are cur­rent­ly fo­cus­ing on three al­leged gang lead­ers and their “shoot­ers” whose pho­tos were leaked in a so­cial me­dia post yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) Two men who admitted that they robbed a fast food outlet at gunpoint are expected to be sentenced in a week’s time.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over 100 workers are expected to be sent home as the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) begins the implementation of its “new structure.”

(Trinidad Newsday) A Trinidadian man is suspected of slashing the throat of his girlfriend in their Brooklyn apartment yesterday, after which he slit his own wrists.

(Trinidad Express) A SENIOR magistrate has made reference to the seriousness of the allegation against the four men, including two police officers, charged with the kidnapping of housewife Natalie Pollonais for ransom.

(Trinidad Express) Police are yet to identify a man who suffered multiple injuries when he jumped in front of a passing car on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Heav­i­ly armed masked po­lice of­fi­cers from an elite unit blocked all ve­hic­u­lar traf­fic along Rail­way Road in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day, as they es­cort­ed Barataria busi­ness­man Jerome Ol­livierre, 28, to the Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trates’ Court.

(Trinidad Guardian) Although Kevon Richardson was not a major player on police’s radar, his connection to the criminal underworld and “running his mouth” may have cost him his life.