Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Newsday) POLICE constable Sharon Roop, who last week won a high court matter which gives her the right to wear her hijab as part of her police uniform, chose a blue hijab to wear to work.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men are in po­lice cus­tody af­ter a car chase and shootout in Trinci­ty on Mon­day.

(Trinidad Express) Contractor Robert Cupid was crushed under of his company’s trucks on Saturday.

(Trinidad Express) TWO men were shot and killed around midday in Arima yesterday in what the police said were revenge killings for a murder allegedly committed by the two on Saturday.

(Trinidad Newsday) Women now have a place to go to see about their every female health issue, including pregnancy, cancer, obstetric/gynaecology problems and even infertility, all under one roof.

(Trinidad Guardian) The taint­ed love be­tween two po­lice of­fi­cers turned trag­ic in Mt D’Or, Champs Fleurs, yes­ter­day, af­ter SRP Michael Youk­see turned his ser­vice weapon on WPC Rack­el Kipps, the moth­er of his two-year-old daugh­ter, killing her be­fore us­ing the gun to al­so end his own life.

(Trinidad Guardian) With the re­cent an­nounce­ment of a new elite unit to tack­le white-col­lar crime in T&T and promis­es that the “Big Fish” will be ar­rest­ed and brought to jus­tice, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Gary Grif­fith is as­sur­ing that it will not be a unit en­gag­ing in witch-hunt.

(Trinidad Newsday) The Venezuelan woman who allegedly sold her two-month-old baby boy for US$20,000 will not be reunited with her offspring until the investigation by the Counter Trafficking Unit of the TT Police Service is finished.

(Trinidad Express) Popular Chef Joe Brown and a BP employee Joanna Banks were killed yesterday morning when a car ploughed through a group of bicycle riders on the Beetham Highway.

Southwestern Division police arrested three Venezuelan nationals for possession of a sub-machine firearm and ammunition on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) An el­der­ly cou­ple of Ma­son Hall, To­ba­go, say they have been left trau­ma­tised fol­low­ing an ear­ly morn­ing or­deal with po­lice of­fi­cers of the To­ba­go Task Force.

(Trinidad Newsday) A pregnant Venezuelan teenager has been missing after last travelling to Trinidad & Tobago eight months ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) A fe­male British na­tion­al and a top lo­cal chef have been killed and two oth­ers se­ri­ous­ly in­jured af­ter a car ploughed in­to a group of cy­clists along the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way ear­ly Sat­ur­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) (US) $425,000 a year—plus hous­ing, trans­porta­tion and health. That re­mu­ner­a­tion pack­age is what Mike Wi­ley, the chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd in the re­struc­tured Petrotrin, is get­ting.

(Trinidad Express) A Facebook post led to the arrest of a man who has been charged with one of the most serious crimes in the country.

(Trinidad Express) A Florida man is accused of killing of his ex-girlfriend, Trinidad-born Jenny Koonoolai-Jagdeo, and another man.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice seized a cache of high-pow­ered as­sault ri­fles and an undis­closed quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na dur­ing a pre-dawn raid at Munroa Road, Cunu­pia, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fe­male Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer, Sharon Roop, 39, yes­ter­day won the right to wear her hi­jab while in uni­form.

A Trinidadian was among the 118 aboard a Fly Jamaica aircraft that crash landed in Guyana on Friday morning.

This is what police have found in central Trinidad. Officers raided at house at Monroe Road, Cunupia before daybreak on Friday.