Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Newsday) A TWO-MONTH-OLD baby boy who was sold to a Trincity couple for US$20,000 one month ago was rescued from a house in Trincity on Wednesday morning and is now in the care of the Children’s Authority.

(Trinidad Newsday) SHELDON and Lystra Jackson, the parents of sick baby Sheenece Jackson, are racing against time to shed over 100 pounds to save their only daughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says in the com­ing months he will be form­ing a di­vi­sion to tack­le white col­lar crime.

(Trinidad Guardian) After 36 years in existence, the T&T Mirror and Sunday Punch newspapers are no more.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s condemnation last week of Trinidad and Tobago’s “cancer of corruption” has been labelled “farcical” by watchdog group, FIXIN’ T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ce­dros coun­cil­lor Shankar Teelucks­ingh es­ti­mates that up to 75 per cent of fe­male im­mi­grants who en­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go il­le­gal­ly end up be­ing sex work­ers.

(Trinidad Guardian) The par­ents of a group of chil­dren yes­ter­day ques­tioned why they were be­ing ac­cused of throw­ing a scratch bomb in­to an up­hol­stery work­shop, lead­ing to a fire which left 11 Cou­va res­i­dents home­less on Di­vali night.

(Trinidad Express) When a mother’s heart is stopped her unborn child does not die instantly.

UPDATE: Michael Joseph, the 30-year-old punch vendor who went missing two days ago, has been found.

(Trinidad Guardian) Scratch bomb and fire­works play for chil­dren in the Mc Bean, Cou­va com­mu­ni­ty on Di­vali night end­ed up in tragedy for three fam­i­lies af­ter two of their hous­es burst in­to flames de­stroy­ing every­thing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Danielle Year­wood was al­most nine months preg­nant when she, her un­born son and the child’s fa­ther were mur­dered in Waller­field on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

(Trinidad Express) What started off as a sunny Divali morning yesterday gradually turned into overcast skies, heavy rainfall and flooding in several areas along East Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter more than 35 years in the art form, so­ca king Machel Mon­tano is be­ing award­ed an Hon­orary Doc­tor­ate in by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT).

(Trinidad Guardian) The State has again amend­ed its case against High Court judge Kevin Ram­cha­ran.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fear among the law-abid­ing cit­i­zen­ry con­tin­ues to rise as crim­i­nals con­tin­ue to com­mit mur­ders with im­puni­ty on a dai­ly ba­sis in T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four days af­ter he re­leased his lat­est pos­i­tive Vy­bz song for Trinidad & Tobago, What We Need, Kelon “Don Kelon” Cruick­shank, 31, died along with his friend, Chris Rag­bir af­ter an al­ter­ca­tion at the NP Mon­trose Ser­vice Sta­tion in Ch­agua­nas on Sun­day night, in which both of them were stabbed sev­er­al times in the head and neck.

(Trinidad Newsday) A pregnant teenager and her boyfriend were murdered in a car at Brazil Road, Wallerfied this afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Mo­ments af­ter leav­ing an event meant to cel­e­brate new life, a 25-year-old clerk of the ju­di­cia­ry was fa­tal­ly struck by a car in a hit-and-run ac­ci­dent.

(Trinidad Express) Fishermen in central Trinidad are under pirate attack. Four boats were stripped of engines at the weekend.

(Trinidad Guardian) Diwali in­volves a host of cus­toms, one of which is the ex­ten­sive clean­ing of homes and sur­round­ings.