Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(Trinidad Newsday) QUOTING calypsonian Mighty Sparrow’s lyrics, “Age is Just a Number,” Curtis Thomas, 84, of Dow Village in South Oropouche on Sunday collected his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication from COSTAATT’s Ken Gordon School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinida­di­an pas­sen­gers who were on board Caribbean Air­lines’ flight BW601 have ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment at the air­line’s lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion about why the flight had to re­turn to the Pear­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (YYZ) on Fri­day morn­ing, one hour af­ter take-off from Cana­da des­tined for the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ex­e­cu­tion of Kedar Ali-Mark is be­ing de­scribed by po­lice as a re­venge hit.

(Trinidad Express) An 18-year-old playing with a gun accidentally shot himself in the head on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and To­ba­go record­ed its tenth earth­quake in the space of two weeks on Fri­day night.

A businessman has been shot and killed on the compound of Anand Low Price Supermarket near the Mosquito Creek, South Oropouche.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three moth­ers charged with un­law­ful pos­ses­sion of gro­cery items have been giv­en un­til Mon­day to pro­duce a re­ceipt or proof that they pur­chased the items.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just three days af­ter the ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty said farewell to the Mighty Shad­ow, De Orig­i­nal De Fos­to Him­self (Win­ston Scar­bor­ough) died of a sus­pect­ed heart at­tack on Thursday morn­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two days be­fore cel­e­brat­ing her 75th birth­day, na­tion­al award win­ner Haseena Ali was found dead at her home in Freeport yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter one hour of fly­ing from Toron­to’s Pear­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (YYZ) to Port-of-Spain, a Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) flight sud­den­ly be­gan ex­pe­ri­enc­ing tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties and was forced to re­turn to Cana­da.

(Trinidad Guardian) Less than a week af­ter say­ing a fi­nal farewell to Win­ston “Mighty Shad­ow” Bai­ley, the ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty is mourn­ing the death of an­oth­er vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian in Win­ston ‘The Orig­i­nal De Fos­to Him­self’ Scar­bor­ough.

(Trinidad Express) The People’s Republic of China has opened in Maraval its largest embassy in the English-speaking Caribbean ­region.

(Trinidad Express) A Sangre Grande woman appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate on allegations of sexual penetration against a 14-year-old boy.

(Trinidad Express) A NUTS VENDOR who kidnapped and robbed a taxi driver and broke into his home will spend the next seven years in jail.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice have ar­rest­ed a 31-year-old Diego Mar­tin man who al­leg­ed­ly beat a Venezue­lan woman with a wheel span­ner af­ter she threat­ened to end their re­la­tion­ship and then video­taped her in­juries on Tues­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) The award of million-dollar contracts to three companies owned by a serving police officer is now the subject of an audit initiated by State-owned Angostura Ltd and has been linked to the absence of the company’s chief executive officer from work.

(Trinidad Express) Prepare, don’t panic. This was the advice from seismologist Dr Joan Latchman on what to do when earthquakes occur, especially with the expected “big one”.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pow­er 102.1FM talk show host Garth Christo­pher has been pulled off the air over “of­fen­sive com­ments” he al­leged­ly made to­wards Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith in re­la­tion to the re­cent po­lice killing of five Laven­tille youths.