Trinidad & Tobago News

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) There was no official shutdown in central and north Trinidad on Monday but the usual traffic gridlock on the roads was absent as many stayed away from work and school.

Four ter­tiary lev­el in­sti­tu­tions have can­celled all class­es for to­mor­row as a re­sult of the flood­ing dis­as­ter now af­fect­ing parts of the coun­try.

(Trinidad Guardian) With the Ca­roni Riv­er still over­flow­ing its banks, hun­dreds of mo­torists ei­ther try­ing to get to north or south Trinidad re­main strand­ed on the Uri­ah But­ler High­way.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Af­ter­noon rains in West Trinidad brought land­slides in Care­nage and flood­ing in Diego Mar­tin and Mar­aval.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) More Caribbean Air­lines do­mes­tic flights con­tin­ue to be dis­rupt­ed by the ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions at both Pi­ar­co and Arthur NR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­ports.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) More than 800 people who attended the 150th Anniversary National Presbyterian Convention 2018 at the Centre of Excellence in Macoya were stranded at the hall on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Me­te­o­rol­o­gist Seigo­nie Mo­hammed says cit­i­zens should pre­pare for river­ine flood­ing to­day.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has declared that the flooding nightmare that has left thousands marooned is a “national disaster.”

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) There has been a catastrophic level of flooding across many communities in Trinidad overnight.

(Trinidad Express) Days after she told a story of demons in her head, a 40-year-old woman died from ingesting a poisonous substance on the streets of Penal on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary has been declared a terrorist in Trinidad and Tobago.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) SINCE Marvin Farria’s narrow escape from death one week ago, four more vessels from the Icacos area have been seized and an unknown number of Trinidadians detained by the Venezuelan Guardia Nacional.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Movietowne Port of Spain was the scene of a shooting on Wednesday.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) The in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­leged kid­nap­ping of Gas­par­il­lo res­i­dent Jonathon Ram­cha­ran took a strange twist ear­li­er today when video sur­veil­lance showed him en­ter­ing taxi en route to Port-of-Spain.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Dane Clarke is ap­peal­ing to his col­leagues not to aban­don their jobs fol­low­ing the mur­der of yet an­oth­er prison of­fi­cer.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Another prison officer has been shot and killed. Officer Darren Francis died from a bullet to the head.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Mother-of-two Vanessa Ali was the second woman to be killed in 2018.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) The 21-year-old moth­er of a two-year-old girl who drowned in Ch­aguara­mas in Au­gust has been re­leased on $75,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with manslaugh­ter.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A central Trinidad wife is blaming black magic for her husband’s disappearance.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) A 72-year-old pas­tor has ap­peared be­fore a San­gre Grande Mag­is­trate, charged with four counts of sex­u­al touch­ing against a fe­male vic­tim.