Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) A 77-year-old man is dead after he was trapped in a fire started by bandits who robbed his family before setting his Chaguanas home ablaze yesterday.

 (Trinidad Express) Soca artiste Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate on Wednesday charged with using obscene language.

(Trinidad Express) A Chutney Soca Monarch (CSM) finalist and former CSM queen is condemning this year’s results.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has received a letter of apology dated February 20, from American Airlines Managing Director, International Government Affairs, Robert Wirick, for treatment meted out at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport last week.

(Trinidad Express) Former SM Jaleel vice-president Adil Aleem Mohammed has been convicted and placed on probation by a court in the United States for unlawful use of a two-way device.

(Trinidad Express) Mitera Balkaran’s battle with cancer is over. The 33-year-old mechanical engineer succumbed to her illness and died early on Saturday morning at San Fernando General Hospital after landing in Trinidad about two weeks prior.

(Trinidad Express) Newly appointed Government Senator Richie Sookhai has denied accusations on social media that his family donated air-conditioning units to the People’s National Movement (PNM) to install at its Balisier House headquarters in Port of Spain.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ricardo “Daddy Chinee” Melville is the 2023 Chutney Soca Monarch, while breakout performer, nine-year-old Katelin Sultan is the new Queen of Chutney.

(Trinidad Express) A man suspected of the killing of two Cuche relatives and the wounding of a third has been arrested and charged.

(Trinidad Guardian) Georgetown, Guyana: Trinidad and Tobago’s self-proclaimed “number one salesman,” Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, was hard at work yesterday as he marketed this country as the region’s best bet for a bright energy future.

(Trinidad Guardian) The hunt is now on for a man who shot and killed a police officer’s son at his Princes Town home last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hope is fading for four Guayaguayare fishermen who have been missing since January 31.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homicide officers are continuing investigations into the murders of two Tabaquite men and have already taken statements from several villagers.

(Trinidad Express) Entertainer Amit Dookram was critically injured in an crash on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) Look out, Mr Bigs, the police are coming after you.

(Trinidad Express) There was celebration in the prison system yesterday, when a resident of the Youth Training and Rehabilitation Centre (YTRC) qualified for the National Calypso Monarch competition.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Mayaro family is now clinging to hope that their patriarch, Herralal “Lenus” Cooblal, and his fellow fishermen will return home alive, after a search crew found his vessel abandoned at sea yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Local entertainer and radio personality, Anil Bheem, died this morning, hours after performing at two pre-Carnival events.

(Trinidad Guardian) The House of Representatives yesterday unanimously confirmed Erla Harewood-Christopher as the country’s first-ever female Commissioner of Police.

(Trinidad Guardian) It was supposed to have been a day of celebration as Kendell Francis turned 18-years-old on Wednesday.