Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Police are at the scene of murder and suicide in San Fernando this morning.

(Trinidad Express) A video showing primary school children ducking below desks as a gun battle raged outside a Laventille school has forced the school to be closed.

(Trinidad Express) member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force on the base in La Romaine sustained a gunshot injury to the head on Tuesday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the Government has spent $80 million to install 2,500 CCTV cameras across the country to give the T&T Police Service an extra boost in its fight against the criminal element.

(Trinidad Express) An association with gang elements in St James is now believed to have led to the murders of Korey Clarke and Samantha Patrick on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rural Development and Local Government Minister Faris Al- Rawi is looking forward to the increased scope of powers that regional corporations will soon possess to enable them to take stricter action against errant contractors who have contributed to the increased flooding across the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) After receiving several complaints from young driver’s licence applicants that they have been asked to pay or “grease hand” to pass their driving tests, Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan says the Transport Division will be outfitted with their own vehicles for driving tests equipped with cameras and recording devices to end the illegal practice.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four men were killed and two women injured in separate shootings in Diego Martin, Cunupia, and Santa Cruz between Sunday night and Monday morning bringing the country’s murder count over the Divali long weekend to 11.

(Trinidad Express) DIAMOND Village painter Rodney Charles is believed to have been lured to his death on Saturday night when he was shot and killed near the place where residents in his community were bursting bamboo for Divali celebrations.

(Trinidad Express);Village painter Rodney Charles is believed to have been lured to his death on Saturday night when he was shot and killed near the place where residents in his community were bursting bamboo for Divali celebrations.

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has said the Law Association has acted cowardly in the way it addressed the controversy involving the Vincent Nelson indemnity matter.

(Trinidad Express) President Paula-Mae Weekes has been chided by citizens over her mispronunciation of several Hindi words during her address at the 2022 Divali Nagar on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) The Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) has called on Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, to break his silence over the discontinuation of criminal proceedings against former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, SC, and former Senator Gerald Ramdeen.

(Trinidad Express) A double homicide in Wallerfield over a cow, killings in Carenage, Pleasantville and late yesterday on Henry Street in Port of Spain have pushed the murder toll to 477 for the year.

(Trinidad Express) The dismembered bodies of two men which were found in Cunupia on Monday have been identified.

(Trinidad Guardian) State-owned Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) has until today to respond to a lawsuit filed by a Florida-based travel service provider that has accused this country’s national carrier for accepting payments from United States citizens to provide transportation for their Cuban relatives to travel between Cuba and Guyana to access US consular services.

(Trinidad Express) The scuttled case against attorneys Anand Ramlogan SC and Gerald Ramdeen has been described as the “biggest scandal in our 60 years as an independent nation” by Chaguanas West Member of Parliament Dinesh Rambally.

(Trinidad Guardian) Shocked and heartbroken over his murder, the family of 29-year-old Randy Joseph is calling for justice.

(Trinidad Express) – Opposition Senator David Nakhid declared to the Senate yesterday that Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is under police investigation and he (Nakhid) was interviewed as a witness.

(Trinidad Express) – A criminal suspect who staged a robbery using an imitation gun, paid with his life on Friday night.