Trinidad & Tobago News

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

(Trinidad Guardian) What started off as a fender bender turned into a fatal attack after a mechanic was beaten and stabbed to death by a group of Spanish-speaking men shortly after midnight yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) After being barred from entering the Treasury building to change cheques on Monday because her shoulders were exposed, Arouca caterer Allison Skinner-Bacchus draped herself in a curtain she had in her vehicle and unintentionally reignited the national debate on the dress code for government offices.

(Trinidad Express) The Parliament last night approved the notification of the President for the nomination of Erla Harewood Christopher to act as Commissioner of Police.

 (Trinidad Express) Videsh Dookran, 15, left his family’s home in Golconda telling his mother that he was going to a ‘cook’ at a relative’s house on Saturday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) MovieTowne will turn 20 years old next month and the celebrations will include the opening of the first dinosaur theme park in the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Express) A Pleasantville man was fatally shot in Cocoyea, San Fernando yesterday afternoon during an altercation allegedly over a parking spot with an off-duty police officer.

(Trinidad Guardian) A concert was scheduled to be held next month to celebrate the 75th birthday of calypso icon Explainer (Winston Henry).

(Trinidad Guardian) Guardian Media has been informed that the body of the woman who was washed away Wednesday’s flood waters, has been found in Arouca.

(Trinidad Guardian) Members of the T&T Fire Service Search and Rescue team, the Hunters Search and Rescue team, T&T Police Service and villagers were on Wednesday night trying to locate a farmer who was feared dead after she was washed away by floodwaters while attempting to cross a ravine in Surrey Village, Lopinot.

(Trinidad Guardian) Less developed Caricom countries are being asked to consider appealing to oil-rich Guyana to take on part of the role which T&T assumed in 2007 when it was felt T&T was flush with money, and it could share the money with T&T’s Caricom brothers.

(Trinidad Guardian) It was a traumatic morning for a Mayaro family on Monday, after armed bandits stormed their home.

(Trinidad Express) An autopsy on the body of the University of the West Indies employee Marissa Edwards found that she died after she suffered blunt force trauma and was strangled with a length of copper wire.

(Trinidad Express) The mother of nine-month-old Salileen Ramsaroop has been charged with manslaughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) Motorists began paying higher prices for Premium, Super and Diesel fuel, and kerosene, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The body of Merissa Edwards has been found in a drain in Couva.

(Trinidad Express) Former United States prosecutor Perry Kendall Jr is working with the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) to strengthen its prosecution of gang members in this country.

(Trinidad Guardian) Concerns that 39-year-old Merissa Edwards may not be found alive have deepened, following the death of her boyfriend.

(Trinidad Express) Recent incidents of violence against Trinibad artistes have lowered morale in the industry and affected those using the art form as a way to better their lives.

(Trinidad Express) Former senior officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Police service (TTPS) are currently under investigation after it was discovered that police lights had been attached to vehicles that were not registered to have them.