Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) The Police Service has launched a new programme to prevent young persons from joining gangs and engaging in violent crimes.

(Trinidad Express) The nation’s schools were all but abandoned by mid-morning yesterday, the first day of the new academic year, as thousands of teachers heeded their union’s call to “rest and reflect” on the Government’s four per cent wage increase offer.

(Trinidad Express) The 2022 murder toll has reached 400 and climbing.

(Trinidad Express) Police suspect the murder of a 27-year-old woman on Independence Day may have been drug-related and that she was not the initial target.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Baxter siblings had already decorated their homes with patriotic paraphernalia ahead of T&T celebrating 60 years of independence yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating the murder of a 38-year-old man of Julien Park, Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of seven-year-old Mc Kenzie Hope Rachier has been charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Police Commissioner Mc Donald Jacob says there is no policy in the T&T Police Service to target or “hunt” young Afro-Trinidadians.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men were executed in Longdenville Saturday morning. According to reports, the men were first made to strip down to their boxers before they were both shot in their heads.

(Trinidad Guardian) When death came stalking, 11-year-old Rachel Bhagwandeen pushed her younger brother Jaylon away from a raging American Bulldog, telling him to run away.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says his decision to accept the Police Service Commission’s choice of Gary Griffith as the best option for Police Commissioner was the biggest mistake he has made in his life.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The Beetham man who was fined $400 for kicking water on MP Fitzgerald Hinds during a walkabout back in 2018, was killed by police on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Opposition Leader, Kamla Persad Bissessar SC MP, has taken aim at the recently concluded Agri Investment Forum Expo 2 by questioning how it will address issues plaguing farmers.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Scrap iron workers joined with taxi drivers of Barrackpore yesterday, blocking the roads with heaps of gravel, burning tyres and other debris.

Heavy afternoon showers and thunderstorms caused flooding, felled trees and power outages across various areas of Trinidad yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are probing two murders which occurred early yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Killings in Port-of-Spain continued over the weekend as Jason “Pompey” Purcell was gunned down on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three weeks before strangling seven-year-old McKenzie Hope Rechier, the 25-year-old suspect confided in a neighbour that she planned to kill the child and herself.

(Trinidad Express) The bound and bullet-riddled bodies of two men were found in Tucker Valley, Chaguaramas, on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seven-year-old McKenzie Hope Rechia is dead after being allegedly strangled by a close female relative at her home in Palo Seco, yesterday.