Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

A 23-year-old woman from Trincity was held on November 21 at the Central Market in Port of Spain, with US$1,000 in counterfeit money. Officers at the Central Market Police Post were alerted of the counterfeit money after several vendors were paid with it. A description of the suspect was given and officers began a surveillance […]

 HEAVY SHOWERS have caused widespread street and flash flooding, as well as landslides across Port of Spain and surrounding areas. A video shared on social media shows fallen trees blocking the pathway leading to Maracas Beach, while another clip captures the murky brown water of the Diego Martin River near the Westmoorings Bridge, dangerously […]

DISABLED people can now apply for permits that will ensure that they have easy access to designated parking facilities. The launch of the the new Persons with Disability Parking Permit took place at South Park Mall, San Fernando on November 22. In a Facebook post on November 22, the Ministry of Works and Transport said, […]

TWO men from Debe are in police custody in connection with the attempted murder of a 39-year-old man who was chopped on November 10, in the community. Barrackpore police arrested the suspects, aged 37 and 40, on November 21. The two face two charges of attempted murder and robbery with violence which stemmed from the […]

SOUTHERN Division police arrested 15 men in a warrant exercise between November 21 and 22 in the division. The exercise took place between 10 am on November 21 and 5 am on November 22 in areas such as Princes Town, Guapo, Gasparillo, Moruga, San Fernando, Debe, Marabella, and St Mary’s Village. A police statement on […]

A 75-year-old pensioner from Blitz Village, Pleasantville, San Fernando died in a fire that completely destroyed his wooden home early on November 23. The house, which was not wired for electricity, is believed to have caught fire from a candle left unattended, police said. Residents were alerted shortly before 6 am when the fire broke […]

Dara E Healy The film’s title was Inside de People TV. The opening sequence showed a working-class family watching their local station’s 7 o’clock evening news. Suddenly, there was their teenage son being interviewed, live, during a disturbance in downtown Port of Spain. “Wait!” the mother says, sitting up in alarm, “But is what we […]

THE EDITOR: I am a simple person with simple questions. Can anyone explain to me how the value of the dollar is decided? Here in Trinidad we had petro dollars, pitch lake, sugar, cocoa and coffee, as well as a little tourism. Yet, somehow, other islands like Barbados and those in the Eastern Caribbean just […]

MINISTER in the Ministry of National Security Keith Scotland – the Cabinet member who was in July appointed under the understanding that he was to be assigned responsibility for police matters – should clarify his position on the use of private security firms in the crime fight. At the launch on November 20 of an […]

TREVOR SUDAMA ASSESSING a sense of economic dissatisfaction and social disillusionment among the majority of Americans, Donald Trump amplified and exploited this sentiment with liberal recourse to misinformation, disinformation and flagrant untruths. He attributed the causes of their grievance and distress to the following: 1. The invasion of the country by tens of millions of […]