Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

MISSION accomplished. Trinidad and Tobago will remain in League A of the Concacaf Nations League after beating Cuba 3-1 in a must-win encounter at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago, on October 14. Defeat would have seen the Soca Warriors relegated to League B, and they came out like a team fighting for survival. Police […]

A UNDP study on human trafficking in the Eastern Caribbean has concluded that the NGO landscape in Trinidad and Tobago is “far more developed” than those of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The study is titled A Media Analysis of the Coverage of Youth Involvement in Crime […]

MERGERS and acquisitions expert Moni Miyashita shared her extensive practical experience of using mergers and acquisitions as a powerful engine for global growth as part of a recent two-day event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. A release from Massy Group on October 14 said those attending included Massy’s leadership team – Massy Holdings Ltd chairman […]

CHAIRMAN of the Tobago Business Chamber Martin George is saddened by the scourge and horror of crime which he said is bedevilling Tobago. On October 13, police began investigating the death of a 42-year-old Cunupia man whose body was found at the beach near the ANR Robinson International Airport in Crown Point. Marcus Archer, originally […]

A High Court judge will rule on October 15 on an application by businessman Steve Ferguson for an injunction to stop the State from demanding information from him as it seeks to enforce a US$131 million judgment against him in Miami. After lengthy submissions on October 14, Justice Frank Seepersad said he will give his […]

THE mother of 19-year-old murder victim Shundell Barrow said her son was killed by gangs in the Gonzales area. Barrow was killed outside his home on the night of October 13. Ayana Cumberbatch-Barrow said Barrow had received death threats three weeks ago and had been pursued by someone intent on killing him two weeks before […]

A 23-year-old usher at Caribbean Cinemas 8, South Park, was kidnapped during a robbery on the night of October 13 after leaving work. Police said the man left work around 10 pm and was walking to his Nissan NP300 pickup, parked in the mall’s car park, with a female coworker, when two men approached, one […]

FIRST Citizens Bank has announced its continued sponsorship of the National Secondary Schools Entrepreneurship Competition (NSSEC), an initiative aimed at innovation, leadership and business acumen among young students outside the traditional school system. In a media release, it said the competition exposed secondary-school students to entrepreneurship training via simulation software. Through gamification, the students experienced […]

POLICE are investigating the death of a 42-year-old Cunupia man whose body was found at the beach near the ANR Robinson International airport in Tobago on October 13. Marcus Archer, originally from Bejucal Road, was employed with a contracting company in Tobago. He was last seen by colleagues at around 6 pm on October 12 […]

WHAT was supposed to be an evening of fun at a car show with her children ended in tragedy for a Princes Town woman when she was chopped to death by a close male relative on October 12 in an attack investigators believe stemmed from a domestic incident. Laura Sankar, 34, of Post Office Trace, […]