Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

THREE SUSPECTS were arrested by officers of the Matura Police Station following the robbery of a delivery vehicle along the Toco Main Road on December 27. The arrest was made during an anti-crime exercise, two firearms and a quantity of ammunition and camouflage clothing were also seized. In a news release on December 28, police […]

THE Prime Minister, members of his government, opposition politicians and the people of Trinidad and Tobago on December 28 congratulated Joshua “D Pan Man” Regrello after he set a world record of 31 hours for the longest-playing pan marathon to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. Previous steelpan world records had been set for […]

THE condolence book in memory of Minister in the Ministry of Education and MP for D’Abadie/O’Meara Lisa Morris-Julian, who died in a fire along with two of her children on December 16, will remain open for signing daily from 9 am to 4 pm until December 31 in the Rotunda of the Red House in […]

OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar mourned the passing of former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, 92, who died on December 26. “As a former Prime Minister and current Leader of the Opposition, I extend my heartfelt condolences to the government and people of India on the passing of the Honourable. Manmohan Singh former Prime Minister of […]

VADODARA: Deepti Sharma and Renuka Singh ripped through the West Indies women’s batting to lead India women to a comfortable five-wicket win and a sweep of the three-match One-Day International (ODI) series at the Kotambi International Cricket Stadium on December 27. Player-of-the-Match Sharma bagged six wickets – her second five-wicket haul in ODIs – and […]

THE Prime Minister said he was “very disappointed” at the country’s rate of violent crime, as the year’s murders were reportedly at 615 people as of December 27. In a post on Facebook in the early hours of that day, Dr Rowley called for more action by the police, judges and the family members of […]

THE Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is urging firework users to be careful of causing property damage and to be considerate of vulnerable people and animals. The commission urged people who use fireworks to celebrate the holiday season safely, in a statement on December 27. “Fireworks and fire lanterns (also known as sky lanterns) […]

POLICE found 443 grammes of marijuana in Morvant on the evening of December 26. A police statement on December 27 said that around 2-5 pm on December 26, Morvant officers searched a bushy area on Pitch Road and found a black bag with eight clear plastic wrappings. Each of the wrappings had marijuana, which had […]

A 23-year-old man was gunned down in Diego Martin early on the morning of December 27. He was identified as Nicholas Smith of Upper La Puerta Avenue, Millington Drive, Diego Martin. A senior police source said around 6 am on December 27 they received a report of a body lying on the ground near the […]

THE brutal, heinous and callous killing of his wife earned a 27-year sentence for a Barrackpore lorry driver who had also killed his previous wife. However, Ramesh “Blood” Sieunarine will serve a term of 13 years, five months and 22 days for killing his common-law wife Tricia Ramsaran–Ramdass on June 9, 2020. This was the […]