Trinidad & Tobago Newspapers

Two teenagers were among five people shot on August 23, while liming in Arouca. At around 4.30 am, the group, ranging in age from 18 to 32, was standing near the SWAT Security Service building on Royal Street when a vehicle pulled up alongside them. A passenger got out and began shooting at them, before getting back into the care which then sped […]

FORMER foreign affairs minister Dr Amery Browne chided the government for allegedly having put up three different positions towards the impending presence of a US fleet off the coast of Venezuela. The opposition senator and former MP gave his views when approached by Newsday after the Feast of Santa Rosa de Lima at the Santa Rosa RC Church in […]

A Princes Town pensioner was raped during a home invasion on August 23, after she awoke at around 1.30 am and found a Spanish-speaking man in her house armed with a knife. The woman, a 65-year-old retired principal, told police she went to bed around 9 pm on August 22, but was awakened by a noise and saw a man standing in her bedroom. The suspect […]

A San Juan man was robbed in broad daylight while buying doubles along El Socorro Main Road on August 24. The 54-year-old victim from Don Miguel Road told police he was waiting for his order at Dass Doubles shortly after 9 am when two men approached him from the side and snatched a bracelet off his wrist. According to a police report, one of the […]

Big-hitting by former captain Kieron Pollard (65 off 29 balls) and a sloppy catching display by reigning champs St Lucia Kings helped Trinbago Knight Riders get an 18-run win when the teams met in their Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) match at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Beausejour, St Lucia, on August 23. Sent to have first […]

BRIDGETOWN: In a significant move that signals a potential changing of the guard, long-serving opener and former Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite is set to be dropped from Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) central contract list for the 2025-2026 season. The 32-year-old stalwart, a mainstay at the top of the order for over a decade, is not expected to be […]

The government’s recent announcement (the cancellation of the Independence Day Parade and state-funded fireworks for replacement by a National Day of Prayer and Reflection) was met with applause by some and dismay by others who see fireworks and "the parade" as Independence Day staples. Over the years, various individuals and organisations have […]

THE EDITOR: The State's provision of affordable housing to low and middle-income applicants has been delivered primarily by the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) and, to a lesser extent, the Land Settlement Agency (LSA). The current housing policy - Showing Trinidad & Tobago a New Way Home – was established in 2002 with the ambitious […]

DR RITA PEMBERTON The typical image of a sugar plantation shows enslaved Africans labouring in the fields, while descriptions of the plantation complex focus on the activities considered central to the business of the plantation. Plantation records provide detailed information on labour and its related problems for cultivation and processing and […]

UNDER a state of emergency, the Gazette publication of notices announcing and justifying the arrest of individuals under special powers – known as detention orders – is normally a routine affair. Not so the spate of orders, brimming with alarming details and gangster confessions, issued by Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander, published […]