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The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.

dis­pute A 38-year-old man was shot in the right hand and foot, al­leged­ly over the sale of land. Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, the vic­tim told po­lice he was hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with his neigh­bours near his home about the sale of land in the area when he was ap­proached by a man from the com­mu­ni­ty who told him to leave. The in­ci­dent hap­pened at about 2.30 pm on Wednes­day. The sus­pect then al­leged­ly pulled out a firearm and shot the vic­tim sev­er­al times.

Midday blast at NP Sea Lots compound 3 hospitalised Kalain Ho­sein Thick, black smoke bil­lowed high in­to the skies across Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, as thou­sands of gal­lons of fu­el burnt in­dis­crim­i­nate­ly fol­low­ing an ex­plo­sion at Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um’s Sea Lots com­pound. Three peo­ple, said to be con­trac­tors per­form­ing main­te­nance work on the com­pound at the time, were in­jured in the blast and were quick­ly whisked away from the scene for emer­gency med­ical care.