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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.

Customs makes 3rd cocaine haul in Piarco by 20210507 Custom and Excise officers found cocaine hidden in a souvenir steelpan like the one above at the T&T Nastional Mail Centre in Piarco yesterday. Mark Bas­sant For the third time in two weeks, of­fi­cers from the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion have dis­cov­ered pack­ages at the T&T Na­tion­al Mail Cen­tre in Pi­ar­co with co­caine hid­den in­side. Se­nior Cus­toms of­fi­cers told Guardian Me­dia that around 3.30 pm yes­ter­day, a spe­cial ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed at the cen­tre where spe­cif­ic pack­ages w...

Close to $5m in cocaine found in packages destined for US by Lead Ed­i­tor, In­ves­tiga­tive Desk Al­most one week af­ter Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers found $.3 mil­lion in co­caine hid­den in pre­served fruits at the T&T Na­tion­al Mail Cen­tre in Pi­ar­co, they have made an even big­ger dis­cov­ery over the last three days amount­ing to close to TT$5m in co­caine hid­den in var­i­ous pack­ages des­tined for the Unit­ed States and oth­er parts of the world.

Cocaine found in preserved fruits at TTPost by 20210429 The prunes and cherries in which the cocaine was found hidden inside by Customs and Excise Division officers on Tuesday evening. Mark Bas­sant An es­ti­mat­ed $.3m in co­caine was found hid­den in pre­served fruits at the TTPost Na­tion­al Mail Cen­tre in Pi­ar­co yes­ter­day evening. The co­caine find came mere hours af­ter Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers and the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU) made a sig­nif­i­cant arms and am­mu­ni­tion dis­cov­ery at a Cen­tral ware­house in Cou...

Three held in high seas drug bust by Kristian De Silva Mark Bas­sant Three men were held ear­ly this morn­ing aboard a pirogue in the Gulf of Paria near the Point Fortin area by of­fi­cers of the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion and a huge quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics seized with the street val­ue yet to be as­cer­tained. A se­nior Cus­toms of­fi­cer told Guardian Me­dia that act­ing on in­tel­li­gence pro­vid­ed a white pirogue with blue trim­mings was in­ter­cept­ed near the Point Fortin area short­ly af­ter 4 a.m.