Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Convicted narcotics trafficker and alleged ‘zesser’ party organiser Dorrel Simon was shot and killed on Sunday night.

Caribbean Airlines Cargo is currently developing a Covid-19 vaccine transportation plan to ensure its readiness to distribute the vaccine throughout the Caribbean when it becomes available.

(Trinidad Guardian) A group of Venezuelans who protested outside Trinidad and Tobago’s Embassy in Washington last Friday have noted “accidents” happening between T&T and Venezuela – but they said their protest was really to get T&T’s Government to stop “supporting” the Nicolas Maduro administration.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over 35 offshore workers employed with the Perenco Trinidad and Tobago oil and gas company were transported to the Ministry of Health’s quarantine facility at the University of the West Indies’ Debe campus last evening, after they tested positive for COVID-19 while on duty on the Teak Alpha platform last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) High Court Judge Justice Frank Seepersad is calling for safety and support hubs to be set up in communities across the country to assist victims of domestic abuse.

(Trinidad Express) Even if a person has been administered a Covid-19 vaccine in another country, if he or she intends to enter Trinidad and Tobago, the person will be required to show Covid-negative status.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has summoned Venezuela’s Ambassador to T&T, Carlos Amador Perez Silva, to a meeting to discuss recent developments concerning both countries – and Trinidad and Tobago’s position.

(Trinidad Guardian) Amidst the bustle of Christmas shopping on High Street, San Fernando, Venezuelan migrants are roaming the streets in search of work and food.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidadian businessmen are involved in the illegal trade of Venezuelans to this country for the sale of their bodies through prostitution and also sale of their organs.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Trinidadian doctor who was among the historic first round of healthcare workers to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is advising citizens to put their fears aside and get vaccinated when it becomes available.

(Trinidad Express) Registered Venezuelans will get another extension of their stay in Trinidad and Tobago, this time to June 3, 2021, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Stuart Young is reminding the country that national borders have not yet been reopened by the Government.

(Trinidad Express) British Petroleum (bp) said on Wednesday its restructuring exercise will result in 149 employees being separated from the group’s Trinidad business on a voluntary or involuntary basis.

(Trinidad Express) The Appeal Court has reserved its ruling in a challenge against the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) after it dismissed a complaint brought by a man who said he was sexually harassed by a female co-worker.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over 100 Trinidad and Tobago nationals were expected back home last evening, as the Government continued its repatriation exercises for the Christmas period.

(Trinidad Express) British Petroleum (bp) said yesterday its ­restructuring ­exercise will result in 149 ­employees being separated from the group’s Trinidad business on a voluntary or involuntary basis.

(Trinidad Express) A man reported missing on Monday, has been found murdered.

(Trinidad Express) A Jamaican national resident in Trinidad and Tobago for over fourteen years died on Tuesday night at hospital due to complications after being shot on Sunday along the Brian Lara Promenade, Port of Spain.

(Trinidad Guardian) “I never looked at it as something to stop me.

(Trinidad Express) It was unintentional and the Prime Minister is sorry.