Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Government has now allocated $30 million to bail out restaurant and bar employees and people who are self-employed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said there is to be no Christmas parties in the public service in 2020 and has called on the private sector to follow suit.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of National Security says the Opposition’s failure to support the continuation of the Anti-Gang Act “will have very serious negative effects on the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s (TTPS) fight against gangs and criminality.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Insensitive comments by a person recording a cell phone video of the body of a man who was fatally shot, have generated ire among social media users.

(Trinidad Express) An appeal has been made to Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly to get answers from the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) and put an end to “nine weeks of torment” for thousands of secondary school pupils.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s official.  MovieTowne Chaguanas will be closed permanently, leaving only the Port-of-Spain and San Fernando branches.

(Trinidad Express) MOTORISTS were faced with what appeared to be bodies in the middle of the Eastern Main Road in Arima this morning.

(Trinidad Express) A man who went to the gym twice while he was supposed to be in quarantine for Covid-19 will be charged, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A popular Cunupia flower shop owner and her daughter were last night killed in Carapichaima, as they boarded a car to go to their home in Cunupia.

(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-one-year-old toy store manager Steven Redhead is today a local hero, after his sharp hearing caught the cries of what he initially thought were kittens coming from the bushes as he and his brother Reynaldo were walking to get transport for work yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) A popular Cunupia flower shop owner and her daughter were last night killed in Carapichaima, as they boarded a car to go to their home in Cunupia.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a statement, Kes The Band is no longer intending to take legal action against Apple, Remi Wolf of Island Records.

(Trinidad Express) An out-of-body experience. This is how the performance by Payge Turner (Paige Roopchan) was described by one judge after winning the knockout round of Tuesday night’s The Voice.

(Trinidad Guardian) The body that was found burnt in a car in St Joseph on Monday night has been identified as Andre Kennette Smith, 37.

(Trinidad Express) Police issued 40 public health penalty notices at beaches across three divisions for breaching Covid-19 regulations on Sunday.

Police are seeking the urgent assistance of the public in locating 15-year-old Rihanna Teemal.

(Trinidad Express) More people are dying from pancreatic cancer in T&T than in the United States, although the rate of incidents for the disease are higher in the US where it is the 11th most common form of cancer.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith is again warning people of pyramid schemes saying they could be fronts for money laundering and financing of criminal activities such as drugs, human trafficking and illegal firearm trade.

(Trinidad Guardian) bpTT on Monday retrenched more than 40 workers in what is expected to an exercise in which close to 100 employees will be let go from the company this week.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust recently released two Blue and Gold Macaws as part of its ‘breed and release’ programme of endangered species.