Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Outspoken judge and lay minister Frank Seepersad says there is a race relations crisis in T&T which needs to be addressed urgently.

(Trinidad Express) THE MOTHER of the Venezuelan teenager who was brutally attacked and left for dead in a gravel road in Debe last month has asked for continued prayer and support for her daughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday admitted the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated our efforts in the tourism market, creating a TT$15 billion hole which is likely to impact the country’s upcoming budget considerably.

(Trinidad Express) A Moruga mother is demanding an investigation into the shooting death of her son allegedly by an off-duty police officer on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) COVID-positive pregnant women treated at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex Women’s Hospital have given birth to babies who are negative for the virus.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that from Monday it will be illegal for citizens to step into public without a mask.

(Trinidad Express) As Trinidad and Tobago’s hospital space has increased over the past week, the Government will now amplify its efforts to repatriate stranded nationals.

(Trinidad Express) The Covid-19 pandemic may have disrupted the education system but the Ministry of Education says once all stakeholders work together and do their parts, the remote teaching method being implemented for the upcoming term will be successful.

(Trinidad Guardian) The mandatory wearing of face masks in public to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is now one step closer to reality and could see citizens fined up to $5,000 for breaching it.

(Trinidad Express) Ministry of Education is pleading with Corporate Trinidad for assistance as the new school term signals a pivot to digital learning.

(Trinidad Guardian) If there is no meaningful macroeconomic intervention in the T&T economy, the country runs the risk of depleting its foreign exchange (FX) reserves.

(Trinidad Express) The female Venezuelan teens who left a quarantine facility before being cleared for discharge, no longer had symptoms for the virus.

(Trinidad Express) A POST-MORTEM done on the body of a 71-year-old woman found dead at her Sangre Grande home on Tuesday concluded that she died after being stabbed multiple times.

 (Trinidad Express) With more Covid-19 cases and fewer available hospital beds, the Ministry of Health’s admissions and discharge policy for COVID-19 patients has changed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prisons Commissioner Dennis Pulchan has revealed that they are now facing a major challenge as some 28 prison officers have tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the administration to place another 231 officers in quarantine.

(Trinidad Express) An elderly woman was knifed to death in the bedroom of her home during an attack in Sangre Grande shortly after midnight.

(Trinidad Guardian) 153 new cases of COVID were recorded by the Ministry of Health yesterday making it the highest number ever recorded in a single day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Home to some of the country’s most beautiful animals, the Caroni Swamp is often visited by people hoping to spot a Scarlet Ibis.

(Trinidad Guardian) After months of being stuck in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), T&T national Takiesha Clairmont has got an exemption to return home but needs help to do so.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 10-month-old daughter of a Freeport woman who works at a private medical facility is one of the nation’s newest cases of COVID-19.