Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley did not take a private jet out of Trinidad to New York.

(Trinidad Guardian) As homicide detectives continue their search for the killers of retired chemist Veji Boodoo and his sons Shreedharshan and Vidharshan, his wife says they were not religious extremists.

(Trinidad Express) A total of 92 Covid-positive cases were reported yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A chemist who was the focus of an investigation into threats of terrorism back in 2003 was killed along with his two sons yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Officers of the North Eastern Division Task Force arrested eight people, including two women and two Venezuelan men, who were involved in a bloody supermarket robbery that ended in murder this morning.