Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health is reporting an alarming increase in the number of Covid-19 cases.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith, has ordered that an investigation be conducted into a report that police officers stood still and did nothing and allowed more than 1,000 spectators to witness a cricket match in Central Trinidad last Wednesday evening, thereby breaching the Public Health Ordinance Regulations guidelines.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has accused the United National Congress (UNC) of using racially-insensitive messaging in its televised political advertisements.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pupils preparing for the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination will do their work at home from today until the August 20 test – and bars and restaurants are now the biggest COVID-19 risk.

(Trinidad Guardian) While his father worked nearby, a four-year-old toddler, left in the care of his grandmother, fell into a swimming pool in Rio Claro and drowned on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) A man was stabbed to death during an altercation with another man at the home of a woman early Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has alleged the UNC is distributing truckloads of stoves, fridges and microwave ovens in the South and East and he told supporters to take them all and then vote for the PNM.

(Trinidad Express) A drunken man who poured a pot of boiling water on a woman who asked him to leave her house, has been sent to prison.

(Trinidad Express) All schools are still set to reopen on September 1 and there is no change to the August 20 date for the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination.

(Trinidad Express) The Office of the Prime Minister (Gender and Child Affairs) and the Children’s Authority of Trinidad and Tobago are currently working with the Management and Staff of the St.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 52-year-old housewife of Cunupia will appear before a Chaguanas Magistrate on August 3rd charged with selling intoxicating liquor without a liquor license.

(Trinidad Guardian) Another primary school had to be shut down on Friday after the parent of a Standard Five pupil was confirmed to have contracted the virus.

(Trinidad Guardian) First Citizens’ profit after taxation fell by 60 per cent for the three months ended June 2020 when compared to the same period last year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced a change in the number of people who can congregate in groups, from 25 to 10.

(Trinidad Guardian) Having been together with the father of her children for 15 years and having gone through years of severe abuse to a point where she sustained broken bones in the process, 26-year-old Vera Golabie refused help from the police to be placed in a safe house.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite an increase in locally spread COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the August 10 General Election will go on.

(Trinidad Express) A 14-year-old boy is in serious condition at hospital after his lip was bitten almost half off during an argument with a close female relative early Friday.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health is reporting five more Covid-19 cases this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) With the growing perception that Venezuelans are responsible for T&T’s second wave of COVID-19 spread, human rights activists say landlords are now evicting migrants over the fear of prosecution by the State.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the fear of the recent uptick in localised COVID-19 cases continued to fuel debate on whether the Government should again lock down the country, the Ministry of Health yesterday reported eight new cases, the highest daily count since the virus hit Trinidad and Tobago’s shores.