(Trinidad Express) Over 3,000 people attempted “double dipping” into the Salary Relief Grant, and the Income Support Grant distributed by the Government through separate ministries to assist cash-strapped families and individuals during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on the Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to cancel hosting of the 2020 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in the wake of a surge of Covid-19 cases.
(Trinidad Guardian) With the country at the start of what appears to be a second phase of COVID-19 infections following five locally transmitted infections from an unknown source last week, the Ministry of Health is in overdrive to locate the source/s and determine the spread of this wave of infections through contact tracing.
(Trinidad Express) A Trinidadian stranded in the United States was left heartbroken after he was not allowed to perform the last rites for his deceased father.
(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on the Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to cancel your hosting on the 2020 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in the wake of a surge of Covid-19 cases.
(Trinidad Express) On Tuesday night, as a letter circulated on social media announcing the school’s temporary closure because a pupil had contact with a positive Covid-19 virus patient, NPTA Public Relations Officer Sharmila Raheem told Express the matter is to be investigated.
A police officer stationed at Riverside Plaza in Port-of Spain and her sister, who works in the finance department of the T&T Police Service, have tested positive for COVID-19.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 29-year-old Arouca man will appear before an Arima magistrate today charged with attempting to extort $80,000 and harassment of United National Congress Toco/Sangre Grande candidate Nabila Greene.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the Caribbean is a poorer place following the passing of the former Prime Minister Owen Arthur.
(Trinidad Express) SOCIAL distancing is a challenge in schools.
This was the response yesterday from several primary school principals after two schools were closed within days of each other as a result of possible exposure to Covid-19.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Tropical Storm Warning for Tobago has been discontinued as Tropical Storm Gonzalo has been downgraded to a Tropical Depression.
(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young says the number of Trinidadians involved in the Venezuelan human trafficking ring is disturbing.
(Trinidad Guardian) A video of Watson Duke, leader of the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) inadvertent calling on his supporters to “Vote for PNM,” has gone viral.
(Trinidad Guardian) More than two dozen local police officers are currently under watch by the T&T Police Service Professional Standards Bureau having been implicated in an intrinsic human trafficking ring operating between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Express) (Ministry of Health statement) Within the last 24 hours Trinidad and Tobago has been faced with two confirmed cases of COVID-19 that are pending investigation, case #139 and #141.