(Trinidad Guardian) A situation beyond that imagined in a nightmare. This was the reaction of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley after he learnt of the dramatic drop in US oil prices while at the first meeting of Trinidad and Tobago’s Road Map to Recovery team yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) History was created on the global oil market yesterday when the price of the US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, plunged into negative territory for the first time ever.
(Trinidad Guardian) The emergency grants introduced by Government to assist citizens affected by the Stay-at-Home order continues to be accessed by both employees and self-employed persons across several sectors of T&T.
(Trinidad Guardian) As thousands seek to get relief from loss of earnings during the COVID-19 crisis, a local bishop has told worshippers via social media that they will have to pay tithes to the church from grants and hampers given to them by the State.
(Trinidad Guardian) “Stay home or I will make your life very uncomfortable.”
(Trinidad Guardian) Public health officials should expand COVID-19 testing to target asymptomatic patients to gather adequate data to determine if the country has any community spread of the coronavirus, two members of a regional COVID-19 task force have said.
(Trinidad Guardian) A food crisis is coming in T&T unless the government begins food security planning, says agriculture economist Omardath Maharaj.
(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said a hacker used his Facebook account to advise someone to mute their television when journalists ask questions at the news conferences.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police were forced to disperse a large crowd of people gathered at the Barakah Grounds in Chaguanas yesterday, to get hampers distributed by a team under the guidance of well-known media owner Inshan Ishmael.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police have detained a man for the shooting death of a Assistant Superintendent of Police in Chaguanas yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is chairing a team of experts—including former People’s National Movement and People’s Partnership finance minister economists Wendell Mottley and Winston Dookeran—who are drafting a recovery roadmap for Trinidad and Tobago following the COVID-19 crisis.
(Trinidad Express) As of yesterday, 38,000 people had applied for the Salary Relief Grant provided by the Government to ease the hardship suddenly inflicted on them by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Trinidad Guardian) “One day you will give away your last breath.
(Trinidad Guardian) Television personality Ian Alleyne has withdrawn his emergency lawsuit over being detained after allegedly receiving an official discharge from the Caura Hospital, earlier this week.
Three men accused of hanging a dog has been granted $15,000 own bail.
(Trinidad Express) Five Trinidadian men and six Venezuelan nationals appeared in court today, charged under the Public Health [2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)] (No.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s healthcare system has been given a shot in the arm as the country will receive from the CAF—Development Bank of Latin America a loan of $340 million (US$50m) to mitigate the COVID-19 health crisis here.
(Trinidad Express) Ordinary Seaman Takeem Alexander has appeared before a Port of Spain Magistrate charged with the unlawful killing of his colleague, Ordinary Seaman Gyasi Richardson.
(Trinidad Express) A MAN who threatened to kill Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has been sent to jail.
(Trinidad Express) Police mounted a search for four gunmen who killed a man in San Fernando on Monday afternoon.
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