Trinidad & Tobago News

Dr Keith Rowley

T&T PM to lead post-COVID-19 recovery team

(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.

‘$3.5b shortfall’: Finance Minister Colm Imbert speaks to the media yesterday at the Eric Williams Financial Complex, Port of Spain, to update the nation on the current financial situation.

38,000 Trinidadians seek salary relief

(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.

The Couva Hospital

Trinidad gets US$50m loan to fight COVID-19

(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.

Some of the people who were arrested during a raid on a COVID party at Alicia's Guest House in St Ann's on Friday morning.

Trinidad cops raid COVID party in St. Ann’s

(Trinidad Guardian) Mere hours after he warned the public against hosting COVID parties, Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith led a group of officers into St Ann’s where they shut down such a party at Alicia’s Guest House in Coblentz Gardens.

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