Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Couva Hospital is now on total lockdown after receiving 40 new patients who have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Nine has turned into 49. As of yesterday, this was the total number of COVID-19 coronavirus cases recorded in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of National Security Stuart Young says Trinidad and Tobago will close its international borders completely from midnight Sunday (March 22) to prevent the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

(Trinidad Express) Neighbours had to break down the front door of an apartment in Maloney Gardens yesterday morning to save the life of a four-year-old boy.

(Trinidad Guardian) As he recalled his grandfather’s tales of coffins lining the churches in Mason Hall during the 1918 Spanish Influenza, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday said Government will use a heavy hand if it needs to intervene in large gatherings.

(Trinidad Guardian) Parliament will today enforce regulations under the Public Health Ordinance (PHO) that will give Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh power to shut down bars, casinos, members’ clubs and restaurants across the country during the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

(Trinidad  Guardian) Police continue their search for Palmiste businessman Wade Charles, whose burnt rental car was found after he went missing on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Two more people have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the total of infected individuals in Trinidad and Tobago to nine.

(Trinidad Express) Top Trinidad and Tobago female cyclist Teniel Campbell, based in Italy, has informed her supporters and the national community of her well-being, stating she is safe.

(Trinidad Guardian) Not even foreign spouses or children of T&T nationals will be allowed into the country while the ban on non-nationals entering the country is in place, says National Security Minister Stuart Young.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago, advises the population of two additional confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

(Trinidad Express) New measures to help society’s most vulnerable have been implemented in the wake of COVID-19.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago nationals who returned home after being stranded on a cruise ship with passengers who tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, have been taken from the Piarco International Airport to a quarantine location in Toco.

(Trinidad Guardian) The two latest novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases announced by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday night were two Trinidadian women who were aboard the Costa Favolosa cruise ship that was anchored off Martinique for several days.

(Trinidad Express) A man known to police for robbery offences was killed in Ste Madeleine on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Republic Bank managing director Nigel Baptiste says the Finance Committee announced by the Prime Minister has met and had healthy discussions.

(Trinidad Express) Golden Grove Prison in Arouca was locked down on Tuesday, as prisoners attempted to escape claiming they were fearful of contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago Police are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of a 56-year-old man who died at French Fort, Scarborough on Monday evening after having sexual intercourse with a woman in a WASA vehicle.

(Trinidad Express) A Manzanilla man was killed in a car crash in Sangre Grande on Monday night.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidadians are far too complacent when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic.