Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Phar­ma­cies around the coun­try are re­port­ing an in­crease in sales of sur­gi­cal masks, as lo­cals take mea­sures to safe­guard against the coro­n­avirus.

(Trinidad Express) An early morning accident in San Fernando has left three people injured.

(Trinidad Express) “It was a fake wealthy list. And I always knew I would be vindicated at the court and it came at a good time — when we are embarking on a (general election) campaign,” Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal said yesterday, He was speaking to the Express following his victory at the court in which he received a $475,000 judgment, plus $69,000 for legal costs, in a defamation lawsuit.

(Trinidad Express) The Gov­ern­ment is do­ing away with for­eign in­sur­ance com­pa­nies and once the In­sur­ance bill act is pro­claimed in two months, such com­pa­nies will have to in­cor­po­rate them­selves and reg­is­ter a T&T com­pa­ny, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert said yester­day.

(Trinidad Express) A 19-year-old man and his 33-year-old common law wife were shot dead in her house at Claxton Bay early Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) With the Carnival season already in gear and the decriminalization of 30 grammes and less of marijuana, the TT Police Service (TTPS) is asking members of the police to be mindful of the drinks and substances they may consume.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram says the most con­cern­ing fea­ture of the nov­el coro­n­avirus is its rapid spread.

(Trinidad Guardian) The man charged with the mur­der of school teacher Ashram Boodram has pend­ing mat­ters for at­tempt­ed mur­der and armed rob­bery.

(Trinidad Express) A man who allegedly raped and molested his child, and his wife who failed to report the alleged crimes, have been arrested.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela have rescinded the agreement to jointly develop 10 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Loran-Manatee field.

(Trinidad Guardian) From Jan­u­ary 31, this year, in­for­ma­tion on sex­u­al of­fend­ers can be shown on an on­line web­site for the pub­lic to ac­cess their names, ad­dress­es, pho­tographs and of­fences com­mit­ted.

(Trinidad Express) A payroll manager was one of three people who faced the court yesterday accused of fraudulently transferring $7.4 million from a shipping company in Point Lisas.

(Trinidad Express) Police are not doing enough to protect Venezuelan migrants from exploitation.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Pres­by­ter­ian min­is­ter has de­scribed the spate of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence mur­ders in this coun­try as a cri­sis more dead­ly than the coro­n­avirus.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three days af­ter Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh an­nounced a 14-day trav­el re­stric­tion on ar­riv­ing pas­sen­gers from Chi­na, a lo­cal stu­dent has re­turned home and was re­unit­ed with her fam­i­ly af­ter she says she was screened and cleared by im­mi­gra­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith be­lieves that the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem and politi­cians who con­tin­ue to give crim­i­nal gangs state con­tracts are con­tribut­ing to the coun­try’s grow­ing mur­der rate and it must stop.

(Trinidad Guardian) On the day that the world’s largest methanol producer announced that it had agreed to a two-month extension of its natural gas contract with the National Gas Company, President and CEO of Methanex, John Floren made it clear that the Canadian giant is prepared to shut down its plant rather than sign a bad deal with the NGC.

(Trinidad Express) Eight years after it was proposed, glass bottles will officially be banned this Carnival Monday and Tuesday.

Police say they uncovered a plot to kill a member of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), and the intended hit-man was killed in a shootout.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Sex ther­a­pist Giri­raj “Dr Raj” Ram­nanan says a High Court rul­ing that pre­vents Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers from ban­ning the im­por­ta­tion of sex toys has the abil­i­ty to change the na­tion­al con­ver­sa­tion on sex.