Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) She told us that hun­dreds of peo­ple are still trapped in their homes, how­ev­er, and that much of Clarke Road, Quinam Road, La Truce Road, and Naipalier Trace are still flood­ed out.

(Trinidad Guardian) Col­leagues of Sco­tia­bank’s Ch­agua­nas branch se­nior em­ploy­ee, Sil­vine Coop­er, 41, who col­lapsed on the job on Thurs­day and sub­se­quent­ly died from a sus­pect­ed heart at­tack, are blam­ing her death on the stress con­nect­ed to the new $100 poly­mer bill.

(Trinidad Guardian) ANSA Mer­chant Bank Lim­it­ed has signed an agree­ment to pur­chase Bank of Bar­o­da’s op­er­a­tions in T&T, which if ap­proved will al­low it to do all as­pects of com­mer­cial bank­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Sco­tia­bank em­ploy­ee at­tached to the Ch­agua­nas Main Road branch col­lapsed on the job and was lat­er pro­nounced dead.

(Trinidad Guardian) In the last three days, sev­er­al sus­pi­cious trans­ac­tions by du­bi­ous pro­fes­sion­als have been un­earthed in the bank­ing sec­tor as thou­sands of cus­tomers con­tin­ue to rush fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions to ex­change their ex­ist­ing $100 bill for the new $100 poly­mer notes.

(Trinidad Express) It is two weeks before Christmas and the people living in flood-ravaged South Trinidad are facing a financial disaster.

(Trinidad Express) A man who often wore a lot of gold jewelry, was shot, killed, and robbed of it on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Kazim Hosein says his team is on the ground and responding to flood victims throughout the county.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fri­day De­cem­ber 13th 2019 is the last day the US Em­bassy in Port of Spain will ac­cept the old TT$100 bills for some ser­vices.

(Trinidad Express) The Judiciary says that one of its Court security officers was arrested by a police officer who refused to subject himself to the scanner before being allowed into the Mayaro Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A mad rush across the coun­try yes­ter­day as cit­i­zens de­fied the ad­vice of the Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Alvin Hi­laire and rushed to banks across the coun­try to change their old hun­dred dol­lar bills to the new Poly­mer hun­dred dol­lar note.

(Trinidad Newsday) A St Helena couple has 28 days to explain their wealth after a High Court judge granted the police an order under new legislation.

(Trinidad Express) San Fernando is expected to get a new mayor when the City Corporation meets on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 34-year-old fa­ther who al­leged­ly struck a Form Three stu­dent at the Mara­bel­la South Sec­ondary School is in po­lice cus­tody.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has grant­ed an or­der pro­hibit­ing two Chi­nese na­tion­als from dispos­ing of close to $10 mil­lion which had been paid by a State com­pa­ny for the con­struc­tion of a govern­ment school.

(Trinidad Express) A Los Iros fisherman, who intervened in an argument between his sister and another man, was stabbed to death on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Express) Small business owners are being asked to be wary of counterfeit $100 notes.

(Trinidad Newsday) A fun hike for five young men from San Fernando turned into a frightening ordeal as they claimed to have encountered the female jaguar which was rescued and taken to the Emperor Valley Zoo.

(Trinidad Express) Women and girls in Trinidad and Tobago cannot walk the streets without being harassed by dirty men with foul mouths who brazenly make offensive comments which can range from “baby yuh sweet and sexy” to explicit remarks about female genitalia.

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Stuart Young announced on Thursday that a Cabinet decision was made to remove the existing $100 bill from circulation and replace it with a new, harder to counterfeit note.