Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Director of the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) Allan Stewart said while clean-up continues, Tobago can declare the situation under control.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has asked the public to be “patient” as an investigation into the Strategic Services Agency takes place.

(Trinidad Guardian)  A Siparia community is in mourning after well-known attorney Everald Davidson died after a car knocked him down as he exercised in his neighbourhood on Saturday evening.

(Trinidad Express) Death was instantaneous for a 46-year-old La Romaine mechanic when he was shot while sitting in his Range Rover yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) The highly anticipated annual Tobago Jazz Experience will not be making a return in 2024, as the Tobago House of Assembly has decided to scrap it due to its “unsustainability”.

(Trinidad Express) When her killer ended 79-year-old Viscella Richards’ life, Trinidad and Tobago lost an actor who decades ago had shone on international silver screens in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

(Trinidad Guardian) A legendary rock and nation-builder has passed on.   Distinguished former diplomat and head of the public service, John Reginald Dumas, passed away last night (Thursday), after being hospitalised in recent weeks.

(Trinidad Guardian) An autopsy is expected to be carried out today on the body of a Valsayn woman who was found dead in her home on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) has written to broadcasters advising them to refrain from playing music with violent lyrics that can negatively impact young people and children.

(Trinidad Guardian) Nearly a month since the Gulfstream barge ran aground off the coast of Cove spewing bunker fuel, officials have announced that the leaking has stopped.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a major shake up at the country’s main intelligence gathering agency, Major Roger Best, head of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) has been sent on administrative leave.

(Trinidad Guardian) Following the revelations of a Sunday Guardian investigation into the Tobago oil spill and subsequent claims by the Opposition that the Government is failing to keep the public informed about its investigation, Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young says the Government has to ensure accuracy and seek documented verification as it investigates.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police believe a disagreement with a partygoer was the motive behind the killing of disc jockey Elijah “Sugarz” Babb yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) The soldier who was shot and killed in La Puerta, Diego Martin, last month was a hitman for hire in the criminal underworld and had been involved in the murders of seve­ral people in the past.

 (Trinidad Guardian) On February 7, an oil-like substance began leaking from an overturned barge, clearly abandoned, stuck in a reef south of Cove, Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Workers have started operations to remove the overturned Gulfstream barge involved in the recent oil spill off the coast of Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Worried relatives of five Cedros fishermen, including a father and son, who have been missing out at sea since Saturday, complained yesterday that the authorities were not doing enough to find them.

(Trinidad Guardian) The vessel towing the barge that capsized and spilled oil off Tobago has not yet been found but information has been received in Guyana about who was involved in importing cargo, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday at a media conference at the Piarco International Airport.

(Trinidad Guardian) Grenada and Suriname have now also expressed interest in the planned regional cargo ferry, and it will require more than T&T’s Galleons Passage – or even two vessels – to cover six Caricom states so far.

(Trinidad Guardian) A short-lived policy banning open-air cremations for COVID-19 victims during the pandemic has been deemed unconstitutional.