Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) NiQuan yesterday terminated its 75 employees and will now mothball its Pointe-a-Pierre plant, which had been in “sleep” mode.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three Pan American Health Organization experts, who have been selected to probe the deaths of babies at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital, have arrived in the country and already engaged North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) officials as part of their initial investigation.

(Trinidad Guardian) Approximately 50,000 barrels of liquid waste have been extracted from Tobago’s coastline between Scarborough and Cove in clean-up operations after the February 7 oil spill from the capsized barge there—and clean-up continues.

(Trinidad Guardian) Registered nurse Natasha Samuel says her baby girl Skiye died at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital NICU on April 9.

(Trinidad Guardian) Following the United States’ decision Wednesday to resume sanctions against Venezuela, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley clarified that as it stands, the Dragon gas arrangement is unaffected.

(Trinidad Express) DNA tests have confirmed that the body of a woman found in Arima in October is that of 23-year-old Alisha Phillip.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s Ministry of Energy said yesterday that the decision by the US government to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector does not affect the special amended licence that was issued to the Government of T&T on October 17, 2023.

(Trinidad Guardian) The list of babies who died recently at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (POSGH), due to a suspected bacterial infection, continued to grow yesterday as lawyers identified three others, bringing the current running total to 11.

(Trinidad Express) Three houses, six vehicles and a pet dog were lost in a fire in Freeport that police and fire officers were told was initiated by a resident burning trash yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seven families whose babies died of neonatal sepsis over four days at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (P0SGH) have joined together to file a class action lawsuit for medical negligence against the hospital.

(Trinidad Express) The brother-in-law of Crystal Harricharan, the mom who pleaded for protection until her murder last Tuesday, has been shot dead at her wake.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police yesterday charged four-year-old Amarah Lallite’s stepfather, Isan Contant, with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) The parents of at least seven babies who died between April 2 and April 9 at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital are calling for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding their babies’ deaths.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thousands of gallons of bunker fuels still remain inside the overturned barge just off the coast of Tobago, more than two months after the barge, identified as Gulfstream, crashed into a coral bed, according to THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine.

(Trinidad Express) Making the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Trinidad and Tobago’s final appellate court would be one of the highest honours that could be given to the court’s first president, Michael de la Bastide, says Law Association (LATT) presi­dent Lynette Seebaran-Suite, SC.

(Trinidad Guardian) Eleven days after real estate businessman and tutor Linwald Beharry went missing, his body was found in Cachipe Village, Moruga, on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) Two bystanders were injured yesterday afternoon during a deadly reprisal attack near the Besson Street Police Sta­tion, in East Port of Spain, following a murder in Beetham Gardens.

(Trinidad Express) A mother has been arrested after being identified from a video posted on social media showing her verbally and physically abuse two young children.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Sunday outlined several economic measures he said he was directly involved in to save the day for Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) A combination of alcohol, along with the noise emanating from an apartment above at Building 16, Oropune Gardens, Piarco, are believed to be what led a suspect to kill a father and son on Saturday.