Divers Christopher Boodram (left), Kazim Ali Jr (2nd left), Yusuf Henry (centre), Rishi Nagassar (2nd right), and Fyzal Kurban (right), in a picture before the tragedy struck in February 2022.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three years after four divers lost their lives in what became known as the Paria diving tragedy, the government has decided to award TT$1 million to each of their families and an additional TT$1 million to the lone survivor.
(Trinidad Express) Sixty days after she was arrested and interrogated for two days, suspended Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher is yet to be charged with any crime.
(Trinidad Guardian) Nigerian energy company Oando PLC, the Government’s preferred bidder for the lease of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery, has been struggling financially.
(Trinidad Guardian) Darryl White has resigned with immediate effect as the chief executive officer and regional vice president of corporate and investment banking of RBC Financial (Caribbean) Ltd.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago’s music fraternity is mourning the death of Hawthorn “King Wellington” Qua-shie who passed away at the age of 86.
(Trinidad Guardian) United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday called on Prime Minister Stuart Young to support moves against Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro’s administration during a bilateral meeting in Kingston, Jamaica.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Court of Appeal has overturned a judge’s decision to uphold a novel constitutional challenge over this country’s homophobic buggery and serious indecency laws.
(Trinidad Guardian) Housing Minister and Laventille East/Morvant MP Adrian Leonce is now in hot water, after admitting to registering a UK-based company using another person’s address in that country before terminating the company.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has ruled in favour of former High Court judge Marcia Ayers-Caesar, dismissing an appeal brought by Trinidad and Tobago’s Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) and upholding findings that her removal from office in April 2017 was unlawful.
(Trinidad Express) Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh has directed that Dr Joel Teelucksingh be immediately reinstated and that an investigation that has been launched by the South West Regional Health Authority, be conducted while he is on the job.
(Trinidad Guardian) Incumbent St Augustine MP Khadijah Ameen has called on Prime Minister Stuart Young to apologise to former schoolmate Imran Khan directly for a bullying incident at St Mary’s College 33 years ago.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Stuart Young says one of his top priorities in his new office is addressing the issue of foreign exchange allocations.
(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has gotten her wish to have independent international observers for the General Election on April 28.
(Trinidad Guardian) A shootout between police and gunmen along the Eastern Main Road, Tunapuna, on Wednesday night, left two men dead, one injured and a suspect on the run.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Stuart Young has finally broken his silence on a bullying incident involving him which occurred some 33 years ago while he was a student at St Mary’s College in Port-of-Spain.