Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The embattled founder of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Jack Warner, is officially back on the political scene with the United National Congress (UNC) less than a month before Local Government Elections on August 14.

(Trinidad Guardian) As KFC celebrates its golden anniversary in T&T, this year the company spoke to the Business Guardian regarding its journey, including challenges and paving the way forward.

(Trinidad Express) “A pure fanciful fabrication.” This is how Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday described the claims of a man named Akil Abdullah and Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Farley Augustine that he (Abdullah) received a bribe to damage Augustine.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health (MOH) has discovered a third case of the Monkeypox (Mpox) virus was confirmed via laboratory testing earlier yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has accused Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher of hiding while the country is overtaken by bandits.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says he is willing to pay more to police officers to be part of what he described as “vetted units” reserved for officers of the highest integrity.

(Trinidad Express) Miss Universe Janelle “Penny” Commissiong has urged the graduating class of Rio Claro Secondary School not to be fearful of artificial intelligence (AI) but consider the opportunities it can have in the world of work.

(Trinidad Express) Brinsley Samaroo, “The Boy From Ecclesville, Rio Claro”, came in for glowing tributes on Friday as an intellectual, ace lecturer, knowledge seeker, brilliant interpreter, critical thinker, scholar, walking encyclopaedia, nation builder and indefatigable custodian of Trinidad and Tobago’s heritage and history, including Indo-Trinidadian history, and labour and First Peoples history.

(Trinidad Express) “Greed and jealousy”. These were the reasons relatives of Reynold Victor—who was killed on Tuesday near the Croisee in San Juan—gave as to why Victor was shot dead and his mother’s Morvant house firebombed on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, will attempt to reduce the threats of lethal autonomous weapons systems or “killer robots” through legislation.

(Trinidad Guardian) Exactly two months after the World Health Organization (WHO) downgraded Monkeypox (mpox) from a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the Ministry of Health detected the first case of the virus yesterday in T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) A shooting in the heart of San Juan yesterday morning claimed the lives of two people and left three others wounded.

(Trinidad Express) The burglar-proofed windows and steel doors which 75-year-old Freeport pensioner Lutchmin Bickram lived behind were not enough to secure her from a criminal on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A joint exercise which saw several arms of national security working together yesterday morning resulted in 200 Venezuelan nationals being detained after it was discovered they were undocumented.

(Trinidad Guardian) Historian, author, academic, former government minister, and Professor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies Dr Brinsley Samaroo died at the age of 84 yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thousands of residents across Trinidad were left to hang dry after begging and pleading for water for the past three days.

 (Reuters) – Nicaraguan Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez was released from prison late Monday, a diplomatic source said, marking a possible turning point in the government’s prolonged crackdown on the Catholic Church.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an extraordinary display of resilience and determination, Jude Jones, a pupil of Ramai Trace Hindu School in Debe, topped his school in the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exams even though he wrote the examination with a broken wrist.

(Trinidad Express) It was a hair-raising experience for 23 pupils of Trinity College, Moka, Maraval, on Tuesday, when they were blocked from crossing the stage to receive their certificates with the rest of their classmates because their hairstyles were deemed to be in breach of school rules.

(Trinidad Express) Trinibad artiste Kevon Andrews also known as “Faces”, and his friend Kristian Lindsay, also known as “Ming”, were shot and killed in Pleasantville last night.