Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) The man killed on Saturday night when he and his accomplices attempted to invade a house at Endeavour, Chaguanas, was identified yesterday as Mark Anthony Joseph, 25.

(Trinidad Express) As of midnight tonight the wearing of masks at all public and private hospitals and medical clinics will no longer be mandatory.

(Trinidad Guardian) MP for Pointe-A-Pierre David Lee has called the recent shutdown of four Point Lisas plants a regional embarrassment.

(Trinidad Express) Cellphone jammers inside the country’s prisons are not enough to stop criminals behind bars from sending messages to others on the outside.

by Asha Javeed  Lead Editor Investigations  asha.javeed@guardian.co.tt  (Trinidad Guardian) NiQuan Energy is facing a cash crunch challenge.

(Trinidad Guardian) Horrified relatives say the charred remains discovered in an outhouse in Maraval on Thursday are those of their loved one Anastacia Waldron.

(Trinidad Express) Woodside Energy last night confirmed that it had to shut in (close off) its offshore operations in the country as a precaution following an incident on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) flights in and out of Piarco International Airport were temporarily delayed yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) After spending 14 years in prison, six men have been freed of murdering a man from East Dry River, Port-of-Spain.

United National Congress (UNC) leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the party’s lawyers will support Tobago House of Assembly chief secretary Farley Augustine and Tobagonians in the courts and will also support them in Parliament and on platforms.

(Trinidad Express ) Former agriculture minister and government senator Clarence Rambharat is in Canada working remotely as special adviser to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Express) Police are searching for three men who invaded the home of a High Court judge on Friday and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of items.

(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.