Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Republic Bank Ltd has terminated its contentious return-to-work Covid-19 policy for ­unvaccinated workers.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homicide officers investigating the murder of Private Jamal Blake, 26, received information that Blake’s life was threatened on numerous occasions.

(Trinidad Guardian) Following increased gang warfare last October and November, three security agencies are populating a gang database, “acquiring associates of gangs”, identifying people of interest and seizing firearms and narcotics.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 26-year-old man from Santa Cruz who was shot while liming at a bar at Bourg Mulatresse died at hospital.

 (Trinidad Express) Wealthy businesspeople are grooming police officers for favours, says acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have charged one man with the murder of security guard Andy Hosein during a jewellery store robbery last week.

(Trinidad Express) The Central Bank and CLICO are claiming that two former exec¬u¬tive directors of CL Financial (CLF) operated or procured the ope¬ration of two types of Ponzi schemes in the group, which collapsed in January 2009, posing a danger of disruption to the financial system of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chaguanas Mayor Faaiq Mohammed has hit back at Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on his claims about a high demand for Venezuelan prostitutes in Chaguanas, saying it was based on a report that shows no real investigation or information based upon sound research.

(Trinidad Guardian) “It have some animals outside there, some demons, because I don’t know what to call them,” a tearful Patrice Cudjoe said while gazing at her daughter’s casket.

 (Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has once again sympathised with the family of the infant killed when the Coast Guard ­intercepted a vessel carrying Venezuelan migrants.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuelan father Yemmi Santoyo had a day of mixed emotions yesterday when he had to identify the body of his baby boy, who was shot dead by members of the Coast Guard over the weekend, but was hours after reunited with his daughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) A hearse belonging to Dennie’s Funeral Home caught afire while carrying a body to his funeral along the North Coast Road yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said that the shooting death of a Venezuelan baby by the Coast Guard on Saturday was an accident and added that the Coast Guard members were carrying out “reasonable and professional orders under international protocols and law”.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuela’s government has urged T&T authorities to carry out an “exhaustive investigation” to clarify the death of a child who migrated to this country with his mother and who died after presumably, the boat in which he was traveling was shot at by the Coast Guard.

(Trinidad Guardian) A devastating fire destroyed nine automotive businesses in Bamboo Number Two yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The atrocity suffered by Katherine Akum Lum when lye was used instead of distilled water after her hysterectomy at a public hospital has sparked a firestorm on social media.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 14-year-old boy is among four people shot dead in Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Guardian) As a single and independent mother, Katherine Akum Lum was living her best life.

(Trinidad Express) – Even as he noted that instances of corruption were widespread in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday “the time has come to stop pretending that the angel Gabriel will come down and save us from ourselves”.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A worker was shot dead after he tried to escape during a robbery at a jewellery store on High Street, San Fernando, yesterday.