Trinidad & Tobago News

Scandal over Trinidad’s first Omicron case

(Trinidad Express) The highly infectious Omicron variant is now present in Trinidad and Tobago after being detected in a Trinidadian woman who travelled from New York to Panama and then to Trinidad knowing fully well she was Covid-19 positive.

Pandit Mohindra Persad and his wife Anita on their wedding day in 2017.

Popular Trinidad pandit didn’t die of COVID – widow

(Trinidad Express) As the family of popular pandit Mohindra Persad makes funeral arrangements after his sudden passing, the family says they are being caused further pain by being bombarded by comments from strangers attributing Persad’s death to Covid-19.

More PNM Tobago Council members quit

(Trinidad Express) Political Leader of the Tobago Council Tracy Davidson-Celestine may soon find her position untenable, as more Executive members of the Tobago Council resign.

Trinidad man fined $5,000 for sex with girl, 13

(Trinidad Express) A fine of $5,000 instead of a prison sentence has been imposed on a Penal mason who pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 2012 because it was a “one-off” offence and the accused had a clean criminal record, among other reasons.

Jubilant PDP supporters

Rowley’s party routed in Tobago polls

(Trinidad Express) The Tobago political map turned almost entirely green yesterday as the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) won upwards of 12 out of the 15 seats in the enlarged Tobago House of Assembly (THA).

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