Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service revealed yesterday that the Dean of the Police Academy, Nizam Ali, had died from COVID-19.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the newly-identified coronavirus variant, Omicron, as a variant of concern, T&T has announced restrictions to entry for travellers from seven African countries.

(Trinidad Guardian) A prison officer was shot and killed in Valencia yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) On Thursday, Trinidad and Tobago took the grim title of recording the highest daily confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a sombre address to the nation, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last night retraced the events of the last two years of the COVID-19 virus, its arrival and treatment in Trinidad and Tobago and warned that if the current infection rate continues, the parallel health system would be overwhelmed within days.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Pleasantville shop owner was shot and killed by a man pretending to be a customer at his business place yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has set a new daily record of Covid-19 deaths with a staggering 31 deaths being reported by the Ministry of Health yesterday, including another child.

(Trinidad Express) The nursing fraternity lost two of its members to the Covid-19 virus on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the COVID-19 Delta variant of concern rips through Trinidad and Tobago, the country has crossed the grim milestone of 2,000 COVID-19 deaths since March 2020.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 32-year-old man accused of chopping to death his sister and brother-in-law have been remanded into custody.

(Trinidad Express) A search is now on for a missing father of two after his vehicle was found burnt in the Heights of Aripo on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago is in the midst of a third wave of COVID-19 infections, Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that another 20 people had died from COVID-19, taking the figure to 48 deaths in two days and to 1,967 overall.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into a double murder at St Barbs Road, Laventille.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has experienced its deadliest day of the Covid-19 pandemic to date, with a record 28 new deaths being ­recorded yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The International Monetary Fund mission that recently visited T&T has called on the authorities to remove all restrictions on current international transactions while providing sufficient foreign exchange to meet demand for all current international transactions.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of four, Rehana Jaggernauth, was beaten, stabbed and strangled before being thrown into the Guayamare River, where she drowned, an autopsy has found.

(Trinidad Express) Just two days after epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds warned that the country could begin seeing near 1,000 new cases of Covid-19 being recorded each day, the country has recorded its highest number of newly confirmed cases.

(Trinidad Guardian) The family of a woman, who was among five people murdered in separate incidents in Morvant, Tunapuna and Valencia, say too many women are being killed in the country.

(Trinidad Express) Epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds confirmed yesterday that 56 of 1,437 people who have died from the Covid-19 virus since vaccinations started in April were fully vaccinated.