(Trinidad Guardian) Rampant inefficiencies in the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) project management department have led to the beleaguered State-owned company procuring $81 million in pipelines they may not have needed.
(Trinidad Express) More and more Covid-19- positive people are requiring hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) treatment, and nearly all are unvaccinated.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Sky-rocketing freight rates will now add to the already high prices of goods initially triggered by global supply chain disruptions.
(Trinidad Express) A security officer protecting a cigarette delivery van was ambushed by six armed criminals and shot dead during a robbery in Valencia yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Just over three months after his wife and stepson were killed in Arima, Mario Gomez was fatally shot early on this morning at St John’s Road in St Augustine.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday confirmed that the global supply chain clogs at major US and UK ports will have a “very serious” ripple effect on the importation of goods to T&T.
(Trinidad Guardian) As several Caribbean countries battle their highest rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says 29 per cent of the Caricom population is at a higher risk of developing severe strains of the disease.
(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith is claiming there is “blatant political interference” in the running of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS).
(Trinidad Express) Private medical institution Medical Associates Hospital Limited joined the fight against the Covid-19 virus with the launch of the country’s first private COVID-19 Ward Care designated for COVID-19 positive patients, at its Chaguanas hospital on September 6.
(Trinidad Express) Health officials have sounded an alarm that the Covid-19 intensive care units in Trinidad and Tobago are running out of room to treat critically ill infected patients.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Energy and Energy Resources, Stuart Young has said that Trinidad and Tobago will aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent by the year 2030.
(Trinidad Express) Fourteen days.
That is the length of time residents of San Francique, Penal, are giving the Government to respond to their cries for better roads, pipe-borne water and for dealing with flooding.
(Trinidad Guardian) The country has entered into the Influenza (Flu) season but as the Ministry of Health rolled out its vaccination drive for this virus, which is running simultaneous to its COVID-19 immunization drive, there can be some uncertainty of how these shots should be taken.
(Trinidad Express) – One million dollars bail was granted last night to attorney Christian Chandler, head of the Legal Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS).
(Trinidad Express) – Fuad Abu Bakr, son of 1990 insurrectionist Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, urged mourners to remember the good yesterday at the funeral service for his father.