Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Twenty-six additional Covid-19 deaths reported yesterday took the death toll for the first five days of December past 100.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Licensing Division is moving to implement new drivers’ permits (DPs) by month’s end.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says his Tobago townhouse is fully declared and legal action is being examined against United National Congress MP Saddam Hosein for suggesting otherwise.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A 24-year-old security officer is assisting police with their investigations into the death of 31-year-old Shadie Dasrath.

(Trinidad Express) The Prime Minister has sought to assuage the concerns of prison officers, assuring them the Government will do everything possible to secure them and their families.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith said he was forced as Commissioner to “put Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley in his place” because Rowley kept “interfering.”

(Trinidad Express) Agriculture  Minister Clarence Rambharat said there has been a global increase in food prices, and Trinidad and Tobago’s agricultural production was saved because of Venezuelan labour.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Integrity Commission will tomorrow discuss UNC MP Saddam Hosein’s allegation that Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley allegedly failed to file a declaration with the Integrity Commission on the purchase of a Tobago townhouse in 2019.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prison Commissioner Dennis Pulchan says he will leave no stone unturned in the quest to find those responsible for the murders of officers Trevor Serrette and Nigel Jones, who were gunned down in what is believed to be hits from behind prison walls.

(Trinidad Guardian) Barbados based Consolidated Finance is now ANSA Merchant Bank (Barbados) Limited.

(Trinidad Guardian) The attacks against prison officers continued last night, as gunmen opened fire on the home of a female prison officer in El Dorado, Tunapuna, injuring a police officer who runs a parlour on the property.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prisoners at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca have reportedly threatened to kill 13 prison officers before Christmas if the officers are not transferred from Wayne Jackson Building.

(Trinidad Express) An entertainer from Tobago was among three people shot and killed at a house in Laventille yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A second prison officer has been killed in four days, this time in Siparia.

(Trinidad Express) A Claxton Bay man was gunned down near his home on Saturday night in what police believe was a drug-related killing.

(Trinidad Express) Sixty-one critically ill Covid-19 patients are currently in the intensive care units of Trinidad and Tobago’s parallel healthcare system.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) commissioned their two new Cape Class vessels yesterday, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley urged the Coast Guard officers to utilise the vessels properly to cut down on human trafficking and the illegal gun trade.

(Trinidad Guardian) In one week, COVID-19 has claimed three members of a Longdenville family.

(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.