Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) Thousands of teachers heeded the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association’s (TTUTA) “blackout” call yesterday, and stayed away from virtual classes.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after Rio Claro residents staged fiery protests for water, residents of Penal dragged kegs and barrels on the street to protest for water.

(Trinidad Guardian) All laptops, tablets and cell phones used to conduct online classes daily will today remain off and disconnected as thousands of pre-school, primary and secondary school teachers embark on a day of rest and reflection.

(Trinidad Express) A Covid-19 survivor whose lungs, heart, kidney and pancreas were damaged due to the virus has joined the call for citizens to be vaccinated to avoid serious Covid-19 complications.

(Trinidad Guardian) The man accused of fatally chopping 15-month-old Sariah Williams appeared virtually before a San Fernando Magistrate yesterday charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) After spending over a decade on remand, a 37-year-old man from Tunapuna has been freed of murdering a security guard during a casino robbery.

(Trinidad Express) The super-infectious Covid-19 Delta “variant of concern” has reached community spread in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Police have arrested a 25-year-old relative in connection with the murders of a grandmother, mother and son at a house in San Juan on Friday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Since T&T’s borders reopened on July 17, Caribbean Airlines has been the only major airline flying into this country.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police officers attached to the Homicide Bureau of Investigation have arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of three family members, two of whom were women in San Juan yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 58-year-old Ste Madeleine man has been charged with the murder of one-year-old Sariah Williams and will face a San Fernando Magistrate on Monday September 27th to answer to the charges.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three relatives from El Socorro have been murdered at their home in what appears to be execution-styled killings.

(Trinidad Express) Businesses that have been closed or restricted amid the Covid-19 pandemic are finally being allowed to fully reopen from October 11.

(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has admitted that the majority of people who have so far refused to become vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, are from the Christian faith.

(Trinidad Express) Over 24 years of domestic abuse suffered by a Tarodale family culminated in the killing of one of their youngest children, a one-year-old girl, during a bloody cutlass attack on Sunday night by a rejected lover.

(Trinidad Guardian) “These men are demon. They don’t have no God in them,” lamented the grandmother of 15-month-old Sariah Williams who was fatally chopped by a relative during a domestic dispute on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Police Service has lost its 15th police officer to COVID-19.

(Trinidad Express) It is official. Gary Griffith has been told by the Police Service Commission (PolSC) not to report for duty “until further notice”.

(Trinidad Guardian) In the face of revelations of hundreds of millions of dollars in losses on failed projects, the Chairman of the National Gas Company (NGC) Conrad Enill has denied that the company was reckless in its investment in Atlantic LNG Train 1 and its TT$200 million investment in the Beachfield project which it later realised was not necessary.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Media Association of T&T (MATT) has spoken out again Trinidad-born US-based rapper Nicki Minaj for her attacks on local reporter Sharlene Rampersad on social media.