Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health is witnessing an uptick in the number of paediatric COVID-19 cases, three of which are currently warded at hospital and are “severely ill.”

(Trinidad Express) – With the arrival of 305,000 Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says schools will finally be able to reopen after almost a year and a half of closure if parents consent to have their children vaccinated.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Jamaica currently is seeing a third wave of COVID-19 infections across the island, leading to all large hospitals there being over their capacity for admissions.

(Trinidad Express) – With the Government aiming to roll out Pfizer vaccines as early as Monday to pupils, some parents say their children are eager to receive their jabs and they will be letting them do so.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prison Officer Stariel Charles was arrested and charged after he was found to be in possession of prohibited items at his place of employment.

(Trinidad Express) – A 28-year-old man and his wife were killed on Tuesday morning during an alleged confrontation with police in Enterprise, Chaguanas.

(Trinidad Express) – A police officer attached to the Valencia Criminal Investigations Department has been arrested after allegedly making threats to kill his wife and their two-year-old daughter.

(Trinidad Express) – The Ministry of Health advises the population that today, 11th August, 2021, Trinidad and Tobago confirms its first two cases of the COVID-19 Delta Variant of Concern.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Preparation is underway for the reopening of the retail sector next week but the Confederation of Regional Business Chamber says 6,000 businesses around the country will remain permanently closed.

(Trinidad Express)  – School principal Alicia Bharath was on Monday granted $250,000 bail after being charged in relation to the drowning death of two-year-old Romelu Drakes.

(Trinidad Express) – A post-mortem has been ordered to confirm the cause of death of 56-year-old Fitzgerald McSween.

(Trinidad Express) – Trinidad and Tobago has logged its first COVID-19 maternal death and the first case of transmission from mother to child.

(Trinidad Express) It has been almost 18 months since the shooting death of Chaguanas mother, Alana Mohammed, and no one has been held.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Principal of a Couva educational institution was expected to appear virtually before the Couva Magistrates’ Court yesterday, charged with the unlawful killing of two-year-old Romelu Drakes, which occurred on March 16th.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines has announced that it lost more than TT$326 million in the fix six months of 2021.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “Hurt” was the only word Stephon Wells could use to describe how he felt watching his Toyota Corolla wagon being fished out of the St Ann’s River yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Canada’s Minister of International Development Karina Gould, yesterday announced that the Government of Canada will share over 82,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Trinidad and Tobago via a bilateral agreement.

(Trinidad Guardian) Catastrophic floods caused as a result of an isolated thunderstorm swept through parts of north west Trinidad yesterday, leaving many still counting their losses and assessing damage to their properties.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four soldiers were among 25 people who were held at a pool party in El Socorro on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Currently, some 195,070 people in the country are fully vaccinated, having received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine—either Sinopharm or AstraZeneca—inching closer to the 200,000 mark.