Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) With just days to go before the border reopens on July 17, Government has announced a mandatory travel document to enter Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two women were among eight people murdered yesterday in Arima and St Augustine as police fear gang warfare has now broken out over the murder of Kareem “Pinto Boss” Walters of Pinto Road in Arima on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) With the arrival of 800,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine into Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday, the Government’s plan is to have 400,000 persons vaccinated in an eight to ten weeks campaign with the aim of bringing the number of persons fully vaccinated to 600,000.

(Trinidad Express) Cultural  icon Brother Resistance passed away last night at WestShore Medical Private Hospital, Cocorite.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating the murder of Kareem “Blacks” Walters, also called “Pinto Boss”, 35, of Arima who was shot dead in Matura on Monday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kelly Phillip, the nurse accused of murdering Princes Town mother Kadijah Flament, has been returned to the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) The restaurant industry in T&T is in crisis says Prestige Holdings Group CEO, Simon Hardy.

(Trinidad Guardian) The batch of drugs stolen from St James Medical Health Facility has been valued at $2.5 million and it includes one that is used to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients.

(Trinidad Express) China’s Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Fang Qiu has made a major announcement on social media.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seven more people have lost their lives to COVID-19 in this country, moving the national death toll up to 930, according to the latest update from the Ministry of Health.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Couva Point Lisas Chamber of Commerce (CPLCC) is appealing to landlords to give commercial tenants a chance.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police seized six high-powered rifles in Curepe yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) The stepson of murdered reputed gang leader Selwyn “Robocop” Alexis was gunned down in Enterprise, Chaguanas, on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) The Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Ltd’s (CLICO) debt to the Government is now about $1.6 billion.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two Government Ministers are coming under fire for their purchases of luxury vehicles in the last four months as citizens continue to reel from the impacts of extended lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Trinidad Guardian) As homicide investigators await confirmation that the burnt skeletal remains, found at a dumpsite in Gasparillo, are from missing mother Kadijah Flament, police charged two suspects yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) – Government is seeking to vaccinate 300,000 more people in Trinidad and Tobago in the “shortest time.”

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that all construction – both public and private – can resume from Monday, as the Government further relaxes COVID-19 restrictions.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The Ministry of Health has recorded 13 additional COVID related deaths.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after he appeared on a radio programme and disagreed with the decisions by the National Hurricane Centre in Miami and the Barbados Met Services to upgrade Elsa to hurricane status yesterday, an investigation was launched into the statements made by Meteorological Services of Trinidad and Tobago director Ezekiel Sampson.