Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) The chairman of the Maritime Financial Group and one of six people charged with corruption in the Piarco Airport construction projects, John Smith, 74, has been murdered.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men have been convicted of brutally murdering six-year-old Sean Luke over 15 years ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Shell T&T yesterday announced that production has started from its Barracuda project after achieving first gas on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) In the space of 25 days, three members of a Cunupia family died from the Covid-¬19 virus while four others tested positive.

(Trinidad Express) A Sangre Grande woman was charged with murder, kidnapping and other offences and expected to appear before an Arima Magistrate.

(Trinidad Express) Almost a week after couple Andre Ross and Raenne Nayan died in a car crash, they will be given their final farewell and rites together.

(Trinidad Guardian) The community of Debe is in mourning after beloved doctor and consultant at the Emergency Department of the San Fernando General Hospital succumbed to COVID-19 on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service is plunged into mourning on the passing of Prisons Officer I #3834, Nixon Lokai, on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) One thousand people have died from the Covid-19 virus in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) After an unplanned delay of more than two months, Prestige Holdings finally had the opportunity to open its 60th Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant at Xtra Plaza, Guiaco, Sangre Grande.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six more people have died from COVID-19, the Ministry of Health said in its daily update yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Last Tuesday afternoon, when prisoners at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca were let out of their cells to get dinner, inmate Basil Gobin stayed behind.

(Trinidad Express) A Princes Town software engineer was charged with the murder of amputee pensioner Lennard Mohammed.

(Trinidad Express) A Rio Claro man and his girlfriend were killed in a vehicular collision on Saturday. 

(Trinidad Guardian) – In what appears to be a major embarrassment for the Keith Rowley administration and the National Gas Company (NGC), Atlantic LNG’s Train 1 plant will be mothballed in the coming weeks and could stay out of service for at least two years, according to highly-placed sources at both the NGC and the government.

(Trinidad Guardian) Works Minister Rohan Sinanan has described the arrival of the first commercial flight to T&T since the country’s borders were closed in 2020 as a “big step” for the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) Those who are trying to enter this country illegally or bring in illegal arms and ammunition now run the risk of being intercepted by two brand new Cape Cross Coast Guard vessels.

(Trinidad Guardian) UNC Councillor Anil Maharaj was granted $130,000 bail when he appeared virtually before the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday afternoon charged with one count of Misbehaviour in Public Office.

(Trinidad Express) The chairman of the finance committee at the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation has been charged with misbehaviour in public office.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday broached the idea of making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory and the reaction on social media was swift.