Trinidad & Tobago News

(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.

(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.