Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Writer, columnist and activist Colin Robinson has died. Robinson, 59, died in Washington DC, where he was receiving palliative care after a lengthy battle with colon cancer.

(Trinidad Guardian) A law against sexual harassment—in the workplace, streets and via use of cyberspace—is coming.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 32-year-old nursing assistant has lost her protracted bid to retain control of a multi-million property owned by an elderly doctor, with whom she shared a relationship, before his death in 2015.

(Trinidad Guardian) A family beach outing ended in tragedy after a 50-year-old truck driver was killed at the home of his relative in Penal on Sunday night.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Public Service Association president Watson Duke is threatening to shut down the Immigration Division’s operations at the Piarco International Airport, as he says the Government has failed the officers by not providing proper personal protective equipment (PPE).

(Trinidad Express) Disc jockey Kernell Alexander died in a vehicular accident along the Solomon Hochoy Highway on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The search for 21-year-old Isiah Thomas, who had been reported missing, ended in tragedy on Saturday night after police found his body at Lambeau Old Road.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad-born, stand-up comic Arthur Joseph did his home town of Point Fortin and every Trinidadian at home and in the diaspora proud when he appeared on the popular US game show, Wheel of Fortune’s Friday episode and endeared himself to a worldwide audience.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is calling on the new United States government to begin dialogue aimed at removing sanctions against Venezuela.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuelan nationals who were delayed on Thursday in returning home via a plane sanctioned by the United States’ Government departed T&T just after 6 pm on Friday after a successful Government outreach to the US Embassy.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is calling on the new United States government to begin dialogue aimed at removing sanctions against Venezuela.

(Trinidad Guardian) Scores of Venezuelan nationals were stranded at the Piarco International Airport last night after a repatriation flight that was due to arrive in T&T from Venezuela was blocked from coming.

(Trinidad Guardian) The limited availability of foreign exchange has meant that individuals and business have had to turn to the black market for US dollars.

(Trinidad Guardian) A specially-commissioned report into the operations of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has found the cash-strapped entity plagued by financial mismanagement, a lack of managerial accountability, corruption, parallel operations by representative trade unions and a general refusal by employees to work.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four days after he renewed calls for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help ensure equity of access to COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley revealed yesterday that “charlatans” are attempting to peddle vaccines to the government at inflated prices as high as US$25 per dose.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is no agreement yet between T&T and India for either the purchase or donation of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covishield vaccines.

(Trinidad Guardian) There has been a massive public outcry over the past several weeks about the failure of police officers to attend court hearings leaving magistrates with no choice but to dismiss matters that have been dragging on for years.

(Trinidad Guardian) Charlatans are attempting to peddle over-inflated—and even downright fake—vaccines to the Government.

(Trinidad Express) A Mayaro ‘thief’ who targeted a group of fitness enthusiasts on the beach had the tables turned on him on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Close to 22 officers from the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) have been fingered in the deaths of Joel Balcon and Andrew Morris, the prime suspects in the murder of Andrea Bharatt, 23, of Arima, according to a preliminary report.