Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Express) A Las Lomas businessman was killed, and two employees injured in a drive-by shooting in Las Lomas yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A man has been charged with the murder of Princes Town mother of two Karen Rauseo.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago will receive only a third of the first batch of vaccines allocated to it by the COVAX facility come month-end.

(Trinidad Express) Point Fortin businessman, Evril “Tony” Jeffrey was shot multiple times in what police believe may have been a home invasion on Friday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating a double murder and wounding with intent at Arouca during the early hours of Saturday morning.

(Trinidad Express) – Two men were killed and a 17-year-old girl was injured in a home invasion during the wee hours yesterday morning.

(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.