
COVID spike putting Trinidad health care system under pressure
(Trinidad Guardian) If the numbers of positive COVID-19 cases continue, the parallel health care system could run out of beds by month end.
(Trinidad Guardian) If the numbers of positive COVID-19 cases continue, the parallel health care system could run out of beds by month end.
(Trinidad Guardian) Former Clico Investment Bank (CIB) chairman Andre Monteil and former CIB President Richard Trotman have been ordered to pay almost TT$100 million in restitution to their former employer over a controversial unsecured loan to Monteil before the bank’s collapse.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Keith Rowley has announced that the government has rolled back its decision to end the vaccination programme and instead will continue on using the remainder of the vaccines meant to be second doses for those who received their first jabs.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday afternoon called an urgent press conference and disclosed that the country had recorded an unprecedented number of Covid-positive cases over the last 24 hours – 328.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced new regulations to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
(Trinidad Express) For the first time in this country’s history, a person convicted of a criminal offence was affixed with an electronic device, allowing the State to monitor the person’s whereabouts continuously and with immediate effect.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago yesterday recorded its most frightening Covid-19 infection tally to date—with 223 people testing positive, while simultaneously surpassing the 10,000 mark for total confirmed cases since the virus first appeared locally in March 2020.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two more bodies from Venezuela’s Delta Amacuro boatwreck have surfaced, bringing to eight the number of people confirmed dead.
(Trinidad Guardian) Days after a large cache of guns and ammunition was found at the Bond in the Piarco International Air-port, police officers—in an intelligence-led operation—have uncovered another large cache of guns and ammunition in a warehouse in Central Trinidad.
(Trinidad Guardian) COVID-19 vaccinations are winding down now as the quota of people to receive their first dose nears.
(Trinidad Express) Underwater welder Leon Apping has been charged with the murder of Gasparillo businessman Anand Maharaj.
(Trinidad Guardian) Movement for Social Justice 2019 local government candidate Osei Lennard fought for his impoverished community and spoke out against injustice and poor living standards.
(Trinidad Guardian) An Arima man was killed during an attempted robbery in Curepe yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A boatload of Venezuelan migrants is feared dead after a vessel capsized on Thursday, plunging more than 25 people into the high seas.
(Trinidad Express) MINUTES after offering prayers at his home in Penal yesterday, Ramnath Ramlochan was electrocuted when the bamboo jhandi (Hindu prayer flag) he was installing came into contact with an overhead electrical wire.
(Trinidad Express) Police arrested six bathers at the Salybia Beach, Matura on Wednesday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police and Customs made a major discovery of high-powered guns, ammunition, and equipment during a raid at a Bond at Piarco International Airport, on Thursday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) An Enterprise man was shot dead by police in what officers described as a gunfight yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) The country’s COVID-19 cases continued to rise yesterday, after the Ministry of Health confirmed 167 new infections, 23 of which came from offshore platforms.
(Trinidad Express) A man was killed and a pistol and a quantity of ammunition seized following a police-involved shooting incident at Cameron Road, Maraval, yesterday morning.
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