Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says he is “worried” that the first case of the more contagious UK COVID-19 variant is in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Australian outfit BHP has confirmed that it’s recent search for oil in Trinidad and Tobago’s deep water ended in failure with the Broadside-1 well being a dry hole.

(Trinidad Guardian) A repatriated national has brought the new strain of COVID-19 (Variant B117) from the United Kingdom into the country, increasing fears now over whether health officials will be able to control its spread.

(Trinidad Express) A D’Abadie woman was attacked and killed by her pet Rottweiler yesterday evening.

(Trinidad Express) Will the Government allow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to purchase the Petrotrin refinery?

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of 24-year-old Kristian Nanan, who was shot dead in Princes Town on Sunday night, believe someone ordered a hit on his life.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith is calling for special training for all Special Branch Police officers, after he saved one member of his own security detail from drowning at Store Bay, Tobago, yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A father and son were found tied up and shot dead at their home in Upper Chickland, Freeport, yesterday.

The Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith met with several persons of interest last night telling them that the TTPS will respond quickly if there are any attempts to escalate gang-related criminal activity in the country.

(Trinidad Express) The Financial Investigations Branch (FIB) of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has obtained an order from the court to forfeit $99,900 which was seized from a man who was later shot and killed.

(Trinidad Express) A gun-fight between a soldier and a police officer at an alleged “zesser” party in Point Fortin has ended with the soldier’s death.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were killed in a shoot-out with an off-duty police officer on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) A suspected hitman was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer along the Lady Chancellor Hill in St Ann’s on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Officers of the Financial Investigations Branch (FIB) of the Police Service committed an illegality and breached the Consti-tutional rights of the Trini-dad Express when it executed two search warrants at the media house last March.

(Trinidad Guardian) On his first day back to work after he suffering injuries in two chopping incidents over the Christmas holidays, Mayaro mason Joel Ellis was fatally shot.

(Trinidad Guardian) A young man, who was struck in his head by a stray bullet and given a slim chance of survival, has defied the odds.

(Trinidad Guardian) A former boyfriend of Jada Pierre has been denied bail after appearing in court for allegedly beating her on the head with a hammer.

(Trinidad Guardian) Journalist Abby Phillip, who was born to Trini-dadian parents, has been named CNN’s Senior Political Correspondent.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley was yesterday discharged after spending almost two days in the hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are moving to charge a 26-year-old Fyzabad man with the brutal hammer attack of geriatric nurse Jada Pierre.