Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

THE Tourism, Culture and Arts Ministry has announced that approval has been granted for unsponsored steelbands and steelpan players to receive increased grant funding. A press release from the ministry said these measures have been introduced in preparation for Carnival 2025 with the aim of enhancing participation in Panorama and enhancing inclusivity within the steelband […]

THE dive experience in Tobago attracted significant interest at this year’s Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) Show in Las Vegas, from November 19-22. In a media release on December 13, the Tobago Tourism Agency Ltd said the island’s recent features in National Geographic’s The Plume and Expedition Amazon on Disney Plus, Hulu and NGTV, […]

DAVID West has been reappointed director of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) for a third consecutive term. A release from the PCA on December 13, said acting President Nigel de Freitas confirmed West’s appointment for the maximum five-year term. The appointment took effect on December 13. “Throughout his tenure, Mr West has demonstrated dedication to […]

SOCA artiste Kevon “Yankey Boy” Heath has ended his 14-day hunger strike. The artiste posted this news on his Instagram page on December 12. Yankey Boy began the action in protest on November 27 against Jamaican artiste Adidja “Vybz Kartel” Palmer’s pending performance at a One Caribbean Music Festival concert on February 28, Carnival Friday. […]

POLICE are probing what they believe could be a drowning after a body was discovered floating off King’s Wharf, San Fernando on December 11. The male body, which is yet to be identified, was discovered shortly after noon by two men in Lady Hailes. Sgt Nanan and other San Fernando CID officers responded. A district […]

TOUCHSTONE Exploration (Trinidad) has agreed to acquire Shell Trinidad Central Block Ltd (STCBL) from BG Overseas Holdings for US$23 million in cash, pending regulatory approval. In a release published on its website on December 13, Touchstone said the acquisition involves purchasing all of STCBL’s share capital, giving Touchstone a 65 per cent working interest in […]

OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has questioned the signing of five agreements between TT and the US, two of which could permit the US to station troops in TT in the event of a “conflict” in neighbouring Venezuela. Persad-Bissessar called upon the government to make the details of those agreements public. She made those statements to […]

In a heart-warming display of compassion, a police officer in Chaguanas is being praised for his kind act towards an injured boy last week. A video circulating on social media shows the boy, with his right foot bandaged, piggybacking on PC Wallace, a member of the Chaguanas Foot Patrol Unit, as the officer carries him […]

INNOVATIVE Democratic Alliance (IDA) political leader Dr Denise Tsoiafatt Angus has chastised Chief Secretary and Tobago People’s Party leader Farley Augustine for calling the Prime Minister a house slave. Augustine did so at a news conference and on Facebook on December 9 after the failure of the main Tobago autonomy bill in the Parliament. During […]

The current Status of Forces (SOFA) agreement between the US and TT was entered into in early 2013, while the Kamla Persad-Bissessar-People’s Partnership government was in office. That version of the agreement was published on US Department of State website. It was extended by diplomatic note on December 19, 2022. “The Embassy has the further […]