Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

For just over seven months, the Eagle Eye project has been working to help deter and detect crime, and stakeholders are focusing on expanding the network nationally. Although based primarily in North East and Eastern Trinidad, the joint project between the Greater Tunapuna Chamber of Industry and Commerce (GTCIC), the Tunapuna Police Station Community Council […]

THE EDITOR: This month, at the end of his journey through life comprising four score and ten years, a kindly gentleman succumbed to cancer, but thankfully his illness was brief. As he sat in bed, he lay in wait for the Grim Reaper, whom he faced without any fear. What would be the point of […]

The Health Ministry has launched its 2024-2025 influenza (flu) vaccination campaign. It said flu vaccines will become available free of charge at all health centres in Trinidad and Tobago beginning on September 16. In a release, the ministry said the flu vaccine should be taken seasonally instead of annually to ensure maximum protection. It said […]

The Bridal Road bridge in Cunupia is on schedule to reopen on September 16, according to Chaguanas East MP Vandana Mohit. Providing an update to Newsday, Mohit said she was informed there were some delays in repair works around 1 am on Sunday, but the work remained on schedule for completion. After being closed for […]

THE INNOVATIVE Democratic Alliance (IDA) says fresh leadership alone will not solve Tobago’s crime problem. In a statement on September 14, the party weighed in on Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher’s decision reassign head of the Tobago Division, ACP Collis Hazel and Snr Supt Rodhill Kirk to Trinidad. The men will take up duties in the […]

Two Arima cousins are missing after they were last seen around 2 am on Saturday. Rykeel Dookna, 18, and his 21-year-old cousin Rikeil Cumberbatch were reported missing to the Arima Police Station on September 14. Police said around 8.05 pm on September 14, the mothers of both men made the report. Dookna’s mother said she […]

Attorneys for Terrance Ramsaroop and Renee Boodram-Ramsaroop are warning members of the public against sharing a now viral social-media video about the couple’s personal issues. In a statement on September 14, attorney Roshni Balkaran said, “There is a particular video which is circulating on various social media platforms which was so published without their authorisation, […]

Police are investigating the circumstances which led to a 36-year-old man being chopped to death in Esperance Village, San Fernando on September 14. Police said they received a report of a suspected homicide around 6.40 am at Jim Street, Esperance Village. Around 7.30 am, PC Dehu and WPC Wharwood of the San Fernando police station […]

THE first effort by the government to accommodate Venezuelan migrant children into the school system netted a paltry 23 students. The process has since been resumed at seven locations. Even this tentative beginning was only enabled by the passage of the Immigration (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2024, formalising a process for admittance. Four of the 23 […]

TODAY is the final day of the three-day low cost spay/neuter clinic (September 13-15) being offered by Venus Doggess of Love (Tobago-based animal rescue NGO) and Worldwide Rural Assistance Program/WRAP. This article is a “Thank you in advance,” since, as I write it on September 9, the event has not yet started. A huge thank […]