Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) In a major shake up at the country’s main intelligence gathering agency, Major Roger Best, head of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) has been sent on administrative leave.

(Trinidad Guardian) Following the revelations of a Sunday Guardian investigation into the Tobago oil spill and subsequent claims by the Opposition that the Government is failing to keep the public informed about its investigation, Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young says the Government has to ensure accuracy and seek documented verification as it investigates.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police believe a disagreement with a partygoer was the motive behind the killing of disc jockey Elijah “Sugarz” Babb yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) The soldier who was shot and killed in La Puerta, Diego Martin, last month was a hitman for hire in the criminal underworld and had been involved in the murders of seve­ral people in the past.

 (Trinidad Guardian) On February 7, an oil-like substance began leaking from an overturned barge, clearly abandoned, stuck in a reef south of Cove, Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Workers have started operations to remove the overturned Gulfstream barge involved in the recent oil spill off the coast of Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Worried relatives of five Cedros fishermen, including a father and son, who have been missing out at sea since Saturday, complained yesterday that the authorities were not doing enough to find them.

(Trinidad Guardian) The vessel towing the barge that capsized and spilled oil off Tobago has not yet been found but information has been received in Guyana about who was involved in importing cargo, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday at a media conference at the Piarco International Airport.

(Trinidad Guardian) Grenada and Suriname have now also expressed interest in the planned regional cargo ferry, and it will require more than T&T’s Galleons Passage – or even two vessels – to cover six Caricom states so far.

(Trinidad Guardian) A short-lived policy banning open-air cremations for COVID-19 victims during the pandemic has been deemed unconstitutional.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh yesterday called out certain fast-food brands, as he once again lamented what he described as the scourge of hypertension and diabetes facing this country.

(Trinidad Express) WHILE oil spill clean-ups continue on Tobago’s southwestern shore, people in the Hope Beach area have called for the speedy removal of another barge that, over two weeks ago, was listing badly and is now in danger of sinking off the southern coast.

(Trinidad Express) A four-year-old boy was shot in Petit Valley yesterday morning when disagreement between two neighbours resulted in gunshots being fired.

(Trinidad Guardian) Bleeding from his hands and feet, where he was hog-tied with straps and a severed seatbelt, kidnap victim Arshad Mohammed screamed for help as he sat under a coconut tree, fervently praying he would not die.

(Trinidad Guardian) One would think that those residing in the heart of a disaster are the ones most affected.

(Trinidad Guardian) “Stop killing and abusing our nation’s children!” That’s the call from Sheldon Cyrus, Director/ Chief Executive Officer of the Children’s Authority of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) is reporting that preliminary fingerprinting reports submitted by the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA), have indicated that the hydrocarbon discharge affecting the south-east coast of Tobago is an ‘intermediate fuel oil’, also known as ‘bunker fuel’.

(Trinidad Guardian) An 11-year-old boy was killed during a shooting along Laventille Road yesterday afternoon, while the gunmen’s intended target escaped with minor injuries.

(Trinidad Guardian) Strike action by over 1,000 workers at the Port of Port-of-Spain yesterday caused major disruptions.

(Trinidad Guardian) Diesel has been identified as the oil-like substance which has been leaking from the Gulfstream barge and blanketed 15 kilometres of Tobago’s shoreline since February 7, when the vessel ran aground at Cove, Tobago.