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News Newsday Reporter 3 Hrs Ago Photo courtesy TT Met Office – After a tense-filled day, the tropical storm warning for Trinidad and Tobago has been discontinued.  In a statement, shortly after 11 pm Tuesday, the Met Office revised its orange level alert to yellow, an adverse weather status to monitor weather conditions. It stated […]

News Jensen La Vende 46 Minutes Ago San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporation foreman Deepan Ramadhin examines the work done by V&V Contracting Limited long boom escavator operator Ravi Ramjattan as he clears a main watercourse in preparation for the arrival of a storm on El Socorrow Extension Road No 1 on Tuesday. – JEFF K MAYERS […]

News Kinnesha George 3 Minutes Ago Chief Secretary Farley Augustine. File photo/ David Reid SEVENTEEN of Tobago’s 33 shelters have been opened, THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine said. Augustine was addressing the media on Tuesday evening on the current adverse weather system approaching the country. Also with him at the virtual press conference was Director […]

News Camille Moreno 5 Minutes Ago File photo. Caribbean Airlines has cancelled its Miami to Port of Spain flight for Wednesday, which has been rescheduled to Friday via Ft Lauderdale. The airline announced the cancellation on its website Tuesday in an updated advisory on flights affected by the tropical storm warming. Flights to Suriname, Curaçao, […]

News Kinnesha George 11 Minutes Ago GETTING READY: A man repairs the roof of a house in Bon Accord Estate on Tuesday as he and many other Tobagonians prepared hours before the expected arrival of the tropical storm. PHOTO BY DAVID REID While there was no rush, Tobagonians prepared for the possible effects of a […]

News Elizabeth Gonzales 20 Minutes Ago The Ministry of Social Development and Family Services distributed over $1 million in grants to small business owners on Tuesday morning through the Sowing Empowerment through Entrepreneurial Development (SEED.) As part of the ministry’s continued efforts to give starting and struggling small businesses a boost, the minister, Donna Cox, […]

News Corey Connelly 7 Minutes Ago File photo Tobago has 119 active covid19 cases after four new cases were confirmed overnight. The island’s covid19 death toll remains at 270. On Tuesday, the THA Division of Health, Wellness and Social Protection reported 16 people were in hospital, eight of whom are fully vaccinated and eight unvaccinated. […]

News Kinnesha George 4 Hrs Ago Chief Secretary Farley Augustine at a press conference on Monday at the Tobago Emergency Operations Centre, Bacolet. – David Reid Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Farley Augustine has assured that all systems and agencies on the island are ready for the possible effects of a tropical storm. […]

News Laurel V Williams 30 Minutes Ago Wilfred Chattagoon is comforted with a hug at Sacred Hearts Villa on Monday. The 40-year-old Gasparillo man’s family perished on Saturday in a fire that destroyed his home. – Marvin Hamilton Already deeply tramautised by the fiery deaths of his elderly mother, five-year-old daughter, and pregnant niece-in-law, Wilfred […]

News Laurel V Williams 6 Hrs Ago File photo A farmer found the body of a man with stab wounds on Monday in New Grant. The police later identified the victim as David Lazarus of Enterprise, Chaguanas. A report said at about 10 am on Monday, the farmer saw a galvanised sheet on the ground […]

News Elizabeth Gonzales 4 Hrs Ago Image courtesy CDC The covid19 virus has claimed over 4,000 lives since the Ministry of Health recorded the country’s first death in March 2020. On Monday the ministry said two men – one middle-aged and the other elderly, both with multiple comorbidities – are the latest fatalities. Though deaths […]

News Clint Chan Tack 11 Minutes Ago FORMER Barataria/San Juan MP Dr Fuad Khan voted in the United National Congress internal election on Sunday at the SWWTU Hall on Wrightson Road, Port of Spain. Khan contested post of political leader. – AYANNA KINSALE FORMER Barataria/San Juan MP Dr Fuad Khan and former Couva North MP […]