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Additional $16B to address COVID-19
Posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Rowley: Govt sought additional $16B to address COVID-19
He said despite the country's financial constraints, Tobago's future had not been “stymied ... it has been accelerated." He listed the Roxborough Fire Station, Roxborough Hospital, and funding of the ANR Robinson International Airport expansion projects as evidence of growth.
Rowley: T&T to get vaccine by March
In an interview on Tobago Channel 5 yesterday, Dr Rowley said, the Ministry of Health would focus on those groups being exposed the most, including healthcare workers and the elderly who are more susceptible, followed by the rest of the population. He said T&T was a part of the COVAX group among 162 countries, putting this country in a much better place to respond to the virus.
51 ticketed for highway speeding
Police are reminding citizens to adhere to the country's speed limits as speeding continues to be the main factor in fatal road traffic accidents.
T&T records 96 road fatalities in 2020, lowest figure since 1957
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Traffic and Highway Patrol Branch is once again advising drivers to obey speed limits to avoid paying fines and accruing demerit points.
Stranded abroad: a national shame
Three factors underpin this ongoing gyre of tragedy: 1. Government's egregious mishandling of the exemption process and continued character assassination of stranded nationals. 2. Institutional incompetence and apathy leading to the scandalously botched management of the crisis. 3. Campaigns of hate waged by Trinis at home against Trinis abroad, fomented by misguided political allegiances.
CXC: 80% of students received query results
Candidates gear up for battle in Hindustan/St Mary's
Peters said Hindustan/St Mary's "has not been a traditionally PNM-held seat, but it has been a seat with some level fluctuation over the years. We have to work and capitalise on that."
PNM, UNC both sure they'll win in Cunupia
Despite Cunupia being a traditional UNC district and the UNC controlling the Chaguanas Borough Corporation, Ali said, "On the contrary. I am very confident." With the PNM being in government, Ali believed the chances of the party winning the Cunupia by-election are very good.
Analysts: Tsoiafatt-Angus move could affect PNM
He placed Tsoiafatt-Angus's breaking ranks with the PNM in the same category as former PNM MPs Dr Rupert Griffith and Dr Vincent Lasse crossing the floor to join the UNC in 1997. He added, "There is a lot of hype coming into this election in terms of the PNM internal election last year."
Schoolteacher found dead in Preysal, man in custody
A male relative is currently in custody for the death of Suzette Sylvester. He surrendered himself at the Chaguanas Police Station around 7am, an hour after Sylvester's body was found by relatives.
Teacher beaten to death with hammer at home
Police said the suspect walked into the Chaguanas Police Station and alerted them to the situation. Officers subsequently went to the scene where they met grieving relatives who ushered them into Sylvester's bedroom to where her body was, slumped on the ground near the bed.
Woman begged relative's killers to spare newborn's life
Police said Darrel Villafana, 42, was at home at Geranium Drive at around 4 am on January 1 when two men armed with cutlasses stormed the house and chopped him to death. A relative who was at the house at the time begged Villafana's killers to spare her life and the life of her month-old daughter.
Murdered Carapo man was warned about the wrong crowd
Despite repeated warnings about the friends he kept, 23-year-old Omari Alexander continued to associate with criminals,which eventually led to his death, a relative said on Monday.
Dead Tunapuna man's sister willing to forgive attackers
Nalefa Ramjit, the older sister of Aarif Mohammed, who was killed by three men in Tunapuna on Friday night, said she sympathised with them and was willing to forgive her brother's attackers because of the circumstances.
Truck driver on ganja charge in Tobago
At 7.40 pm, they searched a white Mitsubishi ten-tonne truck and found a blue knapsack containing six blocks of compressed marijuana wrapped in cream-coloured plastic and a blue suitcase which contained eight blocks of compressed marijuana. The bags were on the floor of the front passenger seat of the truck.
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