THE US Embassy in Port-of-Spain is extending the validity period for the visa application processing fee. In a release on Thursday, the US Embassy stated that this fee, also called the MRV fee payment, was normally valid for one year. But due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the validity of the visa application processing fee […]
A St Joseph man is granted bail for allegedly purchasing a laptops with a fraudulent cheque. Joseph Cain, 43, a businessman, of Piccadilly Street, was granted bail in the sum of $75,000 when he appeared before a Justice of the Peace on Monday, charged with obtaining laptops valued at $65,400 by false pretenses. […]Read More
AS part of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2020, MusicTT will be hosting a five-day seminar on The Steelpan Business. GEW is celebrated annually in over 170 countries. The five-day seminar will take place from November 16 to November 20. In a press release issued by Creative TT, the organisation stated, “MusicTT’s primary objective […]Read More
Caribbean Airlines (CAL) will offer more flights between Guyana and Barbados from October 31. In a press release issued on Tuesday, Caribbean Airlines stated there will be weekly regional flights between Eugene F Correia International Airport Ogle, Georgetown and Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados. The airline will introduce three weekly, non-stop return flights […]Read More
THE curfew that has been implemented in Jamaica to limit the spread of Covid-19 has been extended to November 16. In addition, persons who are 65 years and over will have to adhere to the curfew times until November 30. In a virtual media conference on Wednesday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the continued […]Read More
By Sue-Ann Wayow TEACHERS are being advised not to give private lessons at their homes to children as that activity will encourage co-mingling. At a Ministry of Health’s virtual media conference on Wednesday, Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards, Principal Medical Officer for Institutions said any activity that encourages persons congregating should be avoided. She was responding […]Read More
By Sue-Ann Wayow THE north-eastern part of the island of Tobago is now officially a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Reserve. This means that Tobago is now home to the largest MAB site in the English-speaking small Caribbean island states, the only one larger is located in […]Read More
By Sue-Ann Wayow THE Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has received more than 5,000 requests for reviews from secondary school pupils in Trinidad and Tobago as at Tuesday. In a release issued on Wednesday, the Ministry of Education stated that the number for request for reviews for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) was 2, […]Read More
YET another person has died from Covid-19 in Trinidad and Tobago. The number of deaths now stand at 107. In its latest update on Wednesday afternoon, the Ministry of Health reported 26 new positive cases in the last 24 hours. The ministry stated that four of these cases were from people who were recently […]Read More
OVER the next six days three repatriation flights will be returning Trinidad and Tobago nationals home. So said Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards, the Principal Medical Officer Institutions in the Ministry of Health, at the virtual media conference of the Ministry of Health on Wednesday. She said the flights will return from Miami, New York and […]Read More