By Prior Beharry MINISTER of Finance Colm Imbert says Republic Bank’s decision to cut credit card spending from US$10,000 to US$5,000 was not discussed with him. In a release on Saturday, Imbert said, “The Minister of Finance has noted a lot of uninformed and speculative commentary in the public domain regarding a recent decision […]Read More
By Prior Beharry PRIME Minister Dr Keith Rowley says that he will initiate talks to fight crime with the Opposition and that a cabinet reshuffle was never on the cards. He made these comments and more at a post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s on Thursday. This followed a three-day […]Read More
HOMICIDE detectives were still trying to piece together to find out who ordered the hit on San Fernando businesswoman Veronica De Leon on Saturday. She was killed after being ambushed as she left her home in her Range Rover. Police are yet to recover the white AD wagon the suspects used in the act. The […]Read More
AS at midnight tonight (Monday, July 31, 2023), the wearing of masks at all public and private hospitals and medical clinics will no longer be mandatory. This is the final Covid-19 measure to be dropped by government. The Ministry of Health in a media release on Sunday, while announcing the change also reminded the public, particularly the vulnerable, to […]Read More
TRINIDAD and Tobago has received 5,760 doses of the Pfizer Comirnaty Covid -19 vaccines. The vaccines arrived at 7.20 am on Thursday, a result of a donation from the Government of Greece facilitated through the COVAX facility, the Ministry of Health stated in a media release. The ministry stated that the vaccines were suitable for individuals 12 […]Read More
PRIME Minister Dr Keith Rowley held a press conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s on Monday. He spoke for just about 90 minutes and took questions from the media for half an hour. See some of AZP News coverage of the conference below. Click on the links to see full details. Atlantic […]Read More
AFTER issuing 1,25o Covid-19 updates, the Ministry of Health has decided to discontinue them. In a release on Friday, it noted that Covid-19 continued to circulate at a very low level in Trinidad and Tobago. In keeping with the downward trend, the epidemiological and hospitalisation data for the period April 29, 2023 to May […]Read More
By Sue-Ann Wayow NOW that the Covid-19 pandemic is officially over, government should remove all outstanding Covid-19 restrictions. Former government minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh made the call via a media release on Friday evening. He said, “In the wake of this significant development, I advise the Government and Ministry of Health to immediately lift the existing emergency public health declaration that has been in […]Read More
By Prior Beharry THE World Health Organization (WHO), signals the end of the Covid-19 global pandemic. On Thursday, at the 15th meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the Covid-19 disease, Director General of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus determined that Covid-19 was now an established and ongoing health issue, which no […]Read More
THREE persons have died of Covid-19 in the past two weeks. The Ministry of Health stated in its latest update (#1,250) that for the period April 19, 2023 to May 2, 2023, there were 146 new positive cases. This is the ministry’s first fortnightly report on Covid-19 statistics. The two deaths were one elderly man and one middle-aged man […]Read More