The Bet­ter Unit­ed group of par­ties has turned down an ap­proach from New Na­tion­al Vi­sion (NNV) leader Fuad Abu Bakr to re­turn to the group af­ter he struck out in get­ting a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment elec­tion can­di­da­cy last week.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment PRO Lau­rel Leza­ma-Lee Sing was among nom­i­nees to be screened for the Lopinot-Bon Air West con­stituen­cy at Queen’s Hall, Port-of-Spain.

For­mer Con­gress of the Peo­ple Ari­ma MP Rodger Samuel, who’s re­signed from the COP, has now sub­mit­ted a nom­i­na­tion to con­test Ari­ma for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress in forth­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions.

As the move­ment sparked by the killing of African Amer­i­can George Floyd con­tin­ues to gath­er mo­men­tum, ac­tivists in Trinidad and To­ba­go say it is an op­por­tu­ni­ty to ad­dress long-stand­ing is­sues of so­cial and racial in­equity af­fect­ing Afro-Trinida­di­ans.

“It is im­por­tant that each group be first of all hon­est with it­self and its re­la­tion­ship with oth­ers.”

The en­vi­ron­ment rep­re­sents the essence of our lives and the health and well­be­ing of the voice­less. In this post-COVID era, we must all recog­nise the frag­ile re­la­tion­ship we share with our moth­er earth and unan­i­mous­ly com­mit to more re­spect­ful stan­dards of en­vi­ron­ment pro­tec­tion.

The Trinre Foun­da­tion joined with Trinre em­ploy­ees to raise $40,000 to be do­nat­ed to var­i­ous or­gan­i­sa­tions which have been ac­tive­ly en­gaged in pro­vid­ing re­lief to vul­ner­a­ble mem­bers of the so­ci­ety af­fect­ed by COVID-19.

Ca­roni East Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Dr Tim Gopeesingh is step­ping out of the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tions.

As part of the na­tion­al dri­ve to safe­guard the health of the Trinidad and To­ba­go pop­u­la­tion in the face of the glob­al COVID-19 out­break, the Min­istry of Health con­tin­ues to pro­vide up-to-date in­for­ma­tion on the coun­try’s sta­tus in this re­gard.                   

The Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) on So­cial Ser­vices and Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion will be host­ing a vir­tu­al meet­ing, to ex­am­ine how the ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor will con­tin­ue to func­tion dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The Trade Li­cence Unit (TLU) at the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try has an­nounced changes to its busi­ness op­er­a­tions, which in­volve con­tin­ued ob­ser­va­tion of its Lim­it­ed Vis­i­tor Pol­i­cy, to re­duce the risk of COVID-19 trans­mis­sion to staff and clients.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ILO) has re­leased a new tool on safe­ty and health for de­ci­sion mak­ers in the world of work, to con­front COVID-19.