Shas­tri Boodan

Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go re­turned to a sense of nor­mal­cy yes­ter­day as scores of peo­ple showed up for work at pub­lic of­fices.

Var­i­ous re­tail out­lets lo­cat­ed in the de­vel­oped, west­ern side of the is­land al­so opened their doors for busi­ness.

The Val­u­a­tion Di­vi­sion of­fices were open as well as the Reg­is­ter’s Gen­er­al’s of­fices.

Em­ploy­ees work­ing with the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) showed up for work. How­ev­er, a no­tice post­ed on the doors of the EBC in­di­cat­ed that the EBC would be open to the pub­lic on June 8.

At the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board (NIB), a 40-year-old fa­ther and dis­placed ho­tel em­ploy­ee said he is get­ting a run-around for the promised so­cial re­lief grants.

At the Port of Scar­bor­ough, busi­ness was slow with per­sons en­ter­ing the port to seek pas­sage to T&T. At the Port Mall, sev­er­al busi­ness­es re­opened.

Olive Hen­ry who runs a health food store said busi­ness was slow.

Hen­ry said the last two months was tough on her but she sur­vived and spent her ex­tra time in agri­cul­ture.

Meena Ramdeen who runs a kiosk sell­ing repli­ca watch­es said she was glad to re­open and hoped that sales would again pick up.

At the Gulf City Mall, Low­lands, peo­ple lined up out­side the Courts de­part­ment store to pur­chase ap­pli­ances and oth­er items.

Mo­hammed Nas­sir-Ud­din who op­er­ates Mum­taz En­ter­pris­es, a com­pa­ny that sells cell­phones, said con­sumers came look­ing for new phones and ac­ces­sories.

Nas­sir-Ud­din said his stocks are low and he would not ex­pect it to be re­plen­ished un­til the next two weeks.

Con­sumers at the mall were in search of new cloth­ing and un­der­wear.

At Caribbean Air­lines at Crown Point, there was a short line of per­sons wait­ing to pur­chase tick­ets.

Staff said the air­line added two ad­di­tion­al flights a day mak­ing it a to­tal of four dai­ly flights.