A St James teenag­er was stabbed to death dur­ing an al­leged rob­bery in Mor­vant on Fri­day night.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has record­ed its third COVID-19 death and a spike in cas­es be­tween Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.

Around 15 ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket are de­mand­ing space in­side the fa­cil­i­ty to con­duct busi­ness. The mar­ket re­opened Fri­day fol­low­ing a three-day clo­sure to sani­tise the fa­cil­i­ty.

It will be a per­son­al choice for the own­ers/op­er­a­tors of small and large maxi-taxis if they want to con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing ser­vices to the pub­lic af­ter Sun­day.

A Williamsville man and his cousin died af­ter they were pinned un­der the trail­er of a truck in Table­land while re­turn­ing home from a prayer ser­vice on Thurs­day night. Chan­drab­han Ram­roop, 45, a hard­ware work­er and See­ta Bhag­wan­deen, 46, a house­wife, of White­land Road died on the scene.

So­cial dis­tanc­ing and mul­ti­ple warn­ing to stay at home were wide­ly ig­nored yes­ter­day as the pub­lic crowd­ed su­per­mar­kets and banks—al­so ig­nor­ing the an­nounce­ment by Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young that su­per­mar­kets are es­sen­tial ser­vices and would not be closed.

The Min­istry of Health is brac­ing for a rise in the num­ber of pa­tients they will have to test and pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es this week­end. Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh made the com­ment at a press con­fer­ence Friday, as he an­nounced a sec­ond death and re­vealed this week­end would be the coun­try’s tip­ping point in fight­ing this glob­al pan­dem­ic.

The pub­lic will still be able to go to the shop, gro­cery and drug store from Mon­day. But if you’re not do­ing that and aren’t among cer­tain es­sen­tial ser­vices which con­tin­ue op­er­at­ing, you’ll have to tell po­lice why you’re out­side and could ul­ti­mate­ly face a $50,000 fine and six months’ jail.

Three more peo­ple who were quar­an­tined at Camp Ba­lan­dra, af­ter re­turn­ing to Trinidad from a Caribbean cruise, were trans­port­ed to the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal last night for treat­ment for the nov­el coro­n­avirus (COVID-19).

To­ba­go’s sec­ond pos­i­tive nov­el coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pa­tient does not have any trav­el his­to­ry, a sit­u­a­tion which now his co-work­ers at the Scar­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal wary about whether they were ex­posed to the virus.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has said the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is pre­pared to take ac­tion against any­one who spreads unau­tho­rized in­for­ma­tion.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram on Fri­day con­firmed that the two pa­tients who have so far died from COVID-19 will not be af­ford­ed cer­e­monies at homes or church­es where the body is present and this will be the pro­to­col go­ing for­ward.