The Gov­ern­ment’s lat­est COVID-19 mea­sure has man­dat­ed that bars, church­es and sim­i­lar places, as well as air and sea­ports re­main closed un­til April 30. And taxis and bus­es must con­tin­ue car­ry­ing half pas­sen­ger loads un­til then al­so.

Bar­bers and oth­ers of­fer­ing “beau­ti­fi­ca­tion” ser­vices to clients at home should stop do­ing so as they’re putting peo­ple at risk. And fun-lovers al­so risk a $50,000 fine and pos­si­ble jail if they con­tin­ue go­ing to beach­es, rivers, streams and springs be­fore April 15, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young said Fri­day.

The Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) is con­demn­ing Cab­i­net over the de­lay on the ap­proval of the pro­posed pan­dem­ic leave an­nounced by Labour Min­is­ter Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus in March.

The Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment has es­tab­lished three sep­a­rate iso­la­tion fa­cil­i­ties to house pos­i­tive COVID-19 pa­tients in To­ba­go.

Some 14 To­ba­go health­care work­ers who are di­rect­ly in­ter­fac­ing with COVID-19 pos­i­tive pa­tients are cur­rent­ly be­ing housed at an undis­closed fa­cil­i­ty at Sig­nal Hill, ac­cord­ing to Med­ical Chief of Staff Dr Vic­tor Wheel­er.

Fif­teen days af­ter 78-year-old Zori­da Wahid Khan re­turned to her home in Queens, New York, af­ter va­ca­tion­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go, she test­ed pos­i­tive for the COVID-19.

Res­i­dents of Brook­lyn Set­tle­ment, San­gre Grande are call­ing on Min­istry of Health au­thor­i­ties to re­con­sid­er a de­ci­sion to house re­cov­er­ing COVID-19 pa­tients at a fa­cil­i­ty in their com­mu­ni­ty.

A Va­len­cia res­i­dent, who was killed dur­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in the area on Wednes­day af­ter­noon has been iden­ti­fied as 15-year-old teenag­er Jah­mali Is­rael De Fre­itas.

Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is once again urg­ing the gov­ern­ment to ramp up cit­i­zen test­ing for COVID-19.

Whether you’re a dou­bles fan or you nev­er quite un­der­stood the hype, the dou­bles ven­dor has be­come a main­stay of lo­cal cui­sine.

17 COVID-19 pa­tients who now ap­pear to show no signs of the virus were moved from the Cou­va Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day af­ter­noon to an undis­closed lo­ca­tion where they are ex­pect­ed to take their fi­nal steps of re­cov­ery.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has made pub­lic the menu for pa­tients cur­rent­ly at the Cou­va Health Fa­cil­i­ty say­ing they were well bal­anced.