The Prison Ser­vice has done its part to fa­cil­i­tate the pro­posed move to re­lease some non-vi­o­lent in­mates due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. 

As de­pres­sion kicks in for 65-year-old Gre­go­ry De Fre­itas, who spends his 17th day aboard the SY An­na, Min­istry of Health per­son­nel are ex­pect­ed to vis­it to­day.

They are leav­ing their homes and fam­i­lies every day, brav­ing what could prob­a­bly be de­scribed as the world’s great­est con­ta­gion to date — the nov­el COVID-19.

One man was shot dead and three oth­ers crit­i­cal­ly in­jured af­ter gun­men opened fire on the men while they were seat­ed in a car in Mar­aval last night.

Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar SC MP, is call­ing for more ac­count­abil­i­ty from Gov­ern­ment, over its spend­ing on mit­i­ga­tion mea­sures for the cur­rent COVID-19 cri­sis.

A 28-year-old man has died just un­der 24-hours af­ter a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Orop­une Gar­dens in Pi­ar­co.

WASA cus­tomers along the East-West Cor­ri­dor from Curepe to Tu­na­puna, who are served by the Val­sayn High Lift Sta­tion, can ex­pect to have their pipe-born wa­ter sup­ply re­stored by 8 this evening.

A new re­port from the In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ILO) es­ti­mates that at least 14 mil­lion jobs have been lost in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, as a di­rect re­sult of the COVID-19 cri­sis in the re­gion.

Ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cial po­lice re­ports Dr Kr­ish­na Amols­ingh, of D’Abadie, was re­lieved of a black Mer­cedes Benz while at his of­fice on Tues­day 7th April 2020. 

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Gary Grif­fith, says nei­ther he, nor the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), "reignit­ed the Com­mu­ni­ty Com­fort Pa­trols (CCP)".

Some 919 per­sons have been test­ed, thus far, for COVID-19 in­fec­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go. 107 of them have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to en­sure that all its re­sponse plans to the cur­rent COVID-19 cri­sis in the coun­try are in­clu­sive, and mind­ful of the needs of per­sons liv­ing with dis­abil­i­ties.