As Trinidad & To­ba­go con­tin­ues to re­open var­i­ous busi­ness sec­tors, the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO) warns that the Delta Vari­ant cur­rent­ly cir­cu­lat­ing in the re­gion is 60 per cent more trans­mis­si­ble than the orig­i­nal COVID-19 dis­ease.

As the coun­try bade farewell to a long­stand­ing ser­vant of the Is­lam­ic com­mu­ni­ty, Ha­ji Ya­coob Ali, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Rur­al De­vel­op­ments and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Kaz­im Ho­sein are among many who paid trib­ute.

As if bat­tling a rare ill­ness was not enough for two-year-old Amari John, the in­fant now has an­oth­er ob­sta­cle he must over­come, COVID-19.

TORON­TO—An On­tario man try­ing to bury his moth­er in Trinidad and To­ba­go says he’s dev­as­tat­ed af­ter he flew to the is­land on­ly to be turned around and forced to fly home be­cause his vac­cine mix is not ap­proved in that coun­try.