As pri­vate com­pa­nies fall vic­tim to the eco­nom­ic fall­out re­sult­ing from COVID-19, sev­er­al per­ma­nent mem­bers of the ed­i­to­r­i­al staff at Dai­ly News Lim­it­ed (News­day) have been tem­porar­i­ly laid off.

The on­go­ing con­fu­sion sur­round­ing the pro­posed spend by the Gov­ern­ment of $50 mil­lion to up­grade ho­tels and guest­hous­es in To­ba­go in or­der to im­prove the is­land’s tourism prod­uct is the lat­est in what has been a his­to­ry of tax­pay­ers los­ing mil­lions of dol­lars in tourism spend un­der the con­trol of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

Chair­man of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) mar­ket­ing com­mit­tee Ra­jen­dra Man­galie has called for all hands to be on deck to as­sist this coun­try’s crick­et in light of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic that has gripped the world.

Among the slew of lo­cal en­ter­tain­ers tak­ing to the dig­i­tal space to meet their au­di­ences is Free­town Col­lec­tive with their Free­town Thurs­day Con­certs. This vir­tu­al con­cert se­ries, cur­rent­ly pre­sent­ed via Face­book Live (@weare­free­town), has as its pri­ma­ry aim to help keep peo­ple con­nect­ed through mu­sic dur­ing the on­go­ing COVID-19 quar­an­tine pe­ri­od.

The Bridge of Hope Chil­dren’s Home at San­gre Chiq­ui­to has been at­tract­ing at­ten­tion from peo­ple both na­tion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

Phase three of the lift­ing of pan­dem­ic re­stric­tions kicks in Mon­day with the long-an­tic­i­pat­ed re­sump­tion of re­tail ac­tiv­i­ties in malls and the coun­try’s com­mer­cial cen­tres.