Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is hold­ing out hope that his daugh­ter Dr Sonel Row­ley-Stew­art will be among those na­tion­als who will be al­lowed to re­turn to T&T dur­ing this hol­i­day pe­ri­od.

Ner­vous about what the next two weeks will bring in terms of the COVID-19 sta­tis­tics as there is in­creased move­ment be­tween the two is­lands dur­ing this hol­i­day pe­ri­od, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley ap­pealed to Trinida­di­ans on va­ca­tion to keep their num­bers small.

While there was no eas­ing of re­stric­tions Sat­ur­day as it per­tains to so­cial gath­er­ings or the re­sump­tion of con­tact sports, a de­ci­sion was tak­en to al­low gro­ceries/su­per­mar­kets/goods re­tail­ers to open for a 24-hour pe­ri­od be­gin­ning from De­cem­ber 10 to Jan­u­ary 3.

Ra­jiv Diptee, pres­i­dent of the Su­per­mar­kets' As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT) calls the Prime Min­is­ter’s move to al­low su­per­mar­kets to open 24 hours dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son a “sen­si­ble” one.

The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing 10 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try to 730 pa­tients.

An­oth­er ma­jor step to­wards end­ing pe­ri­od pover­ty in this coun­try was tak­en with the size­able do­na­tion of 135,000 fem­i­nine hy­giene prod­ucts to sec­ondary schools in Trinidad and To­ba­go, and to non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion Kids In Need of Di­rec­tion (KIND), by Al­ways®.

Fo­cused SDG in­vest­ments over the next decade could pre­vent the rise of ex­treme pover­ty and even ex­ceed the de­vel­op­ment tra­jec­to­ry the world was on be­fore the pan­dem­ic

Lon­don (CNN) — The Unit­ed King­dom has be­come the first West­ern na­tion to ap­prove a Covid-19 vac­cine, a land­mark mo­ment in the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic that paves the way for the first dos­es to be rolled out across the coun­try next week.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh and Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram are again urg­ing the pub­lic to get them­selves vac­ci­nat­ed against the in­fluen­za virus.

A site in Cou­va has been se­lect­ed for con­struc­tion of a chiller for the COVID-19 vac­cine. Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh said on Sat­ur­day they will be go­ing out to ten­der short­ly for this.

On­ly three of the group of 26 Venezue­lan mi­grant chil­dren and their par­ents, who re­turned to Trinidad af­ter be­ing de­port­ed on Sun­day, have been put in State quar­an­tine pur­suant to a court or­der grant­ed, last night.

Peo­ple held at the 'Zess­er' par­ty in Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, last Sun­day morn­ing, will be ar­rest­ed if they do not re­spond to sum­mons­es to ap­pear in Court.