The pro­to­cols for en­try in­to Guyana are less strict than Trinidad and To­ba­go, al­though that coun­try has opt­ed to open its bor­ders.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (TTCIC) and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from var­i­ous eco­nom­ic sec­tors in the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty will be host­ing a joint, vir­tu­al me­dia con­fer­ence this af­ter­noon, to re­veal their plans for the safe re­open­ing of eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty in the coun­try.

When Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley faces the coun­try on Sat­ur­day to pro­nounce on cur­rent COVID-19 re­stric­tions, it will be two months be­fore Christ­mas.

There has been one more death from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bring­ing the na­tion­al to­tal to 96, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

This is ac­cord­ing to epi­demi­ol­o­gist Dr Av­ery Hinds, who said this trend was ob­served over the last two months.

San­gre Grande Po­lice is­sued 59 Pub­lic Health no­tices to mo­torists and pedes­tri­ans for not wear­ing face masks on Fri­day night, while 41 tick­ets were is­sued to mo­torists for over­crowd­ing of ve­hi­cles, no lights, loud mu­sic, smooth tyres and il­le­gal fit­tings on ve­hi­cles.

The Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs says it has pro­vid­ed al­most US$206,000 (rough­ly TT$1.4 mil­lion) dur­ing Sep­tem­ber, in as­sis­tance to near­ly 300 T&T na­tion­als strand­ed abroad, be­cause of the closed bor­ders due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber wants the Gov­ern­ment to re­open To­ba­go and use its re­open­ing as a test case to re­open Trinidad.

Twen­ty-sev­en new COVID-19 pos­i­tive cas­es have been record­ed by the Min­istry of Health in its re­port for to­day, Wednes­day 14 Oc­to­ber 2020.

UK Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Steve Bak­er has is­sued an ap­peal to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gov­ern­ment to repa­tri­ate its cit­i­zens strand­ed in the UK.

(CNN) — Cris­tiano Ronal­do has test­ed pos­i­tive for coro­n­avirus, the Por­tuguese Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion said in a state­ment Tues­day.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed one more death from COVID-19 in its re­port for to­day, Tues­day 13 Oc­to­ber 2020. This most re­cent death brings the na­tion­al to­tal to 93 per­sons who suc­cumbed the dis­ease.