This coun­try’s for­eign ex­change woes are threat­en­ing to crip­ple the lo­cal in­sur­ance mar­ket.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 6 new cas­es of COVID-19 bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 329.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed two men this morn­ing af­ter of­fices re­spond­ed to a re­port of sus­pi­cious per­sons at the com­pound of a gym lo­cat­ed at Sad­dle Road, Mar­aval.
Gar­net Sta­ple­ton and Jef­fer­son Gabriel, both of Sea Lots, were charged for pos­ses­sion of house-break­ing im­ple­ments and un­law­ful pos­ses­sion. They are due to ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly at the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court to­mor­row.

A 20-year-old Siparia labour­er is ward­ed at the hos­pi­tal af­ter he was in­jured in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing near his home, on Sun­day.

The Bar­keep­ers & Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BOATT) is urg­ing oth­er stake­hold­ers in the hos­pi­tal­i­ty in­dus­try to fol­low their lead and main­tain open lines of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the au­thor­i­ties, as the in­dus­try con­tin­ues to work on re­cov­er­ing from the eco­nom­ic im­pact of COVID-19.

Po­lice of­fi­cers in Moru­ga ar­rest­ed four peo­ple—two Trinida­di­ans and two Venezue­lans—this morn­ing, for be­ing in pos­ses­sion of wildlife and weapon­ry.

A 20-year-old man from Sea Lots is now in po­lice cus­tody af­ter a taxi dri­ver gave chase and caught him af­ter he snatched a woman’s purse in Port of Spain.

An es­ti­mat­ed 1.5 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na was found and seized in Laven­tille on Sun­day morn­ing.

The T&T Spir­it will be sail­ing at 3:00 pm in­stead of 4:00 pm to­day, Mon­day 18th Jan­u­ary 2021, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT).

The Med­ical Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go has with­drawn its let­ter to Dr Avinash Sawh and will make a fresh de­ter­mi­na­tion at its meet­ing next month whether Sawh should be the sub­ject of an en­quiry.

Founder of the Black Agen­da Project, Dr David Muham­mad, has warned that so­cial me­dia posts is­sued and cir­cu­lat­ed over the week­end about the resur­gence of gang war­fare are a hoax, fake news, and pos­si­bly were cre­at­ed to re­sult in ac­tion that would ben­e­fit those be­hind the mis­in­for­ma­tion ex­er­cise.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Hasan Sanchez of #50 Grana­do Street, Sawmill Av­enue, Mor­vant.