A man from San Juan, who was sen­tenced to hang for mur­der­ing a man dur­ing an ar­gu­ment, will have to wait a while longer be­fore he learns the fate of his ap­peal against his con­vic­tion.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 30,938  

Five men were ar­rest­ed for traf­fick­ing in firearms by of­fi­cers of the San Juan and Mor­vant Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ments and North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force ear­li­er to­day.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Tabaquite, Ani­ta Haynes, is de­mand­ing that the Gov­ern­ment in­sists on an emer­gency meet­ing of the Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tion Coun­cil (CXC), and or­ders an in­de­pen­dent au­dit of the body’s op­er­a­tions.

Of­fi­cers of the Freeport Sta­tion are ac­tive­ly search­ing for a man, who had a firearm in his pos­ses­sion in Cara­pichaima.

Two men have been ar­rest­ed and charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na by of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task Force.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) says it will be work­ing close­ly with all stake­hold­ers and the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and The Arts, on ways to in­no­vate the Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val prod­uct for a post-COVID-19 world.

Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar SC MP, is call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to have a vir­tu­al car­ni­val.

The Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts says he and the Min­istry are work­ing to en­sure Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val re­mains “at the fore­front of the glob­al Car­ni­val land­scape”.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith will pro­ceed on one-month va­ca­tion, be­gin­ning Fri­day, to sup­port his son who is play­ing pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball in Ire­land. 

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is set to send home one-third of its staff for the next three months, as the air­line strug­gles to cope with the fi­nan­cial fall­out of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, at about 8 am, Resh­ma had just left her Lal­too Trace Ex­ten­sion home in Pe­nal, on her way to work, when she was at­tacked.