Some of the $51 mil­lion al­lo­cat­ed to the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s of­fice to pay off le­gal fees will go to pay off debt owed to lawyers from since the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) held of­fice over a decade ago.

He was speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, as he dis­trib­uted ham­pers and oth­er es­sen­tial items to those in need in his con­stituen­cy at his Munroe Road of­fice.

Beloved pun­dit Chaitram Har­gob­in died af­ter suf­fer­ing an al­ler­gic re­ac­tion to a wasp sting.

With hun­dreds of peo­ple dy­ing and thou­sands more in­fect­ed with COVID-19, along with un­em­ploy­ment and cit­i­zens fac­ing hard­ships due to the pan­dem­ic, a com­mu­ni­ty in Debe has sent a mes­sage of hope and sup­port through a can­dle­light vig­il.

A sin­gle moth­er and her chil­dren are ex­pect­ed to be out of a home by this morn­ing, af­ter be­ing evict­ed by her land­lord for fail­ing to pay her rent.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing po­lit­i­cal and so­cial ac­tivist Ravi Bal­go­b­in Ma­haraj have re­quest­ed that At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi dis­close the le­gal ad­vice he re­ceived over a de­ci­sion not to dis­close the fees paid by his of­fice to pri­vate at­tor­neys for le­gal work for the State. 

Ques­tions have been raised over a de­ci­sion tak­en by the coun­cil of the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion to re­tain a law firm, which rep­re­sent­ed Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed in a pri­vate defama­tion case sev­er­al years ago. 

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne has said that 200,000 Sinopharm vac­cines will ar­rive in Trinidad and To­ba­go “very ear­ly next week” and added that the 800,000 John­son and John­son vac­cines due in Au­gust, might ar­rive ear­li­er.

Four­teen more peo­ple have died from COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health, which is re­port­ing the na­tion­al death toll from the dis­ease mov­ing up to 644 per­sons.

●   The UK will do­nate at least 100 mil­lion sur­plus coro­n­avirus vac­cine dos­es with­in the next year, in­clud­ing 5 mil­lion be­gin­ning in the com­ing weeks.

Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar SC MP, is mak­ing an­oth­er stri­dent call for the Min­is­ter of Health, Ter­rence Deyals­ingh, to re­sign from his post, for what she says is his in­com­pe­tent han­dling of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Sev­er­al health cen­tres un­der the purview of the North-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) be­gan ad­min­is­ter­ing sec­ond dos­es of the Sinopharm COVID-19 Vac­cine, to­day, Fri­day June 11th, and are ex­pect­ed to do so through­out the week­end.