Two days af­ter the Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor said on­ly 365 peo­ple lost their jobs in the first half of 2020, the for­mer Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Labour Rudranath In­dars­ingh has called for dis­clo­sure of the "true un­em­ploy­ment fig­ures."

On Sep­tem­ber 14th, Trinidad record­ed its high­est tem­per­a­ture for 2020 to date, a scorch­ing 34.8°C at Pi­ar­co.  Over the last four days, Trinidad’s max­i­mum highs at Pi­ar­co have not re­lent­ed be­low the 34°C mark.

On the tenth an­niver­sary of the Bo­cas Lit Fest which starts on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 18, the fes­ti­val will com­mem­o­rate the 1970's Black Pow­er Move­ment.

The World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) is call­ing on gov­ern­ments and health care lead­ers to ad­dress per­sis­tent threats to the health and safe­ty of health work­ers and pa­tients.

Pres­i­dent of the Pri­vate Child­care Providers group says since the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic caused schools around the coun­try to shut down- some pri­vate preschools have had to shut their doors per­ma­nent­ly.

As this coun­try’s Re­mand pris­on­ers em­bark on a hunger strike to high­light their wors­en­ing con­di­tions dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, the Caribbean Cen­tre for Hu­man Rights (CCHR) is re­it­er­at­ing its call for gov­ern­ment to work hard­er to mit­i­gate the risk of COVID-19 in the prison sys­tem.

Per­sons who have been placed in home quar­an­tine, es­pe­cial­ly those who have test COVID-19 pos­i­tive, will be mon­i­tored by the Po­lice Ser­vice’s Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol (ERP) ve­hi­cles and oth­er pa­trols in all nine Polic­ing Di­vi­sions, to en­sure they abide by the stip­u­la­tions of their quar­an­tine.

Res­i­dents in the Av­o­cat area and en­vi­rons will have an in­ter­rup­tion in their pipe borne wa­ter sup­ply to­mor­row, Fri­day 18th Sep­tem­ber 2020, be­tween the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.

Even as nine new COVID-19 pos­i­tive cas­es are be­ing record­ed, the Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing that the num­bers of those in self iso­la­tion who are re­cov­er­ing from the dis­ease are in­creas­ing.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO) is warn­ing gov­ern­ments in the Amer­i­c­as that those in their pop­u­la­tions not yet ex­posed to COVID-19 are still very much at risk of the dis­ease, and re­open­ing economies must be done care­ful­ly and strate­gi­cal­ly.

A sec­ond man has been charged in con­nec­tion with a quadru­ple mur­der which oc­curred in May 2020, in Princes Town.

A man cru­sad­ing as “The Re­sis­tance” who de­faced sev­er­al build­ings in Port-of-Spain and al­leged­ly set the Min­istry of Health on fire in a cam­paign against COVID-19 mea­sures, has been ar­rest­ed and charged.