A Mara­bel­la man cur­rent­ly is nurs­ing gun­shot wounds af­ter be­ing am­bushed by an as­sailant as he ar­rived at his home last night.

(AP) — Some Eu­ro­pean coun­tries such as Spain are mak­ing ten­ta­tive plans for when they might start treat­ing COVID-19 as an “en­dem­ic” dis­ease, but the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion and oth­er of­fi­cials have warned that the world is nowhere close to de­clar­ing the pan­dem­ic over.

Skele­tal re­mains were found in an aban­doned build­ing in El Do­ra­do.  The iden­ti­ty of the de­ceased per­son is yet to be de­ter­mined.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port, at about 8:45 am, res­i­dents of La­dy Young Road, Mal­ick, heard sev­er­al gun­shots ring out and up­on check­ing, found the body of a man ly­ing face down in some bush­es a short dis­tance away from the Mal­ick Sec­ondary School.

MADRID (AP) — When the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic was first de­clared, Spaniards were or­dered to stay home for more than three months. For weeks, they were not al­lowed out­side even for ex­er­cise. Chil­dren were banned from play­grounds, and the econ­o­my vir­tu­al­ly stopped.

Two men were shot to death in Pleas­antville last night. Dead are 28-year-old plumber Akeem Men­doza, and 40-year-old Jashier Daniel, both of Or­chid Gar­dens, Pleas­antville.

Two men are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day, Thurs­day 20th Jan­u­ary 2022, af­ter they were joint­ly charged with kid­nap­ping for ran­som.

Prime Min­is­ter Mia Amor Mot­t­ley has cre­at­ed his­to­ry once again with a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive 30-0 vic­to­ry at the polls for her Bar­ba­dos Labour Par­ty (BLP), ac­cord­ing to a re­port in the Bar­ba­dos news­pa­per, Na­tion News.

With many artistes strug­gling to sur­vive, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) yes­ter­day made a des­per­ate ap­peal to the Gov­ern­ment for the events and en­ter­tain­ment sec­tor to be re­opened, at least to vac­ci­nat­ed peo­ple.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) De­part­men­tal Or­der of 2019 in­cludes the use of tear gas - and if there are con­cerns about this af­fect­ing chil­dren, par­ents must be con­cerned about not putting their young chil­dren in harm’s way.

In prepa­ra­tion for what the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is call­ing a “surge in Omi­cron cas­es,” To­ba­go, for the first time, will soon have a par­al­lel health care sys­tem.

While chil­dren do not make up a large per­cent­age of cur­rent COVID-19 hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tions, trends show that those with ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions are wind­ing up se­vere­ly ill in hos­pi­tals.