In light of grow­ing pub­lic ac­cep­tance and de­mand for COVID-19 vac­cines, the North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) plans to dou­ble the num­ber of its vac­ci­na­tion sites. This is ac­cord­ing to its Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Sal­isha Baksh dur­ing a Min­istry of Health vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence on Mon­day.

Ronal­do Thomas is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with the mur­der of Nicholas Mo­hith. Thomas aka ‘Hamza’, 34, of Uni­ty Lane, Cara­po, was charged with the of­fence fol­low­ing ad­vice re­ceived from Act­ing Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Joan Hon­ore-Paul.

The Di­rec­tor of the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO), Dr Caris­sa F. Eti­enne, is call­ing for re­gion­al im­mu­niza­tion against COVID-19 to be­come a glob­al pri­or­i­ty.

Thir­ty-four-year-old fish­er­man Vi­jay Sookdeo-Singh has been fined for waste­ful em­ploy­ment of po­lice time. Singh, of West Bayshore, Mara­bel­la, was fined $400 or three months’ hard labour af­ter claim­ing that his fish­ing pirogue and boat en­gine val­ued at $44,500 and $41,000 re­spec­tive­ly, were stolen be­tween March 30th and 31st 2021.

The ship­ment of 40,000 dos­es of CO­V­ISHIELD (Ox­ford-As­traZeneca) COVID-19 vac­cines from In­dia, which were ex­pect­ed to ar­rive on Mon­day, has been de­layed.

The sec­ond case of some­one in­fect­ed with the UK vari­ant of COVID-19 (B117) has been de­tect­ed in the coun­try.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cu­mu­to / Man­zanil­la, Dr Rai Rag­bir MP, is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to pre­pare for “the health and med­ical reper­cus­sions to cit­i­zens”, should vol­canic ash from the erupt­ing La Soufriere vol­cano in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines reach T&T air­space.

Two 29-year-old Ma­yaro men are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Ma­yaro Mag­is­trate, to­day, charged with the mur­der of their rel­a­tive, Naresh Suck­ram, which oc­curred on Sun­day 4th April 2021.

A 14-year-old girl from Cunu­pia who went miss­ing on Fri­day 9th April 2021, has been found, and is said to be in good health.

That was the Op­po­si­tion’s call yes­ter­day fol­low­ing de­lays and frus­tra­tions be­ing ex­pe­ri­enced by peo­ple at­tempt­ing to reg­is­ter for COVID vac­cines re­cent­ly.

The Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT) has part­nered with NGO Se­wa In­ter­na­tion­al TT (Se­wa TT) to pro­vide a safe and ef­fi­cient method for cit­i­zens to pro­vide re­lief sup­plies to cit­i­zens of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines (SVG) af­fect­ed by the erup­tion of the La Soufriere Vol­cano.

Four months af­ter Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les de­scribed the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) man­age­ment as con­vo­lut­ed, in­ef­fec­tive and un­ac­count­able, there are plans in the pipeline to cut its man­age­r­i­al staff.