Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says the re­cent­ly-ap­point­ed team to in­ves­ti­gate fac­tors con­tribut­ing to clin­i­cal out­comes of COVID pa­tients are work­ing for free.

Con­sul­ta­tions “have, are and will take place” on cre­at­ing pub­lic safe zones and it is in the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s hands for the nec­es­sary law to be struc­tured con­cern­ing le­gal au­thor­i­ty for any such de­vel­op­ment in the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors.

In her sec­ond state­ment for the week, Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) rep­re­sen­ta­tive 2021 Jea­nine Brandt yes­ter­day ad­mit­ted that she could have ar­tic­u­lat­ed her state­ment on pover­ty bet­ter.

Fed up over the bad con­di­tion of their road, res­i­dents of Caratal Road, Gas­par­il­lo, are call­ing on the au­thor­i­ties to ini­ti­ate ur­gent re­pairs.

An out­stand­ing po­lice of­fi­cer, a fa­ther fig­ure, a friend, a men­tor, a fam­i­ly man, an ad­vi­sor.

A "tech­ni­cal is­sue” forced a Caribbean Air­lines flight to be di­vert­ed to Nor­folk, Vir­ginia, in the Unit­ed States on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing a for­mer po­lice in­spec­tor, charged with mur­der­ing a pas­tor, who was in al­leged­ly in re­la­tion­ship with the same woman he was with, have en­tered dis­cus­sions with the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) over a pos­si­ble plea deal. 

A mem­bers club has sued the Board of In­land Rev­enue (BIR) over its fail­ure to pro­vide rea­sons for re­ject­ing its ob­jec­tion to hav­ing to pay gam­ing tax for six months be­fore it opened in 2014. 

Weeks af­ter the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) sought an un­usu­al in­junc­tion to force the own­ers of a unit in its town­house de­vel­op­ment in El Do­ra­do to re­move their two dogs, they (the own­ers) have com­plied, negat­ing the need for fur­ther le­gal ac­tion. 

St Au­gus­tine MP Khadi­ja Ameen is call­ing on the Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port to host the nec­es­sary con­sul­ta­tions with res­i­dents on the Ma­coya In­ter­change. This comes af­ter Works Min­is­ter an­nounced that the in­ter­change would not be built on the cur­rent site that has been pro­posed but will be de­vel­oped fur­ther east.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 14 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed deaths. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3238. There are cur­rent­ly 579 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 918 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 16868.

Thefts of mo­tor ve­hi­cles ap­pear to be on the rise in Cen­tral Trinidad, warn Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Po­lice, and they are urg­ing the pub­lic to take all nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to pro­tect their ve­hi­cles from theft.