A new re­port by ILO and UNICEF high­lights the con­tin­ued progress in the fight against child labour in the re­gion in re­cent years, but giv­en the cur­rent con­text of the COVID-19 cri­sis, both or­ga­ni­za­tions call for im­me­di­ate mea­sures to avoid a greater set­back.

A 34-year-old Bel­mont man was shot and wound­ed while walk­ing in the Bel­mont area on Thurs­day, in what is be­ing de­scribed as a dri­ve-by shoot­ing.

An­oth­er ma­jor COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve at the Di­vali Na­gar site will be car­ried out on Sun­day 13th June 2021, an­oth­er in­stal­ment in the ‘Vac­ci­nate to Op­er­ate’ ini­tia­tive, spear­head­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA), in part­ner­ship with the Min­istry of Health (MOH) and the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try (MTI).

A cus­toms clerk is now dead fol­low­ing a fight with a busi­ness­man at 7th Street in Barataria, on Thurs­day June 10th.  The al­ter­ca­tion al­leged­ly was over a woman.

Miss­ing Per­sons Alerts have been de­ac­ti­vat­ed for two teenagers who went miss­ing last week, fol­low­ing their safe re­turn to their fam­i­lies.

Hun­dreds of dis­grun­tled pen­sion­ers showed up on Fri­day morn­ing out­side dis­trict health fa­cil­i­ties in Cen­tral hop­ing to get se­lect­ed for vac­ci­na­tion. Some even called for the head of Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh, whom they said should re­sign. 

Two days af­ter pi­rates at­tacked a group of fish­er­men on the high seas dur­ing cur­few hours and threw them over­board, fish­er­men from South and Cen­tral Trinidad are call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to set up a Coast Guard base off the Clax­ton Bay port.

A Miss­ing Per­sons Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed for KADI­JAH FLA­MANT, a 25-year-old from Princes Town, who was last seen at her home on Mon­day 7th June 2021.

There cur­rent­ly are five COVID-19 pos­i­tive cas­es record­ed at Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial state­ment re­leased by the com­pa­ny, to­day.

It is not yet the time to look in­to restart­ing the econ­o­my ac­cord­ing to econ­o­mist Dr Roger Ho­sein as he be­lieves now is the time to place more em­pha­sis on pro­tect­ing lives than liveli­hoods.

The Min­istry of Health’s (MoH) new vac­cine roll­out sys­tem has been de­scribed as a fail­ure and is be­ing heav­i­ly crit­i­cised for falling flat as it did not de­liv­er the much an­tic­i­pat­ed in­jec­tion of hope in­to the pan­icked pop­u­la­tion de­mand­ing COVID-19 vac­cines.

Lo­cal busi­ness­man Pe­ter George has writ­ten to both Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert out­lin­ing a “ TT 6.45 bil­lion dol­lar COVID-19 Mar­shall plan” aimed at sta­bi­liz­ing cit­i­zens’ fi­nan­cial po­si­tion as well as in­cen­tiviz­ing and stim­u­lat­ing busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty to as­sure the con­ti­nu­ity of so­ci­ety.