The use of the Brook­lyn Fa­cil­i­ty and Camp Ba­lan­dra as COVID-19 par­al­lel health care fa­cil­i­ties has cost the state $831,005 over a six month pe­ri­od.

In a press re­lease is­sued this af­ter­noon, the Min­istry of Health stat­ed that they have record­ed 76 ad­di­tion­al cas­es of COVID, 24 of which come from the prison pop­u­la­tion in To­ba­go. This brings the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 1,801.

There is grow­ing con­cerns that come 2021, many per­sons may not be able to af­ford a for­eign used car far less a new one, be­cause of the re­moval of al­lowances on ve­hi­cles an­nounced in the 2020-2021 Bud­get.

This year’s ob­ser­vances of the First Peo­ples Day of Recog­ni­tion and Her­itage Week of Ac­tiv­i­ties is ex­pect­ed to in­clude a vir­tu­al sym­po­sium and the screen­ing of a doc­u­men­tary on the First Peo­ples.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has is­sued Miss­ing Per­sons Alerts for two fe­male teenagers—a 14-year-old from Rio Claro, and a 17-year-old from Barataria—both of whom went miss­ing on Tues­day this week.

The re­sults of the Sec­ondary En­trance Ex­am­i­na­tions are out to­day for the 19,344 stu­dents who wrote the ex­ams on Au­gust 20th.

As of Oc­to­ber 8th, To­ba­go has an ad­di­tion­al 24 ad­di­tion­al COVID cas­es, push­ing the to­tal num­ber of in­fec­tions on the is­land to 102.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Bev­er­age Al­co­hol Al­liance (TTBAA) says at least 100,000 peo­ple who worked in the hos­pi­tal­i­ty sec­tor are now un­em­ployed.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert played it too safe with the na­tion­al bud­get and in­stead need­ed to make some “dar­ing moves” to gen­er­ate the growth need­ed in the econ­o­my, for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter and for­mer cen­tral bank gov­er­nor Win­ston Dook­er­an has said.

The gov­ern­ment has planned to re­duce its year­ly al­lo­ca­tion to the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) by al­most $600 mil­lion.

A new fa­cil­i­ty has been com­mis­sioned in the com­mu­ni­ty of Clax­ton Bay to house prison in­mates who have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

An­oth­er el­der­ly man be­came T&T lat­est COVID-19 fa­tal­i­ty yes­ter­day, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health, bring­ing the to­tal death num­ber of deaths from the virus lo­cal­ly to 84. The min­istry said the man had pre-ex­ist­ing med­ical con­di­tions.