For five years be­fore COVID-19, T&T record­ed three or four ma­ter­nal deaths an­nu­al­ly. Now, the coro­n­avirus is caus­ing that fig­ure to spike.

NEW YORK (AP) — Is it bet­ter to wear an N95 or cloth mask right now?  Health ex­perts sug­gest step­ping up pro­tec­tion against the high­ly con­ta­gious omi­cron vari­ant with stronger masks such as N95s or KN95s.

Fif­teen year old Elana Sax­on of Nev­er­son Street, Aranguez, was last seen at 1pm on Tues­day 18th Jan­u­ary, at her home. She was re­port­ed miss­ing to the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion at 7:45 pm on the same day.

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

● The sit­u­a­tion in Haiti has reached a cri­sis point amid stalled elec­tions, ris­ing pover­ty and the grow­ing pow­er of gangs ●

● Tour­na­ment debu­tants Co­moros cause up­set af­ter beat­ing Ghana in a pul­sat­ing group match ●

An Ari­ma man was sen­tenced to four years’ hard labour af­ter plead­ing guilty to pos­ses­sion of firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, when he ap­peared in court vir­tu­al­ly this week.

Work on the fi­nal phase of the Beetham Sew­er Pipeline Project is pro­ceed­ing apace, with the in­stal­la­tion of the first of three man­holes be­ing com­plet­ed on Mon­day 17th Jan­u­ary 2022.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (AP) — Air­lines across the world, in­clud­ing the long-haul car­ri­er Emi­rates, rushed Wednes­day to can­cel or change flights head­ing in­to the U.S. over an on­go­ing dis­pute about the roll­out of 5G mo­bile phone tech­nol­o­gy near Amer­i­can air­ports.

Caribbean Air­lines re­ceived an­oth­er brand-new Boe­ing 737-8 last night, the third such air­craft for the lo­cal car­ri­er. The air­craft, bear­ing the reg­is­tra­tion 9Y-ANT and op­er­at­ing as BW7378, de­part­ed Seat­tle’s Paine Field Air­port at 9:38 am and ar­rived at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port at 9:31 pm, ac­cord­ing to da­ta from flight track­ing web­site FlightAware.com

Miss World T&T con­tes­tant Jea­nine Brandt has apol­o­gised for her com­ments on pover­ty in the coun­try af­ter a mas­sive out­cry from cit­i­zens on so­cial me­dia.

Jus­tice Ci­ce­ly Chase yes­ter­day threw out the chal­lenge to the suit brought to halt Bar­ba­dos’ Gen­er­al Elec­tions, say­ing she did not have ju­ris­dic­tion to hear the mat­ter and that it ought to have been brought be­fore an elec­tion court, adding the ac­tion was in­cor­rect­ly filed.