Six nurs­es as­signed to the Car­di­ol­o­gy Ward Num­ber 3 at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC), Mt Hope test­ed pos­i­tive for the COVID-19 virus on Wednes­day.

The re­tail sec­tor of Trinidad and To­ba­go has run out of oxy­gen tanks while COVID-19 cas­es con­tin­ue to soar.

Al­though COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tions con­tin­ued in the ten vac­ci­na­tion sites un­der the con­trol of the South­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) yes­ter­day, ap­point­ments were cur­tailed as vac­cines dwin­dled. 

Trinidad and To­ba­go will re­ceive an­oth­er batch of the As­traZeneca vac­cine from the CO­V­AX fa­cil­i­ty by the end of next week.

A me­chan­ic from South Trinidad is rais­ing ques­tions about the op­er­a­tions of a pri­vate lab where he was swabbed for COVID-19 and re­ceived a neg­a­tive re­sult.

Long-await­ed leg­is­la­tion for pep­per spray use will be de­bat­ed in the Sen­ate next Tues­day—and apart from ap­pli­cants over 18, cer­tain cat­e­gories of law en­force­ment will al­so be al­lowed to use it in their du­ties.

There are 50 T&T na­tion­als in COVID-torn In­dia reg­is­tered with the T&T High Com­mis­sion in Del­hi, but the mis­sion hasn’t re­ceived any re­quests for aid or in­ter­ven­tion on be­half of na­tion­als re­sid­ing there.

A re­tired sol­dier has been giv­en the nod to sue the Chief of De­fence Staff (CDS) over his fail­ure to pro­mote him retroac­tive­ly be­fore his ser­vice end­ed in Au­gust last year.

So­cial ac­tivist Bar­ring­ton “Skip­py” Thomas is chal­leng­ing a re­cent trend by mag­is­trates to or­der pub­lic penance as part of their sen­tences.

A work­er at the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion has lost his le­gal bat­tle over be­ing sum­mar­i­ly de­mot­ed from his po­si­tion at a pre­lim­i­nary stage.

With a to­tal of 79 po­lice of­fi­cers test­ing pos­i­tive for COVID-19 and 481 oth­ers on quar­an­tine, po­lice of­fi­cers are now say­ing they are fear­ful of ar­rest­ing Venezue­lan mi­grants be­cause of the spread of the virus and the Brazil­ian vari­ant.

A 29-year-old man from To­ba­go was de­nied bail when he ap­peared be­fore the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court Thurs­day charged with sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of two teenaged girls, in­clud­ing one who was re­port­ed­ly res­cued by of­fi­cers dur­ing a raid.