Gusty winds ac­com­pa­ny­ing an iso­lat­ed thun­der­storm ripped off roofs and downed trees across Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The Min­istry of Health is in the process of cre­at­ing a unit where for­mer COVID-19 pa­tients can re­ceive res­pi­ra­to­ry phys­io­ther­a­py, Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram said yes­ter­day.

The Dis­trict Grand Lodge of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Eng­lish Con­sti­tu­tion yes­ter­day do­nat­ed tablet de­vices to the St James/Care­nage Po­lice Youth Club.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are be­ing urged to be vig­i­lant and take pre­ven­ta­tive mea­sures fol­low­ing an in­crease in home in­va­sions in the last few months.

The sale of Na­tion­al Flour Mills’ (NFM’s) rice mill op­er­a­tion at Carlsen Field is on hold as well as the ini­tial­ly planned di­vest­ment of the Ve­hi­cle Man­age­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (VM­COTT).

The Avi­a­tion Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Al­lied Work­ers’ Union (ACAWU) has called for Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) to sus­pend its cost-cut­ting ex­er­cis­es and in­stead wait for Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert to talk in Par­lia­ment about the sit­u­a­tion fac­ing the State-owned air­line be­fore mak­ing any de­ci­sion.

Five lo­cal en­ti­ties and sev­er­al for­eign ones rep­re­sent­ing mi­grant caus­es have called for Gov­ern­ment to con­sid­er re­open­ing the reg­is­tra­tion process for Venezue­lans and to stop de­port­ing Venezue­lans.

Tens of thou­sands of farm­ers can­not ac­cess the many in­cen­tives of­fered by the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture. That’s be­cause a large seg­ment of the farm­ing pop­u­la­tion does not own or are not the ti­tle hold­ers to the land they work on.

Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie has warned that the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem is on the verge of col­lapse. 

The hir­ing freeze in the pub­lic ser­vice was a mea­sure to curb the re­al­lo­ca­tion of un­used funds in­to oth­er av­enues.

A woman, who po­lice be­lieve is re­spon­si­ble for Mon­day’s mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar fire at Fash­ion City in Point Fortin, has been ar­rest­ed.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 33,013