The deputy chair­man of the Of­fice of Pub­lic Reg­u­la­tions (OPR) James Chang-Kit has re­signed, cit­ing frus­tra­tion with the el­e­ments of the re­cent­ly passed Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment Bill.

The leased Siko­rsky he­li­copter which was "parked in a shed" in Camp Cu­mu­to for five years must be in­ves­ti­gat­ed by Par­lia­ment's Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Com­mit­tee af­ter the PNM Gov­ern­ment re­fused to ho­n­our the lease on the he­li­copter, says UNC MP Roodal Mooni­lal.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said last night the Gov­ern­ment had to source $16 bil­lion more than the 2020 bud­getary al­lo­ca­tion to as­sist the coun­try through the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has called out Gov­ern­ment on an in­spec­tion re­port re­gard­ing the new To­ba­go fer­ry APT James which states the ves­sel has six de­fi­cien­cies, in­clud­ing miss­ing fire safe­ty equip­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Branch said 2020 saw the low­est num­ber of road traf­fic deaths record­ed in this coun­try in the last 63 years.

Trinidad and To­ba­go will be in line to re­ceive COVID vac­cines with­in the first quar­ter of 2021.

Re­search by the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) has con­firmed that the new Unit­ed King­dom and South African vari­ants of the COVID-19 virus are not in cir­cu­la­tion in T&T.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh is hop­ing that par­ty­go­ers in To­ba­go do not in­fect their loved ones and kill them. 

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says that man­ag­ing the pan­dem­ic re­mains gov­ern­ment’s pri­or­i­ty as he warned that re­open­ing the bor­ders could lead to a re­ver­sal of the gains made so far.

Spe­cial needs schools were the hap­py re­cip­i­ents of 100 first aid kits as part of the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion’s ‘Prepar­ing You’ Pro­gramme. The kits were do­nat­ed by the T&T Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS) and pre­sent­ed to prin­ci­pals of Good­will In­dus­tries, New Be­gin­nings, The Memisa Cen­tre, Na­tion­al Cen­tre for Per­sons with Dis­abil­i­ties, Whar­ton Patrick and La­dy Ho­choy Ari­ma.

T&T writ­ers Monique Rof­fey and In­grid Per­saud have topped the Nov­el cat­e­gories in the pres­ti­gious Cos­ta Book Awards for 2020.

Af­ter a three-week break over the Christ­mas sea­son, thou­sands of stu­dents re­turned to vir­tu­al class­rooms yes­ter­day for the start of the sec­ond vir­tu­al term of the 2021 aca­d­e­m­ic year.