Po­lice are try­ing to as­cer­tain the iden­ti­ty of a bad­ly de­com­posed body which was found in the San Rafael area on Tues­day (19 Jan­u­ary 2021).

A 40-year-old Point Fortin man cur­rent­ly is ward­ed at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal in a sta­ble con­di­tion, af­ter he was shot by a lone gun­man in his home, on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

A 47-year-old prison of­fi­cer at­tached to the Gold­en Grove Prison, was or­dered not to threat­en or abuse his wife in any way, af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate last Fri­day, charged with as­sault oc­ca­sion­ing ac­tu­al bod­i­ly harm.

A 56-year-old D’Abadie woman is dead af­ter be­ing at­tacked by her pet Rot­tweil­er at her home on Tues­day (19 Jan­u­ary 2021) night.

Pres­i­dent-elect Joe Biden and Vice Pres­i­dent-elect Ka­mala Har­ris will be sworn in at noon to­day, in a scaled back cer­e­mo­ny at the US Capi­tol.

De­spite be­ing re­ject­ed by the Gov­ern­ment for a sec­ond time, Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Co Ltd is seek­ing a meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to show it has the fi­nan­cial back­ing to ac­quire the for­mer as­sets of Petrotrin.
Pa­tri­ot­ic’s par­ent or­gan­i­sa­tion, the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) said yes­ter­day it had en­gaged Swiss in­vest­ment bank Cred­it Su­isse to fi­nan­cial­ly back its ef­forts to ac­quire the Guaracara Re­fin­ing Com­pa­ny and the Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is dis­miss­ing all calls from the Op­po­si­tion that he re­sign over the col­lapse of the Petrotrin re­fin­ery sale to Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Com­pa­ny Ltd.

The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has not shown it has the abil­i­ty to raise the US$500 mil­lion re­quired to pur­chase the Petrotrin Point-a-Pierre re­fin­ery and as a re­sult, the Gov­ern­ment is pro­ceed­ing to im­me­di­ate­ly re­turn to the open mar­ket to seek suit­able par­ties in­ter­est­ed in op­er­at­ing the fa­cil­i­ty.

The call came yes­ter­day from Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, who slammed Row­ley for the ap­par­ent flip-flop po­si­tion on the sale of the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery to Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Com­pa­ny Ltd.

In 2019, Ja­mal My­ers at­trib­uted his headaches and chest pain to a small lump on his chest. He was lat­er told by doc­tors at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex that it was a cyst. But both were wrong, some­thing re­alised af­ter the 22-year-old un­der­went surgery to re­move the lump.

 Po­lice of­fi­cers were kept busy overnight on Mon­day pur­su­ing sev­er­al in­ci­dents of rob­beries through­out North Trinidad.

Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion/World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO/WHO) Rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Dr Er­i­ca Wheel­er, is ad­vis­ing that it is yet too soon to jump to con­clu­sions about re­ports of 23 deaths in Nor­way al­leged­ly be­cause of the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech COVID-19 vac­cine.