The Health Min­istry is us­ing a new im­proved tablet Fin­golimod to treat Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis (MS) rather than the less ef­fec­tive Be­ta In­ter­fer­on in­jec­tion which was be­ing used be­fore.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says he will be “guid­ed by le­gal ad­vice” on whether he will file an of­fi­cial com­plaint with the Med­ical Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go re­gard­ing the con­duct of Dr Avinash Sawh.

Ac­tive COVID-19 cas­es in the coun­try con­tin­ued to rise yes­ter­day af­ter the Min­istry of Health con­firmed 16 new in­fec­tions from sam­ples col­lect­ed be­tween Jan­u­ary 16 and 18.

An "over­sight" was the rea­son why some Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) doc­u­ments to be dis­posed of, were not prop­er­ly shred­ded, ac­cord­ing to Stu­art Young (Min­is­ter in the Prime Min­is­ter's of­fice) yes­ter­day.

Po­lit­i­cal An­a­lyst Anslem Richards says race-bait­ing was a tac­tic used in the 2013 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions and he be­lieves the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment(PNM) is us­ing it again to un­seat Wat­son Duke in the up­com­ing elec­tions.

For­mer school teacher Robin Ma­haraj was grant­ed $10,000 bail on three charges of im­per­son­at­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer.

More al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion in pub­lic of­fice were re­vealed on THE PDP cam­paign trail on Mon­day night as the car­a­van made a stop at the Black Rock hard­court.

A 22-year-old man em­ployed at Pres­i­dent’s House has been grant­ed $250,000 bail af­ter he ap­peared in court charged with the lar­ce­ny of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion from his work­place.

A pen­sion­er from Ari­ma, who has been strand­ed in Cana­da for al­most a year, has threat­ened to sue the State over the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty’s on­go­ing ex­emp­tion pol­i­cy for per­sons seek­ing to en­ter the coun­try. 

A 42-year-old street ven­dor ap­peared in the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate court vir­tu­al­ly for as­sault­ing two po­lice of­fi­cers.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is ex­pect­ed to be among of­fi­cials in To­ba­go wel­com­ing the new fer­ry “APT James” af­ter its first trip to the sis­ter is­land to­mor­row.

Lo­cal artistes should host and cre­ate vir­tu­al events us­ing dig­i­tal plat­forms which can ex­port events to a glob­al au­di­ence - and can be mon­e­tised.