The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 30, 2020:

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Wat­son Duke says the is­land will get “al­most noth­ing” in the up­com­ing bud­get.

The Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SATT) says price in­creas­es may be on the hori­zon de­pend­ing on what the bud­get brings.
The 2020/2021 fis­cal pack­age will be de­liv­ered by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert on Oc­to­ber 5.

There is now a pos­si­ble life­line for the thou­sands who de­pend and look for­ward to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s car­ni­val, as Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts Ran­dall Mitchell says he is weigh­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of stag­ing it lat­er than Feb­ru­ary of next year.

Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has called on the Gov­ern­ment to stage a vir­tu­al car­ni­val next year.

Four days af­ter he ap­plied for his first va­ca­tion leave since be­com­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Gary Grif­fith was giv­en the green light to pro­ceed for a month, where he plans to spend some time in Ire­land with his son, Gary Grif­fith III.

State-owned car­ri­er, Caribbean Air­lines has an­nounced cost-cut­ting mea­sures that will in­clude the tem­po­rary trim­ming of staff by 33 per cent and the re­duc­tion of salaries, as the air­line strug­gles with prof­itabil­i­ty due to closed bor­ders.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day morn­ing, the min­istry de­scribed the peo­ple who suc­cumbed to the ef­fects of the virus, as el­der­ly males with oth­er se­vere ill­ness­es.

Po­lice Of­fi­cers at­tached to East­ern Di­vi­sion Spe­cial Op­er­a­tion Unit have found over $1 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na stuffed in con­crete bricks in a house at Mc­Shine Street, San­gre Grande.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing three mur­ders that oc­curred in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in North Trinidad and South overnight on Mon­day night in­to yes­ter­day.

Su­san Charles who has re­signed from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC’s) San Juan Barataria ex­ec­u­tive, has called for mem­bers to “take back the par­ty” in or­der for it to be­come a ve­hi­cle that can as­sume the reins of Gov­ern­ment and de­liv­er to peo­ple.

Po­lice were last evening try­ing to de­ter­mine the iden­ti­ty of an in­trud­er who was fa­tal­ly shot af­ter he was caught try­ing to steal a van in Table­land.