The pub­lic will still be able to go to the shop, gro­cery and drug store from Mon­day. But if you’re not do­ing that and aren’t among cer­tain es­sen­tial ser­vices which con­tin­ue op­er­at­ing, you’ll have to tell po­lice why you’re out­side and could ul­ti­mate­ly face a $50,000 fine and six months’ jail.

The Min­istry of Health has re­leased the Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance Ch. 12 No. 4 made by the Min­is­ter un­der sec­tion 105 of the Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance and the full list of Es­sen­tial Ser­vices:

A 55-year-old man, who was shot mul­ti­ple times while in St James on Fri­day, has died at hos­pi­tal.

Fol­low­ing the tem­po­rary clo­sure of the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion, there are re­ports that more COVID-19 scares have oc­curred at two oth­er po­lice sta­tions—in San­gre Grande and San Fer­nan­do.

Po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed five men for Au­to­mat­ed Teller Ma­chine (ATM) tam­per­ing ear­li­er this week, fol­low­ing re­ports of sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ty at a First Cit­i­zens’ Bank ATM in Port of Spain.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA), is com­mend­ing Gov­ern­ment for its most re­cent ac­tions to cur­tail the spread of COVID-19 in this coun­try—name­ly, the fur­ther re­stric­tion of move­ment of large swathes of the pop­u­la­tion deemed “non-es­sen­tial”.

The Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion has out­lined sev­er­al op­er­a­tional changes to its ser­vices, in light of the cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA) is call­ing for calm, as a work­er at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal tests pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

"The Min­istry of Health in­forms the pop­u­la­tion that to­day, Fri­day 27th March, de­spite the best ef­forts of the health care pro­fes­sion­als, a sec­ond na­tion­al of T&T who test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 has died," the re­lease said.

In a re­lease, the TRHA said the staff mem­ber has been iso­lat­ed, staff meet­ings held and staff pro­vid­ed with psy­cho­log­i­cal sup­port.

The Ju­di­cia­ry is ad­vis­ing that all courts around the coun­try are closed to­day, to fa­cil­i­tate the re­con­fig­u­ra­tion of its op­er­a­tions, in light of the cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Tax­pay­ers who nor­mal­ly make quar­ter­ly pay­ments of cor­po­ra­tion and in­come tax will have a chance to do so, as per usu­al, on Tues­day 31 March 2020.