• The con­struc­tion sec­tor and as­so­ci­at­ed busi­ness­es may soon be able to re­sume ac­tiv­i­ties

Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Michael An­nisette called for uni­ty in the trade union move­ment in his Labour Day ad­dress yes­ter­day.

For the first time since 1938, the tra­di­tion­al bois­ter­ous Labour Day march from Av­o­cat to Char­lie King Junc­tion failed to kick off in the his­toric town of Fyz­abad. 

From the first week of Ju­ly, if the down­ward trend in COVID-19 in­fec­tions con­tin­ues, week­end cur­few hours will re­vert to 9 pm-5 am.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 19 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed deaths. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 732. There are cur­rent­ly 449 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The Min­istry has al­so record­ed 330 new cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 8496.

The Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee of Par­lia­ment re­cent­ly laid its re­port on giv­ing To­ba­go greater au­ton­o­my in the form of two draft bills- Con­sti­tu­tion Amend­ment (To­ba­go Self Gov­ern­ment) Bill (2021) and To­ba­go Is­land Gov­ern­ment Bill (2021).

The Op­po­si­tion has com­mend­ed its mem­bers of Par­lia­ment for bring­ing pres­sure on the Gov­ern­ment, which it be­lieves was the re­saons for the halt­ing of the dis­con­nec­tion dri­ve.

The Gov­ern­ment has not tak­en se­ri­ous steps to im­ple­ment some of the pro­pos­als in the Roadmap to Re­cov­ery doc­u­ment.

Well over a year in­to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, thou­sands of busi­ness­es fac­ing hard­ship have been forced to per­ma­nent­ly close their doors. While some own­ers have had their com­mer­cial prop­er­ties and pri­vate homes re­pos­sessed by banks, oth­ers are liv­ing in fear of suf­fer­ing the same fate if they are un­able to pay their month­ly in­stal­ments.

Front­line work­ers, in­clud­ing nurs­es who have been fac­ing the brunt of the pan­dem­ic for the past year, have re­ceived a spe­cial gift of grat­i­tude from farm­ers this week.

Dozens of peo­ple were left strand­ed at taxi stands in San Fer­nan­do last night as the week­end cur­few kicked in.

Yes­ter­day’s fig­ures meant that the to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 cas­es in T&T from the start of the pan­dem­ic crossed 30,000.