While the Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer was in­formed of the death at 12:15 p.m., the Min­istry en­sured that the pub­lic re­lease of the in­for­ma­tion was de­layed un­til the fam­i­ly was in­formed and had am­ple time to process the in­for­ma­tion.

A Las Cuevas man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port of Spain Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with 32 counts of aid­ing and abet­ting Venezue­lan na­tion­als to en­ter Trinidad and To­ba­go il­le­gal­ly.

One man was ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na and cash seized by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Fri­day 14th Au­gust, 2020:

The Point Fortin Dis­trict Court has been closed af­ter a mem­ber of staff was ex­posed to a per­son who has been test­ed for Covid-19 and is await­ing re­sults.
In a press re­lease is­sued this morn­ing, the Ju­di­cia­ry stat­ed that no one will be al­lowed in­to the Court build­ing.

A 62-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with one count of in­de­cent as­sault against a 16-year-old girl.

Sev­er­al To­bag­o­ni­ans are now call­ing for a boy­cott of Re­na’s Chat­tack Roti Shop in Scar­bor­ough, af­ter its own­er, Re­na Har­ry­lal, al­leged­ly called for a boy­cott of all su­per­mar­ket chains who were pulling Ram­saran’s Dairy Prod­ucts in a Face­book com­ment on Wednes­day.

The Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour is call­ing on all po­lit­i­cal par­ties, their lead­ers and sup­port­ers to give the high­est val­ue to re­spect, tol­er­ance and peace­ful re­la­tions among dif­fer­ent cit­i­zens in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don and the Catholic Com­mis­sion for So­cial Jus­tice (CC­SJ) are urg­ing cit­i­zens to de­nounce racism in all its forms.

Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis-Scope yes­ter­day rub­bished claims by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ can­di­date for Tu­na­puna David Nakhid, that the re­count he re­quest­ed in the mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy was be­ing done in an un­de­mo­c­ra­t­ic man­ner.

As the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress con­tin­ues to chal­lenge the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­sults, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is again ac­cus­ing their po­lit­i­cal ri­vals of de­lib­er­ate­ly at­tempt­ing to slow down the process.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith yes­ter­day said an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the dump­ing of 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion polling cards in Ari­ma.