With the coun­try at the start of what ap­pears to be a sec­ond phase of COVID-19 in­fec­tions fol­low­ing five lo­cal­ly trans­mit­ted in­fec­tions from an un­known source last week, the Min­istry of Health is in over­drive to lo­cate the source/s and de­ter­mine the spread of this wave of in­fec­tions through con­tact trac­ing.

With a mere 11 days to go be­fore the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, a poll com­mis­sioned by Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed and con­duct­ed by HHB and As­so­ciates shows that the rul­ing Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has a clear lead over its main ri­val, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), in the cru­cial mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy of Moru­ga/Table­land.

A rup­tured wa­ter line that sup­plies an an­ti-fire sprin­kler sys­tem left staff at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal mop­ping up for hours yes­ter­day.

Gusty winds ripped off roofs, downed trees and caused pow­er out­ages across Trinidad yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to take any ev­i­dence he has on hu­man traf­fick­ing to the po­lice.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi said yes­ter­day that for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Nafeesa Mo­hammed is al­low­ing her angst about pro­tect­ing her fam­i­ly to dri­ve pub­lic dis­course.

The UNC is ad­vis­ing the pub­lic to wear masks and co-op­er­ate with au­thor­i­ties on con­tact trac­ing and UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has al­so been ad­vised to wear a mask.

In the 11 days to the gen­er­al elec­tion, PNM sup­port­ers have to con­vert the un­con­vert­ed and in­form the un­in­formed, To­ba­go East can­di­date Ayana Web­ster-Roy told the PNM St James Women’s Plat­form last night.

Sev­en promi­nent To­bag­o­ni­ans have now thrown their sup­port be­hind the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP).

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, on Ju­ly 27th, be­tween the hours of 1 pm and 4 pm an ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed in the Rio Claro dis­trict co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr Supt (Ag) Aguilal, su­per­vised by Sgt (Ag) Ma­haraj and in­clud­ed per­son­nel of the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment Task Force and the Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) and the UWI site for test­ing for COVID-19 7346

For­mer ca­lyp­so monarch Du­anne O’Con­nor has been giv­en the green light to pur­sue a law­suit over the Po­lice Ser­vice de­ci­sion to ini­ti­ate dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion against him for his par­tic­i­pa­tion in screen­ing for last year’s Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions.