The Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) has teamed up with the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices (MS­DFS), to en­sure the home­less pop­u­la­tion and street dwellers are not left be­hind, dur­ing the cur­rent COVID-19 cri­sis.

An­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the Mar­aval and Glen­coe Dis­tricts on Tues­day led to the dis­cov­ery and seizure of quan­ti­ties of mar­i­jua­na, a bul­let­proof vest, ski masks, walkie talkies, along with para­pher­na­lia used for pack­ag­ing drugs.

The Caribbean’s fight against COVID-19 has just re­ceived a ma­jor fi­nan­cial boost from the Eu­ro­pean Union.

One man was ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Princes Town on Tues­day night.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s main busi­ness cham­bers are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to help them save jobs by im­ple­ment­ing a tax cred­it on salaries for com­pa­nies that do not make any prof­it over the next three months.

The Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Units (DMUs) of the var­i­ous re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions are as­sist­ing the Health Min­istry in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of face masks in all mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties to help curb COVID-19 spread.

The ANSA McAL Group of Com­pa­nies has be­gun pro­duc­ing com­pli­men­ta­ry hand sani­tis­ers for dis­tri­b­u­tion mem­bers of the es­sen­tial ser­vices who are on the front­line dur­ing the on­go­ing COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Pri­vate labs are be­ing en­cour­aged to ob­tain val­i­da­tion to bol­ster test­ing avail­abil­i­ty for COVID-19 in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

With Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh en­cour­ag­ing pri­vate labs to seek their CARPHA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion to do COVID-19 test­ing, some of them have al­ready be­gun mak­ing arrange­ments to do so.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young says a diplo­mat­ic note has been sent to Bar­ba­dos of­fi­cials con­cern­ing COVID-19 test­ing for Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als who have been in that coun­try for the past two weeks, as a po­ten­tial first step to­wards get­ting them back home.

Yes­ter­day’s clo­sure of food out­lets and restau­rants fol­low­ing the tight­en­ing of COVID-19 mea­sures by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, can re­sult in the coun­try’s poul­try in­dus­try los­ing $25 mil­lion in chick­en sales over the next four weeks.

Gov­ern­ment has reignit­ed the Com­mu­ni­ty Com­fort Pa­trol (CCP) ini­tia­tive pi­lot­ed by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith in 2014 when he was the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, to as­sist po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing the Stay-at-Home pe­ri­od.