The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed the coun­try's first case of the high­ly in­fec­tious UK vari­ant of COVID-19 (Vari­ant B117). The strain was found in a repa­tri­at­ed na­tion­al who re­cent­ly re­turned from the UK.
"The pres­ence of the vari­ant was con­firmed via a gene se­quenc­ing study at the Fac­ul­ty of Med­ical Sci­ences, the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, which has been test­ing COVID-19 pos­i­tive sam­ples col­lect­ed since Sep­tem­ber 2020," a re­lease from the Min­istry stat­ed.

Ch­agua­nas Po­lice are ac­tive­ly search­ing for miss­ing 43-year-old An­drew Ramirez who was re­port­ed miss­ing by his broth­er at 12.42 pm on Jan­u­ary 17th.
An­drew, of En­ter­prise Street, Branch Street, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, was last seen around 10.30 pm on Jan­u­ary 12th.
An­drew is of mixed de­scent, black short hair, black short beard with a scar on his left hand. Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the where­abouts of AN­DREW RAMIREZ is urged to con­tact the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion at 665-5271/665- 4294, or the po­lice hot­lines at 999, 555, or re­port via the TTPS’ Web­site or App.

Two sus­pects, ages 17 and 18, were ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Cou­va Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tion De­part­ment (CID) for lar­ce­ny of fish.
Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, a fish­er­man re­port­ed that he re­turned from a fish­ing trip from in the Or­ange Val­ley area at 8 am on Jan­u­ary 19th.
He iced 250 pounds of fish, se­cured and stored it in an ice bin on his boat, and left. He re­turned lat­er in the day and no­ticed that the fish was miss­ing.

The $73 mil­lion dol­lar ves­sel made its first trip to To­ba­go to­day with mem­bers of the me­dia, sev­er­al cab­i­net min­is­ters and NID­CO of­fi­cials on board. The ves­sel left the Fer­ry Ter­mi­nal in Port of Spain at around 10 a.m and reached To­ba­go at around 1:15 p.m. On ar­rival to the is­land, Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan along with his oth­er cab­i­net col­leagues will greet the Prime Min­is­ter at the Port of Scar­bor­ough. A brief cer­e­mo­ny is set to take place be­fore the ves­sel is hand­ed over.

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) has re­it­er­at­ed its call for Trinidad and To­ba­go to cap­i­talise on the op­por­tu­ni­ty to host Car­ni­val events in 2021, notwith­stand­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The on­ly sur­viv­ing sus­pect held fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in­volv­ing an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer at La­dy Chan­cel­lor Hill on Wednes­day 13th Jan­u­ary 2021, was de­nied bail and re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody, when he ap­peared be­fore a Port of Spain Mag­is­trate, yes­ter­day.

The newest fer­ry in the na­tion­al fleet—the Buc­coo Reef—has left the IN­CAT ship­yard in Ho­bart, Tas­ma­nia, and be­gun her jour­ney home to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) is giv­ing as­sur­ances that it is pro­vid­ing the full suite of med­ical ser­vices at its fa­cil­i­ties—es­pe­cial­ly The­atre Ser­vices, Out­pa­tients Clin­ics (OPC) and triage as­sess­ments at Emer­gency De­part­ments—de­spite the con­straints of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

A man­hunt has been launched for a sus­pect who re­port­ed­ly shot at po­lice of­fi­cers on ex­er­cise yes­ter­day, in the Mara­cas / St Joseph area.

A 34-year-old Venezue­lan was de­tained and is as­sist­ing de­tec­tives with their in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the de­ten­tion of four il­le­gal im­mi­grants, yes­ter­day.

Parts of Diego Mar­tin cur­rent­ly with­out a pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply can ex­pect to see some re­lief by lat­er this evening at the ear­li­est, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty.

Po­lice said pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions showed that the body bore no marks of vi­o­lence.  How­ev­er, an au­top­sy is to be done at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre to de­ter­mine the ac­tu­al cause of death.