Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­demned what she calls the “reck­less com­ments” Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has made in re­la­tion to her par­ty’s call for re­counts in five con­stituen­cies.

The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) says it is “con­fused” by some of the queries be­ing raised by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­dates dur­ing the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­count process.

The Point Fortin Area Hos­pi­tal was closed for san­i­ti­za­tion yes­ter­day af­ter news spread that a con­struc­tion work­er had be­come in­fect­ed with COVID-19.

To­ba­go now has four ac­tive COVID-19 cas­es and an over­all tal­ly of eight since the start of the pan­dem­ic.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s COVID-19 tal­ly rose above 400 yes­ter­day with con­fir­ma­tion of 78 cas­es com­ing an­nounced by the Min­istry of Health.

Se­nior ex­ec­u­tives of the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) are in­ves­ti­gat­ing breach­es in the COVID-19 pro­to­cols af­ter a Pe­nal me­chan­ic em­ployed with the Com­mis­sion test­ed pos­i­tive.

Ten per­sons were ar­rest­ed, and sev­er­al firearms and am­mu­ni­tion seized, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the North­ern Di­vi­sion, yes­ter­day.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed eight peo­ple and seized more than $94 mil­lion in mar­i­jua­na in an op­er­a­tion in cen­tral Trinidad.

The Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour (CRPB) is call­ing on all po­lit­i­cal par­ties, their lead­ers and sup­port­ers, to avoid lan­guage and ac­tions that pro­mote hate, dis­re­spect and racism.

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), Wat­son Duke, broke his so­cial me­dia si­lence on Thurs­day Au­gust 13, to re­veal that he had met with his two THA mi­nor­i­ty col­leagues fol­low­ing the par­ty’s de­feat in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tions.

Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Den­nis Pul­chan has cleared up the mis­con­cep­tion about the trans­fer of in­mate Ra­jaee Ali from Re­mand Yard in Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) to Build­ing 13, af­ter al­le­ga­tions were lev­elled against him by the Waa­ji­hat­ul Is­laamiyyah (The Is­lam­ic Front), in a me­dia re­lease on Thurs­day.

Eight per­sons were ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day af­ter more than $94 mil­lion in mar­i­jua­na were seized in Cen­tral Trinidad.