Af­ter two em­ploy­ees at the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries Re­search Di­vi­sion’s Cen­tral Ex­per­i­ment Sta­tion in Cen­teno test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 last week, some of the work­ers are now ex­press­ing con­cerns about their health and safe­ty.

A young adult fe­male was one of eight peo­ple to suc­cumb to COVID-19, the Min­istry of Health re­vealed in its lat­est sta­tis­tics yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day summed up the Op­po­si­tion’s be­hav­iour dur­ing the Elec­toral Col­lege vote on a mo­tion to re­move the Pres­i­dent in one word, “Dis­grace­ful.”

Ho­n­ourable Mem­bers, it was not my in­ten­tion to ad­dress you at the be­gin­ning of to­day’s pro­ceed­ings. How­ev­er, I am in re­ceipt of cor­re­spon­dence un­der the hand of the Leader of the Op­po­si­tion and Mem­ber for Siparia, the Hon. Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, SC, MP, rais­ing sev­er­al is­sues which I am com­pelled to ad­dress.

Po­lice were ex­pect­ed to com­plete their in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an in­ci­dent aboard a yacht owned by T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Le­gal Unit head Chris­t­ian Chan­dler last evening. 

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Le­gal Unit Head Chris­t­ian Chan­dler have giv­en the po­lice un­til 4 pm to charge or re­lease him be­fore they file le­gal ac­tion over the is­sue.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Mc­Don­ald Ja­cob and the Ex­ec­u­tive of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), are ex­tend­ing con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends and col­leagues of No. 3256 Cpl Ny­ron Allen, at­tached to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS). He had test­ed pos­i­tive for Covid-19 on Oc­to­ber 11th 2021 and he passed away this morn­ing at the St. James Med­ical Com­plex.

The process to set up the Elec­toral Col­lege was marked with claims of mut­ed mics, heavy desk thump­ing and nu­mer­ous in­ter­rup­tions by the mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion. Dressed in all black, the en­tire Op­po­si­tion bench agreed that they were mourn­ing the “death of democ­ra­cy”.

25-year-old Jerome Steven Light­foot of Cal­cut­ta Road, Freeport was re­port­ed miss­ing by a rel­a­tive on Wednes­day 20th Oc­to­ber, 2021. He was last seen at his home at 1pm on Sat­ur­day Oc­to­ber 16th 2021, wear­ing a white vest, a pair of blue ¾pants and a pair of blue and white sneak­ers. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS:

Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Bridgid An­nisette-George has ad­journed the sit­ting of the House for the Elec­toral Col­lege – both hous­es of Par­lia­ment – to meet on the mo­tion to re­move Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes.

The cur­rent Ad­verse Weath­er Alert/YEL­LOW Lev­el over Trinidad and To­ba­go is still in ef­fect, and will re­main so un­til 6:00 pm on Sat­ur­day 23rd Oc­to­ber 2021, un­less there are changes to the fore­cast.

62-year-old Michael Charles, of Marie Road, Mor­vant, was re­port­ed miss­ing by a rel­a­tive on Wednes­day 20th Oc­to­ber, 2021. Michael is of African de­scent, 5 feet, 7 inch­es tall and dark brown in com­plex­ion. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS: