With on­ly two peo­ple ar­rest­ed since the im­ple­men­ta­tion of The Pub­lic Health (2019-nCoV)] Reg­u­la­tions, 2020, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Jayson Forde says peo­ple have been heed­ing the gov­ern­ment’s call to stay in­side.

A 29-year-old bar own­er from cen­tral Trinidad has plead­ed not guilty to con­tra­ven­ing re­cent pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions by al­leged­ly open­ing his busi­ness. 

A con­struc­tion com­pa­ny has been or­dered to pay al­most $300,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to an em­ploy­ee who was se­ri­ous­ly in­jured in a truck crash due to faulty brakes. 

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says busi­ness­es need to act re­spon­si­bly as the coun­try faces off with COVID-19, which has in­fect­ed some 700,000 and killed over 33,000 world­wide.

The num­ber of peo­ple now al­lowed to gath­er in pub­lic spaces was re­duced from 10 to five yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing an amend­ment to the Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance gov­ern­ing the “Stay-at-Home” mea­sures to com­bat the spread of COVID-19.

With the ma­jor­i­ty of T&T’s pop­u­la­tion in iso­la­tion for at least the next two weeks, two NGOs are call­ing for mech­a­nisms to be put in place to treat with an ex­pect­ed in­crease in in­ci­dences of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

All vis­its at all of the na­tion’s pris­ons were sus­pend­ed un­til fur­ther no­tice with im­me­di­ate ef­fect from yes­ter­day as a mea­sure to safe­guard against the spread of COVID-19.

Since his hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tion, many of his fam­i­ly, friends and devo­tees are now scared that they too may have con­tract­ed the virus.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny is ad­vis­ing cit­i­zens of changes to the sched­ules for the fer­ries op­er­at­ing on the sea-bridge.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic groups of un­sung he­roes have emerged for the ser­vices they have been pro­vid­ing day in and day out. With health care work­ers re­ceiv­ing the li­on's share of recog­ni­tion, it is easy to over­look those who al­so help keep us alive. Among those un­der in­creas­ing pres­sure dur­ing these un­prece­dent­ed times are gro­cery work­ers.

The Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) is ad­vis­ing cit­i­zens of a change in its busi­ness hours, in light of new COVID-19 reg­u­la­tions is­sued un­der the Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance.

A new Coun­cil of the Guild of Stu­dents (both Un­der­grad­u­ate and Post-Grad­u­ate) has been elect­ed at the St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI).