A new trop­i­cal storm has formed—Trop­i­cal Storm Josephine—and at present, is pos­ing NO DI­RECT THREAT to Trinidad and To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

There have been 43 new­ly con­firmed cas­es of COVID-19 in the coun­try over the past eight days, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health’s 10 am up­date.

The Catholic Com­mis­sion for So­cial Jus­tice is call­ing all cit­i­zens of this coun­try to de­nounce racism, in re­sponse to the war of words which has emerged on so­cial me­dia be­fore, dur­ing and af­ter the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Gary Grif­fith says an in­ves­ti­ga­tion is un­der­way in­to a re­port that elec­toral polling cards were found at Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, yes­ter­day.

A Pe­nal me­chan­ic em­ployed with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

The Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion’s of­fices in Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go, have been closed un­til fur­ther no­tice, in or­der to car­ry out san­i­ti­za­tion of the premis­es.

A 42-year-old labour­er from Mara­bel­la is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore the San Fer­nan­do First Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day, charged with the mur­der of Kei­th Haynes.

Two more per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to an up­date from the THA’s Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment.

The Min­istry of Health has an­nounced a to­tal of 43 new COVID cas­es, but stress­es that they cov­er the pe­ri­od Au­gust 5th to Au­gust 11th, 2020, and do not rep­re­sent cas­es dis­cov­ered over the last 24 hours. on­ly.

“This is the 70th year of Carib Lager since it was first brewed in 1950 so as we looked at what we could do to com­mem­o­rate we looked back and we looked at the grow­ing world of Carib, this brew­ery and the oth­er lo­ca­tions and we de­cid­ed, look we should al­so look at the brew­ery and its iden­ti­ty and its per­son­al­i­ty as al­so be­ing time for an up­date,” Hall told Guardian Me­dia.

In or­der to see eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion in T&T over the next five years, the new gov­ern­ment has to fo­cus on mak­ing the busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment in T&T more com­pet­i­tive. One of the ways to do this is by de­pre­ci­at­ing the ex­change rate.

A for­mer min­is­ter of Fi­nance has pre­dict­ed that the gov­ern­ment would present a bud­get in the up­com­ing months that would be sharp tast­ing in the mouth of the T&T pop­u­la­tion.