The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 2 ad­di­tion­al COVID-re­lat­ed deaths. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 4,011. There are cur­rent­ly 103 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 118 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,320. 

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (the Au­thor­i­ty) Thicke Vil­lage Boost­er Sta­tion, was struck by van­dals on Wednes­day 29th June 2022 dis­abling the fa­cil­i­ty as the elec­tri­cal ca­bles were stolen.

The Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SATT) had fol­low-up dis­cus­sions with the Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter, Sen­a­tor Paula Gopee-Scoon and Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Lands and Fish­eries, Sen­a­tor Kaz­im Ho­sein on food se­cu­ri­ty.

Van­dals sab­o­taged a WASA boost­er sta­tion at Thicke Vil­lage, Fyz­abad overnight cut­ting off wa­ter ac­cess to over 20,000 peo­ple and steal­ing an undis­closed amount of ca­bles.

Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Sen­a­tor the Ho­n­ourable Don­na Cox and the Ho­n­ourable Fitzger­ald Hinds, Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty had dis­cus­sions on in­for­ma­tion shar­ing be­tween both Min­istries.

Next month will make it four years that the Scar­let Ibis was of­fi­cial­ly de­clared an En­vi­ron­men­tal­ly Sen­si­tive Species (ESS) in T&T.

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port is ad­vis­ing that clean-up ef­forts are still on­go­ing along the Paria Main Road to re­store con­nec­tiv­i­ty and ve­hic­u­lar ac­cess to the Grande Riv­iere and Matelot com­mu­ni­ties, in the short­est pos­si­ble time­frame.

Port of Spain, TRINIDAD (ILO) — More than 47 com­pa­nies and 50 labour unions from 18 Caribbean coun­tries have agreed to a base­line pol­i­cy to elim­i­nate all forms of vi­o­lence against women and girls (VAWG) in the world of work.

32-year-old Kel­lorn Nero was charged with two counts of rape. He ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Ra­jen­dra Ram­bachan at the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court and was grant­ed $200,000 bail or a $20,000 cash al­ter­na­tive.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice at 10:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: this af­ter­noon and tonight…

Af­ter spend­ing al­most 17 years in prison and fac­ing three tri­als, five men con­vict­ed of kid­nap­ping a busi­ness­woman and al­leged­ly bury­ing her alive, have been set free.

The T&T Med­ical As­so­ci­a­tion has trained doc­tors on treat­ing mon­key­pox as the coun­try re­mains on alert for the ar­rival of the dis­ease.