The dream of hav­ing elec­tric­i­ty is com­ing clos­er to re­al­i­ty for Oma Gookool and her fam­i­ly.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 10:30 Sun­day night, two ve­hi­cles were se­cured at the Ste Made­line home of the own­ers, who are al­leged­ly re­spon­si­ble for the run­ning of two of the lo­cal pyra­mid schemes.

A Spe­cial Re­serve Of­fi­cer, who was at­tempt­ing to be a “peace­mak­er” dur­ing an ar­gu­ment be­tween two cus­tomers of a su­per­mar­ket in San­gre Grande was shot and wound­ed on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

A 35-year-old labour­er was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Point Fortin to­day.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 30,765  

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty is cur­rent­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances around the death of a COVID-19 pa­tient re­ceiv­ing treat­ment at the Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la MP Dr Rai Rag­bir, a med­ical doc­tor, is warn­ing that the Gov­ern­ment’s sys­tem of ad­min­is­ter­ing the H1N1 vac­cine to the gen­er­al pub­lic can cause a “se­ri­ous in­crease in the num­ber of COVID-19 cas­es.”

To­ba­go’s tourism stake­hold­ers look to the 2021 bud­get for re­cov­ery and sus­tain­abil­i­ty plans for the in­dus­try, says To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Chris James.

Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) chair­man Noel Gar­cia will learn the fate of his law­suit, chal­leng­ing the find­ings of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the Las Al­turas Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment in Mor­vant on Fri­day

A 19-year-old un­em­ployed man, who re­sides in Mal­oney Gar­dens, was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Child Pro­tec­tion Unit (CPU) for al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing his 14-year-old aunt. The man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate, to­day charged with one count of sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a child.

A 36-year-old moth­er is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Ma­yaro Mag­is­trate to­day to an­swer to five counts of fail­ing to re­port sus­pect­ed sex­u­al as­sault against her daugh­ters. Her com­pan­ion, a 40-year-old man, will al­so ap­pear to an­swer to sev­en counts of sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a child and one count of sex­u­al touch­ing of a child.

The Chair­man of the Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PTRC), Coun­cil­lor Gowrie Roop­nar­ine, is ask­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to work in part­ner­ship with the Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion to elim­i­nate il­le­gal dump­ing with­in the Princes Town Re­gion.