The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 15 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed deaths, bring­ing the to­tal to 390. The Min­istry al­so record­ed 250 new cas­es in the last 24 hours. This brings the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 8150. There are cur­rent­ly 455 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal.

A 19-year-old man from Matu­ra was sen­tenced to 12-months of hard labour when he ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mag­is­trate Cheron Raphael at the San­gre Grande Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day. Ter­rance, of Orosco Road, Matu­ra, was ar­rest­ed and charged with break-in and lar­ce­ny of­fences on May 20th.

Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter, Sen­a­tor Paula Gopee-Scoon, has re­stat­ed Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to work­ing with the lo­cal poul­try in­dus­try to en­sure its con­tin­ued vi­a­bil­i­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 23-year-old Nigel Charles.