The THA Di­vi­sion of Set­tle­ments, Ur­ban Re­new­al and Pub­lic Util­i­ties, at the Colos­se­um in Crown Point, is closed for san­i­ti­za­tion on to­day (Wednes­day, Ju­ly 12).

The man­age­ment of Bish­op Anstey High School East and Trin­i­ty Col­lege East (BATCE) has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to posts made by a teacher which have been deemed by many so­cial me­dia users to be racist.

Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar seems like­ly to face yet an­oth­er bat­tle for the reins of her par­ty fol­low­ing an­oth­er de­feat by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress stal­warts Dr Su­ruj Ram­bachan and Dr Tim Gopeesingh are de­fend­ing par­ty leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar against so­cial me­dia calls that she steps down in the wake of her lat­est de­feat in the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

The Tropik­ist Ho­tel and Re­sort at Crown Point would re­main un­der manda­to­ry quar­an­tine for 14 days. This, af­ter a guest who jour­neyed from Trinidad, test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 last week­end.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has hit the 300 mark in the num­ber of peo­ple who have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

As the coun­try hit 300 cas­es of COVID-19 yes­ter­day, ac­tiv­i­ties in the days lead­ing up to the re­cent gen­er­al elec­tions are be­ing de­scribed as a “dis­as­ter wait­ing to hap­pen” by in­ter­nal med­i­cine spe­cial­ist Dr Joel Teelucks­ingh who said those who failed to fol­low prop­er pub­lic health pro­to­cols could have cre­at­ed a “petri dish of in­fec­tions.”

A 42-year-old man of Ari­ma was fol­lowed in­to the Waller­field area by gun­men who opened fire on him killing him on the scene on Tues­day af­ter­noon.
Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 3 pm Keron Med­i­na from Pin­to Road was dri­ving his Hilux van when un­know­ing­ly he was be­ing fol­lowed by a white Ti­i­da. Po­lice said up­on reach­ing Sand­stone Street the men in the Ti­i­da ve­hi­cle drove up along­side him and opened fire. Med­i­na at­tempt­ed to dri­ve off but crashed his ve­hi­cle. The gun­men then alight­ed from their ve­hi­cle and walked to­wards him and shot him sev­er­al times killing him on the scene. The gun­men then es­caped from the scene in the said Ti­i­da ve­hi­cle.
Res­i­dents in the area told po­lice that they be­lieve a woman was shot and in­jured in the said in­ci­dent, how­ev­er, this could not have been con­firmed up to press time.
In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (DPTT) Steve Al­varez has bowed out of pol­i­tics.

A young Venezue­lan woman on her way to sell em­panadas in San Fer­nan­do on Tues­day was ab­duct­ed, raped and stabbed in the neck.

As he de­clared vic­to­ry in the San Fer­nan­do East seat on Mon­day night, Peo­ple`s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Bri­an Man­ning said it was now time for the coun­try to heal and move for­ward.

A High Court judge has or­dered the im­me­di­ate ar­rest of at­tor­ney Kathy-Ann Mot­t­ley for fail­ing to re­pay her client $107,000.