Its been a tough year for rel­a­tives of Dr Rudrade­va Shar­ma, the young doc­tor who died in a ve­hic­u­lar crash hours af­ter be­ing kid­napped and robbed last year.

Heart at­tack sur­vivor Shaun Manocha is us­ing his new lease on life to bring aware­ness about the dan­gers of heart dis­ease.

“Unit­ed States democ­ra­cy is frag­ile and the will of the peo­ple should nev­er be tak­en for grant­ed.”

The Pa­rade of Bands will not be hit­ting the road, but the Road March will be ad­ju­di­cat­ed on­line.

There will be a change in the sail­ing time of the Jean De La Valette (JDLV) from Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go on Thurs­day 21st Jan­u­ary. 

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 16 new COVID cas­es. The to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es is now 338. The death toll stands at 132. The fol­low­ing is a graph­ic from the Min­istry of Health:

San Juan Po­lice are ac­tive­ly search­ing for miss­ing 49-year-old Bal­jeet Pha­joo, who was re­port­ed miss­ing to po­lice by his wife at 6 pm yes­ter­day. Bal­jeet, of John­ny King Road, Aranguez, was last seen around 11 am on Jan­u­ary 16th 2021.

The 2021 road march will be de­ter­mined vir­tu­al­ly. bmo­bile in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans' Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) made the an­nounce­ment to­day. Artistes will be al­lowed to reg­is­ter up to two songs for en­try which will then be vot­ed on via unique text codes through bmo­bile’s text mes­sag­ing plat­form. In a press re­lease, Bmo­bile stat­ed that the part­ner­ship seeks to con­tin­ue to high­light the work of our mu­sic artistes and en­gage the na­tion­al au­di­ence si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly.

A Miss­ing Per­sons Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) for a 19-year-old man from Tacarigua.

A man al­leged­ly scuf­fled with the po­lice, dam­ag­ing an of­fi­cer's jer­sey and jew­ellery, when the po­lice tried to ar­rest him in Pe­nal.  He is ex­pect­ed to be charged with as­sault.

Lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies-ROYTEC, Dr Patrick Quan Kep, says a high­ly mo­ti­vat­ed prin­ci­pal is key to the prop­er run­ning of schools.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says he will be “guid­ed by le­gal ad­vice” on whether he will file an of­fi­cial com­plaint with the Med­ical Board of T&T on the con­duct of Dr Avinash Sawh.