The pub­lic health mea­sures in place for COVID-19 are work­ing. Med­ical of­fi­cials re­port­ed that fol­low­ing a peak in COVID-19 cas­es around mid-Au­gust and plateau­ing fig­ures dur­ing Sep­tem­ber, trends have shown an ap­par­ent downtick in T&T’s curve.

The roll-back mea­sures an­nounced by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley ear­li­er this month are set to re­main in place un­til Oc­to­ber 11.

The Min­istry of Health has said that a high flu vac­cine up­take by the pub­lic will help to re­duce the de­mand for pub­lic health re­sources to treat flu-re­lat­ed com­pli­ca­tions. These re­sources can be used to treat COVID-19 pa­tients.

The seizure of $22 mil­lion from the Drugs Sou Sou in La Hor­quet­ta last week is pos­si­bly one of the biggest mon­ey laun­der­ing op­er­a­tions in T&T.

When the $22 mil­lion was mys­te­ri­ous­ly re­turned to the CEO of DSS by po­lice of­fi­cers at the La Hor­quet­ta Po­lice Sta­tion in the wee hours of last Wednes­day morn­ing, it trig­gered at least two par­al­lel in­ves­ti­ga­tions to de­ter­mine what ex­act­ly hap­pened on that day.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 30,600 

The Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly has met with CXC of­fi­cials to dis­cuss the con­cerns of stu­dents and ed­u­ca­tion stake­hold­ers on pre­lim­i­nary ex­am re­sults.

Dili­gent work by of­fi­cers of the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion (NED) re­sult­ed in the re­cov­ery of a stolen ve­hi­cle in Las Cuevas last night.

The term pyra­mid scheme has been thrown around a lot re­cent­ly by al­most every­one–from the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice to the or­di­nary man on the street.

For­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Dr Tim Gopeesingh has de­scribed the wide­spread com­plaints re­gard­ing the CXC re­sults as a cause for se­ri­ous na­tion­al con­cern.

A 28-year-old man, who lives in San Fer­nan­do, is cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody as­sist­ing of­fi­cers with their in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the dis­cov­ery of a firearm and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion this morn­ing.

While par­ents, stu­dents and ed­u­ca­tors con­tin­ue to ex­press dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the ex­pla­na­tions pre­sent­ed by the Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) dur­ing Fri­day’s re­gion­al me­dia brief­ing re­gard­ing this year’s CSEC and CAPE re­sults, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion (MOE) has said that a fur­ther list of is­sues re­quir­ing ad­vanced ex­pla­na­tions will be com­piled and sub­mit­ted to the Lo­cal Reg­is­trar for trans­mis­sion to the ex­am­in­ing body.