A Cen­tral, Trinidad bar own­er has be­come the first per­son to be charged for break­ing the re­cent­ly-im­ple­ment­ed COVID-19 Pub­lic Health Act reg­u­la­tions.

Busi­ness own­ers in Port-of-Spain are un­sure of the fu­ture of their busi­ness­es as the na­tion’s cap­i­tal city and the rest of the coun­try face a par­tial shut­down from Sun­day at mid­night.

Cab­i­net and the Min­is­ter of Health were ad­vised of the pos­si­ble spread of the nov­el coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) back in Jan­u­ary.

How did the Vice Pres­i­dent of Venezuela, Del­cy Ro­driguez en­ter T&T to meet with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley?

A St James teenag­er was stabbed to death dur­ing an al­leged rob­bery in Mor­vant on Fri­day night.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has record­ed its third COVID-19 death and a spike in cas­es be­tween Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.

A Sun­day Guardian head­line in Jan­u­ary 1972 screamed “Car­ni­val Put Off For 3 Months”as the po­lio epi­dem­ic of the ear­ly 1970s shook the coun­try.

Wait­ing to be test­ed for COVID-19 in T&T was a process marred by bu­reau­cra­cy, con­fu­sion, and days, even weeks of wait­ing, for a re­sult that may not come.

Around 15 ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket are de­mand­ing space in­side the fa­cil­i­ty to con­duct busi­ness. The mar­ket re­opened Fri­day fol­low­ing a three-day clo­sure to sani­tise the fa­cil­i­ty.

It will be a per­son­al choice for the own­ers/op­er­a­tors of small and large maxi-taxis if they want to con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing ser­vices to the pub­lic af­ter Sun­day.

A Williamsville man and his cousin died af­ter they were pinned un­der the trail­er of a truck in Table­land while re­turn­ing home from a prayer ser­vice on Thurs­day night. Chan­drab­han Ram­roop, 45, a hard­ware work­er and See­ta Bhag­wan­deen, 46, a house­wife, of White­land Road died on the scene.

So­cial dis­tanc­ing and mul­ti­ple warn­ing to stay at home were wide­ly ig­nored yes­ter­day as the pub­lic crowd­ed su­per­mar­kets and banks—al­so ig­nor­ing the an­nounce­ment by Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young that su­per­mar­kets are es­sen­tial ser­vices and would not be closed.