Em­ploy­ees of the PTSC To­ba­go sta­tion at Shaw Park say they are ter­ri­fied as COVID-19 has in­fil­trat­ed their work­space and they be­lieve of­fi­cials are not do­ing enough to en­sure staff and mem­bers of the pub­lic re­main safe.

A 25-year-old Guyanese woman has been fined $15,000 for evad­ing im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cers at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port with the al­leged as­sis­tance of a se­cu­ri­ty guard.

The moth­er of a Pe­nal teenag­er who was fa­tal­ly shot by the po­lice on Tues­day night is call­ing for a full-scale in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Usha Ram­roop, of Bagna Trace, Chase Vil­lage, says that her home floods every time it rains be­cause there is no prop­er drainage sys­tem in the area.

THA Fi­nance Sec­re­tary Joel Jack says he will sub­mit a bud­get pro­pos­al of $3 bil­lion dol­lars to Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert, to cov­er THA spend­ing for the next fis­cal year.

A 43-year-old man main­tained his in­no­cence even af­ter be­ing con­vict­ed of mur­der­ing two teenage boys in To­ba­go, al­most 12 years ago. 

A Ce­dros man has been charged with the mur­ders of Paras­ram Boodoo and Navin­dra Garib. Thir­ty-sev­en-year-old Ramjit Lalchan of Fuller­ton Vil­lage is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a Cou­va Mag­is­trate to­mor­row. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the TTPS:

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 8 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed deaths. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 1056. There are cur­rent­ly 308 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 243 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 5852.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley called Mas­ter Artist LeRoy Clarke an in­spi­ra­tion who spoke his truth force­ful­ly and un­apolo­get­i­cal­ly with em­pa­thy and vi­sion. The Prime Min­is­ter made the com­ments on his Face­book page to­day. The fol­low­ing is the full com­ment by the Prime Min­is­ter:

The death of ‘Mas­ter Artist’ LeRoy Clarke has fur­ther wound­ed the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go(ES­CTT), said its ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor Za­kiya Uzoma-Wada­da.

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors were ex­pect­ed to charge a 37-year-old Ce­dros man for the mur­der of Car­li Bay fish­er­man Paras­ram Boodoo yes­ter­day.
On Tues­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions: Re­gion Three met with Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Joan Hon­ore-Paul.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (MET) has dis­con­tin­ued the Ad­verse Weath­er Alert. The MET stat­ed that im­pact­ful rain­fall ac­tiv­i­ty has de­creased how­ev­er, some ar­eas may still ex­pe­ri­ence oc­ca­sion­al light to mod­er­ate show­ers.