In a press re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day morn­ing, the Ju­di­cia­ry said that Boodoos­ingh had re­ceived his in­stru­ment of ap­point­ment from Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie.

Five Venezue­lan na­tion­als, who were out fish­ing, were res­cued at sea, af­ter the boat they were in ex­pe­ri­enced dif­fi­cul­ties on Sun­day in Buc­coo, To­ba­go.

he Trinidad and To­ba­go Film Fes­ti­val Com­mit­tee re­ceived a grant of $200,000 from the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts, un­der the Cul­ture and Cre­ative Arts Fund (CCAF).

Of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) Strike Team re­cov­ered two stolen ve­hi­cles on a va­cant lot along the East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille yes­ter­day.

So far two car­ni­val or­ga­ni­za­tions have in­di­cat­ed that their events for Car­ni­val 2021 have been post­poned.

A scold­ing on na­tion­al tele­vi­sion ad­dress­ing the young woman who breached the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions over the week­end was what Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh de­liv­ered in his open­ing re­marks at a vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence on Mon­day.

Af­ter a five-day wait, the rel­a­tives of a heart at­tack pa­tient at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal are now re­lieved that he can get the nec­es­sary treat­ment af­ter his COVID-19 test re­sult re­turned neg­a­tive on Mon­day morn­ing.

A 46-year old farmer is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Siparia Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with pos­ses­sion of a gun, am­mu­ni­tion, and cul­ti­vat­ing mar­i­jua­na.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to­day sum­moned the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith to a meet­ing fol­low­ing a pub­lic spat be­tween the two over whether or not peo­ple found in breach of the pub­lic health or­di­nance can be ar­rest­ed on their pri­vate prop­er­ties.

With weeks to go be­fore the 2021 bud­get is pre­sent­ed, for­mer Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath says the Fi­nance Min­is­ter needs to be hon­est with the pop­u­la­tion about the true cost of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic on T&T.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­licHealth Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19. 27,006

This ac­cord­ing to for­mer Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Vas­ant Bharath, who re­cent­ly sat on the Prime Min­is­ter's Roadmap to Re­cov­ery team.