El­der­ly peo­ple aged 65 years and over, who are to re­ceive their first dose of the COVID-19 vac­cine, will to­day be giv­en ‘VIP treat­ment’ as the Triple E Sys­tem—the El­der­ly Ex­press Ex­pe­ri­ence—is rolled out.

The Pfiz­er vac­cines re­ceived re­cent­ly from the US will be re­served for those un­der the re­mit of the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­istry, Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh said yes­ter­day.

Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Don­na Cox said she is deeply con­cerned about the in­creas­ing num­ber of el­der­ly peo­ple who are hav­ing their pen­sion cheques stolen.

Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) An­cil Den­nis has said he saw no il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ty out­lined in an Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s re­port on the THA’s dis­tri­b­u­tion of COVID-19 re­lief grants.

Lo­cal In­di­an cul­ture has suf­fered a blow be­cause of the COVID-19 virus, fol­low­ing the death of a pop­u­lar clas­si­cal singer.

Hours af­ter the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith warned of a crack­down on dri­vers speed­ing home to avoid break­ing the cur­few a man was killed in an ac­ci­dent in Laven­tille.

Po­lice are search­ing for two men who man­aged to es­cape from of­fi­cers on a mo­tor­bike af­ter cur­few be­gan on Mon­day.

Yes­ter­day Mod­er­na and John­son and John­son COVID-19 vac­cines were ap­proved in Trinidad and To­ba­go for emer­gency use.

Nine more peo­ple have died from COVID-19 in this coun­try, bring­ing the na­tion­al death toll to 686 lives lost, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

The Miss­ing Per­sons Alert for 37-year-old PRE­CIOUS AARON, of La­dy Young Av­enue, Mor­vant, has been dis­con­tin­ued, as she has been found and is safe.

Two men were ar­rest­ed on Mon­day, fol­low­ing high speed chase and shoot out with the po­lice in Arou­ca.

Hours af­ter Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith warned of a crack­down on dri­vers speed­ing home to avoid break­ing the cur­few, a man was killed in an ac­ci­dent in Laven­tille.