On the steps out­side at­tor­ney Nafeesa Mo­hammed’s of­fice yes­ter­day, Gre­go­ria Figueredo sat dis­con­so­lately. Her 11-year-old daugh­ter was among the group of Venezue­lan mi­grants de­port­ed back to their home­land via pirogues on Sun­day af­ter il­le­gal­ly ar­riv­ing on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s shores.

A group of Venezue­lan mi­grant women and chil­dren, who were de­port­ed from Trinidad and To­ba­go on Sun­day morn­ing al­though le­gal pro­ceed­ings were pend­ing, could not be re­turned to this coun­try pur­suant to a court or­der yes­ter­day.

Stu­dents and teach­ers at Fa­ti­ma Col­lege in Port-of-Spain con­tin­ue to cope in the face of un­prece­dent­ed changes to how ed­u­ca­tion is ad­min­is­tered as a re­sult of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Aman­da Bai­ley, 15, sat with her head in her hands star­ing at the 53 per cent mark on her tiny lap­top screen.

The Trin­i­ty Col­lege Alum­ni As­so­ci­a­tion has do­nat­ed over $76,000 in in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tems to al­low the Mar­aval-based school to have in­ter­net ac­cess across the school com­pound.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion said it is ‘grave­ly con­cerned’ about the ex­po­nen­tial in­crease in COVID-19 cas­es with­in the pris­ons af­ter 174 more pris­on­ers test­ed pos­i­tive for the virus.

There have been mul­ti­ple at­tempt­ed sui­cides record­ed in the coun­try due to fears of con­tract­ing COVID-19, with one per­son suc­ceed­ing. This was re­vealed by the head of psy­chi­atric ser­vices at the North Cen­tral Health Au­thor­i­ty pro­fes­sor Ger­ard Hutchin­son dur­ing a Min­istry of Health’s vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence yes­ter­day.

Res­i­dents of Bon Ac­cord and Crown Point, To­ba­go, are call­ing on the is­land’s po­lice to en­force COVID-19 rules and reg­u­la­tions sim­i­lar to their Trinidad coun­ter­parts.

There are mixed re­ac­tions with­in the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty on whether the An­ti-Gang Bill should have been al­lowed to con­tin­ue for a fur­ther 30 months from its ex­pi­ra­tion on No­vem­ber 29, 2020.

Busi­ness groups are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion to re­con­sid­er and re­vis­it the An­ti-Gang Bill.

While po­lice con­tin­ue to search for the par­ents of the two-week-old ba­by girl who was aban­doned in Freeport last Thurs­day, one child rights ac­tivist is call­ing for the cre­ation of safe spaces for un­want­ed ba­bies.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 8.25 pm Rod­ney “Da­do” Vic­tor was in the com­pa­ny of sev­er­al per­sons in­side a bar play­ing Roulette when a gun­man walked in and opened fire.