Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley com­mend­ed mem­bers of Trinidad and To­ba­go's Olympic team who he said was “rep­re­sent­ing well in heart and spir­it” in the Olympic Games cur­rent­ly un­der­way in Tokyo, Japan.

This coun­try’s nurs­ing com­ple­ment has re­ceived a much-need­ed boost as 30 In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU) spe­cial­ists from Cu­ba have ar­rived in the coun­try to help bol­ster the over­whelmed labour force.

Close to 600 peo­ple were vac­ci­nat­ed at the Min­istry of Health's three Mass Vac­ci­na­tion Sites in south Trinidad on Sat­ur­day.

An 81-year-old man from Mara­cas/St Joseph has been re­leased from a pri­vate se­nior care home in Mar­aval af­ter he was aban­doned by a rel­a­tive and kept there against his will. 
Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that  Kirk Noel was re­leased yes­ter­day af­ter High Court Judge Robin Mo­hammed grant­ed an emer­gency habeas cor­pus writ on Fri­day night. 
Noel's lawyers Chase Pe­gus and Edisha Greene, of Ver­i­tas Cham­bers, at­tempt­ed to serve the or­der to se­cure his im­me­di­ate re­lease, with the as­sis­tance of of­fi­cers of the Mar­aval Po­lice Sta­tion on Fri­day night but were un­suc­cess­ful as the fa­cil­i­ty was closed and no one re­spond­ed. 
The di­rec­tor of the home con­tact­ed Noel's lawyers around mid­day yes­ter­day, and told them that he was re­leased as per the court or­der.
In Noel's court fil­ings, ob­tained by Guardian Me­dia, Pe­gus and Greene claimed that in late June they were con­tact­ed by Noel's for­mer em­ploy­ee and close friend and told of his plight. 
They con­tact­ed him on his cell­phone and he claimed that he was be­ing held against his will. 
Noel al­leged­ly told them that his rel­a­tive dropped him off at a hos­pice in San Fer­nan­do on May 15 and told him that she would re­turn for him. She did not. 
On June 24, a di­rec­tor of the Mar­aval home col­lect­ed him from San Fer­nan­do and took him to the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah to re­ceive a COVID-19 vac­cine. 
He was then tak­en to the Mar­aval home where he re­mained un­til be­ing re­leased. 
In the court fil­ings, Noel's at­tor­neys claimed that be­fore they filed the law­suit seek­ing his re­lease, they at­tempt­ed to speak with the man's rel­a­tives but were un­suc­cess­ful. 
They al­so claimed that af­ter they first con­tact­ed their client his cell phone was cut and they were barred from vis­it­ing and speak­ing with him in per­son. 
The care home's di­rec­tor al­so al­leged­ly re­fused to an­swer their ques­tions re­gard­ing his de­ten­tion and did not re­spond to the habeas cor­pus writ or pre­vi­ous le­gal threats.

In her Eman­ci­pa­tion mes­sage to­day Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar stat­ed that “the de­scen­dants of Africans have con­tributed sig­nif­i­cant­ly to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment and on this spe­cial day, it is im­por­tant that we rec­og­nize and ap­pre­ci­ate their out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions.” The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Op­po­si­tion Leader:

Quick re­sponse by a neigh­bour pos­si­bly saved the lives of a 60-year-old woman, her daugh­ter and niece af­ter a fire broke out at their home. It was around 5 am when Cloret­ta Robin woke up and smelt smoke at her Mod­este Street, Ma­haica Vil­lage, Point Fortin home. Point Fortin MP Kennedy Richards Jr who spoke to the fam­i­ly said Robin heard some­thing pop­ping and then re­alised that the house was on fire. But, in the con­fu­sion, she could not find the key for the bur­glar proofed gate and called for help. "When she woke up I guess she would have pan­icked be­cause you know when you wake up to fire even though she would have had the key very close at that point in time, your first thought is self-preser­va­tion. She would have called out to a neigh­bour who would have come with a ham­mer and she pound the lock and she came out." Re­spond­ing quick­ly to the call, fire­fight­ers of the Point Fortin Fire Sta­tion were able to ex­tin­guish the flames be­fore they could de­stroy the en­tire apart­ment and build­ing which hous­es oth­er apart­ments. The fam­i­ly did not re­ceive any burns but Robin was not feel­ing well and both she and her daugh­ter sought treat­ment at the hos­pi­tal.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 7 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 1077. There are cur­rent­ly 311 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 254 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 5951.

The price of pig­tails, ac­cord­ing to im­porters, sky­rock­et­ed by 74 per cent, canned corned beef went up by 36 per cent, yel­low split peas and lentils rose by 34 per cent, brown sug­ar climbed by 25 per cent, and canned tu­na in­creased by 15 per cent.

A half hour be­fore the dai­ly 9 pm cur­few was due to go in­to ef­fect on Fri­day, a Ch­agua­nas pro­pri­etor was gunned down in­side the par­lour he op­er­ates out of his home.

A woman's pleas with a gun­man to spare her hus­band’s life went in vain as he opened fire on the man, shoot­ing him about the body be­fore es­cap­ing on foot and dis­ap­pear­ing in­to the Matu­ra For­est. The co­conut ven­dor lat­er died at the hos­pi­tal.

A 31-year-old man charged with ha­rass­ment was grant­ed $60,000 bail when he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Jo-Anne Con­nor at the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court on Ju­ly 28th.
The ac­cused was al­so in­struct­ed not to go with­in 150 feet of the vic­tim, nor to have any form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with her. He was al­so in­struct­ed not to go to the vic­tim’s home, and to re­port to the Crown Point Po­lice Sta­tion every Wednes­day and Fri­day be­fore 6 pm.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (MET) has dis­con­tin­ued the river­ine flodd alert for Trinidad. In a press re­lease is­sued to­day, the MET stat­ed that most of Trinidad’s ma­jor wa­ter­cours­es are now be­low thresh­old lev­els and a de­creas­ing trend is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue.