Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) An­cil Den­nis says Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cou­va North Ra­mona Ram­di­al’s re­marks that “ghost ho­tels” are list­ed to ac­cess Gov­ern­ment’s $50 mil­lion COVID-19 re­lief fund­ing, is un­found­ed.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­date for the St Joseph Ahloy Hunt says he will be fo­cussing on crime dur­ing his cam­paign for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions.

Sur­prised but en­er­gised and ready to in­ject new life in­to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM’s) fight for Tabaquite, is how re­tired po­lice in­spec­tor Michael Seales yes­ter­day de­scribed the par­ty’s de­ci­sion to make him the Tabaquite gen­er­al elec­tions can­di­date.

Chair­man of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty, Hanif Ben­jamin is ap­peal­ing to par­ents who are not shar­ing the same home as well as fam­i­ly mem­bers to put aside their dif­fer­ences and cor­dial­ly co-par­ent to pro­vide that much-need­ed sup­port to chil­dren and each oth­er dur­ing these un­cer­tain times.

Sev­en per­sons were ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and mar­i­jua­na found by of­fi­cers of the St Joseph Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the North­ern Di­vi­sion on Sun­day.

Two teenage girls are among three peo­ple re­port­ed miss­ing to the po­lice. The Po­lice Ser­vice is­sued state­ments yes­ter­day seek­ing the pub­lic’s help in find­ing them.

All praise is due to Al­lah Almighty who is the bene­fac­tor of every favour. Peace and salu­ta­tions up­on the fi­nal Mes­sen­ger of Al­lah to mankind, Muham­mad (SA) who came to teach us how to be grate­ful to Al­lah, our cre­ator, for the favours He has be­stowed on us. The favours of Al­lah may be of a phys­i­cal na­ture like limbs, chil­dren and the send­ing of rain or they may be of an ab­stract na­ture like hav­ing peace of mind, un­der­stand­ing and con­tent­ment. It is in­cum­bent that one ac­knowl­edges that both these types of favours are gifts from Al­lah and that they must be thank­ful to Al­lah for them.

Shaykh Mu­naf Mo­hamed is a man strong­ly root­ed in the Is­lam­ic faith. For decades, he has been spread­ing the teach­ings of Is­lam- teach­ing Ara­bic on the Is­lam­ic Broad­cast­ing Net­work and at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Cen­tre for Lan­guage Learn­ing.

T&T’s forests are be­ing bull­dozed by un­scrupu­lous quar­ry op­er­a­tors, min­ers, slash-and-burn farm­ers, and squat­ters and the State seems pow­er­less to stop it.

Tourism Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell has wel­comed the re­turn of six of the coun­try’s cruise ship work­ers.

The sec­ond set of cruise ship em­ploy­ees, a group of 53, was al­lowed to re­turn to T&T yes­ter­day morn­ing.

De­fend­ing state­ments made by the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter about ask­ing a cruise ship to dock in T&T wa­ters and quar­an­tine over 300 na­tion­als on board, Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says the par­al­lel health care sys­tem set up to com­bat COVID-19 can­not hold so many peo­ple.