As both vac­ci­nat­ed and un­vac­ci­nat­ed stu­dents in Forms 4 to 6 restart­ed in-per­son class­es yes­ter­day, one par­ent has threat­ened to sue the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion over the safe­ty of her child.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is com­mit­ted to do­ing its part to re­duce glob­al warm­ing by pro­duc­ing green­er, clean­er en­er­gy and com­modi­ties, work­ing to­wards de­car­bon­i­sa­tion, and be­com­ing more en­er­gy ef­fi­cient whilst bal­anc­ing the needs of our oil and gas in­dus­try econ­o­my, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has said.

A day of mouth-wa­ter­ing fi­nals has been set for Sun­day at the Chetwynd's ten­nis courts on Tu­na­puna Road, Tu­na­puna. And lead­ing the way will be a con­test be­tween the coun­try's top two play­ers Ak­ile Duke and Nabeel Mo­hammed for the Men's 'A' ti­tle.

Many lo­cals would be sur­prised to learn that three hours in­to an old Amerindi­an trail from Mara­cas Bay on the North Coast over the steep ter­rain and lush green­ery of the North­ern Range's 936 me­tre El Tu­cuche, lands you near the Mara­cas Riv­er in Mara­cas Val­ley, St Joseph. Sev­er­al trails are con­nect­ing the North Coast over the hills to the val­ley and from the val­ley, you can even hike to Cau­ra, Blan­chisseuse and Ari­ma. Hav­ing con­ti­nu­ity and con­nect­ed­ness; that's how the First Peo­ples saw the land.

Two im­por­tant things hap­pened yes­ter­day in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Stu­dents from Forms Four through Six, vac­ci­nat­ed and un­vac­ci­nat­ed, re­turned to in-per­son class­es af­ter more than a year of be­ing at home due to the pan­dem­ic, and the fears of the Health Min­is­ter over the week­end be­came a star­tling re­al­i­ty with word that there are on­ly three more In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU) spaces avail­able in the par­al­lel health­care sys­tem for COVID-19 pa­tients.