Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley an­nounced in a press con­fer­ence this af­ter­noon that on June 8th all places of wor­ship can re­con­vene. Per­sons at­tend­ing will have to ad­here to so­cial dis­tanc­ing guide­lines and wear masks. He al­so stat­ed that ser­vices should be no longer than one hour.

No­bel prize-win­ning econ­o­mist Joseph Stiglitz will present his vi­sion of the glob­al eco­nom­ic sit­u­a­tion and the chal­lenges that Latin Amer­i­ca faces in the com­ing years on Thurs­day as the CAF-De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca cel­e­brates its 50th an­niver­sary.

T&T se­nior women’s team net­baller Saman­tha Wal­lace says she is de­light­ed with the news that the Aus­tralian Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball League sea­son will get go­ing on Au­gust 1 with the league com­mit­ted to com­plet­ing a full 60-match sea­son.

The Bridge of Hope Chil­dren’s Home at San­gre Chiq­ui­to has been at­tract­ing at­ten­tion from peo­ple both na­tion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

To­mor­row, June 7, is World Food Safe­ty Day. The theme is, “Food safe­ty, every­one’s busi­ness.” Dur­ing this COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, it’s im­por­tant for peo­ple to prac­tice good hy­giene prac­tices, in­clud­ing in food pro­duc­tion and con­sump­tion. The virus can be trans­mit­ted among work­ers in lo­ca­tions and fa­cil­i­ties where food is pro­duced, processed, pack­aged, and sold. Stan­dard Op­er­at­ing Pro­ce­dures should be in place to min­imise pos­si­ble con­t­a­m­i­na­tion. Re­searchers have iden­ti­fied more than 250 food-borne dis­eases; lead­ing to ap­prox 420,000 deaths an­nu­al­ly world­wide.