A Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (TTEC) em­ploy­ee who was sus­pect­ed of con­tract­ing COVID-19 and was test­ed a week ago is still await­ing his test re­sults.

As of Thurs­day, there are no ac­tive cas­es of COVID-19 in the coun­try. How­ev­er, while it is a ma­jor mile­stone in the coun­try's his­to­ry, Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh once again re­it­er­at­ed that the jour­ney's not yet over.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als work­ing aboard the Dis­ney Cruise Lines were moved to tears yes­ter­day af­ter the Min­istry of Na­tion­al an­nounced its de­ci­sion to al­low cruise ship work­ers to re­turn home be­fore the bor­ders are of­fi­cial­ly re­opened.

One Op­po­si­tion mem­ber is ac­cus­ing the banks of be­ing un­kind to the cit­i­zen­ry dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Less than a week af­ter they were promised fu­el sup­port from the Gov­ern­ment, maxi taxi own­ers were all smiles yes­ter­day as they col­lect­ed their $2,000 cheques.

As hun­dreds of cruise ship em­ploy­ees anx­ious­ly await re­unions with their fam­i­lies, clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist Dr Kati­ja Khan says there is a sig­nif­i­cant men­tal health threat to them She says there is anx­i­ety build­ing up among the em­ploy­ees strand­ed around the world af­ter coun­tries closed their bor­ders due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Trinci­ty Mall ten­ants are urg­ing the gov­ern­ment to take a sec­ond look at the re­stric­tions con­cern­ing shop­ping malls as this coun­try cur­rent­ly has no ac­tive con­firmed COVID-19 cas­es.

Five of­fi­cers of the T&T Coast Guard and 32 Venezue­lans who were res­cued from a sink­ing ship off the coast of Ica­cos are now in manda­to­ry quar­an­tine for the next 14 days.

There is now an air of hope­ful­ness and scep­ti­cism among cit­i­zens who are strand­ed aboard cruise ships fol­low­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to al­low them to come home.But the burn­ing ques­tion these em­ploy­ees now have is when will they be able to re­unite with their fam­i­lies and loved ones af­ter be­ing at sea for most of the year.

Gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing ex­tend­ing the Salary Re­lief Grant to oth­er ar­eas apart from work­ers in bars and restau­rants, says So­cial De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son- Reg­is.

Shar­da Kel­ly froze on the phone when she re­ceived that March 29, call with the words: “You have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19,” com­ing from the voice of her coun­ty med­ical of­fi­cer on the oth­er end.

“You are tak­ing care of your neigh­bour’s chil­dren be­cause they ran across here, but you have locked out yours.”