Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says cit­i­zens who choose to flaunt the Gov­ern­ment’s Stay-at-Home or­ders and go on­to the na­tion’s road if they are not es­sen­tial work­ers or go­ing on es­sen­tial busi­ness will have to pre­pare them­selves to be caught up in dai­ly road­blocks by po­lice.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is chair­ing a team of ex­perts—in­clud­ing for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment and Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship fi­nance min­is­ter econ­o­mists Wen­dell Mot­t­ley and Win­ston Dook­er­an—who are draft­ing a re­cov­ery roadmap for Trinidad and To­ba­go fol­low­ing the COVID-19 cri­sis.

Some mem­bers of Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s new­ly-es­tab­lished spe­cial com­mit­tee to chart a re­cov­ery road map for T&T post-COVID-19, see their task ahead as a chal­leng­ing and en­ter­ing new ter­ri­to­ry.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is hop­ing the po­lice have a “Par­ty Me­ter” to find COVID-19 lock­down of­fend­ers who have par­ties.

The mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar Home for Foot­ball that has been cho­sen as a step-down fa­cil­i­ty for re­cov­er­ing COVID-19 pa­tients will un­der­go some ma­jor changes be­fore the fa­cil­i­ty is launched to as­sist the Gov­ern­ment in its fight against the virus.

BRIDGETOWN - Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) lead­ers yes­ter­day said they had agreed on a way for­ward in the re­gion’s bat­tle against the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) that has se­vere­ly af­fect­ed economies, caus­ing death and in­fec­tion to sev­er­al mem­bers of their pop­u­la­tions.

Gov­ern­ment has so far re­ceived just over 38,000 ap­pli­ca­tions for salary re­lief grants and pay­ments are ex­pect­ed to start flow­ing in the next cou­ple weeks, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert said yes­ter­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s Home of Foot­ball fa­cil­i­ty in Cou­va, which was of­fered to Gov­ern­ment to house re­cov­er­ing COVID-19 pa­tients, is ex­pect­ed to be ready in a cou­ple of weeks.

Five Trinida­di­an men and six Venezue­lan na­tion­als yes­ter­day ap­peared in court charged un­der the Pub­lic Health [2019 Nov­el Coro­n­avirus (2019-nCoV)] (No. 9) Reg­u­la­tions, 2020, af­ter be­ing held while by po­lice while at­tend­ing a COVID par­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) has promised to sub­mit a de­tailed doc­u­ment out­lin­ing its de­fin­i­tive po­si­tion on var­i­ous is­sues dur­ing the COVID-19 dis­rup­tion to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion by to­day.

In mid-March WHO’s di­rec­tor-gen­er­al Dr Tedros Ad­hanom Ghe­breye­sus had this ad­vice, “We have a sim­ple mes­sage for all coun­tries: test, test, test.”

The con­tro­ver­sial Home of Foot­ball, which was deemed un­us­able by for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent William Wal­lace back in No­vem­ber, is now one of the venues Gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing for use as a step-down fa­cil­i­ty in the fight against the nov­el coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) fol­low­ing a vis­it yes­ter­day.