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.

A large sec­tion of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty has ac­knowl­edged that the fi­nan­cial im­pact of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic will be more sig­nif­i­cant than the neg­a­tive med­ical im­pact of the out­break it­self.

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has de­scribed a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter is­sued on be­half of Crime Watch talk show host Ian Al­leyne, who test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, as a the­atre of pub­lic and po­lit­i­cal spec­ta­cle.

Health Min­istry Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram has or­dered a full probe in­to tele­vi­sion show host Ian Al­leyne’s al­leged de­ten­tion af­ter al­leged­ly re­ceiv­ing dis­charge pa­pers at the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal.

The Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices is now open­ing the door for those peo­ple now un­em­ployed due to the pres­sures of the COVID-19 virus to ac­cess the so­cial sup­port grants even if they are not reg­is­tered with the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board.

Schools across Trinidad and To­ba­go, in­clud­ing ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion fa­cil­i­ties, will like­ly not re­open be­fore Sep­tem­ber 2020, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia said yes­ter­day.

Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO) di­rec­tor and the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO) re­gion­al di­rec­tor for the Amer­i­c­as, Dr Caris­sa Eti­enne, says they nei­ther an­tic­i­pat­ed nor were they pre­pared for the mag­ni­tude of the cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. She is al­so warn­ing the re­gion to pre­pare for a full blast with­in the next few weeks.

Mar­ket ven­dors are ap­peal­ing to San Fer­nan­do May­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo to al­low them to con­tin­ue to leave their goods at the mar­ket overnight.

Kav­inash “Fish” Ram­per­sad now has non-stop or­ders for chu­las —the tra­di­tion­al East-In­di­an fire­side/stove.

With their sav­ings run­ning low, scores of un­em­ployed peo­ple queued out­side TTPost of­fices across the coun­try to sub­mit forms for Gov­ern­ment’s Salary Re­lief Grant amidst the eco­nom­ic woes brought on by the COVID-19 cri­sis.

With two chil­dren and no job, Yvonne Joseph lined up out­side the TTPost of­fice on St Vin­cent Street, Port of Spain, yes­ter­day hop­ing her in­com­plete Salary Re­lief Grant form sub­mis­sion would be ac­cept­ed.

Al­most nine and a half hours af­ter Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh promised to trans­fer 30 re­cov­er­ing COVID-19 pa­tients to a con­va­les­cent fa­cil­i­ty in Brook­lyn Set­tle­ment, San­gre Grande, the group was tak­en there un­der the cov­er of dark­ness.