Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed has ad­vised that come We­dens­day (Au­gust 19), the do­mes­tic air bridge be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go will op­er­ate on a re­duced sched­ule.

There are mixed views among some fol­low­ing the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s de­ci­sion to go ahead with the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) on Thurs­day, but for the most part par­ents of stu­dents ac­tu­al­ly sit­ting the ex­am are sat­is­fied with the de­ci­sion.

With the im­pend­ing clo­sure of all schools un­til the end of the year due to the re­cent spike in COVID-19 cas­es, the As­ja Girls’ Alum­ni As­so­ci­a­tion is work­ing to en­sure that all stu­dents are equipped with an elec­tron­ic de­vice be­fore the new term starts.

Guardian Me­dia has been tar­get­ed by the man who is call­ing him­self 'The Re­sis­tance' for its stance on ed­u­cat­ing the pub­lic dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion de­clared the COVID-19 a pan­dem­ic on March 11, 2020. Soon af­ter, many coun­tries around the world be­gan lock­ing their bor­ders in or­der to lim­it the spread of the virus. At present, COVID-19 has af­fect­ed over 20 mil­lion peo­ple and re­sult­ed in over 700,000 deaths world­wide.

The re­cent jump in COVID-19 cas­es and the an­tic­i­pat­ed spike to come in a few days now has ed­u­ca­tion stake­hold­ers ex­press­ing con­cern about the risks stu­dents may face in the com­ing weeks, as Stan­dard Five stu­dents are set to sit the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) on Thurs­day (Au­gust 20) and schools are card­ed to re­open short­ly af­ter on Sep­tem­ber 1.

Trinidad and To­ba­go record­ed two COVID-19-re­lat­ed deaths in the space of sev­er­al hours on Friday, even as the Min­istry of Health re­port­ed there had been 22 more cas­es, tak­ing the over­all tal­ly to 426

A war of words de­vel­oped be­tween Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the rul­ing Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment yes­ter­day, af­ter Per­sad-Bisses­sar sniped at the Min­istry of Health’s mea­sures on the lat­est spike in COVID-19 in­fec­tions.

Three po­lice of­fi­cers, sta­tioned in Tu­na­puna, Princes Town and St Joseph, have test­ed pos­i­tive for the COVID-19 virus.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s COVID-19 tal­ly rose above 400 yes­ter­day with con­fir­ma­tion of 78 cas­es com­ing an­nounced by the Min­istry of Health.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram yes­ter­day pre­dict­ed a spike in COVID-19 cas­es due to the pub­lic’s re­fusal to ful­ly co­op­er­ate with the pub­lic health guide­lines aimed at pre­vent­ing its spread.