The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 16 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed deaths. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3224. There are cur­rent­ly 597 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 648 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 16502.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the North­ern Di­vi­sion ar­rest­ed two men and re­cov­ered a stolen ve­hi­cle in Mal­oney yes­ter­day. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports the stolen ve­hi­cle in­ter­cept­ed dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise.

Jea­nine Brandt, this coun­try’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the Miss World Pageant for 2021, has is­sued a state­ment in re­sponse to the pub­lic out­cry over her pre­sen­ta­tion at the glob­al con­test on pover­ty is­sues in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Days af­ter a Mara­bel­la man went miss­ing, his de­com­pos­ing body was found near Flower Pot beach at Pointe-a-Pierre, around mid­day on Tues­day Jan­u­ary 18th.

(AP) — The fast-mov­ing omi­cron vari­ant may cause less se­vere dis­ease on av­er­age, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climb­ing and mod­el­ers fore­cast 50,000 to 300,000 more Amer­i­cans could die by the time the wave sub­sides in mid-March.

Po­lit­i­cal and so­cial ac­tivist Umar Ab­dul­lah—who was charged in con­nec­tion with Sun­day's protest demon­stra­tion 'Push Back Two' at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain—is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court on Wednes­day Feb­ru­ary 16th.

Leg­isla­tive changes are need­ed to en­sure that per­sons guilty of firearm of­fences are not able to eas­i­ly ac­cess bail.

A 60-year-old man was ar­rest­ed for wound­ing with in­tent. It is al­leged that he drew a cut­lass and dealt the vic­tim a chop to his left hand and fled the scene. The vic­tim was tak­en to the Ch­agua­nas Health Fa­cil­i­ty by the Emer­gency Health Ser­vices, where he was treat­ed and trans­ferred to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex for fur­ther treat­ment.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong au­thor­i­ties said Tues­day that they will kill about 2,000 small an­i­mals, in­clud­ing ham­sters, af­ter sev­er­al test­ed pos­i­tive for the coro­n­avirus at a pet store where an em­ploy­ee was al­so in­fect­ed.

Sec­re­tary of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, Dr. Faith B.Yis­rael, met with To­ba­go’s COVID-19 Task Force on Mon­day 17th Jan­u­ary, to chart the way for­ward for how the is­land would tack­le the pan­dem­ic in­to the fu­ture.

WELLING­TON, New Zealand (AP) — The blast from the vol­cano could be heard in Alas­ka, and the waves crossed the ocean to cause an oil spill and two drown­ings in Pe­ru. The star­tling satel­lite im­ages re­sem­bled a mas­sive nu­clear ex­plo­sion.

● The Caribbean na­tion will send a four-man sled team to games for first time since first qual­i­fy­ing for event in 1988 ●