A  27-year-old  gar­den­er who ap­peared  be­fore  a  Princes  Town  Mag­is­trate  in a vir­tu­al hear­ing yes­ter­day, was  grant­ed  $75,000  bail af­ter be­ing charged with sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion of a mi­nor.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is­sued a brief state­ment this morn­ing, con­cern­ing re­cent de­vel­op­ments with Venezue­lan mi­grants, who had en­tered the coun­try il­le­gal­ly.

Prison of­fi­cers had to call in ad­di­tion­al re­in­force­ment from a spe­cial unit to quell an­oth­er at­tempt at an up­ris­ing at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca yes­ter­day.

A High Court Judge has or­dered the im­me­di­ate re­lease of 10 mi­nors and four of their moth­ers from a mi­grant de­ten­tion cen­tre at the T&T Coast Guard’s He­li­port in Ch­aguara­mas.

With the Gov­ern­ment con­tin­u­ing to re­ceive crit­i­cism for its de­ci­sion to de­port 16 Venezue­lan chil­dren over the week­end, some al­leged­ly with­out their par­ents, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young yes­ter­day de­fend­ed the de­ci­sion, say­ing the mi­grants broke laws when they en­tered T&T with­out visas or ex­emp­tions for COVID-19.

As cit­i­zens con­tin­ue to ig­nore pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions not to con­gre­gate, gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials say they have been left with no choice but to use the law to com­pel peo­ple to ad­here to the reg­u­la­tions.

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed 13 new COVID-19 in­fec­tions which brought the to­tal num­ber of peo­ple to be in­fect­ed lo­cal­ly up to 6,488.

Dis­tance learn­ing has pre­sent­ed a unique chal­lenge to all stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go but, for those with At­ten­tion Deficit Hy­per­ac­tiv­i­ty Dis­or­der (AD­HD), there is added pres­sure caus­ing some to fall be­hind on their school­work.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will not al­low any­one to be­lit­tle or de­tract from his vi­sion and ef­forts to re­vi­talise Port-of-Spain.

In the blink of an eye, a Siparia cou­ple lost two decades of mem­o­ries and ac­com­plish­ments af­ter a fire gut­ted their home.

A Moru­ga man who chopped his neigh­bour’s goat in a fit of rage be­cause it ate his crops has been jailed for six months.

Un­der the su­per­vi­sion of Su­per­in­ten­dent Charles and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice con­duct­ed their Day of Polic­ing.