For­mer UNC MP Ra­mona Ram­di­al has called out the op­po­si­tion on the le­git­i­ma­cy of its na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive. She has queried the fact that gen­er­al sec­re­tary Dave Tan­coo and PRO Ani­ta Haynes have re­tained their par­ty posts de­spite be­ing MPs. Ram­di­al said the re­ten­tion of the par­ty posts by the MPs is con­trary to UNC’s con­sti­tu­tion

In the last five years, Gov­ern­ment has paid a stag­ger­ing $18.6 bil­lion in se­nior cit­i­zens pen­sions. This year alone, the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices spent $4 bil­lion in pen­sion as part of its so­cial safe­ty net and due to a sub­stan­tial in­crease in ben­e­fi­cia­ries due to the coun­try’s age­ing pop­u­la­tion.

A fam­i­ly of six, in­clud­ing a five-month-old ba­by, was yes­ter­day jolt­ed from sleep by heavy wind and rain, which caused part of the roof of their home at Rose­hill Street, Clax­ton Bay, to be torn off.

Heavy rains caused by a low-lev­el trough brought flash flood­ing to sev­er­al parts of the coun­try yes­ter­day morn­ing. T&T Met Ser­vices said the show­ery spells and con­vec­tive ac­tiv­i­ty were in­duced by Hur­ri­cane Ted­dy al­though the cy­clone posed no di­rect threat to the coun­try.

Rel­a­tives of Joan­na Díaz, the Venezue­lan mi­grant whose de­com­posed body was found in a la­trine be­hind a house in Preysal ear­li­er this month, are anx­ious for T&T’s bor­ders to be re­opened so that her ash­es can be re­turned to her home­land.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 28,995

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (the Au­thor­i­ty) says cus­tomers in the Mor­vant area served by the La­dy Young Boost­er Pump­ing Sta­tion, who are cur­rent­ly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing an in­ter­rup­tion in their pipe borne wa­ter sup­ply is due to a me­chan­i­cal prob­lem at the fa­cil­i­ty.

A pop­u­lar fish­er­man from Guayagua­yare has been charged with ar­son, 3 counts of at­tempt­ed mur­der, one count of as­sault and sev­er­al gun-re­lat­ed charges.

The Bar­keep­ers and Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (BOATT) is al­leg­ing dis­crim­i­na­tion against their mem­bers by the Min­istry of Health (MOH), as they claimed amend­ed reg­u­la­tions al­low­ing for non-con­tact team sports is a fur­ther dis­ad­van­tage for them.

Levi Joseph, 29, of Sec­ond Street, Sime­on Road, Pe­tit Val­ley, ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly in the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court yes­ter­day charged with three counts of shoot­ing with in­tent, pos­ses­sion of a firearm, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of a firearm to en­dan­ger life and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life.

The St James Po­lice are ac­tive­ly search­ing for 17-year-old Imi­ti­az Ali, of Sec­ond Av­enue, Up­per Bournes Road, St James.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 19, 2020: