The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port will be con­duct­ing drainage works and a tree-trim­ming ex­er­cise, along the North Coast Road which com­menced yes­ter­day Mon­day 17th Jan­u­ary,2022 and is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed on Fri­day 28th Jan­u­ary, 2022. Mo­torists are be­ing ad­vised of a tem­po­rary traf­fic dis­rup­tion due to this ex­er­cise and should pro­ceed with cau­tion and ob­serve all di­rec­tion­al signs and bar­ri­ers. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the Min­istry of Works:

Caribbean Air­lines has an­nounced the in­tro­duc­tion of a pre-or­der meal ser­vice, on se­lect­ed routes. Cus­tomers will be able to se­lect from a range of meals and snacks which can be bought at the time of book­ing their flights and up to 36 hours be­fore the sched­uled de­par­ture time. The menu in­cor­po­rates a fu­sion of Caribbean and West­ern cui­sine in­clud­ing dou­bles (cur­ried chick peas and bara) bake and fish, an ar­ray of wraps, de­li­cious op­tions for veg­e­tar­i­ans and chil­dren. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from CAL:

● Ex­perts say two vari­ants can cross over to form a re­com­bi­nant ver­sion of both vari­ants. Plus, get­ting vac­ci­nat­ed against both COVID-19 and in­fluen­za is the best way to pro­tect your­self from ‘Flurona’ ●

COVID news from Jan­u­ary 17: Cana­da au­tho­ris­es pill for adults with mild, mod­er­ate COVID who are at high risk of be­com­ing se­ri­ous­ly ill.

T&TEC cus­tomers in parts of North, South and Cen­tral Trinidad as well as To­ba­go will ex­pe­ri­ence a tem­po­rary dis­rup­tion to their sup­ply of elec­tric­i­ty, Tues­day 18th Jan­u­ary, 2022.

Po­lit­i­cal and so­cial ac­tivist Umar Ab­dul­lah has been charged in con­nec­tion with Sun­day’s ‘Push Back Two’ demon­stra­tion at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain, where he was among 12 peo­ple de­tained by po­lice. The 11 oth­ers have, how­ev­er, been re­leased.

There have been eight Omi­cron cas­es de­tect­ed in the coun­try which do not have im­me­di­ate­ly ap­par­ent sources of in­fec­tion such as re­cent trav­el or con­tact with a COVID-19 pos­i­tive pa­tient.

Some 3,208 COVID-19 pos­i­tive peo­ple have now lost their lives since the pan­dem­ic be­gan af­ter 11 ad­di­tion­al peo­ple were re­port­ed dead by the Min­istry of Health yes­ter­day.

At 8.27 am yes­ter­day when Prim­nath Gokool emerged safe from the Ch­aguara­mas for­est, it wasn’t the po­lice nor the army who were praised for their ef­forts in his re­cov­ery.

Po­lice have record­ed no breach­es of the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions at rivers now that they are re­opened to the pub­lic or at beach­es with the two-hour time ex­ten­sion.

The fa­ther of two young boys who were caught in the melee when po­lice de­ployed tear gas against a crowd of pro­test­ers at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day is an­gry and in­sist­ing there was no need for the of­fi­cers to use such force.

A Fe­lic­i­ty farmer has re­ceived a life­line in his le­gal bat­tle with the Com­mis­sion­er of State Lands over re­fusal to as­sist him in evict­ing his niece from a par­cel of land, which was leased by him and her fa­ther.