A video of un­der­aged chil­dren who ap­peared to be drink­ing al­co­hol dur­ing school hours has caught the at­ten­tion of Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has launched in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to sev­er­al re­cent re­ports from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, of teach­ers be­ing ver­bal­ly abused and dis­re­spect­ed dur­ing their on­line class­es.

On Thurs­day, two-year-old Safoorah Muhammed drowned af­ter she fell in­to a pool at Munroe Road, Cunu­pia.

Over a dozen po­lice of­fi­cers from the Siparia CID head­quar­ters have been sent on quar­an­tine af­ter the spouse of a po­lice of­fi­cer test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, ef­fec­tive­ly af­fect­ing the unit’s abil­i­ty to func­tion with the same lev­el of ef­fi­cien­cy it did pre­vi­ous­ly.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) has called on Gov­ern­ment to amend the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions to have board mem­bers charged when they fail to pro­tect their work­ers.

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent David John-Williams yes­ter­day re­leased doc­u­ments show­ing FI­FA fund­ing that were dis­bursed for the Home of Foot­ball project but has still failed to an­swer why he did not have fund­ing in ear­ly 2018 to clear ship­ping costs of US$50,000 which arose then or who the main con­trac­tor on the project was.

The to­tal num­ber of ac­tive COVID-19 cas­es has once again crossed 2,000 af­ter 217 cas­es were record­ed by the Min­istry of Health yes­ter­day.

The son of a woman from Rio Claro, who died sud­den­ly be­fore test­ing neg­a­tive for COVID-19, has sent a le­gal let­ter over a de­ci­sion to de­tain his moth­er’s body for over two weeks in or­der to per­form a sec­ond au­top­sy.

The Bar Own­ers and Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BOATT) wants a meet­ing with the gov­ern­ment to dis­cuss the fu­ture of the in­dus­try which has been heav­i­ly re­strict­ed in light of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Keon was last seen at his Apt 2 – 3 West Mal­oney Gar­dens home at 5 am on Sep­tem­ber 12th. He was re­port­ed miss­ing on Sep­tem­ber 16th.

Nine­ty three Venezue­lan il­le­gal im­mi­grants were de­port­ed this af­ter­noon, even as some had last ditch le­gal chal­lenges pend­ing.

The Po­lice Ser­vice says it is con­tin­u­ing its thrust to­wards trans­for­ma­tion with the launch of the new on­line Cer­tifi­cate of Char­ac­ter (COC) ser­vice, which al­lows the pub­lic to re­quest a COC through the TTPS web­site (www.ttps.gov.tt). The new ser­vice was made avail­able to the pub­lic on Wednes­day.