To­ba­go has hit 56 per cent of its vac­ci­na­tion tar­get with more than 20,000 peo­ple tak­ing at least their first shot.

Now that the re­tail sec­tor is open, ven­dors at the San Fer­nan­do Cen­tral Mar­ket are call­ing for the re­open­ing of the mar­ket on Sun­days, say­ing they are fed up with los­ing thou­sands of dol­lars in per­ish­able goods.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds said yes­ter­day that he told act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith to re­main “at bay” un­til the ex­pi­ra­tion of his leave on Sep­tem­ber 20.

Trinidad-born US-based rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj has doxxed lo­cal re­porter Shar­lene Ram­per­sad for try­ing to lo­cate and in­ter­view her cousin and his friend, who were ref­er­enced in a vi­ral tweet ear­ly this week. Yes­ter­day, the rap­per shared Ram­per­sad’s phone num­ber on her In­sta­gram sto­ries, while threat­en­ing the jour­nal­ist, say­ing “her days are (ex­ple­tive delet­ed) num­bered.”

Now over 1,400 peo­ple have suc­cumbed to COVID-19 since March 2020. Since the start of 2021, the coun­try has lost 1,278 peo­ple to the dis­ease, al­most five times high­er than this year’s mur­der toll.

The Es­tate Man­age­ment Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment (EM­BD) Com­pa­ny has shut down min­ing op­er­a­tions at Co­co Road quar­ry and is in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­cent dam­age to homes there.

To join class­es and study for this year’s SEA ex­ams, 12-year-old Aleem Tru­man had to use ei­ther his moth­er or fa­ther’s cell phone. This was be­cause nei­ther par­ent, who are both ven­dors, can af­ford to pur­chase a lap­top or tablet.

Res­i­dents told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that since the col­lapse of a home on Wednes­day, they were now fear­ful for their lives as their prop­er­ties con­tin­ue to show signs of weak­en­ing.

Wayne John­son, 35, of Canon Stroek Lane, Princes Town, has be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate In­di­ra Misir-Go­sine in the the Princes Town Mag­is­trates’ Court charged with pos­ses­sion of an il­le­gal gun and am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of firearm and am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life, and wound­ing with in­tent.

Small and medi­um-sized busi­ness­es, in­clud­ing ship­ping com­pa­nies and couri­ers, could be forced out of op­er­a­tion be­cause of in­ef­fi­cien­cies at the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion.

It has on­ly been two weeks since the start of the 2021/2022 aca­d­e­m­ic term, and Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly has al­ready ex­pressed con­cern about stu­dents not log­ging on to vir­tu­al class­es.

An em­ploy­ee of Kiss Bak­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed was killed af­ter his car was rid­dled with bul­lets while on his way home on Thurs­day night.