The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) says the han­tavirus out­break linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship in­volves the An­des virus strain, which is ca­pa­ble of lim­it­ed hu­man-to-hu­man trans­mis­sion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has en­dorsed the open­ing of the Brechin Cas­tle Agro-Pro­cess­ing Fa­cil­i­ty in Cou­va, stat­ing that the project can sup­port SME growth, food se­cu­ri­ty and ex­port de­vel­op­ment.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has de­fend­ed the Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) is­sued for a ho­tel de­vel­op­ment project in To­ba­go, which fol­lowed a re­view process un­der the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Act and the CEC Rules.

The Min­istry of Health is warn­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic not to share a fake memo cir­cu­lat­ing on­line, which false­ly claims to an­nounce the tem­po­rary clo­sure of schools.

Po­lice of­fi­cers at­tached to the North­ern Di­vi­sion de­stroyed 65 cannabis trees, seized cannabis and ar­rest­ed one man dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in Mal­oney and St Joseph on Sun­day.

Rur­al com­mu­ni­ties such as Matu­ra and To­co can no longer as­sume they are im­mune from crime be­cause crim­i­nals are adapt­ing and tar­get­ing vul­ner­a­ble coastal ar­eas, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent has warned.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, in his re­turn to the White House, has demon­strat­ed greater am­biva­lence to­ward Tai­wan, an ap­proach that’s rais­ing ques­tions ahead of this week’s sum­mit with Chi­nese Pres­i­dent Xi Jin­ping about whether the U.S. leader could be open to di­alling back sup­port for the is­land democ­ra­cy that Bei­jing views as its break­away province.

Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad has been ap­point­ed chair­man of the Board of Gov­er­nors of the Na­tion­al In­sti­tute of High­er Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (NI­HERST).

A shoot­ing in Arou­ca on Sun­day night led to the wound­ing of three peo­ple, in­clud­ing one man who is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s help in iden­ti­fy­ing a woman who was knocked down along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way in Aranguez ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

As hun­dreds of dri­vers faced an ear­ly morn­ing grid­lock dri­ving in­to Port-of-Spain, af­ter a woman was fa­tal­ly struck cross­ing the high­way in El So­cor­ro on Mon­day morn­ing, the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion said it is tem­porar­i­ly open­ing of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) to light mo­tor ve­hi­cles to­day from Ma­coya to Port of Spain in the west­bound di­rec­tion on­ly.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has lost an­oth­er mem­ber of its se­nior lead­er­ship team. Nichelle Grander­son, the Hu­man Re­sources Vice Pres­i­dent, stepped down on Fri­day af­ter serv­ing in the role for on­ly four months.