With Mon­day’s In­di­an Ar­rival Day ex­tend­ed day­light cur­few hours la­belled a suc­cess, where T&T was vir­tu­al­ly at a stand­still and hard­ly any peo­ple were out and about, some mem­bers of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty are say­ing they will sup­port Gov­ern­ment if it de­cides to ex­tend cur­few hours on week­ends as a way for­ward to flat­ten the curve dur­ing the cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The de­com­pos­ing body of a 60-year-old man was dis­cov­ered at his home at Dass Trace in En­ter­prise on Tues­day.

Sol­dier Ja­maal Blake was re­mand­ed in prison for 120 days af­ter he ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mag­is­trate Mau­reen Ba­boolal-Gafoor Tues­day at the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court, af­ter be­ing charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm, two counts of pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, breach of quar­an­tine, and breach of cur­few.

A 40-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer was de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mag­is­trate Mau­reen Gafoor at the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court, charged with al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly pen­e­trat­ing his two daugh­ters. He was charged with 18 counts of sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion - nine counts for each child.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so is­sued a state­ment to mark the oc­ca­sion of Cor­pus Christi to­day. Here is her full state­ment:

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is urg­ing cit­i­zens to ad­here to the word, “Dis­ci­pline,” in our na­tion­al watch­words and fol­low the pro­to­cols of the Min­istry of Health so that this coun­try can soon be on the road to be­com­ing COVID-free.

The 2020 three-part in­ves­tiga­tive video doc­u­men­tary ti­tled: TTFA’s Se­cret Pana­ma Canal Trail, re­searched and writ­ten by Guardian Me­dia’s Lead Ed­i­tor of the In­ves­tiga­tive Desk Mark Bas­sant, heaped to the top ten in best in­ves­tiga­tive sto­ries short­list­ed for the In­ter­na­tion­al Sports Press As­so­ci­a­tion’s Sports Me­dia Awards. (AIPS).

A 48-year-old La Brea man was shot while fight­ing with a gun­man who robbed him of a gold chain on Tues­day.

The in­for­ma­tion was re­port­ed to Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram and Min­istry of Health of­fi­cials by south busi­ness­man Clint Ar­joon yes­ter­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a break-in at the Mt Mer­chard­ec Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist Church in La Brea where sev­er­al items, in­clud­ing a bag of cur­tains, were stolen.

Po­lice de­stroyed 107 mar­i­jua­na trees dur­ing a "sea breeze" an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion on Tues­day.

With the rapid in­crease in COVID cas­es across the coun­try, one pri­vate lab says it will not be sur­prised if more peo­ple are be­ing in­fect­ed by vari­ants of the virus.