Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Win­ford James says the Gov­ern­ment can go to Par­lia­ment to ask for an ex­ten­sion of the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion if the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic turns in­to a na­tion­al cri­sis. His com­ments came days af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley in an ra­dio in­ter­view said the safe­ty of cit­i­zens dur­ing the COVID-19 threat will take pri­or­i­ty over the tim­ing of this year’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

A to­tal of 19,363 Stan­dard Five stu­dents were sup­posed to have writ­ten the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am Thurs­day.

Much like their coun­ter­parts around the world, To­ba­go hote­liers are fac­ing the full eco­nom­ic im­pact of COVID-19, said Chris James- Pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion(TH­TA).

It’s been 20 days since this coun­try record­ed its first case of the COVID-19 virus. Since then, the cas­es have been climb­ing.

Mass so­cial up­heaval will take place if em­ploy­ers con­tin­ue to take ad­van­tage of work­ers by forc­ing them to pro­ceed on no-pay leave, un­paid va­ca­tion or re­trench­ment says pres­i­dent of the Fed­er­a­tion of In­de­pen­dent Trade Unions Joseph Re­my.

An uniden­ti­fied man was killed dur­ing an al­leged po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Va­len­cia on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) is urg­ing those es­sen­tial busi­ness­es that are cur­rent­ly op­er­at­ing un­der the new Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions for COVID-19, to en­sure that their cus­tomers prac­tice so­cial / phys­i­cal dis­tanc­ing both in­side and out­side their busi­ness­es.

Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons (Ag) Den­nis Pul­chan cur­rent­ly is prepar­ing a list of in­mates that are most like­ly to be re­leased from the na­tion's pris­ons, as a mea­sure to min­imise the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

Peo­ple who are cur­rent­ly out­side Trinidad and To­ba­go should stay out to pre­vent a sec­ond or a pos­si­ble third wave of COVID- 19 cas­es, says Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor Dr Joy St John.

Mere hours af­ter the Min­istry of Health an­nounced the na­tion's fourth death from the COVID-19 virus came news Wednes­day morn­ing of a fifth death.

The Ju­di­cia­ry has re­port­ed that it has ex­pand­ed video con­fer­enc­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ty in the pris­ons, to en­sure that the op­er­a­tions of the jus­tice sys­tem con­tin­ue run smooth­ly dur­ing the cur­rent COVID-19 cri­sis.

The heads of pris­ons across the Caribbean have tak­en a de­ci­sion to re­lease spe­cif­ic pris­on­ers to re­duce the prison pop­u­la­tion in light of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.