The staff of the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T are grow­ing in­creas­ing­ly con­cerned about their de­layed salary pay­ments which have been on­go­ing for the third con­sec­u­tive month.

An au­dit of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion’s (PSA) fi­nances, or­dered by the High Court in Jan­u­ary 2020, has re­port­ed over­spend­ing that ex­ceed­ed its in­come by $6.3 mil­lion in the last four years, ques­tion­able pro­cure­ment prac­tices, as well as a pen­sion plan in lim­bo. It al­so flagged an un­usu­al­ly high fre­quen­cy of re­im­burse­ments to PSA Pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke.

On Thurs­day, Speak­er Bridgid An­nisette-George presided over an ex­tra­or­di­nary sit­ting of the House, fol­lowed by a meet­ing of the Elec­toral Col­lege to deal with an im­peache­ment mo­tion to re­move Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes.

Se­wa In­ter­na­tion­al TT (Se­wa TT) is do­nat­ing 1,000 KN95 Masks to every sec­ondary school in Trinidad and To­ba­go, a to­tal of 184,000 masks, over the next three weeks to the 184 sec­ondary schools in the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem.

Four­teen days! That's the dead­line giv­en to Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan yes­ter­day by protest­ing Pe­nal res­i­dents to re­pair the roads in their com­mu­ni­ty. March­ing with plac­ards from a land­slide at La For­tune Pluck Road to a ma­jor land­slide at San Fran­cique Main Road, Pe­nal, scores of res­i­dents, sev­er­al with plac­ards, called on the min­is­ter to ur­gent­ly fix their roads.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 7 pm, two armed men am­bushed Mar­tin Dou­glas and opened fire on him be­fore run­ning away.

An­oth­er six peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 234 more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

The In­ten­sive Care Units (ICUs) and High De­pen­den­cy Units (HDUs) at the na­tion's COVID-19 treat­ment fa­cil­i­ties are ap­proach­ing ca­pac­i­ty as more se­vere­ly and crit­i­cal­ly ill pa­tients are be­ing ad­mit­ted.

The coun­try has en­tered in­to the In­fluen­za (Flu) sea­son but as the Min­istry of Health rolled out its vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve for this virus, which is run­ning si­mul­ta­ne­ous to its COVID-19 im­mu­niza­tion dri­ve, there can be some un­cer­tain­ty of how these shots should be tak­en.

The coun­try's COVID-19 death toll now stands at 1,639 af­ter six more peo­ple in­fect­ed with the dis­ease died.

The East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (ER­HA) is ad­vis­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic of ad­just­ment to ser­vices of­fered at its health cen­tres at Matelot and To­co.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has dis­con­tin­ued the Ad­verse Weath­er Alert/YEL­LOW Lev­el, which had been in ef­fect for much of this week.