T&T has been placed ahead of all the oth­er coun­tries of the Caribbean in the World Bank’s Hu­man Cap­i­tal In­dex (HCI).

The Bar­keep­ers and Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BOATT) is re­fut­ing analy­sis that seems to sug­gest the re­cent spike in COVID-19 cas­es in this coun­try, came as a re­sult of the re­port­ed “last lap” event.

Two branch­es of Sco­tia­bank have been closed tem­porar­i­ly and en­hanced health and safe­ty pro­to­cols im­ple­ment­ed, fol­low­ing con­fir­ma­tion of a COVID-19 pos­i­tive case at each lo­ca­tion.

Three men were ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of co­caine and mar­i­jua­na by of­fi­cers in the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (SDTF), dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Sat­ur­day 19 Sep­tem­ber 2020.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has is­sued a Miss­ing Per­sons Alert for a 17-year-old girl from En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas.

Four per­sons were ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of cannabis, and a sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ty of the drug found, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day, Sat­ur­day 19 Sep­tem­ber 2020.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty ad­vis­es that de­silt­ing works cur­rent­ly un­der­way at the Cau­ra Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant, are ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed by 6:00 pm, to­day, Sun­day 20th Sep­tem­ber 2020.

Three more COVID-19 pa­tients have suc­cumbed to the dis­ease, bring­ing the na­tion­al death toll to 64.

A Trinida­di­an and a Venezue­lan na­tion­al have been ar­rest­ed in Ari­ma, af­ter po­lice re­port­ed­ly dis­cov­ered a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na in the ve­hi­cle in which they were trav­el­ling.

Vashist Per­sad, 28, is a na­tion­al schol­ar­ship win­ner who is among thou­sands of T&T na­tion­als strand­ed abroad.

In the midst of the gloom of the pan­dem­ic, one T&T writer has found rea­son to cel­e­brate. Bren­da Mo­hammed re­ceived the Prashamshith Pathr (Cer­tifi­cate of Ap­pre­ci­a­tion) from one of the world’s most ac­tive writ­ers’ fo­rum, Mo­ti­va­tion­al Strips, and the In­di­an gov­ern­ment’s most re­spect­ed lit­er­ary in­sti­tu­tion, Gu­jarat Sahitya Acad­e­my. It was award­ed to 350 promi­nent writ­ers from 80 coun­tries as In­dia marked its 74th In­de­pen­dence Day on Au­gust 15.

With the threat of the nov­el coro­n­avirus, deep clean­ing has tak­en on a pub­lic health ur­gency as schools, gov­ern­ment of­fices, bars, restau­rants, gyms and oth­er busi­ness­es try to deal with the pan­dem­ic. This led to the emer­gence of dozens of new busi­ness­es of­fer­ing sani­ti­sa­tion and dis­in­fec­tion ser­vices.