Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says at least three se­nior of­fi­cers from the La Hor­quet­ta Po­lice Sta­tion were in­volved in the re­turn of over $22 mil­lion to the Drugs Sou Sou (DSS) pyra­mid scheme.

A con­tin­gent of po­lice of­fi­cers searched parts of the Biche dis­trict and for­est for kid­napped busi­ness­woman Mary Ali but came out emp­ty-hand­ed.

Strand­ed na­tion­al Michael Quow is beg­ging the T&T Gov­ern­ment to bring him back home say­ing, “If I have to die please let me die in my home­land.”

Ea­ger to en­sure that chil­dren with­out elec­tric­i­ty do not fall through the cracks, a San Fer­nan­do en­tre­pre­neur has de­vised so­lar en­er­gy pack­ages for on­line class­es.

The coun­try’s COVID-19 death toll now stands at 70 af­ter three peo­ple suc­cumbed to the virus yes­ter­day, the Min­istry of Health con­firmed.

The blar­ing of speak­ers ad­ver­tis­ing hot deals, pedes­tri­ans bustling up and down the pave­ment and taxi dri­vers shout­ing “one to go” was syn­ony­mous with down­town San Fer­nan­do.

The dis­charge cri­te­ria for COVID-19 pa­tients has shift­ed away from a di­ag­nos­tic test (PCR) to a clin­i­cal dis­charge based on symp­toms al­most one month ago. How­ev­er, sev­er­al re­ports reach­ing Guardian Me­dia in­di­cate that some em­ploy­ers are re­fus­ing to al­low re­cov­ered COVID-19 pa­tients re­turn to work un­less a neg­a­tive PCR test re­sult is pro­duced- some­thing the Min­istry of Health would not be pro­vid­ing. Some em­ploy­ees said they were even asked to pay some $1,600 for a pri­vate test out-of-pock­et.

San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Chair­man, Anil Juter­am yes­ter­day wel­comed and ex­tend­ed the olive branch to the new­ly-ap­point­ed PNM MP for To­co San­gre Grande Roger Mon­roe.

Cit­i­zens are un­der siege by crim­i­nals in Oropouche West and all cit­i­zens’ lives are more valu­able than the Prime Min­is­ter’s pea­cock, UNC Oropouche West Dev Tan­coo ar­gued yes­ter­day. He said, “The res­i­dents of Tul­sa Trace, San Fran­cique re­cent­ly high­light­ed that they are liv­ing in fear due to an up­surge of crime in their neigh­bour­hoods.”

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment, Camille Robin­son-Reg­is MP, says land de­vel­op­ers whose projects re­sult in de­struc­tion of nat­ur­al habi­tats and wors­en­ing of the flood­ing sit­u­a­tion in the coun­try, could face the long arm of the law.

The Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion has called on the Se­nior Dis­as­ter Co­or­di­na­tor in the Min­istry of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment to ex­plain to res­i­dents of the area who have been af­fect­ed by floods, how they should adapt to flood­ing.

As a heart­bro­ken Kearell Neils pre­pares to leave Guade­loupe for Bar­ba­dos in hopes of reach­ing clos­er to home, the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty re­spond­ed to her re­quest for an ex­emp­tion.