The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) is ad­vis­ing that weath­er con­di­tions to­day will be rough, with thun­der­storms de­vel­op­ing in some parts of the coun­try.

An AR-15 ri­fle and a pis­tol were among sev­er­al items seized by of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Cunu­pia dis­trict, yes­ter­day.

These lat­est COVID-19 pos­i­tive cas­es brings the of­fi­cial to­tal num­ber of in­fect­ed per­sons to 180, since the out­break be­gan ear­li­er this year.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go has moved to put in place stricter health and safe­ty mea­sures, to mit­i­gate the risk of COVID-19 spread at the na­tion’s air­ports.

An­oth­er pri­ma­ry school had to be shut down on Fri­day af­ter the par­ent of a Stan­dard Five pupil was con­firmed to have con­tract­ed the virus. Of­fi­cials at Char­lieville AS­JA Pri­ma­ry School or­dered the im­me­di­ate sus­pen­sion of SEA class­es on Fri­day af­ter they were in­formed of the mat­ter.

Al­though the Afro-Trinida­di­ans have moved away from whip­pings, rapes and lynch­ings at the hands of their slave mas­ters, 182 years lat­er, Eman­ci­pa­tion has not seen them hold the reigns of eco­nom­ic pow­er.Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment vice-chair­man Robert Le Hunte said this is not be­cause they are lazy and lack busi­ness acu­men, but be­cause they are sub­ject­ed to sys­tem­at­ic so­ci­etal is­sues.“We have to move away from say­ing black peo­ple are lazy or black peo­ple can­not do busi­ness. We have to de­bunk our­selves from this sim­plis­tic con­ver­sa­tion,” Le Hunte said.

A poll done on the mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy of St Joseph by HHB and As­so­ciates shows the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date Ter­rence Deyals­ingh slight­ly ahead of Ahloy Hunt of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), with 74 per cent of the re­spon­dents who vot­ed for the PNM in 2015 say­ing they in­tend to sup­port the in­cum­bent com­pared to 53 per cent favour­ing the UNC’s can­di­date.

As the in­cum­bent took his cam­paign through the streets of their com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day, res­i­dents of Bel­mont list­ed crime and the state of the econ­o­my as the is­sues that would in­flu­ence their vote in the Au­gust 10 elec­tion.

As he ex­tend­ed best wish­es to the Afro-Trinida­di­an com­mu­ni­ty on the oc­ca­sion of Eman­ci­pa­tion Day yes­ter­day, Oropouche East can­di­date Dr Roodal Mooni­lal said the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is proud of its track record in deal­ing with racism. Dur­ing a mo­tor­cade in Debe yes­ter­day, Mooni­lal not­ed the con­tri­bu­tions of African de­scen­dants to T&T and the Caribbean.“From the con­ti­nent of Africa, we have re­ceived a great amount of wis­dom and sci­ence. We al­so salute the con­ti­nent of Africa for their chil­dren. Notwith­stand­ing 186 years, we al­so note that dis­crim­i­na­tion and in­jus­tice con­tin­ue, not on­ly in Trinidad and To­ba­go but across the world.

A 26-year old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Siparia Mag­is­trate on Au­gust 3rd, charged for pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

A 52-year-old house­wife of Cunu­pia will ap­pear be­fore a Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trate on Au­gust 3rd charged with sell­ing in­tox­i­cat­ing liquor with­out a liquor li­cense.

Ron Paul a 33 old year res­i­dent of Beetham Gar­dens, was ar­rest­ed and charged for ma­li­cious wound­ing on Ju­ly 28th.