The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 47 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours. The to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es now stands at 466. There are cur­rent­ly 54 pa­tients in hos­pi­tal, 5 of which are in ICU and one in HDU. The num­ber of COVID re­lat­ed deaths stands at 145. The num­ber of per­sons vac­ci­nat­ed so far is 6219. There is an er­ror in the Min­istry of Health Graph­ic.

Two po­lice of­fi­cers ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate (Ag) Bramb­hanan Dubay at the Ari­ma First Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day charged with three counts of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

The Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots(PDP) says it is set­ting up an al­ter­na­tive Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil from Mon­day, April 12 us­ing ‘Len- Hand’ – an an­ces­tral com­mu­ni­ty-based sys­tem, giv­ing per­sons with­in an area the op­por­tu­ni­ty to share and help each oth­er.

Fol­low­ing the ex­plo­sion and fire at its gas-to-liq­uids plant this week, Cari­CRIS (Caribbean In­for­ma­tion & Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed), the re­gion’s cred­it rat­ing agency, has ad­just­ed the cred­it rat­ing for Ni­Quan En­er­gy Trinidad Lim­it­ed to Rat­ing Watch – De­vel­op­ing sta­tus.

An an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in Pe­tit Val­ley led to the seizure of a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na, am­mu­ni­tion, cam­ou­flage cloth­ing, and a bul­let­proof vest.

A se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer sta­tioned at a fast-food out­let in Mar­aval was shot and wound­ed, af­ter he con­front­ed four men dressed in cloth­ing re­sem­bling po­lice uni­forms, as they car­ried out a rob­bery.

In the week lead­ing up to the East­er long hol­i­day week­end, over 50,000 peo­ple trav­elled be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go, both on the air and sea bridge.

An­tho­ny Mills, a 21-year-old man of Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, Sea Lots, ap­peared be­fore Jus­tice of the Peace Abra­ham Ali yes­ter­day charged with pos­ses­sion of co­caine for traf­fick­ing, ob­scene lan­guage, and re­sist­ing ar­rest. He was grant­ed $100,000 bail.

Neil Dougdeen, a 40-year-old Val­sayn busi­ness­man was grant­ed $80,000 bail when he ap­peared be­fore Jus­tice of the Peace Stephen Young yes­ter­day, charged with two counts of fraud. The mat­ter was ad­journed to May 5th 2021 and trans­ferred to the Port of Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court.

Four of the of­fi­cers in­volved in a now-con­tro­ver­sial traf­fic stop with the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er's daugh­ter and son-in-law have been trans­ferred from the Cou­va CID.

Caribbean Air­lines has can­celled flights to and from St. Vin­cent on Sat­ur­day 10th April due to the ac­tiv­i­ty of the La Soufriere Vol­cano. The can­celled flights are:

The shoot­ing is said to have tak­en place around 5 am to­day, Fri­day 9 April 2021.  Richards re­port­ed­ly was shot sev­er­al times and tak­en to the Point Fortin hos­pi­tal by the po­lice, where at­tempts were made to re­sus­ci­tate him.