Mul­ti­lat­er­al pow­er­hous­es the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank and the World Bank, have start­ed dis­cussing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of join­ing forces to help T&T com­bat its cur­rent eco­nom­ic hard­ships.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) is ac­tive­ly search­ing for sup­pli­ers of a key in­gre­di­ent to the COVID-19 test­ing process amidst a glob­al short­age but says its has cov­er for at least the next three weeks.

Large lo­cal busi­ness will sur­vive the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. That is the as­sur­ance giv­en by Ger­vais Warn­er, pres­i­dent and chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of Massy Hold­ings.

Ag Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Den­nis Pul­chan is cur­rent­ly prepar­ing a list of pris­on­ers who are most like­ly to be re­leased as a mea­sure to min­imise a pos­si­ble out­break of the COVID-19 virus with­in the prison sys­tem. How­ev­er, Pul­chan said last evening he would not have a to­tal just yet as he is still com­plet­ing his re­search.

More than 400 cus­tomers, many of whom were pen­sion­ers seek­ing to change their cheques, were at­tend­ed to at one com­mer­cial bank in San Fer­nan­do on Day 3 of the Stay-at-Home mea­sures.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley con­firmed he’s been test­ed for COVID-19 and the test re­sult was neg­a­tive. He gave the con­fir­ma­tion at yes­ter­day’s me­dia brief­ing up­dat­ing the coun­try on the COVID-19 sit­u­a­tion.

Over 200 Unit­ed States (US) cit­i­zens and per­ma­nent res­i­dents were yes­ter­day repa­tri­at­ed. 

Some busi­ness­es around the coun­try have been do­ing their part to en­sure their em­ploy­ees who are re­quired to work dur­ing this par­tial shut down of the coun­try are well equipped to deal with the chal­lenges.

The T&T Postal Cor­po­ra­tion (TTPost) ad­vised yes­ter­day that it is one of the mea­sures an­nounced by TTPost, in light of the COVID-19 virus.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 2 am res­i­dents of St John’s Road, Up­per St Barb’s, Bel­mont heard rapid hear­ing gun­fire.

This was the plea from Crime Watch video­g­ra­ph­er David Crichlow who fears his fam­i­ly may be at­tacked af­ter a vi­ral voice note be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing, stat­ing that he and his fam­i­ly had spread COVID-19 in Mafek­ing, Ma­yaro.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ad­vis­ing cit­i­zens to re­main vig­i­lant about their safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty at home, even as they obey the cur­rent COVID-19 reg­u­la­tions and stay-at-home or­ders.