The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 17 new COVID cas­es bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 323. The death toll stands at 134. There are cur­rent­ly 40 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal, two of which are in ICU. One per­son has been dis­charged from hos­pi­tal while there have been 17 re­cov­ered com­mu­ni­ty cas­es.

A Ch­agua­nas ven­dor is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trate to­day charged with rob­bery and ag­gra­va­tion.
Shackille Pin­der, 20, was charged in con­nec­tion with an in­ci­dent that oc­curred on De­cem­ber 16th at Robin­son Street, Mon­strose, Ch­agua­nas where a woman was al­leged­ly robbed by a man with a firearm.
Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, it is al­leged that the as­sailant took the vic­tim’s cel­lu­lar phone and $1,000, then es­caped on foot. The ac­cused was ar­rest­ed on Jan­u­ary 21st af­ter of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed with­in the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Dis­trict by of­fi­cers of the Ch­agua­nas C.I.D. and the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Gang Unit.

Vot­ing in Mon­day’s bye-elec­tions for the seat of Cunu­pia on the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion start­ed off smooth­ly with a steady flow of vot­ers.  The cool morn­ing air and dry weath­er at­tract­ed a large fol­low­ing of most­ly mid­dle-aged and el­der­ly per­sons to cast their bal­lots. 

A 36-year-old man will ap­pear be­fore a Point Fortin Mag­is­trate to­day charged with mul­ti­ple of­fences af­ter be­ing stopped dur­ing a road traf­fic ex­er­cise.
Roul­stan Alexan­der, of Techi­er Vil­lage, Point Fortin, was ar­rest­ed by Point Fortin Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice (PFMP) on Jan­u­ary 24th at the Guapo Beach Fa­cil­i­ty and the Cap-De-Ville Junc­tion.

The two In­de­pen­dent can­di­dates seek­ing to wres­tle con­trol of the Hin­dus­tan/St Mary's elec­toral dis­trict from the PNM and UNC both say they are con­fi­dent of vic­to­ry.

Tu­na­puna Po­lice are ac­tive­ly search­ing for 15-year-old Is­rael Belle who was re­port­ed miss­ing by his fa­ther at 5 pm on Jan­u­ary 24th.
Is­rael, of Taude­saus, Cau­ra, was last seen at home around 7.30 am on Jan­u­ary 20th. Is­rael is of African de­scent, 5 feet tall and slim built. Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the where­abouts of Is­rael Belle is urged to con­tact the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion at 645-7573, or the po­lice hot­lines at 999, 555, or re­port via the TTPS’ Web­site or App.

A se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer, whilst on du­ty at a post in St James, was con­duct­ing a rou­tine pa­trol when he dis­cov­ered two men dead, just af­ter mid­night on Sun­day.

A teenag­er from Cen­tral Trinidad is feared to have drowned in the wa­ters of Mara­cas Bay on Sun­day.

An ed­u­ca­tor, a dis­ci­pli­nar­i­an, a long serv­ing pub­lic ser­vant, a min­is­ter, a com­mu­ni­ty and so­cial ac­tivist, a sports­man, a pho­tog­ra­ph­er, a lov­ing hus­band and fa­ther…

At least 75 peo­ple were mo­men­tar­i­ly de­tained by po­lice of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) and of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, af­ter of­fi­cers swooped down on the pop­u­lar Res­i­dence night­club in One Wood­brook place just be­fore mid­night on Sun­day.

Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), Dr. David Lee, says vot­er turnout in five dis­tricts for the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Bye-elec­tions have been slow.

For­mer Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) mem­ber, Dr. Denise Tsoiat­faff-An­gus, says she is "at peace" with her de­ci­sion to be­come an in­de­pen­dent can­di­date.