The Court of Ap­peal has ruled that a law, that gives prospec­tive lawyers from T&T, who com­plet­ed their post-grad­u­ate qual­i­fi­ca­tions in the Unit­ed King­dom, a short-cut in­to the le­gal pro­fes­sion over Cari­com na­tion­als is nei­ther dis­crim­i­na­to­ry nor un­con­sti­tu­tion­al. 

Of­fi­cial po­lice re­ports state that AN­CHARD HO­SEIN (aka “Rocky”) was charged yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing af­ter ad­vice re­ceived from Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Ms Joan Hon­ore-Paul.

The Siparia Dis­trict Court has been closed to­day, and will re­main so un­til fur­ther no­tice, af­ter news that a staff mem­ber may have been ex­posed to the coro­n­avirus.

Five per­sons have been de­tained by po­lice in con­nec­tion with the dis­cov­ery of an il­le­gal firearm in Diego Mar­tin.

As the num­ber of COVID-19 cas­es via com­mu­ni­ty spread con­tin­ue to rise, there are more calls for Pres­i­dent Weekes to use her of­fice to en­sure post­pone­ment of the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, sched­uled for Mon­day 10 Au­gust 2020.

These lat­est COVID-19 pos­i­tive cas­es brings the of­fi­cial to­tal num­ber of in­fect­ed per­sons to 169, since the out­break be­gan ear­li­er this year.

De­spite an in­crease in lo­cal­ly spread COVID-19 cas­es, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion will go on.

With the grow­ing per­cep­tion that Venezue­lans are re­spon­si­ble for T&T's sec­ond wave of COVID-19 spread, hu­man rights ac­tivists say land­lords are now evict­ing mi­grants over the fear of pros­e­cu­tion by the State.
As a re­sult, TTV Sol­i­dar­i­ty Net­work di­rec­tor Hei­di Diquez is call­ing on Gov­ern­ment to end the per­se­cu­tion of Venezue­lan mi­grants, whom she said are now fear­ing their lives.

Af­ter Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes re­ject­ed the Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty's re­quest for post­pone­ment of the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the par­ty has again asked the Pres­i­dent to re­con­sid­er af­ter yes­ter­day's news of eight more COVID-19 cas­es.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith has post­poned the Com­mis­sion­er’s Cup due to the re­fusal by the Min­istry of Health to al­low medics, coach­es, se­cu­ri­ty or sub­sti­tutes to par­tic­i­pate in the event due to COVID-19 re­stric­tions.

As the fear of the re­cent uptick in lo­calised COVID-19 cas­es con­tin­ued to fu­el de­bate on whether the Gov­ern­ment should again lock down the coun­try, the Min­istry of Health yes­ter­day re­port­ed eight new cas­es, the high­est dai­ly count since the virus hit Trinidad and To­ba­go’s shores.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s St Joseph cam­paign team is seek­ing po­lice in­ter­ven­tion for the safe­ty of St Joseph can­di­date Ter­rence Deyals­ingh and ac­tivists af­ter al­leg­ing that crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty and cor­rupt prac­tices played out a re­cent in­ci­dent in Bangladesh, St Joseph.