With im­ages of el­der­ly peo­ple with­stand­ing rain and sun to get vac­ci­nat­ed dom­i­nat­ing the news last week, coun­cil­lors at the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (PF­BC) are tak­ing charge of get­ting their se­nior mem­bers to their ap­point­ment.

High-rank­ing Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials are cur­rent­ly in dis­cus­sions with their coun­ter­parts in the Unit­ed States to work out how this coun­try could ac­cess the mil­lions of COVID-19 vac­cines be­ing do­nat­ed by the US.

These were the at­trib­ut­es dis­played by over 150 vol­un­teers who vac­ci­nat­ed 10,700 peo­ple dur­ing the “Vac­ci­nate to Op­er­ate” mass vac­ci­na­tion dri­ves.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 10 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed deaths. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 747. There are cur­rent­ly 465 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The Min­istry has al­so record­ed 148 new cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 8148.

Caribbean Air­lines is ex­pect­ed to send home a quar­ter of its em­ploy­ees across its re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al net­work—some 450 work­ers in to­tal.

The fe­male sus­pect held in con­nec­tion with the dis­ap­pear­ance of Princes Town res­i­dent Kadi­jah Fla­ment is now be­ing treat­ed at the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal.

Fam­i­ly is a pri­or­i­ty says Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith, who’s still fi­nal­is­ing his de­ci­sion to ap­ply for the CoP job ahead— par­tic­u­lar­ly since he and his fam­i­ly have re­ceived 28 death threats in his three-year tour of du­ty.

While the de­ci­sion on whether he is reap­point­ed lies ex­clu­sive­ly with the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC), Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has got­ten a thumb’s up for his per­for­mance in of­fice by some.

Five more peo­ple died from the OVID-19 virus over the week­end and an­oth­er 106 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive, the Min­istry of Health said in its dai­ly re­port yes­ter­day.

Gavi, the vac­cine al­liance, has con­firmed that Trinidad and To­ba­go does not qual­i­fy for a share of the 500 mil­lion vac­cines promised by the Unit­ed States to the CO­V­AX fa­cil­i­ty.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is not part of the Caribbean trav­el bub­ble ex­pect­ed to the in­sti­tut­ed at the end of the month in Bar­ba­dos.

Sev­er­al peo­ple, in­clud­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer cur­rent­ly on sus­pen­sion, were ar­rest­ed by po­lice for var­i­ous of­fences in sev­er­al Op­er­a­tion Strike Back ex­er­cis­es on Sat­ur­day in Cen­tral, El So­cor­ro and Care­nage.