The CNC3 News will be­gin at 8 pm tonight in­stead of the reg­u­lar 7 pm start time, in or­der to ac­com­mo­date Olympic cov­er­age.

While Gov­ern­ment com­mits to re­open­ing more sec­tors of the econ­o­my as vac­ci­na­tions against COVID-19 in­crease, some busi­ness own­ers are un­sure whether they can re­open and, if they do, sus­tain their busi­ness­es.

Marathon­er and sprint­er Er­rol Ho­sein loved and lived for run­ning. Known as a fit­ness fa­nat­ic in his San­gre Grande home­town, 53-year-old Ho­sein won many races in his life­time- his medals tes­ta­ment of his en­durance, grit, de­ter­mi­na­tion and suc­cess on the track or des­ig­nat­ed course.

Po­lice said Fraud Squad de­tec­tives were pro­ceed­ing along the north­bound lane of the Uri­ah But­ler High­way near the Ca­roni Fly­over when they ob­served a sil­ver Toy­ota Rav 4 be­ing dri­ven in an er­rat­ic man­ner.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says the Gov­ern­ment can­not do it alone in en­sur­ing all cit­i­zens get vac­ci­nat­ed and made an­oth­er plea for peo­ple to come for­ward and get vac­ci­nat­ed.

Mem­bers of the Hin­du com­mu­ni­ty are again crit­i­cis­ing what they claim to be the un­law­ful re­stric­tion of the right of Hin­dus to cre­mate their de­ceased in an open pyre.

A num­ber of cit­i­zens whose rel­a­tives died from COVID-19 in hos­pi­tals are con­tem­plat­ing ac­tion against Gov­ern­ment via the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion law to get full dis­clo­sure on man­age­ment of their rel­a­tives and their deaths.

For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has con­clud­ed an of­fi­cial vis­it to Mex­i­co City, Mex­i­co to at­tend the 21st Meet­ing of Meet­ing of Min­is­ters of For­eign Af­fairs of the Com­mu­ni­ty of Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al of the All Trinidad Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union (AT­GW­TU) Nir­van Ma­haraj has said that while he is not a sup­port­er of manda­to­ry vac­ci­na­tion at this time and be­lieves it is a ques­tion of per­son­al choice, he is en­cour­ag­ing all his mem­bers to be­come vac­ci­nat­ed once the op­por­tu­ni­ty aris­es.

Chair­man of the To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber Mar­tin George is call­ing up­on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and by ex­ten­sion, the Gov­ern­ment to re­turn all flights be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go to full ca­pac­i­ty and to take steps to rec­ti­fy the sit­u­a­tion as soon as pos­si­ble.

The T&T Gov­ern­ment must take in­to ac­count the tens of thou­sands of Venezue­lan mi­grants in its de­vel­op­ment strat­e­gy, ac­cord­ing to for­mer Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship min­is­ter and Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) prin­ci­pal, Dr Bhoe Tewarie.

De­tec­tives at the Port-of-Spain Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) be­lieve they have made in­roads in­to an on­line rob­bery ring fol­low­ing the ar­rest of an­oth­er sus­pect.