A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer from To­ba­go, who was retroac­tive­ly pro­mot­ed by Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith af­ter fil­ing a law­suit against his (Grif­fith) han­dling of pro­mo­tions, has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in his lit­i­ga­tion. 

Speak­ing at a vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence host­ed by the Min­istry of Health, yes­ter­day morn­ing, Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (DMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram in­di­cat­ed that the min­istry was await­ing the re­sults of epi­demi­o­log­i­cal in­ves­ti­ga­tions to de­ter­mine whether the in­fec­tions of at least two of the four lat­est cas­es, were caused by re­cent trav­el his­to­ry or by com­ing in­to con­tact with a pre­vi­ous­ly con­firmed case. 

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is an­gri­ly pur­su­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in which mem­bers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice and the T&T De­fence Force were record­ed al­leged­ly forc­ing street dwellers to con­sume al­co­hol and then ex­er­cise un­der duress.

One mem­ber of a group of T&T cit­i­zens left strand­ed in Suri­name has writ­ten to Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young seek­ing an ex­emp­tion to this coun­try’s on­go­ing trav­el re­stric­tions due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. 

Cou­va North MP Ra­mona Ram­di­al has com­plained that the process to dis­trib­ute food cards to the par­ents of school chil­dren who get meals from the school feed­ing pro­gramme is too slow and bogged down in bu­reau­cra­cy.

A day af­ter the prime min­is­ter held a unit­ed prayer ses­sion with re­li­gious lead­ers, Pres­by­ter­ian Min­is­ter Rev Daniel Teelucks­ingh called for cit­i­zens to con­tin­ue to ex­press faith in God to as­sist them in deal­ing with COVID-19.

Land­grab­bers have been giv­en a warn­ing that they will face pros­e­cu­tion and fines if they use the COVID-19 stay-at-home pe­ri­od to build il­le­gal struc­tures on State land.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) is call­ing on the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) to reign in it se­cu­ri­ty con­trac­tor, Amal­ga­mat­ed Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices Ltd (ASSL) af­ter its es­tate con­sta­bles as­sault­ed jour­nal­ists at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal last Wednes­day.

A po­lice of­fi­cer was in­jured in an ac­ci­dent that oc­curred in Pi­ar­co on Sun­day night, which in­volved a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle.

The lat­est in­ter­na­tion­al de­vel­op­ments with the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, col­lat­ed from the BBC, CBC CNN, NBC and Reuters.

The Vic­tim and Wit­ness Sup­port Unit (VW­SU) says it has been prepar­ing for the an­tic­i­pat­ed in­creas­es in home in­va­sions and do­mes­tic vi­o­lence, as the next few weeks sees the coun­try locked down dur­ing the Stay at Home or­der an­nounced by the Gov­ern­ment, in its at­tempt to flat­ten the curve against the com­mu­ni­ty spread of COVID-19,

Ac­cord­ing to the March 30 state­ment from the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA), of the 31 per­sons test­ed, three are pos­i­tive.