The num­ber of peo­ple who have died from COVID-19 in T&T has risen to 60, with the pass­ing of two more pa­tients yes­ter­day.

Peo­ple who have been placed in home quar­an­tine, es­pe­cial­ly those who have test COVID-19 pos­i­tive, will be mon­i­tored by the Po­lice Ser­vice’s Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol (ERP) ve­hi­cles and oth­er pa­trols in all nine polic­ing di­vi­sions, to en­sure they abide by the stip­u­la­tions of their quar­an­tine.

The “dou­ble-dip­ping” which oc­curred among some Salary Re­lief Grant ap­pli­cants shows that peo­ple are “a bit des­per­ate.”

The Cabo Star will re­main as the car­go ves­sel in op­er­a­tion along on the seabridge be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go for an ad­di­tion­al two years.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing book pub­lish­ers are threat­en­ing to sue the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, and even teach­ers, for re­pro­duc­ing school books dur­ing on­line learn­ing and to dis­trib­ute among learn­ing pack­ages to those with­out com­put­ers.

The de­ceased broth­ers have been iden­ti­fied as Stephon Springer, 33, of Zir­con Av­enue, Bon Air West, Arou­ca and Ja­son Springer, 22, of the same ad­dress.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s School Feed­ing Pro­gramme has been tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed and trans­ferred to the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment.

A man cru­sad­ing as “The Re­sis­tance”, who de­faced sev­er­al build­ings in Port-of-Spain and al­leged­ly set the Min­istry of Health on fire in a cam­paign against COVID-19 mea­sures has been ar­rest­ed and charged.

Pri­vate preschools across the coun­try have been lay­ing off staff, clos­ing per­ma­nent­ly and even have their busi­ness­es be­ing levied on by banks for de­fault­ing on loans as a re­sult of re­stric­tions as­so­ci­at­ed with COVID-19.

In­dus­tri­al Court pres­i­dent Deb­o­rah Thomas-Fe­lix has warned em­ploy­ers against wrong­ful­ly ter­mi­nat­ing work­ers, who fall ill or have fam­i­ly com­mit­ments dur­ing the on­go­ing COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing there have been two more deaths from COVID-19—two el­der­ly per­sons, which brings the na­tion­al to­tal to 60 deaths.

Even the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic could not stop the tenth an­nu­al Bo­cas Lit Fest from start­ing on Fri­day.