From the mo­ment Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley post­ed his plans to ad­dress the na­tion on Thurs­day evening on so­cial me­dia,

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­ferred to the Prime Min­is­ter’s Ad­dress to the na­tion on Thurs­day as, “long on words but woe­ful­ly short on ideas.”

A shoot­ing in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, has left one man dead and two peo­ple in­jured, in­clud­ing a five-year-old girl.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice re­vealed yes­ter­day that the Dean of the Po­lice Acad­e­my, Nizam Ali, had died from COVID-19.

The World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO) has clas­si­fied the B.1.1.529 coro­n­avirus strain first de­tect­ed in South Africa ear­li­er this month as a Vari­ant of Con­cern (VOC) called Omi­cron.

No­vem­ber 2021 has be­come Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dead­liest month dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic to date. In the last 26 days, the coun­try has re­port­ed 365 COVID-19 deaths, sur­pass­ing the pre­vi­ous record of June 2021’s 352 deaths.

Even as the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice is re­port­ing an in­crease in vi­o­lence against mi­grants dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, stake­hold­ers say there are many more abused mi­grants who are afraid to come for­ward be­cause of reper­cus­sions from the State and their abusers.

With the launch of the farm­land de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme on Thurs­day, Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) An­cil Den­nis says the ob­jec­tive is for To­ba­go to be­gin pro­duc­ing its own food with­in the next four years.

Six­ty-eight-year-old bedrid­den can­cer pa­tient John Scott at­tempt­ed to drag him­self to safe­ty af­ter a fire broke out in his Rousil­lac home ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Even as the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion (MoE) has be­gun dis­cus­sions with stake­hold­ers about the re­open­ing of schools in Jan­u­ary 2022, noth­ing de­fin­i­tive has been de­cid­ed and of­fi­cials say the fi­nal de­ci­sion will rest with the Min­istry of Health (MoH).

Black Fri­day sales were dis­mal in some parts of south Trinidad on Fri­day, as busi­ness own­ers could not of­fer the bar­gains of the pre-pan­dem­ic years.

The Fam­i­ly Plan­ning As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T has joined the call for ac­tion across the na­tion to not on­ly recog­nise and ac­knowl­edge gen­der-based vi­o­lence as a hu­man rights vi­o­la­tion, but al­so to con­sci­en­tious­ly iden­ti­fy, con­cert­ed­ly ad­dress and elim­i­nate con­trib­u­to­ry fac­tors which have, in some in­stances, be­come cul­tur­al norms.