The Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) will lose ap­prox­i­mate­ly $48 mil­lion per week fol­low­ing the clo­sure of all gam­ing ma­chines un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions which went in­to ef­fect on Sun­day.

The gov­ern­ment will re­main firm on its ban against out­door phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties un­der the cur­rent state of emer­gency to ham­per the spread of COVID-19.

The hus­band of To­ba­go’s fourth COVID-19 fa­tal­i­ty says try­ing to come to terms with the loss is very dif­fi­cult at this time.

Nine more peo­ple lost their bat­tle with COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 294 yes­ter­day, just six shy of the grim 300 mile­stone.

Head of the TTPS’ Le­gal Unit, Chris­t­ian Chan­dler said em­ploy­ers who are forc­ing their em­ploy­ees to breach the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions and pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions can now be re­port­ed.

On the very first night of the State of Emer­gency, six peo­ple were held on both sides of the twin-is­land for breach­ing the 9 pm to 5 am cur­few.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley got a first­hand view yes­ter­day of one of two field hos­pi­tals do­nat­ed by the Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment, as they were of­fi­cial­ly hand­ed over to this coun­try pro­vid­ing 80 beds to ac­com­mo­date and treat COVID-19 pa­tients.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi yes­ter­day warned that the cur­rent reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing this State of Emer­gency would be “stricter” as it was not im­posed to deal with crime but with an in­fec­tious dis­ease.

Min­istry of Health of­fi­cials yes­ter­day con­firmed an out­break of COVID-19 at the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric hos­pi­tal.

On May 3, Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Parasam said that at the be­gin­ning of March he no­ticed that the COVID-19 fig­ures were in­creas­ing and that while “peo­ple” thought that the fig­ures were low, he be­lieved that it was enough to cause a “snow­ball ef­fect.”

The Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca is once again pledg­ing mil­lions of dos­es of ap­proved vac­cines to help coun­tries bat­tle COVID-19.

Four per­sons, in­clud­ing a ju­ve­nile, were ar­rest­ed in To­ba­go for break­ing State of Emer­gency Reg­u­la­tions (2021).