The fol­low­ing is a bul­letin is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS):

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 1 ad­di­tion­al COVID-re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 4080. There are cur­rent­ly 228 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 221 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6988.

The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM T&T) in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) will be host­ing a work­shop called “Women in the Lead: Mind­ful Lead­er­ship in a Trans­for­ma­tive World.” The work­shop will fea­ture forty  mentees work­ing in var­i­ous fields across the pri­vate sec­tor who are paired with men­tors aligned to their ca­reer goals.

Po­lice at­tached to the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Com­mu­ni­ty-Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Sec­tion (COPS) ap­pre­hend­ed a lar­ce­ny sus­pect yes­ter­day af­ter­noon mere min­utes af­ter the al­leged crime.

On Thurs­day he will lay a wreath at the Ceno­taph of Memo­r­i­al Park, Port-of-Spain at 10:35 am be­fore head­ing to the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre for a pri­vate cour­tesy call with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley at 10:50 am.

Sa­ha­ran Dust has re­turned to Trinidad and To­ba­go with a mod­er­ate surge cur­rent­ly mov­ing across the re­gion, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

Parts of the San Juan/Laven­tille area will ex­pe­ri­ence an in­ter­rup­tion in their wa­ter sup­ply on Thurs­day 18 Au­gust 2022, as a de­fec­tive valve—in the vicin­i­ty of Mor­vant Junc­tion along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route—will be re­placed.

An El Do­ra­do man who was shot while at a fam­i­ly gath­er­ing on Mon­day night re­mains ward­ed at hos­pi­tal.

Guinea fowl may be one of the so­lu­tions when it comes to deal­ing with the on­slaught of the Gi­ant African Snail (GAS) in Trinidad and To­ba­go, which is be­ing se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­ered.

A Bar­rack­pore busi­ness­man who is a li­censed firearm user was ar­rest­ed and charged by po­lice on Sun­day and his weapon seized af­ter he was found reck­less­ly dis­charg­ing it as his friend uri­nat­ed at the side of the road.

It was around 10.45 am on Au­gust 15, when the vic­tim who lives at Men­doza Street, Mt Hope Road drove in­to his garage.

The de­com­pos­ing body of a men­tal­ly chal­lenged man was found in some bush­es at Guaico Vil­lage Street, San­gre Grande, on Mon­day.