The Min­istry of Health in Guyana has been fa­cil­i­tat­ing the vac­ci­na­tion of staffers at­tached to Caribbean Air­lines from Trinidad and To­ba­go, es­pe­cial­ly mem­bers of the air­line’s flight crew, Guyana news agency News Scource Guyana has re­port­ed on its web­site, news­sourc­e­gy.com.

So­ca mu­sic is fi­nal­ly free to make the world hap­py again and 2020 Road March Champs, Kes The Band are set to make his­to­ry this week­end, as the on­ly Caribbean act se­lect­ed to per­form on Sat­ur­day night at the 26th Essence Fes­ti­val of Cul­ture.

The Min­istry of Health’s in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a sus­pect­ed case of vac­cine-in­duced throm­bot­ic throm­bo­cy­tope­nia (VITT) has con­firmed the oc­cur­rence. 

Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne yes­ter­day had an­oth­er vir­tu­al meet­ing to work out the de­tails.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) and the East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (ER­HA) have re­port­ed an al­most 100 per cent com­pli­ance by peo­ple re­ceiv­ing their sec­ond COVID-19 vac­cine.

This coun­try fig­ured in a BBC re­port yes­ter­day where a World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) of­fi­cial list­ed T&T along­side Ugan­da, Zim­bab­we and Bangladesh as coun­tries “that have re­port­ed run­ning out of vac­cines in re­cent days.”

Trin­bag­on­ian rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj has joined the con­ver­sa­tion sur­round­ing the name of ac­tor Michael B Jor­dan’s rum, J’Ou­vert. Mi­naj yes­ter­day used a screen­shot of one of the many Trinida­di­ans who at­tempt­ed to clar­i­fy why the us­age of the name was of­fen­sive on so­cial me­dia and asked Jor­dan to change it.

As the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion moves to­wards en­sur­ing fi­nal prepa­ra­tions are in place for this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am on Ju­ly 1, con­cerns con­tin­ue to be raised re­gard­ing the health and safe­ty of the ed­u­ca­tors in­volved in the process.

En To­To has com­plet­ed the dis­tri­b­u­tion of 6,000 SEA sta­tionery kits to stu­dents of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 180 pri­ma­ry schools through­out Trinidad.

Af­ter the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion’s or­der on the se­lec­tion of a Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er and Deputy Com­mis­sion­er is tabled in Par­lia­ment this morn­ing, the Op­po­si­tion will of­fi­cial­ly re­quest it be de­bat­ed.

Not on­ly are they in the “red” and on the verge of col­lapse dur­ing the cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, but many are be­ing at­tacked by ban­dits with one mur­der oc­cur­ring as well as sev­er­al rob­beries.

An in­vest­ment com­pa­ny has been or­dered to pay al­most $3 mil­lion in out­stand­ing rent and in­ter­est to the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty for a par­cel of land it leased to build a ho­tel near the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.