The Ministry of Health will add the Kapok Hotel and the Tobago Correctional Facility to its list of quarantine facilities on Friday 13 November. These facilities add 108 beds to the 1,651 beds already in the parallel healthcare system. Kapok adds 98 beds and 10 beds at the correctional facility. …

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley today announced the resumption of in-house dining at restaurants and cinemas (within certain guidelines), lengthened church services to 90 minutes, and permitted a return to team sport for international outfits. Restaurants must not exceed 50 percent capacity with no more than 10 persons per group, …

“[…] Warmest welcome and congratulations to United States president-elect Joe Biden [and] extend a special accolade to vice president-elect Kamala Harris as we acknowledge her Caribbean roots…” The following is a press statement from Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the positions …

It is almost two weeks since the court of appeal broke the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s legal resistance to Fifa, with the local football body’s member delegates swiftly voting to subsequently hand its reins to the governing body’s normalisation committee. Having forced regime change, Fifa president Gianni Infantino is …

Speaking at the Ministry of Health’s media conference today, epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds said the country was still experiencing community spread, and managing our respiratory health and hygiene should be the focus of concern. Responding to a question about whether he was concerned that the virus could not be eradicated …

Former Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 and Under-23 teammates Neveal Hackshaw and Leland Archer were rewarded for standout individual performances in the 2020 USL Championship season with spots on the competition’s All-League Second Teams last week. The 25-year-old Hackshaw, who has 14 senior international caps for the Soca Warriors …

The Ministry of Health is awaiting the results of an autopsy performed on a passenger who died on a repatriation flight to Trinidad on Saturday. The autopsy is expected to determine whether the passenger died due to Covid-19. The Caribbean Airlines flight, which was en route to Piarco International airport …

The country’s 106th Covid-19 death is also its youngest. Speaking at the Ministry of Health’s 28 October media conference, Principal Medical Officer Dr Maryam Richards said the patient was under 25 years old and had pre-existing medical conditions. Despite the special conditions, she warned that this case should remind the …

“[…] Joining the conversations will be New Management – Paramin Blue Devils; members of the world-famous Brazilian Afro-Blocos Olodum and Ilê Aiye; calypso icon David Michael Rudder; award-winning multimedia journalist Dash Harris Machado; author, activist and scholar Merle Hodge; Pan-Africanist organizer Khafra Kambon; and US celebrity food entrepreneur Shannon Allen. …

The number of nationals abroad who are allowed to re-enter the country will depend on the ability of the parallel healthcare system to receive them. This according to Principal Medical Officer Dr Maryam Abdool-Richardson, who spoke at the 26 October Ministry of Health media conference. While the principal medical officer …

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced the re-opening of beaches and ‘coastal areas’ and promised a report on the reopening of the borders to citizens by 2 November, as multiple Covid-19 restrictions were relaxed today. From Monday, changes in the public health ordinance will permit the entire public sector to …

Trinidad and Tobago will go into the weekend with one new Covid-19 related death and 41 new cases of coronavirus infection, according to the Ministry of Health’s daily update. There have been nine deaths and 206 new infections recorded for the week. The death toll continues at a rate of …