Trinidad and Tobago now has 136 active cases of Covid-19, after the Ministry of Health confirmed four more positive results this morning. The update brings the total number of cases since the onset of the pandemic to 279—with nearly half of that figure coming in the last three weeks and …
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Daly Bread: Tempting promises, moral hazards and Covid-19; how to choose at the polls?
Tomorrow’s General Election takes place at a time when the rate of spread of Covid 19 is at a high risk level, causing more worry than at any other period since the pandemic began. We simply do not know what effect uncertainty about the ominous risk of exposure to the …
Read More »Gilkes: Keep Feeding Contempt; or imagine a better world for the ‘small man’
Interesting how fried chicken could bring to light so much issues that explain what’s wrong with our society. One chicken drumstick is all it takes to expose certain realities, all of which are integrated, interlocked and in some aspects, results of deliberate actions. For one thing, this farcical episode involving …
Read More »Clive Lloyd’s 1975-76 WI (Pt 2): How Vibratious Bob set tone for Windies’ England tour
The following is the second part of Owen Thompson’s recall of that unforgettable summer in 1976 that ushered in the West Indies cricket team’s glory years: While the events of that 1975-76 tour of Australia unfolded (between October 1975 and February 1976), a certain Robert Nesta Marley was getting ready …
Read More »Ferguson: Brace for Friday night football! Six Pro League teams confirmed for 2020 Ascension
The Trinidad and Tobago domestic football calendar should resume on Friday 14 August—pending a final meeting with the Ministry of Health—with 20 clubs ready to kick off in the Ascension Tournament and more than twice that number awaiting start dates in their respective zones. Central FC are scheduled to open …
Read More »101 infections in eight days! Gov’t confirms 32 more positive Covid-19 cases
The Ministry of Health confirmed another 32 positive cases of Covid-19 this evening, which brought Trinidad and Tobago’s tally to 275 cases since the onset of the pandemic. At present, the country has 132 active cases of the novel coronavirus. The results this evening were for persons swabbed over the …
Read More »Parasram: T&T needs ‘learned behaviours’ not ‘lockdown’; lab lags meant one week wait for positive results
Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram said ‘learned behaviours’ rather than state-ordered ‘lockdowns’ are Trinidad and Tobago’s best chance of successfully seeing off the Covid-19 virus. At present, the twin island republic falls into the World Health Organisations’ (WHO) second highest category for the movement of the novel coronavirus, which …
Read More »Griffith probes police presence at Charlieville T10 cricket competition, TTPS shuts down four bars
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith has ordered an investigation into the conduct of police officers attached to the Central Division, after uniformed lawmen were spotted in attendance at a Central T10 cricket match in Charlieville that breached the Public Health (2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCOV) Regulations. Although team sport is still …
Read More »Health Ministry confirms 52 infections in seven days of August—more than in entire first wave
On 1 August, Trinidad and Tobago had 173 confirmed cases of Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic in early March. Six days later, the counter stands on 225. It means that, according to data from the Ministry of Health, the twin island republic has had 52 positive cases of …
Read More »Ministry of Health confirms seven new cases, T&T at 217 positives since pandemic
The Ministry of Health announced seven more confirmed cases of Covid-19 on the morning of 7 August, which brought the total number of positives since the onset of the pandemic to 217. There have been 65 local infections in the past 19 days. From the seven latest positives, three are ‘contacts …
Read More »Besson Street police officer among three new Covid cases, 58 positives in 18 days
A Besson Street police officer was one of three persons who tested positive for Covid-19 today. All three cases are ‘pending epidemiological investigation’ and not believed to be linked to a previous patient. The results took Trinidad and Tobago’s tally since the onset of the novel coronavirus to 210 cases, …
Read More »Amnesty Int’nl accuses T&T gov’t of human rights violation and ‘xenophobia’ in mass deportation of Venezuelans
“[…] To deport Venezuelan refugees back to the human rights and humanitarian emergency that they were fleeing, in the middle of a pandemic, is an outrageous violation of the obligations that Trinidad and Tobago has committed to under international law. “[…] The authorities of Trinidad and Tobago are pushing a …
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