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 …
Read More »Farewell, ‘Godfather Burkie’: The Man, The Meme, The Malandros…
Cedric Burke was a father, a son, a husband and a friend to many. And his passing yesterday, allegedly due to Covid-19, will be mourned by those close to him. ‘Godfather Burkie’, though, belonged to everybody—the fluffy, scruffy, artful dodger who strode into President’s House, allegedly uninvited, and entered the …
Read More »Young explains ‘liberalised exemption policy’ for returning nationals; MoH reveals 102 more positives and additional death
Minister of National Security Stuart Young said today that the government is ready to roll out its ‘liberalised exemption policy’, to allow nationals ‘stranded’ abroad to return home. Thus far, the government has offered travel exemptions for 3,563 persons, while there are still another 2,500-odd requests to return—with 1,702 applications …
Read More »‘A chance to show our discipline’, AG defends masks in private vehicles and children fines
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi has defended amendments to the public health ordinance, which put children over eight years old and families in their private vehicles at risk of hefty fines for not wearing masks. The measures, which became legally enforceable on Monday, received some public pushback. However, at this morning’s …
Read More »T&T moves to home quarantine for Covid cases, mask legislation and ‘escalated’ TTPS response coming
Chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasram announced today that the Ministry of Health is entering a new phase in its treatment of Covid-19, with positive patients asked to home quarantine unless ‘moderately or severely ill’. Within the next 48 hours, patients will also be discharged from Covid-19 step-down facilities without …
Read More »CMO permits sport training—but only five persons per session
Chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasram will allow sporting teams to train despite the current Covid-19 restrictions—but only with five persons per facility. Article two of the Public Health (2019 Novel Coronavirus) Regulations states: During the period specified in regulation 12, a person shall not, without reasonable justification: (a) be found …
Read More »No schools, churches, beaches, sports… Urgent measures taken as T&T hits highest level for Covid-19 spread
Chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasram reported to the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) yesterday that Trinidad and Tobago is now at the highest level in the movement of the novel coronavirus: community spread. Parasram’s report preceded a press conference by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley today in which he …
Read More »Ascension Tournament on hold; Griffith advises organisers to liaise with CMO first
The Ascension Tournament has been postponed, following advice from Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith, until the tournament protocols are reviewed by Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram. Griffith met with Ascension organisers yesterday and urged them to liaise with the Ministry of Health before proceeding, so as to avoid a …
Read More »Dr Parasram says brace for further spike, as T&T’s active case load climbs to 179
Dr Roshan Parasram, the chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health, is bracing for an increase in Covid-19 cases due to ‘non-adherence [of] public health guidelines’—even as the number of hospitalised patients continues to rise sharply in Trinidad and Tobago. Today, the Ministry of Health confirmed 26 new cases …
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: Health Ministry said Commissioner’s Cup can play with no coaches or subs; so what about CPL?!
“Today, the [Trinidad and Tobago Police Service] received correspondence from the Ministry of Health’s State Counsel 1 indicating that the Commissioner’s Cup can indeed be allowed to proceed but that it must do so with a total of only 25 persons per game. “We are at a loss to understand …
Read More »Griffith probes party at Five Islands Water Park, slams ‘hypocrisy’ of Deyalsingh and CMO
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith vowed to conduct enquiries into a party at Five Islands Water Park, after a video showed persons dancing at the west Trinidad venue on Sunday 26 July. The video was shot from outside the Water Park and appeared to show more than 25 persons at …
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