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7 days until COVID-19 hospitals collapse
Posted: Thursday, May 6, 2021

7 days until COVID-19 hospitals collapse, patients in their 30s dying
Alarms have been sounded within the nation's COVID-19 parallel healthcare system as not only are hospital spaces dwindling, but patients in their 30s, with no prior health conditions, are dying.

High Dependency Unit occupancy jumps from 40-70% overnight

PMO warns as younger people die from COVID: You are not immune
As Trinidad and Tobago recorded its largest number of infections since the start of the pandemic in T&T, health officials are sending a strong warning that young people without comorbidities are dying from the virus.

42-year-old OJO staff member dies of COVID-19

SATT: Hard to get vaccine supplier now
COVID-19 crises in India and Brazil have now diverted any excess vaccines that the local private sector was hoping to purchase. Head of the Supermarkets Association of T&T (SATT), Rajiv Diptee is now recommending that the Government utilise the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) to pay for the vaccines.

Ministry offers SEA students option to defer exam until 2022
According to the two-page memo from the Chief Education Officer of the Ministry of Education, "The Ministry of Education is cognizant of the challenges experienced by students preparing to sit the SEA 2021, and having consulted with key Educational Stakeholders, has decided to offer the option to apply for a deferral of the sitting of the SEA from 2021 to 2022."

Math blunder: TTDF clarifies error made by Chief of Defence Staff
At a press conference on Sunday, Daniel used some questionable arithmetic when he claimed a Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard interceptor vessel, that uses an outboard engine, operated for 1,000 hours in just eight days before being serviced.

Tobago fisherman: Eat lionfish to save the reefs
Native to the Indo-Pacific, the lionfish devours over 80 types of prey who do not recognise it as a predator.

Police, relatives search for missing gardener
The mother said Seelal would usually take someone with him to collect money and he often met his customers by C3 or Grand Bazaar Mall. His family did not realise that he was missing until his girlfriend called around 1 am the following day to inquire whether he was home.

Calls for help to find Carapichaima farmer flood social media

Met Office discontinues adverse weather alert

After 17 years, manslaughter case expected to finally close
There was a trial in 2014, however, that resulted in a hung jury and as a result, a re-trial was ordered. Lynch's attorneys wrote to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) several times requesting that he be allowed to plead to the lesser offence of manslaughter.



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