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WHO grants emergency approval to Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine
Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2021
WHO grants emergency approval to Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued an emergency use listing for the COVID-19 vaccine made by Sinovac for adults 18 and over. It's the second such authorisation it has granted to a Chinese company.
COVID-19 mortalities cross 500 with 12 more deaths
The grim milestone was reached on Tuesday and the deceased patients were three elderly males, three elderly females, one middle-aged male, two middle-aged females - all with co-morbidities - as well as one elderly female and two middle-aged males without co-morbidities.
Look at people! Port of Spain, June 1
Month end coupled with a shortened work week owing to the celebration of two holidays, caused Port of Spain to be irresistible to many people on Tuesday.
Another officer dies at hospital from COVID-19
"Sgt Harvey, though blind, underwent his Inspector promotion interview and managed to rank 79th on the merit list out of 504 officers. That goes to show the type of officer he was!"
Laventille group mourns master drummer
The North West Laventille Cultural Movement and the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) is mourning the passing of master drummer Larry Haywood.
Arima, Mayaro MPs: Hamper distribution going well
National Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation (Namdevco) CEO Nirmala Debysingh-Persad said on Tuesday it had completed its distributions for the month of May, meeting its target of 25,000 hampers which were distributed throughout each of the 41 constituencies through the MP offices as well as churches, NGOs, and other charitable organisations.
...Hospital workers at the point of desperation
The 14 dead men, skull and skeletal remains stacked in a boat found floating four miles off Belle Garden in Tobago last Friday started a journey from the north African country of Mauritania, police said yesterday.
Ronald Adams named new Atlantic LNG CEO
"Mr Adams has been with Shell Trinidad and Tobago Ltd since 2019, where most recently he was the general manager of upstream assets."
Disgusted Carapo councillor: Bodies not dumped at our cemetery
Last Friday, a video was circulated on WhatsApp which showed men, believed to be funeral home workers dumping dead bodies wrapped in sheets, with little care, in what appeared to be the same grave.
Belgrove 'appalled, disgusted' by footage of bodies being dumped
"When I called around to other colleagues to find out more, they told me this was going on for a long time.
Three part-time Sangre Grande farmers give away 2,000 lbs of watermelon
No ambulance – so Granville woman gives birth in car on way to San Fernando
Those from Icacos were worried because that hospital is the nearest 24-hour health facility. It takes over an hour to get to the Point Fortin Hospital from Icacos, and getting to San Fernando takes an additional hour.
Man wounded in midday Port of Spain shooting
POLICE are on the hunt for two gunmen who opened fire on a car on Wrightson Road on Tuesday. They are also bracing for reprisals arising out of the incident, which they said was gang-related.
Coconut vendor, 20, shot dead in Valencia
Police said Cardel Charles was selling his goods on Bypass Road at around 12.45 pm when a man approached pretending to be a customer. The man called Charles by name and shot him several times in the head and hand before running away.
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