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Teenage girl dies from covid19
Posted: Saturday, June 26, 2021
Teenage girl dies from covid19, death toll nears 800
After a week when the numbers of new covid19 cases recorded daily were below 250, 346 cases were recorded on Friday from samples taken between June 21 and 24.
Teenage girl among 16 new COVID-19 fatalities
Switch from steady decline as cases surge
Where can Trinidadians travel when borders re-open?
Travel policies are continuously changing, however, for Trinidadians planning ahead, here's a look at COVID-19 entry requirements for eight travel hubs open to Trinidad and Tobago as of June 25, 2021:
Tobago senior citizens urged: Take the vaccine
Currently, a total of 3,146 people in Tobago have been fully vaccinated. The division is hoping to vaccinate at least 36,000 people on the island to achieve herd immunity.
President Ali—Guyana did not refuse Trinidad flood relief
Dr Ali suspects that Trinidad was responding to the list disseminated by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) which had included food supplies but with Suriname also suffering a similar fate, Guyana has since clarified that its urgent need is for pumps.
Mom of murdered athlete calls on men: Avoid abusive relatives
"She has stabbed him before, he has stab marks all over his body, in his head, his chest, his hand, all over where she stabbed him before. "Her son did not cause her grief otherwise.
Diabetes Association starts vaccinations
Currently, there are over 200,000 people (16 per cent of the population) living with diabetes in this country and even more, an additional 10 per cent were in the pre-diabetic stage. Dhanoo said this puts approximately one-third of the population more at risk of facing serious complications if they contract COVID-19.
Repairs on sluice gates fail
Repairs done on the 14 sluice flood gates found at the Trinidad Point Gate site in Woodland have failed, causing an influx of saltwater to gush inland, possibly affecting hundreds of acres of arable land.
La Brea grocery gives freely to needy, asks others to replenish
While the initiative is being facilitated at her business, proprietress Avionne Thomas said the idea came from community activist Renrick Campbell. He asked her to set up the shelf and gave her $800 toward food items. Thomas did not hesitate. "I told him it would be my pleasure to facilitate it and on Tuesday I put out the shelf. So, people could take five items, whatever they need, whether it is rice, corn beef, tuna, peas, we have a variety of items. It also has toiletries."
Cops shut down hamper drive as hundreds turn up
But coordinator of the La Romaine Migrant Support group Angie Ramnarine who feeds 100 families per week said while the food drive was commendable, it should have been better organized. "They should have liaised with NGO's like ours to get assistance. This pandemic has wiped out the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people. Many just do not know where their next meal is coming from," Ramnarine said.
Chauvin gets 22 1/2 years in prison for George Floyd's death
The punishment handed out Friday fell short of the 30 years that prosecutors had requested. With good behaviour, Chauvin, 45, could be paroled after serving two-thirds of his sentence, or about 15 years.
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