Less than three hours af­ter her sto­ry was aired on CNC3 news, the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty grant­ed ap­proval to al­low preg­nant An­tiguan stu­dent She­niequa Lewis per­mis­sion to re­turn home.

Al­though the T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (T&TU­TA) con­tin­ues to voice its dis­ap­proval of the Au­gust 20 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) date, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia says he is putting his faith in teach­ers to pre­pare their stu­dents for the ex­am.

All stake­hold­ers in the busi­ness of trav­el must be pre­pared to give up some­thing to sur­vive post-COVID-19.

The 295 re­turn­ing na­tion­als aboard the Roy­al Caribbean’s En­chant­ment of the Seas will be swabbed to­day as the manda­to­ry COVID-19 quar­an­tine comes to an end on Sat­ur­day.

Bar­ring any ma­jor change to the lo­cal COVID-19 trend, mas­quer­aders will be chip­ping in the streets for Car­ni­val 2021, Cul­ture Min­is­ter Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly con­firmed yes­ter­day.

Bar own­ers in To­ba­go are hop­ing busi­ness would pick up by the week­end. Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed sev­er­al bars and two of the sis­ter is­land’s most pop­u­lar beach­es yes­ter­day and va­ca­tion­ers were slow­ly trick­ling in­to Store Bay to en­joy the cool wa­ters un­der skies over­cast with Sa­ha­ran dust.

Preg­nant and des­per­ate to go back to her home­land, She­niequa Lewis is beg­ging Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to help her.

Open schol­ar­ship win­ner Chan­tal Newal­lo should be cel­e­brat­ing suc­cess, hav­ing com­plet­ed her Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence de­gree with Ho­n­ours in Ge­o­log­i­cal Sci­ences at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mi­a­mi.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has con­firmed that big air­lines have been us­ing strong-arm tac­tics to force Cari­com coun­tries to open their bor­ders or miss out on win­ter tourism.

These will be the vary­ing emo­tions fac­ing restau­rant and bar op­er­a­tors to­day as their es­tab­lish­ments re­sume in-house ser­vice in the on­go­ing COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Caribbean Air­line’s es­ti­mat­ed loss­es from March 23 to April 30 due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic was US14.2 mil­lion or TT$96.1 mil­lion, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Allyson West.

Cin­e­mas re­mained closed but most of the pop­u­lar gyms in South Trinidad re­opened for the first time in three months yes­ter­day. Adapt­ing to the new nor­mal, some fit­ness en­thu­si­asts walked with their own sani­ti­sa­tion sprays and wipes as they cleaned the equip­ment be­fore us­ing it. For many of them, get­ting to the gym was like en­ter­ing par­adise.