The Min­istry of Health says the East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty is man­ag­ing sev­er­al sus­pect­ed and prob­a­ble cas­es of vari­cel­la, com­mon­ly known as chick­en­pox, among health­care work­ers at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Cam­pus.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Curt Si­mon says new reg­u­la­tions un­der the State of Emer­gency pro­hib­it pub­lic protests and demon­stra­tions with­in 500 me­tres of 15 spec­i­fied lo­ca­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The or­gan­is­er of a protest and her moth­er, who were joint­ly ar­rest­ed by po­lice dur­ing a demon­stra­tion near the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) on Wednes­day af­ter­noon, have not been ar­rest­ed as of 8:47 am to­day.

The Bank of N.T. But­ter­field & Son Lim­it­ed has an­nounced an agree­ment to ac­quire CIBC’s 91.7 per cent in­ter­est in CIBC Caribbean Bank Lim­it­ed in a trans­ac­tion val­ued at US$1.794 bil­lion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed con­do­lences fol­low­ing the trag­ic death of 19-year-old san­i­ta­tion work­er De­shawn Joseph, who died in a garbage truck ac­ci­dent in Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, on Tues­day night.

Ka­ia Sealy is not a fugi­tive and is will­ing to sur­ren­der her­self to lo­cal au­thor­i­ties as soon as she is med­ical­ly cleared to trav­el back from the Unit­ed States.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les says his con­cerns sur­round­ing the Joshua Sama­roo and Ka­ia Sealy mat­ter are not about the in­de­pen­dence of the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), but about what he de­scribed as a cul­ture of se­cre­cy sur­round­ing pub­lic of­fice.

Ten­sions flared in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day as a protest de­mand­ing trans­paren­cy in a con­tro­ver­sial po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing end­ed with the ar­rest of the or­gan­is­er and her moth­er fol­low­ing a con­fronta­tion with of­fi­cers.

Mus­lims across Trinidad and To­ba­go joined the glob­al Is­lam­ic com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day to cel­e­brate Eid ul-Ad­ha with prayers, char­i­ty and re­flec­tion on faith, grat­i­tude and obe­di­ence to God.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has again tak­en a dig at the po­lice ser­vice over their han­dling of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death and sus­pect­ed mur­der of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza.

What was sup­posed to be a rou­tine shift end­ed in tragedy in cen­tral Trinidad, af­ter a 20-year-old garbage work­er was crushed by a truck.

Jus­tice Sher­lanne Pierre has asked jet ski op­er­a­tors in To­ba­go to con­sid­er lo­ca­tions out­side Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park to so­lic­it clients and launch their wa­ter­craft.