As Par­lia­ment meets to de­bate the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SOE), chair­man of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, To­ba­go Di­vi­sion is call­ing for its con­tin­u­a­tion.

Two in­di­vid­u­als are fac­ing fraud-re­lat­ed charges in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents cur­rent­ly un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion by au­thor­i­ties.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh is urg­ing more peo­ple to take the In­fluen­za vac­cine ahead of the Car­ni­val sea­son. 

A busi­ness­woman from San Fer­nan­do, who was wrong­ly pros­e­cut­ed for break­ing a glass bot­tle on a woman's head at a night­club in Port-of-Spain in 2017, is set to re­ceive $193,000 in com­pen­sa­tion from the State.