Daily Brief - Monday 30th August, 2021
Educational stakeholders are asking for consultation before the reopening of school for vaccinated students. At a press conference on Saturday, the Prime Minister announced that face-to-face classes would resume on October 6 for form four, five, and six students who have been fully vaccinated. Read more
30th August 2021
Daily Brief - Friday 27th August, 2021
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) is looking forward to budget day after Tuesday’s announcement by Minister of Finance Colm Imbert that Trinidad and Tobago’s foreign reserves are back over $7 billion after receiving US$644 million via Special Drawing Rights from the International Monetary Fund. Read more
27th August 2021
Daily Brief - Thursday 26th August, 2021
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) yesterday welcomed the announcement by Finance Minister Colm Imbert on Tuesday that US$644 million would be added to T&T’s foreign reserves as a result of the expansion of Special Drawing Rights by the International Monetary Fund. Read more
26th August 2021
Daily Brief - Wednesday 25th August, 2021
The former PowerGen Port of Spain power plant will be converted into a residential and commercial complex. Company general manager Surindranath Ramsingh made this comment during a television interview on Tuesday. He said the conversion of the site into a commercial/residential complex forms part of the revitalisation of Port of Spain. Read more
25th August 2021
Daily Brief - Tuesday 24th August, 2021
Women in the first trimester of their pregnancy can take the Pfizer covid19 vaccine. Director of women's health at the Health Ministry Dr Adesh Sirjusingh made this statement at the virtual health news conference on Monday. Read more
24th August 2021
Daily Brief - Monday 23rd August, 2021
TT Chamber of Industry and Commerce CEO Gabriel Faria on Saturday said that while the chamber supports the Government's proposed extension of the state of emergency (SoE) to curb the covid19 virus, it would like the curfew to start at midnight to facilitate business activity, particularly by manufacturers. Read more
23rd August 2021
Daily Brief - Friday 20th August, 2021
Students of the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) can look forward to more internship and training opportunities in the manufacturing sector. This follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UWI and the T&T Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) to collaborate in training, human... Read more
20th August 2021
Daily Brief - Thursday 19th August, 2021
Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Dr Amery Browne has informed the national community of the scheduled arrival of 108,000 WHO-approved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, from the African Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), at the Piarco International Airport at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Read more
19th August 2021
Daily Brief - Wednesday 18th August, 2021
The Ministry of Health may, on Wednesday, say whether it will recommend allowing pregnant women to be vaccinated against covid19. Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh, at Monday’s covid19 media briefing, said representatives of CARPHA, PAHO, the various regional health authorities, as well as private and public obstetrician-gynaecologists were expected to discuss... Read more
18th August 2021
Daily Brief - Tuesday 17th August, 2021
The Ministry of Health has recorded eight more deaths and 89 new covid19 cases. This is the lowest daily figure of cases the country has seen in the last six months. Active cases have dropped to 5,990. The death toll has risen to 1,188. Read more
17th August 2021
Daily Brief - Monday 16th August, 2021
Although the country was under an adverse weather alert yesterday, with torrential rainfall for most of the day, vaccination at the Divali Nagar site in Chaguanas continued unhindered, as thousands of people showed up for their second jab of the Sinopharm vaccine. Read more
16th August 2021
Daily Brief - Friday 13th August, 2021
ANSA McAl CEO Anthony Sabga III said on Thursday that his conglomerate has "a very positive outlook" owing to mass vaccinations helping the country rebound from the economic fallout of the covid19 pandemic, addressing a mid-year virtual shareholders meeting. Read more
13th August 2021
Daily Brief - Thursday 12th August, 2021
The AstraZeneca vaccines received from Covax will be rolled out immediately to join the doses being dispensed from the Canadian donation. These vaccines will expire at the end of November. Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh made the statement at Wednesday’s covid19 virtual media conference. Read more
12th August 2021
Daily Brief - Wednesday 11th August, 2021
Few people went to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Independence Square, Port of Spain, which was scheduled to partner with the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) to offer covid19 vaccination to church members on Wednesday. Read more
11th August 2021
Daily Brief - Tuesday 10th August, 2021
With more sectors of the economy opening up, greater movement of people in public spaces and no evidence as yet of the delta variant in Trinidad and Tobago, the Government is maintaining a voluntary covid19 vaccination policy. Read more
10th August 2021