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(Trinidad Express) ALL 250 people detained early yesterday morning at a “zesser party” in Caroni will be charged.

(Trinidad Express) Over 150 people, including minors, were detained yesterday morning in Caroni at an illegal party.

(Trinidad Express) A Siparia retiree used his dying breath to give his daughter the registration number of the vehicle which struck him and drove away on Friday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) The latest update from the Ministry of Health is confirming 126 new positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of active cases in the country to 725 patients.

International condemnation of the treatment of Venezuelan nationals, including 16 children, continues to rise as the United Nations Human Rights Office condemned the decision to deport the group over the weekend, the Trinidad Guardian said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men are expected to appear before a magistrate today to face multiple charges, after a shootout with Emergency Response Patrol (ERP) police officers on Wednesday 18 November 2020.

Three men are expected to appear before a magistrate on Monday 23rd November 2020, to face multiple charges, after a shootout with Emergency Response Patrol (ERP) police officers on Wednesday 18 November 2020.

(Trinidad Express) A Siparia retiree used his dying breath to give his daughter the registration number of the vehicle which struck him and drove away on Friday evening.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Disturbed by reports that United States vice-president-elect Kamala Harris has been snubbing her Jamaican roots, her cousin Patrick Harris has strongly come out in her defence.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Five-year-old Mickele Allen, who was mauled by dogs in St D’Acre, St Ann, on Sunday, will spend months in hospital in the United States at a starting cost of $15.6 million, sourced through sponsorship overseas.

(Trinidad Express) A Siparia retiree used his dying breath to give his daughter the registration number of the vehicle which struck him and drove away on Friday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government has now allocated $30 million to bail out restaurant and bar employees and people who are self-employed.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies  will pledge to pay for a fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, drugs and tests around the world so that poorer countries are not left out, and to extend debt relief to them, a draft G20 communique showed.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil has registered 32,622 additional coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours and 376 deaths, the health ministry said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said there is to be no Christmas parties in the public service in 2020 and has called on the private sector to follow suit.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of National Security says the Opposition’s failure to support the continuation of the Anti-Gang Act “will have very serious negative effects on the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s (TTPS) fight against gangs and criminality.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Insensitive comments by a person recording a cell phone video of the body of a man who was fatally shot, have generated ire among social media users.

(Trinidad Express) An appeal has been made to Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly to get answers from the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) and put an end to “nine weeks of torment” for thousands of secondary school pupils.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s official.  MovieTowne Chaguanas will be closed permanently, leaving only the Port-of-Spain and San Fernando branches.

(Trinidad Express) MOTORISTS were faced with what appeared to be bodies in the middle of the Eastern Main Road in Arima this morning.