A 29-year-old hire car driver is now dead following an accident last night at La Belle Alliance, Essequibo Coast.

Dead is Amos Christopher Li of the same village, who was driving motorcar HD 252 at the time of the crash at 23:20hrs.

There was another occupant in the vehicle, 20-year-old Aliyah Harris, of Coffee Grove, Essequibo Coast; she suffered injuries.

Police said the car was proceeding north along the western driving lane of the said road at a fast rate of speed when it was alleged by Harris, who was seated in the front passenger seat, that the driver lost control of the car.

Harris said the vehicle collided with a concrete culvert on the western side of the road and ended up in a trench.

They both were then taken out of the vehicle by public-spirited persons; the driver was in an unconscious condition.

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They were conveyed to the Suddie Public Hospital, where Harris was admitted as a patient for a fractured left shoulder.

The driver was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where he succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment.

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TTUTA president Martin Lum Kin –

TT Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) president Martin Lum Kin has urged teachers to be on the alert for symptoms of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) in schools after Education Minister Nyan Gadsby-Dolly confirmed cases in North and South Trinidad for this term.

Gadsby-Dolly told the media on Monday it was not unusual to have reports of a few cases “from time to time.”

In a media report, the ministry confirmed another case at a school in Carenage. When Newsday contacted Gadsby-Dolly for an update on Tuesday she repeated Monday’s information.

When there are cases in the school system, Gadsby-Dolly said, it is kept under control by isolating the child and sending them home until their symptoms have cleared.

Symptoms of the contagious disease include fever, sore throat, and a distinctive rash on the hands, feet and in the mouth.

Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh directed questions about it to Gadsby-Dolly.

After a follow-up question about his ministry’s readiness and responsibility in this matter, there was no response from the minister up to 5 pm.

Meanwhile, TTUTA has reached out to its members to track any unreported cases.

So far, Lum Kin said he had received information on cases in schools in the Port of Spain region and Sangre Grande as well.

“We are waiting on our members to give us official reports on the cases.

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“Knowing the nature of the disease and how contagious it is, we ask our educators to be vigilant in terms of monitoring students under their charge and any suspicious or suspected cases, that they report to the relevant authority.

Tobago TTUTA officer Bradon Roberts said Tobago’s education stakeholders must be proactive and take measures to contain any possible outbreak.

“We need to decide that we need to be extra cautious. We don’t want to wait until it has spread and then we start to act on it. While we don’t have any cases, we must be on our guard all the time, not that we wait till we have a case and now want to put things together.”

Zorisha Hackett, the Tobago House of Assembly’s Secretary for the Division of Education, Innovation and Research, told Newsday she couldn’t comment.

Secretary of Tobago’s Health, Wellness and Social Protection Division, Faith BYisrael said her division will release a statement on it.

American rappers Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa visited Judgment yard and paid homage to Sizzla Kalonji while visiting the island to plan their Black Star Line Festival in 2024.

The rapper shared a video showing Sizzla and himself interacting and the latter collecting the information for Sizzla and his team, presumably to keep in touch to plan the upcoming Black Star Line Festival that seeks to unite African Americans and the black diaspora. The inaugural show was held in Accra, Ghana, back in January (2023) and saw overwhelming support from Americans traveling to the Motherland while Ghanaians also turned out in the thousands.

Chance The Rapper, who has shown himself to be a conscious rapper and who knows and understands the influence and power of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican Pan-Africanist and Civil Rights figure that fought for the rights of black people, shared how surreal the experience was meeting up with Sizzla, a religious Rastafarian.

“We out here Jah bless. This is actually crazy. Crazy thing, I can’t believe that we’re here. Thank you so much for letting us into the space. We’re with some real Rastafari brothers right now. Black Star Line Fest we out here. Thank you Dadda,” Chance says on the video.

Sizzla also shared equal sentiment telling the camera, “They’re structuring their Black Star Line Fest. That’s where it started, started with Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

Marcus Garvey is a revered figure in Jamaica, and he was one of the founding fathers of the Rastafari movement that promoted Rastafarianism as a religion for black people versus Anglo-Saxon Christianity foisted on slaves and which was adopted for generations among black folks in Jamaica and around the world.

Garvey is known for his powerful speeches promoting the black race and calling for unity and for all black people to travel home back to their motherland- Africa. Many Jamaicans believe he should be named a National Hero.

In the meantime, the two rappers were welcomed and paid a courtesy call on Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett at his Kingston office on Tuesday. The rappers were spotted taking photos with the Minister and other high-level officials.

Chance The Rapper and Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett

The event is likely to be beneficial to Jamaica which depends on tourism earnings to support the local economy, especially from the United States, one of its largest markets.

American rappers Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa visited Judgment yard and paid homage to Sizzla Kalonji while visiting the island to plan their Black Star Line Festival in 2024.

The rapper shared a video showing Sizzla and himself interacting and the latter collecting the information for Sizzla and his team, presumably to keep in touch to plan the upcoming Black Star Line Festival that seeks to unite African Americans and the black diaspora. The inaugural show was held in Accra, Ghana, back in January (2023) and saw overwhelming support from Americans traveling to the Motherland while Ghanaians also turned out in the thousands.

Chance The Rapper, who has shown himself to be a conscious rapper and who knows and understands the influence and power of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican Pan-Africanist and Civil Rights figure that fought for the rights of black people, shared how surreal the experience was meeting up with Sizzla, a religious Rastafarian.

“We out here Jah bless. This is actually crazy. Crazy thing, I can’t believe that we’re here. Thank you so much for letting us into the space. We’re with some real Rastafari brothers right now. Black Star Line Fest we out here. Thank you Dadda,” Chance says on the video.

Sizzla also shared equal sentiment telling the camera, “They’re structuring their Black Star Line Fest. That’s where it started, started with Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

Marcus Garvey is a revered figure in Jamaica, and he was one of the founding fathers of the Rastafari movement that promoted Rastafarianism as a religion for black people versus Anglo-Saxon Christianity foisted on slaves and which was adopted for generations among black folks in Jamaica and around the world.

Garvey is known for his powerful speeches promoting the black race and calling for unity and for all black people to travel home back to their motherland- Africa. Many Jamaicans believe he should be named a National Hero.

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In the meantime, the two rappers were welcomed and paid a courtesy call on Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett at his Kingston office on Tuesday. The rappers were spotted taking photos with the Minister and other high-level officials.

Chance The Rapper and Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett

The event is likely to be beneficial to Jamaica which depends on tourism earnings to support the local economy, especially from the United States, one of its largest markets.