Pandemic

While some chil­dren may be ex­cit­ed to re­turn to school in pro­mot­ed class­es this Sep­tem­ber, the in­equity in learn­ing dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic means that some have to re­peat the past year. Wid­ows and sin­gle moth­ers trav­elled to Clax­ton Bay Sat­ur­day to fi­nal­ly ac­cess lap­tops and tablets for their chil­dren…

2021 National Housing Market Forecast and Predictions: Back to Normal To say 2020 was a year of surprises is an extreme understatement. What started off as a bright year for the housing market and the economy was soon derailed by a global pandemic and severe economic recession. As detailed by…

Business Ryan Hamilton-Davis 4 Hrs Ago KFC vice president Roger Rambharose at the franchise's 60th restaurant which opened in Guaico, Sangre Grande on July 19, the same day the food sector reopened to takeaway, delivery and curbside services. - FILE PHOTO/ROGER JACOB Last week, people all over TT were licking…

Few people know Khabib Nurmagomedov better than Daniel Cormier, and that’s why the former two-division UFC champion placed a call to him after seeing a recent message posted by Conor McGregor. In a series of since-deleted tweets, McGregor took aim at Dustin Poirier over the results of their UFC 264…

National Parks across the U.S. are overflowing with a post-pandemic crush of tourists, leading to increased issues with congestion, traffic jams, user experience, strain on staff and increased damage to the parks. Why it matters: Some are seeing such a record number they're being forced to limit, and even close,…

The Biden administration is essentially asking vaccinated Americans to help save the unvaccinated from themselves. The big picture: America's "pandemic of the unvaccinated" has gotten bad enough that vaccine mandates are starting to catch on, and masks are coming back — in some cases, even for the vaccinated. Vaccinated people's…

Singapore COVID-19 multi-ministry task force co-chairs Ong Ye Kung (left), Gan Kim Yong (centre) and Lawrence Wong delivering ministerial statements in Parliament on Jul 26, 2021. 26 Jul 2021 02:54PM (Updated: 26 Jul 2021 05:18PM) SINGAPORE: The three chairs of Singapore's COVID-19 task force spoke in Parliament on Monday (Jul 26) on…

An Irishman who set up his own barber college has revealed how the pandemic has completely changed the haircutting industry. Dad-of-one, Ryan Hatfield, 32, believes that customers now appreciate a barber more than before because they couldn’t go for long spells since the pandemic began. Ryan has cut hair for…

Topline Despite widespread protests, France’s parliament Monday passed a controversial law requiring special “health passes” for people that choose to dine in at restaurants or travel domestically, in addition to mandating universal vaccinations for healthcare and other essential workers, as the country attempts to combat a surge in coronavirus infections. …

Topline The mayor of Orange County, Florida—where Orlando is located—declared Monday the major tourism destination is facing a Covid-19 “crisis” thanks to the Delta variant, with Covid-19 cases in the area surging to where they were during its pre-vaccination peak as Florida becomes an epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in…